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So, here we are, and it's 2020. My boys are a little older now and have continued to learn how to cook and prepare dinner for us and friends. Tonight, we do this a little differently. Tonight we serve our first meal in a homeless feeding center in Guatemala. My little boys are no longer 3 and 4, they're now 13 and 14 and have planned the menu, bought, picked or brought the fixings and have cooked a nutritious, well-rounded meal for their countrymen and women in a rural town in Guatemala.… Continue

So my 3 and 4 year old sons are adopted from Guatemala. While there is some hunger in my home community, there is quite a lot of hunger in Guatemala. So we have taken it upon ourselves to teach our sons about where food comes from, how it gets to the store and what it takes to grow for ourselves.



Each Spring and Summer we grow vegetables and some fruits in our garden. The boys pick their own "crops" and plant them and tend them. They work to feed people, not the deer, and to… Continue

and others do not. In Washington, DC, there is hunger and want alongside one of the richest concentrations of wealth in the world.



One local success story is SOME (So Others May Eat) a local nonprofit that reaches beyond hunger to empowerment.



Source: http://www.some.org/

Restoring hope and dignity one person at a time

So Others Might Eat has served the District of Columbia for nearly 40 years, working…

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Patrick Corvington is the new CEO of the Corporation for National and Community Service. His background is inspiring and his work has been around innovation and attacking the nation's biggest problems.



Patrick Corvington is a recognized expert on nonprofit sector leadership and capacity issues, new and emerging philanthropy, and volunteerism. Prior to joining the Corporation, he served at the Annie E. Casey Foundation as a Senior Associate responsible for guiding the foundation’s… Continue