Louisiana Food Bank Association Office
543 Spanish Town Road
Baton Rouge, LA 70802
(225) 308-2038
Cindy Greenstein
Executive Director
(225) 308-2038

Natalie Jayroe
President
(504) 729-2825

Martha Marak
VicePresident/
Treasurer
(318) 675-2400

Richard King
Secretary
(318) 322-3567

Mike Manning
(225) 359-9940

Jayne Wright-Velez
(318) 445-2773

Child Hunger Ends Here Campaign Provides An Easy Way for Consumers to Help Kids Struggling with Hunger in the U.S.

More than one in five children and more than one in three Latino children in this country may not know where their next meal is coming from. Children who experience even intermittent struggles with hunger may suffer serious, long-term consequences to their health, well-being and educational achievement. ConAgra Foods is building a community of people to make a difference, from top musical artists, to parents, kids, employees and more to help donate up to 3 million meals. For each 8-digit code found on specially marked ConAgra Foods products and entered at www.ChildHungerEndsHere.com or Facebook.com/ChildHungerEndsHere, ConAgra Foods will donate the monetary equivalent of one meal to Feeding America. This effort complements the ConAgra Foods Foundation's $10 million, five-year commitment to Feeding America, the leader in the fight against hunger nationwide.

The 2013 Child Hunger Ends Here campaign will be supported by Carly Rae Jepsen , Tori Kelly , Amber Riley and Cody Simpson , who will lend their voices to spread awareness for child hunger while asking consumers to take action by entering a code found on participating ConAgra Foods products. The campaign will be supported with an original song, online concerts and retail promotions alongside a social media campaign involving top online influencers. This is the first time a major food company has partnered with a management company in this capacity, channeling the influence and talent of artists in order to impact real change.

Contributions to support the Louisiana Food Bank Association and Food Banks Statewide

Baton Rouge, LA, February 4, 2013 – Louisianans can help fight hunger when filing their 2012 state income tax returns by including a contribution to the Louisiana Food Bank Association (LFBA) on line 41 on the state income tax form. Contributions to the LFBA will support the efforts of Louisiana’s five food banks to provide emergency food assistance for nearly 610,000 people statewide, including 245,000 children, who struggle with hunger.

LFBA’s five regional food banks include: Greater Baton Rouge Food Bank, Food Bank of Central Louisiana, Food Bank of Northeast Louisiana, Food Bank of Northwest Louisiana, and Second Harvest Food Bank of Greater New Orleans and Acadiana. In 2012, Louisiana’s food banks distributed over 50 million pounds of food, the equivalent of approximately 40 million meals, through more than 400 member agencies including churches, food pantries, soup kitchens, emergency shelters and other local nonprofits.

“The face of hunger is predominantly elderly and children. 70% of the members of families that rely on food banks have either elderly or children in their households. Fifty percent are either on social security or disabled” said Cindy Greenstein, Executive Director of the Louisiana Food Bank Association. “Even with decreasing unemployment, new jobs being created are less likely to pay a living wage and the demand on food banks remain high. The many challenges the state has faced has caused greater competition for the private and public food and fund resources that food banks depend on” added Greenstein.

Support from this effort will allow Louisiana’s food banks to maximize each dollar donated to feed Louisiana’s hungry through relationships with Feeding America, the food industry, and other community partners.

For more information, visit www.lafba.org or call 225.308.2038. Find the Louisiana File Online form at the following link:

More than 1 in 5 Children in Louisiana May Not Know Where They Will Find Their Next Meal

A study released today by Feeding America shows that children continue to struggle with hunger in every county in the nation with 23%, nearly 254,000, of all children in Louisiana at risk of going hungry.

The study, “Map the Meal Gap: Child Food Insecurity 2012” gives a one-of-kind look at the occurrence of children living on the brink of hunger in the U.S. at a county and congressional district level. The report includes an interactive map that gives users the ability to look at the specifics of food insecurity in any county in the US.

Click the link below to see the link to the food insecurity rates in Louisiana and across the nation.

The holiday Give A Meal campaign, sponsored by Bank of America, begins on Monday, November 12, 2012 and ends on Monday, January 7, 2013.

Feeding America’s Give a Meal program gives holiday shoppers a chance to support a great cause by helping provide food to the nearly 50 million Americans who struggle with hunger. And thanks to Bank of America, donors can triple their giving power through the Give a Meal campaign.

For every $1 donated via www.bankofamerica.com/give or www.bankofamerica.com/give, the Bank of America Charitable Foundation will contribute an additional $2, up to a total match of $1,500,000. Additionally, donors can also choose to direct their contribution to "your local food bank" or Feeding America.

*One hundred percent of the donations made, as well as the corporate match, will be contributed to Feeding America or the local food banks supported by Feeding America. The Bank of America Charitable Foundation will match, two-to-one, each individual donation (up to $10,000 of each such donation per donor on an aggregate basis) made to Feeding America through the Give a Meal™ program before January 7, 2013, up to a maximum total match of $1,500,000. Bank of America and the Bank of America logo are registered trademarks of Bank of America Corporation.

Wednesday, November 7, 2012
9:30am – 4:30pm
Pennington Biomedical Center
6400 Perkins Rd, Baton Rouge, LA 70808

THANK YOU WALMART ASSOCIATES!
With your generosity the LFBA will be able to provide additional children with food for the weekends throughout Louisiana.

 

Hunger in America
In many ways, America is the land of plenty. But for 1 in 6 Americans, hunger is a reality. Many people believe that the problems associated with hunger are confined to small pockets of society, certain areas of the country, or certain neighborhoods, but the reality is much different.

Right now, 17 million families in America are struggling with hunger. These are often hard-working families who simply cannot make ends meet and are forced to go without food for several meals, or even days. To learn more, take a look below at the staggering facts from Feeding America®.

Hunger Facts:

• 1 in 6 Americans struggles with hunger—even in our own communities.
• 17 million families in America face hunger.
• Hunger is a reality for nearly 49 million people in America.
• Feeding America is providing food to 37 million Americans each year—an increase of 46 percent over 2006.
• Feeding America's network of member food banks is feeding 1 million more Americans each week than in 2006.
General Mills is a founding partner with Feeding America and have worked with its network of food banks for more than 30 years.

Over the last 10 years, General Mills has donated over $200 million in products to Feeding America, and General Mills donated over $27 million in products to Feeding America in fiscal 2011 alone.