Discount food program takes off

Discount food program takes off
The Winchendon United Parish Church recently joined Angel Food Ministries, a nationwide program that allows families to buy a variety of food packages at reduced prices.

Donation Usability: Increasing Online Giving to Non-Profits and Charities

Tips for enhancing web sites to make it easier for users to make charitable donations. (Note: the Joseph's Project web site is not able to accept on-line donations at this time.)

Donation Usability: Increasing Online Giving to Non-Profits and Charities (Jakob Nielsen's Alertbox)

How To Give To Charity When You Don't Have Money To Spare - Dumb Little Man

How To Give To Charity When You Don't Have Money To Spare - Dumb Little Man

Marketplace: Food pantry donations get a little fruity

Story about how food pantries across the country are making-do. In this story, volunteers in California work with farmers to harvest surplus oranges for the local pantry.
Marketplace: Food pantry donations get a little fruity: (story, plus pictures and audio)

One in 10 Americans gets help from U.S. to buy food

The number of people receiving food stamps continues to climb.
One in 10 Americans gets help from U.S. to buy food: "The January figure marks the third time in five months that enrollment set a record."

Feeding America

Friends with our friends

Feeding America, formerly Second Harvest, is the nation's leading domestic hunger-relief charity. It supports more than 63,000 local charities, including the Worcester County Food Bank.

Feeding America

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Friends with our friends

Here's another organization that provides assistance to families in need in central Massachusetts. The project was started by a couple of EMC employees.

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Record 31.8 million on food stamps - Mar. 5, 2009

The number of people receiving food stamps has reached record levels - Record 31.8 million on food stamps - Mar. 5, 2009

Along with the national numbers, Massachusetts is reporting significant increases in the numbers of people applying for food stamps for the first time and, of even greater concern, applying for extensions of benefits.

According to WHDH-TV and The Associated Press, "There are now about 600,000 Massachusetts residents getting food stamps after nearly 100,000 people were added to the rolls in 2008. As many as 20,000 new applications are coming in each month, along with an average of 18,000 requests for extensions."

InCity Times » Blog Archive » Bringing real food to Worcester’s poor - an update

InCity Times » Blog Archive » Bringing real food to Worcester’s poor - an update: "What happens if you’re a kid in the Worcester public schools and you’re hungry, but your mom is too proud to apply for the free school lunch program? What do you do if you live in the inner-city and want to buy some bananas and oranges, but there isn’t a supermarket nearby - just a little corner store that doesn’t stock fresh produce? How can you feed a family of five, if you’re low-income? More important, can this family eat well?"

Saddleback Church aims to fill 10,000 grocery bags | church, food, services, donations, going - News - OCRegister.com

An example of how one (albeit one very big) church gets the congregation to focus on the issue of hunger: Saddleback Church aims to fill 10,000 grocery bags | church, food, services, donations, going - News - OCRegister.com

"The number one way that God tests your faith? Money," Pastor Rick Warren said. "God wants to know: Are you going to worry, or are you going to trust me? … When I meet others' needs, God takes care of mine."

Welcome to the Joseph's Project blog

This web log will include various items of interest (I hope) for people in and around Joseph's Project.
You can find out more about Joseph's Project at the Project's web site: http://www.josephsproject.org.