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Rooftops Newsletter: Announcing the What A Waste Service Grant Winners

NFESH Awards Service Grants to Five Senior Nutrition Programs The National Foundation to End Senior Hunger (NFESH) has awarded five new What A Waste

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AmericanTown's Heroes: DoSomething.org Helps Kids Get Involved

Don't just sit there. Do Something! Does that sound familiar? Maybe something your Mom or Dad said when you were spending too much time in the house

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Rooftops Newsletter: Tips from a Food Waste Warrior

TIPS TO WASTE LESS, SAVE MORE. "Despite a growing awareness of food waste, many home cooks lack the tools to change their habits. This

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AmericanTown's Heroes: The Best Friends Animal Society Has A No Kill Mission

Save Them All is one of the calls to action of the Best Friends Animal Society and anyone who has dragged themselves away from the pet store or

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Student ETF Investment Contest - Registration Open!

Exchange-Traded-Funds remain one of the fastest growing instruments for current investors and an investment of choice for emerging investors. To

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AmericanTown's Heroes: Neil Barber is a Hero to Many Families

Families, teams and communities are very much alike. They all involve people banding together with common goals of support and success. This hero

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Rooftops Newsletter: NFESH Announces What A Waste Service Grants

NFESH Announces Request for Applications for What A Waste Service Grants Thanks to a generous grant from the Walmart Foundation, the National

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AmericanTown's Heroes: Cody Stephens Honored For Rescue Efforts

We can't all be heroes. Even when we are in the right place at the right time. Some of us are not fast enough or strong enough or have the wherewithal

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AmericanTown's Heroes: Flags Fly on Fields of Honor

Does your town have a field of honor? It's not a new concept. In fact, the idea of honoring those who died on the battlefield or in service of their

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AmericanTown's Heroes: Radhika Narain's Org Helps Provide a Childhood for...

It's a classic pay-it-forward story, only in addition to inspiring a chain reaction of giving it developed into an organization dedicated to touching

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Rooftops Newsletter: New Research Shows Continued Growth in Senior Hunger

9.6 million seniors faced the threat of hunger in 2013 in the U.S. The National Foundation to End Senior Hunger (NFESH) has released a new study

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Rooftops Newsletter: We spoke up and they listened

NFESH Founder, President and CEO Enid Borden is one of the signatories on a letter that urged U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack and EPA

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Rooftops Newsletter: NFESH's Success in DC to be Replicated Around the Country

Thanks to a generous grant from the Walmart Foundation, NFESH will expand and replicate the successful What A Waste™ project that has been

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Rooftops Newsletter: Reducing Food Waste Around the Country

NFESH Receives Grant from the Walmart Foundation to Expand What A Waste™ The Walmart Foundation has awarded the National Foundation to End

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Rooftops Newsletter: NFESH and NASUAD Form Senior Hunger Think Tank

The NFESH & NASUAD Senior Hunger Think Tank will bring together state officials, experts in senior hunger and leaders from the private sector to

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AmericanTown's Heroes: Food Banks Help Ease Hunger

March is National Nutrition Month, which is an effort sponsored by the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics "designed to focus attention on the

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AmericanTown's Heroes: Mentors Are Local Heroes and Friends

The Community Friends Mentoring Program is an organization that matches children with adults for mentoring. Mentoring may be the formal term, but

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AmericanTown's Heroes: For Our Daughters Helps Educate Young Women About...

For Our Daughters is a nonprofit organization with a mission to educate young women about the tools they need to live long and healthy lives.

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Rooftops Newsletter: Confessions of a Food Bank Director

Why A Food Bank Director Is Against the Minimum Wage Increase "It seems like every time I turn around, I hear friends of mine talking about how we

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Rooftops Newsletter: Against Aging in Place

"Aging-in-place may not be all it’s cracked up to be. That’s the view of a University of Florida professor of gerontology, who argues that

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