...Food insecurity- (not knowing when or how the next meal will be obtained) is only one facet in the operation a Food Pantry which distributes food to various groups of people of a community. A food pantry or commonly known as a food closet, food shelves or local food bank are non-profit organizations that provide assistance to communities in need. Their main focus is to assist people of various groups to maintain a healthy life. You will be surprised to see the groups within the community affected by food insecurity. Food insecurity, defined by the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), is a limited or uncertain availability of nutritionally adequate and safe foods or limited or uncertain ability to acquire acceptable foods in socially acceptable ways. Children are the number one victims of food insecurity because their family has to make the hard decisions whether to pay bills or to feed their child in a manner that is healthy. On a national average, 15.9 million children suffer from food insecurity. Food insecurity in children can hinder not only their physical health but their state of mind as well. Most children in a food insecurity environment might have a difficult experience in the performance of normal learning objectives in school. Low income families make up a very small percentage of food insecurity’s total population because most low income family has at least one working adult. Most people believe that people living in poverty, the homeless,...
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...public needs, procedure of executing programs and benefits integrated in the services rendered by our food pantry throughout the New York area. Our food pantry programs are designed effectively after through research to cover maximum U.S public ultimately. The successful implementation of our programs is highly dependent on extensive communication and intimacy with our worthy public. Thesis Statement Programs of our food pantry are adequate to meet audience needs but insufficient funds can halt their efficiency and function. Purpose The purpose of this study is to analyze the efficiency, opportunities, issues and challenges regarding the execution of our organizational programs. It will let public know about our monetary terms, steps involved in rendering welfare services, and most importantly that how our food pantry programs strive to sustain public health. The study seeks to unfold the underlying organizational realities to wipe out confusions regarding program’s efficiency. Organization’s Programs Our major programs include community kitchen that provides more than 60, 000 meals to audience every month. Food distribution service which directly distribute food to the local and community based food organizations. There are more than 5,000 local food serving organizations registered with us from the whole New York. The third most prominent program being run by our food pantry is of Health and Nutritional awareness which approaches the schools in poor communities of New York...
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...August 18, 2013 “Food Banks, how they help people in need” The population of the state of New Jersey is, 8,801,624. The current rate of unemployment is 9.5%, which means that almost 880,000 people face the question each day of “how am I going to feed my family today?’ As the director of Community Food of New Jersey is a hard task, you have to be prepared each day to face the challenges of feeding families in need. Majority of the people that are served by food banks, have children. The biggest challenge of about serving so many needy families is knowing that without the programs we (the food banks) run many of these people would not be getting any of the nutrition that they need on a daily basis. (FeedingAmerica.org) In the world today there are people who never have to worry about where their next meal is coming from. However, there are other who face those woes every day. Food banks are one of the options people have to help feed their families. The community food bank of New Jersey, along with our partner agencies, feed an estimated 900,000 people throughout the year in the state of New Jersey alone. There are also many other options available to New Jersey residents including the WIC program for pregnant woman and their children and SNAP (supplemental nutrition assistance program). But it is still hard for many residents to make ends meet and provide enough food with enough nutritional value for their families. The rising cost of putting food on the table is becoming...
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...the people did not have much they sustained themselves and helped sustain the others around them. Those who needed help in the village received help no matter what, due to the spiritual desire of the native people. One day Soderstrom brought up the idea of homelessness, and showed the people a picture of two homeless men. Their reaction to the picture was pure confusion, and they immediately wanted to help. The solution the people came up with was to bring the two homeless men to the village, where they would take care of them. They would build them grass huts and plant gardens for them to sustain themselves with. The people in this village lack material wealth but can make up for this with their spiritual wealth. Soderstrom believes that America...
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...Leading America Away From Obesity By: Amber Stroh New health policies are being enacted to educate Americans about healthy eating patterns in hopes of absolving the obesity epidemic, but those at highest risk have low-income and may be unable to comply. According to the United States Department of Agriculture’s research, approximately one in seven Americans in 2013 struggled with food insecurity; slightly less, at a rate of one out of ten, are households with children (Coleman-Jensen, Gregory, and Singh). At this moment there are Americans experiencing the difficulty of an unwarranted fast or eating under their caloric requirements due to a shortage of resources. The least expensive foods available tend to be high in calories, salts, sugar, and fat (Drewnowski, Specter SE). A change in mindset may be needed to direct people to more healthy food choices but their resources may not cover the costs to purchase them. Food pantries make healthy food options available which helps to lessen this health disparity. Multiple issues are being addressed as the government seeks to guide Americans to a healthier way of life (McCary). Many new health policies have already infiltrated our lives, such as new school lunch regulations, taxes on sugared beverages, and MyPlate. Shortly our nutritional food labels will be replaced. "Calories from fat" will no longer be labeled, however "added sugars" will now be required on the label (U.S. Food and Drug Administration, USDA). Both...
