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web view  |  To ensure delivery, please add info@feedingamerica.org to your address book. Donate Now  | Get Involved | Share with a Friend Our Apologies! Due to a technical glitch, we accidentally sent an old version of our monthly enewsletter. Here is the latest. Thanks for your understanding and your ongoing support. Hunger is Closer Than You Think     Summer Vacation = Hunger? More than 21 million children receive free and reduced price meals during the school year, yet only 2.3 million of those children access free meals from U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Summer Food Service Programs in the summer. In an effort to raise awareness of where families can find free and nutritious meals for their children this summer Feeding America and the Ad Council are distributing a new localized Public Service Advertisements (PSAs). The new campaign highlights that “summer isn’t fun when you’re hungry”. The PSAs direct families to contact their local food bank for help or visit FeedingAmerica.org/SummerMeals to find more information on the program in their area. Watch the PSA now>>     Client Story - Ola and Alberta May is Older Americans Month... but it is not necessarily a time for celebration. Nearly four million U.S. seniors are food insecure. Many of these older Americans live on fixed incomes, and are often forced to choose between buying groceries or paying for health care, housing, or other basic essentials. Meet some clients who are experiencing this first hand like Ola and Alberta.       Invest an Acre ADM, The Howard G. Buffett Foundation, and Feeding America have partnered to launch Invest an Acre, a program to encourage farmers across the country to donate one acre or more of crop proceeds to help fight hunger in their own communities.   Learn More>>     What is the Meal Gap in Your Community? Feeding America recently released “Map the Meal Gap 2012,” which provides estimates of food insecurity at the county and congressional district level. Food insecurity is the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s measure of lack of access, at times, to enough food for an active, healthy life for all household members. The report found that even though food insecurity rates have remained relatively stable across the nation, those communities that were previously known to have the highest rates of food insecurity have continued to climb. Do you know the rate of food insecurity in your community? Visit our interactive map to learn about how the crisis of hunger is impacting your local community.     Help Us Save Hunger Fighting Programs The House Agriculture Committee is still taking comments to help them decide what programs and services should be preserved and what should be cut under the Farm Bill.  Help us protect SNAP - the supplemental nutrition assistance program formerly known as food stamps, TEFAP - the emergency food assistance program, and CSFP - the commodity supplemental food assistance program. Post this comment urging the House Agricultural Committee to protect hunger fighting programs! "Pass a strong Farm Bill that protects programs like SNAP, TEFAP, and CSFP which help provide food for millions of America’s most vulnerable seniors, children, and working poor". Post this comment to the Farm Bill Feedback Form and help us reach our goal of 20,000 comments by sharing this call to action on Facebook and Twitter, #FarmBillAction.  Child Hunger Ends Here: Go to www.ChildHungerEndsHere.com and enter the eight-digit purchase code from specially marked packages of select ConAgra Foods' brands. For each code entered through 8/31/12, ConAgra Foods will donate one meal to Feeding America. Feeding America Blog: Read up-to-the-minute news and perspectives about hunger in America.   Find Your Local Food Bank: Find the Feeding America member food bank serving the shelters and food pantries in your local community. Hunger Is Closer Thank You Think: Get your vote in for your favorite volunteer photo! The photo with the most "love" will win $500 for their local food bank.   •  Summer Vacation = Hunger? •  Client Story - Ola and Alberta •  Invest an Acre •  What is the Meal Gap in Your Community? • Help Us Save Hunger Fighting Programs 30 percent of client households with seniors have had to choose between food and medicine.  Source: Hunger Facts - Senior Hunger       Turn Your United Miles into Meals Through the Mileage Plus Charity Miles Program at United, you can donate your miles to Feeding America to help offset travel budgets and provide air travel for Feeding America staff to connect with the resources they need to help feed Americans struggling with hunger. A donation of 1,000 Charity Miles helps provide 240 meals to men, women and children facing hunger in your community. Donate miles today. Privacy policy  |  Unsubscribe  |  Donate Now You are receiving this message at ignoble.experiment@arconati.us (change address). 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