Spark Some Change in Your Local Community with Walmart’s Fight Hunger. Spark Change. Initiative
My nine-year-old girl is very aware of the fact that not everyone is as lucky as we are to have food on our table each day. She knows there are families and children (even right at her school) that often wonder when their next meal will be. Because of that, she’s conscious about helping as much as we can and doesn’t hesitate to ask if we can donate or help when we see a collection box in a store or perhaps a homeless person on the road.
Right now, there is an opportunity to help families in your area who are hungry through Walmart’s Fight Hunger. Spark Change. campaign. Working with six suppliers, Walmart has a goal of donating enough for Feeding America to provide 75 million meals to their affiliate food banks across the nation. Read on for full details on the Fight Hunger. Spark Change. initiative and how YOU can also spark change in your local community!
Fight Hunger. Spark Change. with Walmart
Walmart is working with six suppliers — Campbell’s, ConAgra Foods, General Mills, Kellogg Company, Kraft, and Unilever — on the Fight Hunger. Spark Change. campaign, which runs from April 6 through May 3 this year. Through a variety of ways, Walmart and these companies are helping Feeding America to provide more meals to local communities. Here are the various ways they’re helping and how you can get involved!
1. Purchase a participating product: There are over 200 participating products in Walmart stores and for each one that you purchase, the supplier will make a donation to Feeding America. For every item purchased, a meal will be secured for the local Feeding America food bank.* You can see a full list of each participating product from each company on the Fight Hunger. Spark Change. page.
2. Make a donation: In addition to purchasing participating products, you can make a direct donation at the register to benefit a local Feeding America food bank.
3. Spread awareness: By simply taking a group photo and sharing it on social media, you’ll be helping support the Fight Hunger. Spark Change. efforts. All you have to do is take a picture of six people sharing their commitment to fighting hunger and publicly share it on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram with #WeSparkChange. For each public #WeSparkChange share, Walmart will be donating $10 to Feeding America (up to a maximum donation of $1.5 million). In fact, Walmart is making an initial $1.5 million donation to Feeding America in an effort to kick-start their goal of donating $3 million total, which is enough to provide 30 million meals to hungry people across the country.
It’s so easy to support the Fight Hunger. Spark Change. initiative and help your local community! I encourage you to make a donation, take a photo, or help by purchasing everyday products you probably already purchase. Every act helps, even a small one! To help our local Tampa Bay community, I’ll be donating 20% of my earnings from this post to Feeding America Tampa Bay, in addition to supporting Walmart’s Fight Hunger. Spark Change. efforts. Will you join me in sparking change?
How can you get the whole family involved in supporting the Walmart Fight Hunger. Spark Change. initiative?
*DISCLAIMER: For every participating product purchased at Walmart between April 6th and May 3rd, 2015, the manufacturer will donate $0.10 to Feeding America® – enough to secure 1 meal on behalf of local food banks – up to each manufacturer’s maximum donation. Each manufacturer’s maximum donation is provided on the participating packages. See package or Walmart.com/FightHunger for details.
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