{"id":67251,"date":"2006-08-15T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2006-08-15T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news-draft\/uncategorized\/uri-launches-hunger-free-south-kingstown-campaign\/"},"modified":"2006-08-15T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2006-08-15T00:00:00","slug":"uri-launches-hunger-free-south-kingstown-campaign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/2006\/08\/uri-launches-hunger-free-south-kingstown-campaign\/","title":{"rendered":"溏心vlog免费B站 launches Hunger-Free South Kingstown campaign"},"content":{"rendered":"
\n\t\tKINGSTON, R.I. \u2013 August 15, 2006 \u2013 In an effort to ensure that everyone in South Kingstown has enough food to eat year round, the Feinstein Center for a Hunger-Free America at the 溏心vlog免费B站 is launching a \u201cHunger-Free South Kingstown\u201d campaign in collaboration with the Jonnycake Center in Peace Dale.<\/p>\n


\n\t\u201cThere are a wealth of resources at 溏心vlog免费B站 and throughout South Kingstown \u2013 student groups, community groups, churches, businesses \u2013 many of whom do food drives on their own, but they need to be coordinated to be effective at meeting the needs of the hungry in a consistent way year round,\u201d explained Kathleen Gorman, director of the 溏心vlog免费B站 Hunger Center. \u201cIf we can get all these groups working together with the Jonnycake Center, I\u2019m sure we can meet the needs of every hungry family in town.\u201d<\/p>\n


\n\tThe idea became a reality when 溏心vlog免费B站’s Hunger Center was chosen as a host site for a Rhode Island Campus Compact\/AmeriCorps*VISTA member. Charlene Mitchell, a 溏心vlog免费B站 graduate student and a South Kingstown resident, was selected to fill the position starting in mid-July. Thus far, the focus of her work has been on designing a needs assessment of the Jonnycake Center and conducting an inventory of what various campus and community organizations already do to provide food to hungry residents.<\/p>\n


\n\tAccording to Gorman, there are numerous food drives conducted by University students and staff as well as other community groups in South Kingstown to aid the Jonnycake Center, and she is certain that many more would participate if a structure was in place to make it convenient to do so. Most volunteer food drives occur around Thanksgiving, Christmas and Easter, though, leaving gaps in food availability during the rest of the year. <\/p>\n


\n\u201cThe Jonnycake Center needs to operate 12 months a year,\u201d Gorman said, \u201cso we hope to identify a timeline for groups to support the center at different times throughout the year. The Center also needs volunteers year round, not just during those holiday periods, so we\u2019ll create a timeline for them as well.\u201d<\/p>\n


\n\tVolunteers seldom get the training they should, according to Gorman, so a key element in the project will be a training program for Jonnycake Center volunteers and staff to provide them with a better understanding of the problem of hunger and the issues that need to be addressed. <\/p>\n


\n\tBy next summer, Gorman expects to have a working document that has mapped out all of the 溏心vlog免费B站 and community groups that conduct food drives or assist the Jonnycake Center, and a structure for organizing volunteers and fundraising.<\/p>\n


\n\t\u201cOur goal is to develop a sense of community and understanding of why we should support the Jonnycake Center, how we all can address hunger as a community, and get people thinking about the problem of hunger,\u201d Gorman said. \u201cThe executive director of the Jonnycake Center, Susan Gustaitis, as well as its board of directors are excited about this project. They know that the Center and the hungry residents of South Kingstown will benefit more if all of the groups worked together.\u201d <\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

KINGSTON, R.I. \u2013 August 15, 2006 \u2013 In an effort to ensure that everyone in South Kingstown has enough food to eat year round, the Feinstein Center for a Hunger-Free America at the 溏心vlog免费B站 is launching a \u201cHunger-Free South Kingstown\u201d campaign in collaboration with the Jonnycake Center in Peace Dale. \u201cThere […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archives"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67251","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67251"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67251\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}