{"id":48874,"date":"2014-09-10T09:11:24","date_gmt":"2014-09-10T13:11:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/offmetro.com\/ny\/?p=48874"},"modified":"2020-12-19T01:45:59","modified_gmt":"2020-12-19T05:45:59","slug":"volunteer-nyc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/offmetro.com\/ny\/48874\/volunteer-nyc\/","title":{"rendered":"Four Easy Ways to Fight Hunger in NYC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In between planning your weekend getaway and thinking about your next meal, consider some statistics.<\/p>\n<p>The Food Bank for NY has found that 2.6 million New Yorkers can&#8217;t afford to eat. Share Our Strength reports that NYC is in last place in the United States for feeding kids breakfast. The reality is alarming but not hopeless.<\/p>\n<p>Here are four easy ways to fight hunger in NYC:<\/p>\n<h3>Sign This Major Petition Today<\/h3>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazyload\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP\/\/\/yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7\" data-src=\"http:\/\/images.huffingtonpost.com\/2014-10-22-breakfast_3-thumb.jpg\" alt=\"2014-10-22-breakfast_3.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"262\" \/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazyload\" src=\"http:\/\/images.huffingtonpost.com\/2014-10-22-breakfast_3-thumb.jpg\" alt=\"2014-10-22-breakfast_3.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"262\" \/><\/noscript><\/center>Help 825,000 kids in the country&#8217;s largest school district have access to a nutritious breakfast by signing No Kid Hungry&#8217;s\u00a0Powered by Breakfast NYC\u00a0petition.<\/p>\n<h3>Serve a Hot Meal Here<\/h3>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazyload\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP\/\/\/yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7\" data-src=\"http:\/\/images.huffingtonpost.com\/2014-10-23-1459309_631055170273977_733806114_n-thumb.jpg\" alt=\"2014-10-23-1459309_631055170273977_733806114_n.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" \/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazyload\" src=\"http:\/\/images.huffingtonpost.com\/2014-10-23-1459309_631055170273977_733806114_n-thumb.jpg\" alt=\"2014-10-23-1459309_631055170273977_733806114_n.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" \/><\/noscript><\/center>Volunteer with The Food Bank for NYC by serving a meal or restocking the pantry\u00a0in West Harlem\u00a0.<\/p>\n<h3>Show Your Support in Style<\/h3>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazyload\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP\/\/\/yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7\" data-src=\"http:\/\/images.huffingtonpost.com\/2014-10-23-10433893_10152516037269302_958570640324297561_n-thumb.jpg\" alt=\"2014-10-23-10433893_10152516037269302_958570640324297561_n.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"489\" \/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazyload\" src=\"http:\/\/images.huffingtonpost.com\/2014-10-23-10433893_10152516037269302_958570640324297561_n-thumb.jpg\" alt=\"2014-10-23-10433893_10152516037269302_958570640324297561_n.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"489\" \/><\/noscript><\/center>Every purchase of a\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.feedprojects.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">FEED product<\/a>, be it a cute bag or clutch, helps Feeding America, among other organizations.<\/p>\n<h3>Celebrate Action Against Poverty and Hunger<strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazyload\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP\/\/\/yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7\" data-src=\"http:\/\/images.huffingtonpost.com\/2014-10-23-0dd9cdbc1b015015f0ff42dcc33d4f34-thumb.jpg\" alt=\"2014-10-23-0dd9cdbc1b015015f0ff42dcc33d4f34.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"346\" \/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazyload\" src=\"http:\/\/images.huffingtonpost.com\/2014-10-23-0dd9cdbc1b015015f0ff42dcc33d4f34-thumb.jpg\" alt=\"2014-10-23-0dd9cdbc1b015015f0ff42dcc33d4f34.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"346\" \/><\/noscript><\/center>Brooklyn Kindergarten Society&#8217;s annual\u00a0Yuletide Charity Ball\u00a0is a wonderful way to help raise money to fund early childhood education&#8211;and provide free breakfast and lunch to kids&#8211;in underprivileged areas of NYC.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In between planning your weekend getaway and thinking about your next meal, consider some statistics. The Food Bank for NY has found that 2.6 million New Yorkers can&#8217;t afford to eat. Share Our Strength reports that NYC is in last place in the United States for feeding kids breakfast. The reality is alarming but not [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":48875,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[750,327,320,754,325,752],"tags":[379,565,161,120,125,254],"class_list":{"0":"post-48874","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bike-2","8":"category-bronx-outer-boroughs-destination","9":"category-brooklyn-outer-boroughs-destination","10":"category-manhattan-2","11":"category-new-york","12":"category-subway-2","13":"tag-benefit","14":"tag-champagne","15":"tag-dancing","16":"tag-family-fun","17":"tag-food","18":"tag-free"},"acf":[],"mv":{"thumbnail_id":48875,"thumbnail_uri":"https:\/\/offmetro.com\/ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/10635921_10152421975244302_2008964721074316893_n-300x300.jpg"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/offmetro.com\/ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48874","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/offmetro.com\/ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/offmetro.com\/ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/offmetro.com\/ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/offmetro.com\/ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48874"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/offmetro.com\/ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48874\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/offmetro.com\/ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48875"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/offmetro.com\/ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/offmetro.com\/ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/offmetro.com\/ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}