Stick a Fork in Hunger Butler County -- IZE on Food Security

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Welcome to the IZE on Food Security and Food Justice across Butler County Stick a Fork in Hunger! challenge. Your project should occur for one or more days between October 8 and October 23, 2021. We look forward to hearing about your project! Please remember to send an email to srusna.contact@gmail.com by 5:00 pm on October 22, 2021 in which you share the results of your Stick a Fork in Hunger! project including your great stories, the amount of food and/or funds you collected and/or the number of people you served through your project, and, if available, photos that help tell your story. Consider joining others who hosted projects and bring your non-perishable food items and/or funds you collected to the Stick a Fork in Hunger! Celebration on Saturday, October 23rd from 9 a.m. to 12 p.m. at 150 N. Main Street, Butler PA If you are unable to attend the Celebration, please submit funds raised by November 1, 2021 by 1) using credit or debit card online at https://www.srufoundation.org/izeweek.html 2) preparing a check made payable to SRU Foundation/IZE Week and mail it to: Department of Philanthropy, Nonprofit Leadership, and Public Affairs Slippery Rock University 200 Spotts World Cultures Bldg Slippery Rock PA 16057 Thank you for caring about food insecurity in our County and for helping to Stick a Fork in Hunger! IZE on Food Security and Food Justice co-chairs Alice Del Vecchio at alice.delvecchio@sru.edu and Abby Cornett at abigail.cornett@sru.edu

Stick a Fork in Hunger Butler County -- IZE on Food Security

Over 16% of Butler County children are food insecure. Together, we can Stick a Fork in Hunger! and change that statistic.

By Institute for Nonprofit Leadership at SRU

Date and time

Saturday, October 23, 2021 · 9am - 12pm EDT

Location

Butler SUCCEED

150 North Main Street Butler, PA 16001

About this event

October 17 - 23 2021 is IZE on Food Security and Food Justice Week. The goal of which is to encourage people to RealIZE how food insecurity impacts our neighbors, EmpathIZE with those persons experiencing food insecurity, and MobilIZE, as a community, to change the current reality in Butler County.

Stick a Fork in Hunger! challenges Butler County individuals, businesses, social and civic groups, nonprofit and faith-based organizations, local governments and K-12 schools and youth groups to do something to reduce food insecurity across Butler County, PA. Consider organizing a clever project to raise funds to support our County's hunger relief organizations, sponsor a nonperishable food drives or virtual food drives, host free nutrition and cooking workshops, -- really, the possibilities are endless!

1. Decide on an IZE on Food Security and Food Justice Stick a Fork in Hunger! project that you or your group will sponsor between October 8th and October 23rd .

2. Register your IZE on Food Security and Food Justice Stick a Fork in Hunger! project here.

3. Market and hold your project before October 23rd.

In the weeks following, Stick a Fork in Hunger! great stories and outcomes will be publicized via local and social media. All those who registered a Stick a Fork in Hunger! project will receive an email with an overview of what we, together, accomplished to Stick a Fork in Hunger! and a certificate of appreciation.

5. On Saturday, October 23rd 2021 from 9 a.m. to 12 p.m. at Butler SUCCEED 150. N. Main Street, Butler PA join us at the Stick a Fork in Hunger! Celebration to deliver nonperishable food items you collected and/or funds raised you raised .

6. Can't make the celebration? Funds can be contributed online at https://www.srufoundation.org/izeweek.html

or a check made payable to SRU Foundation/IZE Week can be sent to:

Department of Philanthropy, Nonprofit Leadership, and Public Affairs

Slippery Rock University 200 Spotts World Cultures Bldg Slippery Rock PA 16057

Together, we can Stick a Fork in Hunger in Butler County!

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Institute for Nonprofit Leadership at SRU

The Institute for Nonprofit Leadership at Slippery Rock University provides individuals and organizations the education, research, services and networks necessary to understand, strengthen and advance the work of the nonprofit sector.

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