While CKP volunteers recover leftover food, prepare it, and get it to hungry folks, a student at Bryn Mawr is taking on food waste in very different way. At the end of each breakfast, lunch and dinner, she documents the remnants of her meal and posts the evidence for the world to see. Although her [...]
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Archive for January, 2009
Do you want $5,000?
Posted in January 29th, 2009
by Jordan Kough in
Who can’t use $5,000? Well if you are a student at an accredited University or High School this is your chance! Sodexo is choosing up to 20 students who have impacted hunger in the last 12 months and giving them a scholarship for $5,000. I can’t think of any one that this would be a [...]
CKP joins national MLK Service Day movement
Posted in January 26th, 2009
by Jordan Kough in
“What is required of us now is a new era of responsibility — a recognition, on the part of every American, that we have duties to ourselves, our nation, and the world, duties that we do not grudgingly accept but rather seize gladly, firm in the knowledge that there is nothing so satisfying to the [...]
Fill in the Blank
Posted in January 23rd, 2009
by Jordan Kough in
Today’s early shout out is going to the University of Wisconsin, Eau Claire. Fill in the Blank is going to be our feature post of pictures and images sent in from around the country. We’ve already been delighted to see the feedback from some of you, and we are hoping to hear more each day. [...]
Song of the Day
Posted in January 22nd, 2009
by Jordan Kough in
So I’d first like to introduce everyone in the network that hasn’t met Liz Whitehurst to her. :Insert Faux Introduction Here: She is the new Americorps VISTA that will be working closely with us this upcoming year with New Site Development. She’s really great and I hope everyone gets a chance to meet her over [...]
A New President? A RENEWED BLOG!
Posted in January 22nd, 2009
by Jordan Kough in
We’re kick starting a new CKP blog and we need your help! Our goal is to create a blog that makes you laugh, celebrates your creativity and hard work, and most of all, inspires others to follow your example. Send us an email about your favorite volunteer, a cool new idea your leadership team came [...]