by webgeek | May 16, 2013 | Blog
Congress is considering cutting between $4.1 Billion and $20.5 Billion in SNAP and SNAP-education funding over the next 10 years. As our members of Congress decide about the fate of the some 2 million+ people (200,000 of whom will be children) who will lose SNAP...
by webgeek | May 15, 2013 | Blog
The Arkansas Hunger Relief Alliance, as lead partner in the Arkansas No Kid Hungry campaign, brought Share Our Strength’s Cooking Matters program to Arkansas two years ago as part of a pilot program focusing on nutrition education. Now, as we have completed our first...
by webgeek | May 2, 2013 | Blog
For kids, summertime should mean food, friends and fun, but for many it’s a time of food hardship and uncertainty. Many low income Arkansas families report it is especially hard to make ends meet in the summer when children who normally participate in the national...
by webgeek | Apr 23, 2013 | Blog
Volunteers are a crucial resource for charitable non-profits in accomplishing their missions. This is no less true for the Alliance and the Arkansas No Kid Hungry campaign. Because ours is a statewide mission to reduce hunger through direct relief, education and...
by webgeek | Apr 22, 2013 | Blog
On Monday, April 15th,the Arkansas Hunger Relief Alliance hosted Kevin Concannon, United States Department of Agriculture Under Secretary for Food, Nutrition and Consumer Services, for an afternoon and evening of nutrition education events. The Under Secretary...
by webgeek | Apr 18, 2013 | Blog
An Age-old Practice is Revived The Arkansas Gleaning Project, a program based on the age-old practice of hand gathering fresh fruits and vegetables from the fields after the harvest, provided 1.2 million pounds of food that found its way to the tables of food insecure...