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...Although when people think of child mortality they usually think of Africa or other 3rd world countries but America as a whole has its flaws too. In South America some countries are not completely turned to cities & suburban region, even the relatively better off part of the nation is lacking in the medical field. If my mom had stayed in Argentina I would probably be dead from a doctor’s false diagnoses, but North America also has its flaws, American doctors make mistakes as well & young parents often don’t know how to take care of their newborns. (B., 2000) Child Mortality is one of the many fields of study for anthropologists as well as the UNICEF which funds projects to help educate the people of Africa about ways of dealing with the diseases...
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...Adolescents. The class helped me to understand current issues of children. We learned about physical and mental health problems of kids and possible solutions of them. Among those issues, the issue of Childhood hunger caught my attention mostly. According to the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), 15.3 million children lived in food-insecure household in 2014....
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...Foundations Paper Darryl Long HSM/260 Sharon Johnson 5/18/2012 Foundations Paper What is United Way, through a vast network of volunteers and local charities, America help meet the health and human service needs of millions of people every day. Each United Way is completely independent and governed by local volunteers. The organization is built to address issues the community that matter the most. The United Way of America is a non-profit organization that works with more than 1,200 local United Way offices throughout the country in a coalition of charitable organizations to pool efforts in fundraising and support. The focus of United Way is identifying and resolving pressing community issues, as well as making measurable changes in the communities through partnerships with schools, government agencies, businesses, organized labor, financial institutions, community development corporations, voluntary and neighborhood associations, the faith community, and others. The issues United Way offices focus on are determined locally because of the diversity of the communities served. However, the main focus areas include: education, income, and health. The organization donations ensure that hungry families and children with disabilities and low income senior citizens are feed, they also ensures that low-income seniors receive transportation and medications. United Way collaborates with other local organizations on special projects to help solve pressing community...
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...issues that any country in this world has to deal with. Currently, one third of the Oklahoma population is enrolled in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) formerly known as the Food Stamp Program. With the ongoing cuts in state budgets and increases in unemployment, the percentage of the population receiving assistance is growing larger. Many hunger-relief organizations are working together to help people in need and Food Bank is one of them. Established in 1980, the Regional Food Bank of Oklahoma is a private, nonprofit organization with the mission of helping local charitable communities feed people in need. With the motto of “Fighting Hunger…. Feeding Hope”, this organization provides support in the form of food for children, the elderly, and families who cannot afford food. The Regional Food Bank of Oklahoma acts as the central collection agency for receiving all donation, which are further distributed to the different charitable programs. More than 700 charitable feeding programs in 53 central and western Oklahoma counties receive goods from the regional food bank. Food Bank serves two categories of program: emergency and non-emergency program. The emergency program includes food pantries, soup kitchens and emergency shelters. For non-emergency program provides food for children, senior citizens on fixed incomes, and working families who cannot make ends meet. One out of five children are at risk of hunger everyday. Nutrition deficiency can impact child...
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...population” (N.A.E.H, 2013). Due to the lack of affordable housing has resulted in vast and growing homelessness among individuals and families. Homelessness is not only a type of poverty but also a severe state of residential instability. Homelessness is increased by behavioral problems, alteration of mental health rule, differences in health and health care, racial disparities, substance abuse, domestic violence, variation in affordable housing, and lack of social support. Thesis Statement: The deficiency of affordable housing has resulted in widespread homelessness and has become a national problem The" Mission for the National Homeless" has decided to combat homelessness by providing food, shelter and other benefits and services to the homeless people. We will focus on providing housing, food distribution to fight hunger, educational, vocational and other services. We intend to fund our programs through private donations as well as federal and state funding. Problem: “Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) defines homelessness as those individuals whose main nighttime residence is in private or public shelters which are meant to provide temporary living accommodations or places which are not intended to be used as regular sleeping place for human beings. A family or individual must live on the streets or in a shelter in order to be considered eligible for HUD-funded emergency or transitional shelter programs. Most of...
