It doesn’t matter how busy you are or what kind of budget you have. You can still do a lot to help fight hunger during Hunger Action Month throughout September.
If you have children, you can often involve them in simple service projects. In the Moms Fighting Hunger Blog Hop collection below, you’ll find lots of ideas for involving your children. But even if your children are too young to be involved, there’s a lot you can do simply through social media.
Following are some ideas you can use to make a difference through social media alone.
How You can Help through Social Media
Sign the No Kid Hungry Pledge
You can add force to the fight against childhood hunger by taking the pledge to end childhood hunger and joining Team No Team Hungry.
Go Orange
Orange is the color for hunger awareness, and there are a number of ways you can “go orange.”
If you’re a mom, you can join us through Moms Fighting Hunger. Follow the Moms Fighting Hunger Facebook page for inspiration and ways you can help. You can add a Moms Fighting Hunger Twibbon badge to your Facebook or Twitter profile photo. This is what my @DebChitwood Twitter and Facebook profiles look like during September.
But there are other ways you can go orange to draw attention to Hunger Action Month. You can download images for your Facebook profile and pages from No Kid Hungry or Feeding America. (Check out how I’ve gone orange on the Bits of Positivity Facebook page.)
Tweet about Hunger Action Month
Follow the hashtags #MomsFightHunger and #NoKidHungry on Twitter. You’ll find lots of great tweets to retweet there. Be sure to join the TwEAT Out on Monday, September 16.
Share Resources and Events Online to Help Fight Hunger
You can help fight hunger in September and through the year by following Moms Fighting Hunger on both Facebook and Pinterest. You can even help earn money to fight hunger through a number of the campaigns. At various times, businesses will donate money for each tweet or share online.
I invite you to share my free graphics. If you’d like a graphic to promote the fight against hunger, please feel free to use any of my free printables. Of course, please link to my blog so others can find the graphics, too.
“Feed Just One” Word Art Freebies (without watermark)
“We Can Conquer Childhood Hunger” Word Art Freebie (without watermark)
Share Resources from the Moms Fighting Hunger Blog Hop
A number of mom bloggers have joined together to promote ideas for fighting hunger. Please link up any related posts you have and share ideas to help bring attention to this important cause. Here are the blogs where you can find inspiration and ideas throughout the month:
September 8 The Good Long Road Kids Stuff World September 9 Kid World Citizen September 10 Inner Child Giving San Antonio Mom Blogs September 11 ButeauFull Chaos September 12 Bits of Positivity September 13 LatinoAmeriGringa September 14 Your Sassy Self September 15 Not Going Postal September 16 All Done Monkey September 17 Multicultural Kid Blogs September 18 Pennies of Time September 19 Coffee Cups and Crayons September 20 Red White & Grew September 21 MomitForward September 22 September 23 Edventures with Kids September 24 A Thrifty Diva September 25 Crafty Moms Share September 26 The Pleasantest Thing September 27 Frogs & Snails & Puppy Dog Tails September 28 Optimistic Heathen September 29 Moments a Day September 30 Kids Stuff World
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I agree with Deb that for what kind of budget you are and how much time you have. still you could do much better shares and generate traffic with social media.
Twitter: riwhelpdesk
Dear Deb
I found your site tonight, searching for inspirational sayings about fighting hunger. Looking for beautiful things I could add to my facebook page FeedingWashington’sHungry and my website?
I am in a big need of inspiration right now. I have made a promise that I intend to raise up and follow through. Donating to Washington’s Northwest Harvest That serves food banks and schools in need.
I just released a country CD of 17 of my songs. Soon as I got the first modest order in the mail, I knew they would be used for something good. That night, 2 AM I woke up, got up, opened the computer and typed in non-profit Northwest and Northwest Harvest was looking back at me!
I met them this week and I know this is my calling.
However, party of 1, trying to get the word out, sell CDs in this competitive world, is not easy.
I am writing to ask if I can use a couple of your nice sayings?
Also, OUR HOME IS ORANGE! I am a single mom. I know hard times. I told my daughter that the reason I can speak out for hunger is because I have lived it. And, that seeing your site here, I learned the color of hunger is ORANGE. She said WOW!
Thank you for the beautiful postings you are doing. My CDS (THE GARDEN OF MY SOUL) and more info about this project is on my website.
Laurie Lee Lewis 🙂
My website is http://www.hearttoheartfarm.com
and Northwest Hunger is http://www.northwesthunger.org
THANK YOU!
Laurie Lee Lewis
Together… we can make a difference!!!
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