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How Many People Can We Feed With The Burly Log?
Categories: News“Just how many people can we feed from items created from The Burly Log?” That was the question Rick McNary, our retired VP of Private & Public Partnerships for Outreach asked himself after a friend gave him this Siberian Elm full of burls. “I have worked with wood for over thirty years and have a…
Understanding the Hunger Space, Part 2 – The Role of the USDA
Categories: News[et_pb_section admin_label=”section”][et_pb_row admin_label=”row”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″][et_pb_text admin_label=”Text” background_layout=”light” text_orientation=”left” use_border_color=”off” border_color=”#ffffff” border_style=”solid”] The Role of the United States Department of Agriculture The U.S. government plays a significant role in providing both relief and development opportunities to end hunger both domestically and internationally. For the sake of simplifying a complex web of government agencies with various abbreviations and…
Free book! “Changing the Way we Talk About Hunger”
Categories: News[et_pb_section admin_label=”section”][et_pb_row admin_label=”row”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″][et_pb_text admin_label=”Text” background_layout=”light” text_orientation=”left” use_border_color=”off” border_color=”#ffffff” border_style=”solid”] Did you know that you can feed a person in the U.S for a year less than what it costs to hospitalize them for a day? Did you know that agricultural production has to increase by 75% in the next 35 years in order to feed…
ANNOUNCING: The Instant Apple Cinnamon Oatmeal for Your Next Packaging Event!
Categories: NewsOnce again, The Outreach Program creates a nutritious meal for local hunger. The Instant Apple Cinnamon Oatmeal meal is popular not only with kids, but adults love it, too! Like our other meal varieties, this new meal was created in collaboration with Iowa State University Food Science Department. All of our meals are designed to…
Create an Outreach Meals Pack Program in Your Community!
Categories: NewsOutreach introduces the Outreach Meals Pack designed to provide school children, families and seniors with a 3-day supply of food. This program is ideal for a sponsoring organization to help those in need in your community. There’s a difference between food and nutritious food. Outreach meals are created in collaboration with Iowa State University Food…
AARP and Outreach Meal Pack Challenge: 1.5+ Million Meals
Categories: NewsPackage 1.5M Meals with Outreach and AARP on 9/11 & 12 in DC!
Categories: NewsJoin us on the National Mall in Washington, DC, on September 11th and/or 12th to package 1.5 million of our Rice and Bean Casserole meals. To register, go here. We will be by the Reflecting Pool near the WWII Memorial. On 9/11 of last year, we packaged 1.2 million meals with over 5,000 volunteers. To…
Fearful Albino Children in Africa Receive Outreach Program Meals
Categories: NewsAlbino children in Tanzania live in constant fear that men will break into their homes and cut off their arms and legs. In the worst cases, albinos have had their internal organs removed while they are still alive. Thanks to a relationship with numerous churches in the Des Moines Catholic Diocese, many of these albino…
Congress Approves Global Food Security Act
Categories: News. Congress Passes Global Food Security Act Did you know that agricultural production has to increase 75 percent in the next 35 years in order to feed the world’s population of 9 billion people by 2050? That means that in the next 35 years, the farmers of the world have to grow twice as much…