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...bar next to me. I don’t consider this the best healthiest lunch, but in all honesty, this is what I felt like eating in the short amount of time I had to grab a “lunch”. I thought it was pretty ironic that while I was reading about all these “unhealthy” food options, I was eating them. This obesity epidemic has carved its way so deep into our lives, there is possible room to improve, but it’s difficult to come up with some miracle solution to make it disappear. Kelley Brownell suggests that the legislature should get rid of food advertising especially ones pointed at children watching television and also eliminating soft drinks and unhealthy snacks from school vending machines (Newman, 2004). I do favor Kelly Brownell’s suggestions but it is obviously easier said than done. I understand that food advertising is something that children see often when watching television and it does often times persuade children to decide to get up and look for something to snack on. But what is the point of getting rid of these advertisements when they could already have it in their pantry? If we get rid of these foods at school, how would we know if the kids aren’t just going to go home and eat them? Both The ABC News “Obesity in America” clip and Taubes Reader’s Digest article both suggest that the major dietary enemy in childhood obesity is refined carbohydrates. Taubes suggests that pasta, bread and rice should be cut from our diet (Taubes, 2012). I do agree with him to a certain extent...
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...Do you know what hunger is? Are you knowledgeablle about what it feels like to be hungry, but not have the means to make your hunger go away? Hunger is a feeling of discomfort or weakness caused by lack of food, coupled with the desire to eat. 1 out of 5 = sixteen million numbers of kids in America are living in a household without consistent access to adequate food. Twenty-two million numbers of low-income children rely on free or reduced lunches for their nutritional needs on an average school day. That is one meal, out of three meals a day that provides the nutrients a persons body needs to survive. Food supplies the body with macronutrients - protein, carbohydrates, and fat that offer calories as well as play a crucial role in maintaining...
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...Introduction Kraft Foods Inc. is a publically traded food company that has been around since 1980, based originally in Delaware and has expanded into a globally recognized food company that was a spin-off from Mondelez International. The Kraft foods brand is synonymous with other well known brands like General Mills and Hines and their products can be found in almost every home in America. They make a variety of food products in the beverage, dressings and cheeses, refrigerated meals, meals & desserts, enhancers and snacks, to include other owned brands such as Canada. The company exists in the highly competitive market where advertising dollars spent directly correlate to revenue gained. According to Kraft Food’s 2013 annual report they compete “primarily on the basis of product quality and innovation, brand recognition and loyalty, service, the ability to identify and satisfy consumer preferences, the introduction of new products and the effectiveness of our advertising campaigns and marketing programs, and price” (Vernon, 2013). Their stated strategy for “improving our market position or introducing a new product requires substantial advertising and promotional expenditures” (Vernon, 2013). This shows a strong level a strategic thinking and planning within the company even though they are highly focused on competition through advertising and promotional expenditures. Within the context of this paper and continuing through out this class an analysis on Kraft Foods Inc. with...
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...POVERTY: A GLOBAL ISSUE Charles Williams Introduction to Sociology – SOC100 October 29, 2011 1. Describe how society defines poverty. Poverty is a condition in which a person or community is deprived of, or lacks the essentials for a minimum standard of well-being and life. Since poverty is understood in many senses, these essentials may be material resources such as food, safe drinking water, and shelter, or they may be social resources such as access to information, education, health care, social status, political power, or the opportunity to develop meaningful connections with other people in society. Poverty is the state for the majority of the world’s people and nations. Behind the increasing interconnectedness promised by globalization are global decisions, policies, and practices. These are typically influenced, driven, or formulated by the rich and powerful. These can be leaders of rich countries or other global actors such as multinational corporations, institutions, and influential people. In the face of such enormous external influence, the governments of poor nations and their people are often powerless. As a result, in the global context, a few get wealthy while the majority struggle. Poverty is also characterized by a chronic shortage of economic, social and political participation, relegating individuals to exclusion as social beings, preventing access to the benefits of economic and social development and thereby limiting their cultural development...
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... but the fight to end hunger in America is far from ending. In 2010, 15% of the American population was “poor” according to the U.S. Census Bureau and 49 million Americans suffer from hunger. Full Plate’s concerns revolve around ending hunger in children, rural areas, assisting the elderly, and helping impoverished families. II. OUR ISSUES Hunger causes health risks in many areas of a child’s life. They may physically suffer from stunted growth or anemia. Cognitive and social development is decreased, limiting the skills needed to excel in school. Poor children also have less access to sufficient medical care. Since the 1900’s, increased poverty and unemployment in rural areas has lead to more hunger. Areas with low populations face higher prices due to less competition. The farther distance from larger cities raises fuel and transportation costs. Older Americans don’t have enough funding or programs to assist their needs. Families living below the poverty threshold must spend half of their income on basic living expenses instead of food. A lack of transportation prevents access to food and a lack of time prevents them from applying for applicable benefits. As a result, it’s an ongoing battle to end hunger in the midst of poverty, regardless of existing public and private assistance programs. III. OUR PROGRAMS Full Plate runs various programs to eradicate hunger in America, such as: 1. Food Pantries: Supply 200 sites with food for over 35 million Americans annually ...
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