hunger relief

Multiplying the Impact of Food and Housing Relief

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When you have a regular paycheck, a roof over your head, your health, and a fully stocked refrigerator, it’s easy to focus on other activities of daily living. But when you lack one or all of these things, your focus is on surviving. I know all this from first-hand experience. As a child, I helped […]

Annual Employee Giving Campaign Generates Nearly $6 Million for Global Hunger Relief

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Christina O’Neill is a manager with Cisco Community Relations based in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, who oversaw Cisco’s 2013 record-breaking Global Hunger Relief Campaign.  “We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.” – Winston Churchill In its 11th year, Cisco’s 2013 Global Hunger Relief Campaign […]

Cisco Employees Build Awareness about Hunger…Literally

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Every year, during Cisco’s Global Hunger Relief Campaign, employee teams across our campuses design and construct “cansculptures” —  pieces of art made entirely out of canned goods (which are later donated to a local food bank), to raise awareness about hunger and our annual giving back initiative. This year, Cisco employees in Lawrenceville, Georgia, Research […]

Feeding the Children: Cisco’s Global Hunger Relief Campaign in India

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This post was written by Rohini Kamath, who works for Cisco’s Community Relations team in Bangalore, India, helping employees give back to society. As we inch closer to the final week of Cisco’s signature fundraising campaign, the Global Hunger Relief Campaign, we look back and feel proud about the 150,000 children we have fed over […]

Food Bank Employee Describes the Many Faces of Hunger

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This post is from guest blogger Emily Kraft, Food & Nutrition Services Outreach Coordinator for the Food Bank of Central & Eastern North Carolina, one of the hunger relief organizations Cisco employees support through the annual Global Hunger Relief Campaign.  I’m at the library on my lunch break, searching for a good book to read […]

Cisco’s Global Hunger Relief Campaign Exemplifies “Giving Tuesday”

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Cisco is proud to be a partner in Giving Tuesday, a campaign to create a national day of giving at the start of the annual holiday season. We are celebrating Giving Tuesday by: 1. Promoting Cisco’s signature employee giving initiative, the Global Hunger Relief Campaign. Our goal: contribute $1.25 million in employee donations to hunger relief agencies […]

A Charitable Alternative to Black Friday

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Black Friday. This shopping day has become as synonymous with Thanksgiving as turkey, pumpkin pie, and football. In 2011, U.S. consumers spent $52 billion while shopping during Thanksgiving weekend. But not everyone in the United States can enjoy the trappings of Thanksgiving, much less Black Friday. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, in 2011 48.5 […]