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Family Volunteer Event Helps to Close the Summer Meal Gap!

Food security is an important issue in Massachusetts with 1/5 kids classified as “food insecure.” It often happens when children are out of school that parents have financial difficulty making up the lost ground that was given by free school meals. Families can help in closing this summer meal gap by joining us at an intergenerational Family Volunteer event at The Food Bank of Massachusetts in Hatfield this summer.

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Category: Hampshire County, Suggested Activity, Take Action, Volunteer Opportunity Tags: Community Service, Family Volunteering, Food Security, Hunger, Service Based Learning, Take Action

Farm Film Fest in the Berkshires

Farm Film Fest: A Day of Film and Food Sunday, March 13th in the Berkshires In celebration of Spring and the upcoming growing season, the Williams College Sustainable Food & Agriculture Program, Storey Publishing and Images Cinema will present Farm Film Fest: A Day of Film and Food on Sunday afternoon, March 13. Hosted by Images Cinema at 50 Spring Street in Williamstown, two screenings and five films about food and farming… Read More

ACTION ALERT: Tell Toy Companies: Target Parents, Not Kids, With Holiday Ads

CCFC to Toy Marketers: Leave Kids Alone during Economic Crisis; Companies Urged to Target Parents Instead this Holiday Season As families struggle to cope with the global economic crisis, the Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood is urging major retailers and toy and game manufacturers to suspend holiday marketing aimed at children and to target parents instead. In a letter sent to twenty-four CEO’s, CCFC urged companies not to exacerbate family stress by… Read More