Volunteer at a local soup kitchen or food bank. Offer to prepare or deliver foods.
Encourage your favorite restaurant to donate extra food and kitchen equipment to local hunger-relief
agencies.
Give money to worthy hunger-related organizations.
Contribute to canned food drives or start one of your own by charging admission of a can of food to
your next social event. After the party, make sure your catered extra food goes to local hunger-relief
agencies.
Get your employer to adopt a hunger-relief organization: encourage co-workers to volunteer; invite
the organization to speak at work; publicize the organization's activities in your company newsletter.
Get a group of friends together to go on a "gleaning trip" to nearby farms to gather excess produce in
the fields for distribution to urban agencies. These trips are often organized by local hunger-relief
groups.
Share your strength. Donate your professional skills to a hunger relief group by designing flyers, doing
their accounting, or organizing a fund-raiser.
Obtain a "wish-list" from a local hunger relief group of items they need such as pots and pans, dishes,
kitchen equiptment, etc., and circulate it amongst your friends and co-workers to try to obtain some
of the material.
Learn about the issue of hunger so you can take more effective action.
