Goodzuma and WeCanEndThis challenge

Go to the Goodzuma WeCanEndThis challenge and view the Family-to-Family presentation on a partnership to end hunger. Comments and feedback draw attention to a great program that humanizes solutions to end hunger in America!

Update as of June 2010...And the winners are in! See http://wecanendthis.com/page/2/ for details.  Good Works Work, after attending the SXSW Cause Lab helps Family-to-Family get noticed by We Can End This with Goodzuma honorable mention.

Honorable Mention: Family-to-Family by Pam Koner
The CauseLab was also an opportunity to highlight ideas that are already being implemented in the real world. For the past eight years, Family-to-Family has operated on the simple premise of connecting families with more to those with less.  Pam Koner and her all-volunteer team have launched a number of successful online family-to-family programs that have built greater empathy and understanding.  Here are but just a few of their programs:

Family Sponsorships – The program that started it all, families make a yearlong commitment of $31.21 per month to provide 7 dinner-type meals (including fruits & vegetables).

Birthdays in a Box – Families can help provide a mother with the supplies to throw her child a birthday party – something that isn’t always possible when times are tough.

Victory Garden Project – For those seeking to help in a more sustaining way, this program outfits a family in need with the tools and supplies to plant a garden of their own (including chickens) with the help of a local master gardener.

Building on their success, the Family-to-Family website is undergoing a major update that will be completed by the fall and will make it possible to scale their programs significantly.  Keep on the lookout for them — you might see their work in helping families in the Gulf Coast affected by the oil spill.