The #GiveHealthy Movement launched at the Broccoli City Festival in Washington DC on May 6, 2017. The Festival is about many things, including great music, culture and social impact. It’s also about healthy food access, particularly in urban areas. A perfect place to launch our movement to change the most common form of giving in…
Every day, millions of American families have to choose between putting healthy food on their table and paying their bills. Fruits and vegetables often lose out to a tank of gas or a rent payment, proving that making healthy food choices isn’t a choice at all. In an effort to help the 44 million Americans…
In order to examine the concept of food justice and the emergency food system, we sat down with Noreen Springstead, Executive Director of WhyHunger. Since 1992, she has worked for food justice and contributed to the organization’s mission of developing, supporting and replicating grassroots solutions focused on self-reliance and empowerment to end hunger and poverty.…
The official donation period for #GiveHealthy this spring is the month of May. So it turns out we’re off to an early start with a very special Easter egg drive. For the first time, ever, (as far as we know), you can now donate eggs to a food drive. What a way to #GiveHealthy! This…
Guest Blog Post via the Center for a Livable Future (CLF) at Johns Hopkins University By Jennifer Hartle, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Stanford University Each day, as I drop my daughter off at her pre-school, I am horrified to see the canned food drive bin in the threshold. It is not that the bin itself is…
Guest Post by Ryan Hand, Graduate Student, Teachers College, Columbia University #GiveHealthy Intern As a nutrition and public health student I have seen firsthand the double burden of malnutrition, under-nutrition and over-nutrition. Across our nation, people simply aren’t consuming enough calories while others are meeting or exceeding the daily caloric requirement. In both scenarios, regardless…
It’s super easy to Get Involved with #GiveHealthy. Here are some ways: Become a #GiveHealthy Ambassador – we need people and organizations who are passionate about health, healthy eating and helping others – especially those struggling with food insecurity – to share the #GiveHealthy movement with their communities. The faster we help people learn that…
We announced #GiveHealthy just a short week ago and there’s already lots to report! We’re thrilled to have two new Advisory Board members. Dr, David Katz, M.D., (and so much more) brings a lifestyle medicine perspective to the Board. David is the founder of the True Health Initiative (among many other things), which is now…
Every journey starts with a step. So does every Movement. #GiveHealthy is a movement designed to change the most popular form of giving in the United States – donating food. It’s designed to get people to donate healthy food and to heighten public awareness that hunger is a health issue. Today is the day that…
What’s in a name? If you’ve been using the term “yam” and “sweet potato” interchangeably, than keep reading this blog. The truth is, a yam is not a sweet potato, and a sweet potato is not a yam – and you most likely have not had a true yam before. That sweet, deeply colored orange…