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NOVEMBER: MONTH OF A MILLION MEALS

As As Thanksgiving approaches and we stop to count our blessings, please help me make my most ambitious project to date a reality!  As a kick-off event for our annual campaign, Kids Against Hunger has set a goal of packaging ONE MILLION MEALS during the month of November.   Our goal here at our headquarters is to package 250,000 of those meals and combine our efforts with those of our 30+ packaging satellites throughout the country to total ONE MILLION.

 
To achieve that, we need to raise $57,000 to cover the cost of the food and shipping to get the meals to the starving children who so desperately need our help.

Our goal is $57,000 and if that goal is reached by Nov. 30, I pledge to match that amount-- which will enable New Hope to package an additional 250,000 meals in December.

Now is the time to open your heart to the world’s innocent victims of poverty —now when your gift will feed twice as many children.

Please give generously so, as you sit down to your Thanksgiving meal with family and friends, you can be grateful that you were able to help those who cannot help themselves.  

Sincerely,

Richard Proudfit

Founder & President

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More News:

"Meals for hungry around the world find fans here in suburbs". Our food packaging satellite in Fox Valley, IL, has been featured in the Daily Herald, a

local newspaper. To read the full story, please click here.

"Kids get food for thought" - Article in the Tulsa World from 11/13/07

MDRT Foundation Secures Grant for Kids Against Hunger to Package 65,200 Meals for Starving Children in Haiti

New Hope, MN (Oct. 30, 2007)—Milt Edgren, ChFC, MSFS, of Golden Valley, MN secured a $15,000 grant from the MDRT Foundation on behalf of Kids Against Hunger.

Edgren, of Woodhill Financial and a 31-year MDRT member, is an active supporter of Kids Against Hunger and nominated and endorsed the grant application.  Kids Against Hunger is a nonprofit organization that uses volunteers to package specially formulated, nutritionally complete casserole- type meals for starving and malnourished children around the world. According to Mr. Edgren, the international scope of Kids Against Hunger made it a perfect fit for the MDRT Association, whose membership extends to 76 nations and territories around the world. The MDRT grant will support a program of Kids Against Hunger that ships meals to a school with 300 students near Port-au-Prince, Haiti.  The school site attracts not only school age children but also younger siblings and caregivers accompanying the students who come from as far as five miles away.  These families are in desperate need and the meal they receive at the school is often their only meal in a day or more. 

Representing the MDRT Foundation, Edgren presented the grant to Mr. Richard Proudfit, founder of Kids Against Hunger, at a packaging event at the Kids Against Hunger headquarters in New Hope.  The event was staffed with volunteers from the Youth Extending Service Club of Wayzata High School who packaged over 5,000 meals in less than two hours.  According to Mr. Proudfit, this generous grant from the MDRT Foundation couldn’t have come at a better time. “We have no shortage of volunteers, especially young people, wanting to package the food.  One of the unplanned, but very significant, benefits of the program is the effect it has on the volunteers – especially the youth.  By packaging the meals they are literally able to save the life of another child.  That knowledge is very powerful in fueling the compassionate spirit needed to produce the next generation of philanthropic adults and we want to accommodate every young person who wants to volunteer.  This grant will fund a packaging opportunity for 260 volunteers.”

This year the MDRT Foundation will award more than $1 million in grants to more than 100 charities. 

The MDRT Foundation was created in 1959 to provide MDRT members with a means to give back to their communities.  Since its inception, the Foundation has donated $17.6 million in 63 countries around the world and all 50 U.S. states.  The majority of these funds were raised by MDRT members from MDRT members.

 

  It is with great pleasure that we announce that our Founder, Richard Proudfit, has been honored with an award from the Points of Light Foundation.  This award was originally initiated by former President George H. W. Bush during his tenure in office, and has continued to this day.

 The Daily Points of Light Award honors individuals and volunteer groups that have made a commitment to connect Americans through service to help  meet critical needs in their communities. Each weekday, one volunteer or volunteer effort in the country receives a Daily Point of Light Award 

Mr. Proudfit’s vision has always been to eradicate world hunger by using volunteers to package a highly nutritious meal which will then be distributed to places in this country and around the world where starvation and hunger are taking the lives of innocent children.

His award was given for September 27, 2007, with him being featured on the foundation’s website for that day. The full article can be found here.

• Liberia (285,120 meals)  
• Peru (185,328 meals) 
• Haiti (71,280 meals)
• Uganda (28,512 meals)  
• Tanzania (6,480)  
• CEAP - Minneapolis, MN (4,320 meals)

• Kids Against Hunger - Fox Valley (IL)
• Kids Against Hunger - Norfolk (NE)

• 285,120 meals to Niger       
• 71,280 meals to India
• 64,152 meals to Haiti
• 31,536 meals to local food shelves in MN
• 14,256 meals to Honduras
• 432 meals to the Philippines         

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