The Hunger Site Forms New Partnership with Millennium Promise; Site Visitors Can Now "Click" to Help Small Farmers in Africa
Seattle, WA, August 05, 2009 --(PR.com)-- Tim Kunin, CEO of The Hunger Site, announced today a new partnership with Millennium Promise that will encourage sustainable farming in low-income, food-deficit countries, including the 10 sub-Saharan African countries where the 80 Millennium Villages reach 500,000 people in rural farming communities. Starting August 1, all clicks on The Hunger Site’s “Click Here to Give -- It’s Free” button and shopping at The Hunger Site store will benefit Millennium Promise as well as the site’s two longtime charity partners: Feeding America and Mercy Corps.
“While we will continue to support the efforts of our charity partners in emergency food relief both in the United States and abroad, we believe that equal effort must be made toward increasing agricultural productivity in a way that will help people achieve greater food security in their lives,” said Kunin.
The word’s oldest “Click to Give” website, The Hunger Site (www.thehungersite.com) began in 1999 and is the flagship site of the GreaterGood Network. Since The Hunger Site’s inception, millions of people worldwide have clicked on the homepage’s yellow button or shopped at The Hunger Site’s store, where every purchase made creates an extra donation for the site’s charity partners. The result has been phenomenal, with more 657 million cups of food funded in the past decade for those in need.
“Millennium Promise is delighted to join in announcing a new partnership with The Hunger Site, our first corporate partner that exclusively uses the power of the Internet to address humanitarian issues and eradicate world hunger. CEO Tim Kunin and Greg Hesterberg (president of The Hunger Site) bring their longtime reputations for innovation to supporting ways to end extreme poverty and hunger. The partnership between The Hunger Site and Millennium Promise is timely and significant as together we invest our resources to improve the livelihoods of smallholder famers in sub-Saharan Africa,” said John McArthur, CEO and executive director of Millennium Promise.
Millennium Promise was created to support the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals to halve extreme poverty in Africa by 2015. The organization’s flagship initiative, the Millennium Villages, takes a comprehensive approach to addressing extreme poverty. By combining the best scientific and local knowledge, Millennium Villages address all the major problems simultaneously -- hunger, disease, inadequate education, lack of safe drinking water, and absence of essential infrastructure -- to assist communities on their way to self-sustainable development. There are now 80 Millennium Villages in ten countries in sub-Saharan Africa.
More on The Hunger Site
With greater visibility these days through social networking sites like Facebook and increasing consumer confidence in giving online, donations from The Hunger Site to its charity partners grew rapidly last year despite the downturn in the economy. In 2008, The Hunger Site’s “Click Here to Give -- It’s Free” button alone funded 66,235,889 cups of food (up from 49,612,616 given in 2007). Purchases at The Hunger Site store funded an additional 5,845,025 cups of food (up from 4,025,225 given in 2007).
The clicks on the “Click Here to Give -- It’s Free” button are paid for by the site’s sponsoring advertisers and 100% of the money received is distributed to The Hunger Site’s charity partners as listed on the site.
The Hunger Site’s Gifts That Give More also allow visitors to make direct donations to a charity or a program to end hunger that most appeals to them. Ranging from Gifts that help feed a family of four in the United States for $25 to newest Gift to plant cardamom bushes in Uganda (a Millennium Village project), 100% of the money received is distributed as a grant through GreaterGood.org to the charity partners as described.
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The GreaterGood Network of “Click to Give” websites include: theanimalrescuesite.com, thebreastcancersite.com, thechildhealthsite.com, thehungersite.com, theliteracysite.com, and therainforestsite.com.
The money raised through Click to Give™ and GiftsThat Give More™ goes directly to the charity as described on the sites. The GreaterGood Network stores do not receive any profit from the Click to Give™ programs or the sale of any Gift That Gives More™. GreaterGood.org has ultimate authority and discretion with regard to the distribution of its funds. All expenditures made are consistent with the exempt purposes of GreaterGood.org and further information can be found at www.greatergood.org. Purchases of items from the GreaterGood Network of stores also benefit the charities as described on the sites and in the item descriptions.
“While we will continue to support the efforts of our charity partners in emergency food relief both in the United States and abroad, we believe that equal effort must be made toward increasing agricultural productivity in a way that will help people achieve greater food security in their lives,” said Kunin.
The word’s oldest “Click to Give” website, The Hunger Site (www.thehungersite.com) began in 1999 and is the flagship site of the GreaterGood Network. Since The Hunger Site’s inception, millions of people worldwide have clicked on the homepage’s yellow button or shopped at The Hunger Site’s store, where every purchase made creates an extra donation for the site’s charity partners. The result has been phenomenal, with more 657 million cups of food funded in the past decade for those in need.
“Millennium Promise is delighted to join in announcing a new partnership with The Hunger Site, our first corporate partner that exclusively uses the power of the Internet to address humanitarian issues and eradicate world hunger. CEO Tim Kunin and Greg Hesterberg (president of The Hunger Site) bring their longtime reputations for innovation to supporting ways to end extreme poverty and hunger. The partnership between The Hunger Site and Millennium Promise is timely and significant as together we invest our resources to improve the livelihoods of smallholder famers in sub-Saharan Africa,” said John McArthur, CEO and executive director of Millennium Promise.
Millennium Promise was created to support the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals to halve extreme poverty in Africa by 2015. The organization’s flagship initiative, the Millennium Villages, takes a comprehensive approach to addressing extreme poverty. By combining the best scientific and local knowledge, Millennium Villages address all the major problems simultaneously -- hunger, disease, inadequate education, lack of safe drinking water, and absence of essential infrastructure -- to assist communities on their way to self-sustainable development. There are now 80 Millennium Villages in ten countries in sub-Saharan Africa.
More on The Hunger Site
With greater visibility these days through social networking sites like Facebook and increasing consumer confidence in giving online, donations from The Hunger Site to its charity partners grew rapidly last year despite the downturn in the economy. In 2008, The Hunger Site’s “Click Here to Give -- It’s Free” button alone funded 66,235,889 cups of food (up from 49,612,616 given in 2007). Purchases at The Hunger Site store funded an additional 5,845,025 cups of food (up from 4,025,225 given in 2007).
The clicks on the “Click Here to Give -- It’s Free” button are paid for by the site’s sponsoring advertisers and 100% of the money received is distributed to The Hunger Site’s charity partners as listed on the site.
The Hunger Site’s Gifts That Give More also allow visitors to make direct donations to a charity or a program to end hunger that most appeals to them. Ranging from Gifts that help feed a family of four in the United States for $25 to newest Gift to plant cardamom bushes in Uganda (a Millennium Village project), 100% of the money received is distributed as a grant through GreaterGood.org to the charity partners as described.
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The GreaterGood Network of “Click to Give” websites include: theanimalrescuesite.com, thebreastcancersite.com, thechildhealthsite.com, thehungersite.com, theliteracysite.com, and therainforestsite.com.
The money raised through Click to Give™ and GiftsThat Give More™ goes directly to the charity as described on the sites. The GreaterGood Network stores do not receive any profit from the Click to Give™ programs or the sale of any Gift That Gives More™. GreaterGood.org has ultimate authority and discretion with regard to the distribution of its funds. All expenditures made are consistent with the exempt purposes of GreaterGood.org and further information can be found at www.greatergood.org. Purchases of items from the GreaterGood Network of stores also benefit the charities as described on the sites and in the item descriptions.
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www.thehungersite.com
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