Share Our Strength's "Great American Bake Sale"

It wasn't too long ago that I spotlighted the innovative and great work that the organization Share Our Strength is doing - they've contacted me again recently to help spread the word about something called the "Great American Bake Sale." Here is the deal from Alice on behalf of Share our Strength:

Today, more than 12 million children in the United States do not know when their next meal will come. Unfortunately, this number continues to riseas these difficult economic times are leaving more and more people jobless, without homes, and unable to provide food for their families.

What can you do?

1. Sign-up to host a bake sale: http://www.GreatAmericanBakeSale.org/vgabs
2. Buy the virtual Great American Bake Sale eBook: http://StolenMomentsCooking.com/virtual-gabs
3. Post a ChipIn widget or banner on your blog: http://www.GreatAmericanBakeSale.org/bloggers

Make a difference in a child’s life by signing up and purchasing a virtual cookbook today! 100% of the proceeds from this eBook will benefit Share Our Strength’s Great American Bake Sale, which is a national effort thatencourages Americans to host bake sales in their communities to help end childhood hunger. Funds raised support summer and after-school feedingprograms in your community that thousands of kids depend on.

Once you have purchased your virtual Great American Bake Sale cookbook, double your impact and use the recipes to host your own Great AmericanBake Sale! Hosting a Bake Sale is a fun and easy way to make a big impact! To register your Bake Sale or for more information, please visit http://greatamericanbakesale/.

Bake Sale? Fresh brownies and cookies for good? Hard to argue with that.

Boy Asks Friends for Food, Not Toys on Birthday

What an inspiring story this is. Five-year-old Jackson Mayberry in Nebraska decided that he has enough toys so instead asked friends to donate food to a local pantry for his birthday. Food pantries everywhere are having a rough time keeping up with demand, and some can thank this little altruist for helping make a tiny dent.

> Watch the Short Video about Jackson

A CNN Video of the story is also here.

> Learn more about Hunger at Feeding America

Related Sublime Goodness posts:

• Share Our Strength's "Operation No Kid Hungry"
  

(Sorry, I couldn't embed the videos - it wouldn't let me!)

Share Our Strength's "Operation No Kid Hungry"

Another bit of serendipity happened today - I had bookmarked a recent Operation NICE blog post about this innovative campaign to end childhood hunger with the intention of doing a reposting here on Sublime Goodness to help spread the word. And then today, I received an email from Kari at the organization behind the campaign, Share Our Strength, asking if I would...help spread the word. So consider it done!

Here is the info:

Share Our Strength has launched a brand new campaign to raise funds to help end childhood hunger. "Operation No Kid Hungry" responds to President Obama's call to action to end childhood hunger by 2015.

Share Our Strength has partnered with AT&T to offer an easy way that you can support and participate in "Operation No Kid Hungry": Just Text "SHARE" to 20222 on your mobile device to donate $5. AT&T will match all text donations up to $100,000. Find out more at
http://strength.org/get_involved/text_donation/

For more information about "Operation No Kid Hungry" and how you can help
end childhood hunger, visit Share Our Strength's website:
http://strength.org.

There are also more ways you can help get the word out, including banners
for your blog and social networking pages here:
http://strength.org/get_involved/spread_the_word/