** Haiti Relief Efforts (1/20/10)
STUFH and CKI are teaming up to help in the efforts to bring relief to Haiti in the aftermath of the earthquake that occured recently. These efforts will take place in February, knowing that supplies and assistance will continue to be needed in the weeks ahead. A letter from the CKInsider and STUFH service ambassador Toby Markham details the efforts and ways you can help. Read that letter here.

STUFH thanks all those who will help us help the people of Haiti.

3/4/10
A recap, with photos, of the Hill Country Division Spring Rally in the Texas-Oklahoma CKI District in Austin, TX is available here. The event was held at the end of January. Great work to Juan Juarez and his entire division on planning this project.

2/27/10
Robert Srodulski of God's Pantry Food Bank in Kentucky reports that they are holding their annual Food Drive and Campus Sing on April 6th, 2010. The students at Transylvania University have raised over 100,000 pounds of food at this event over the past five years, making a real difference for the hungry people of Kentucky. Learn more about God's Pantry Food Bank online on their website.

2/7/10
More new web links are provided as part of the growing list of ideas to expand the educational resources in the efforts to fight hunger. Both come courtesy of Toby Markham, CKI's STUFH Service Ambassador, and the CKInsider.

Find these resources here and here.

12/3/09
Some new web links are passed along as updates by Toby Markham, CKI's STUFH Service Ambassador, on the efforts to hit 125,000 pounds of donations:

1. An educational piece called Poverty Dinner.
2. 11 Steps for a Successful Food Drive
3. A STUFH / CKI Facebook page has been created, and can be found here.

11/14/09
Toby Markham, CKI's STUFH Service Ambassador, is continuing to bring in news of new efforts around the country. Some of the most recent items include:

1. Main goal is to have 125,000 lbs of food donated to food pantries.
2. Hopes to develop a STUFH Fan Page on facebook.
3. STUFH Your Face Thanksgiving/Christmas Dinner.
4. Penny War at LSSP in St Louis for a food pantry.
5. Tip-Me Section for CKI website.
6. Education Pieces for all of these events.

Stay tuned to the STUFH and CKI websites for more info on these initiatives. More info from the CKI side can be requested via email.

10/26/09
Toby Markham, CKI's STUFH Service Ambassador, has put together a new resource for a fun Fall activity. The "Trick-or-Eat" resource can be done at Halloween or any time surrounding during this time of year. Read about it here.

10/20/09
Still suffering from the ravages of Katrina and now the economic crisis, twelve universities are teaming up to fight hunger in Louisiana at the end of semester this November and December. Louisiana ranks #1 among states with the highest number of young children, ages 0-5, who are food insecure. CKI Clubs, Lambda Chi Alpha Fraternity and other student organizations are joining together to raise food as students depart school. Rather than discarding their unused food products into the trash, they will throw the items into food bins supplied by their local food banks. This humanitarian recycling effort will make a real difference for those in need of help. Participating universities are Louisiana State University, Nicholls State University, Southeastern Louisiana University,
University of Louisiana at Lafayette, Millsaps College, Loyola University, University of New Orleans, Louisiana Tech, Northwestern Louisiana State University, Grambling State University, University of Louisiana at Monroe and Mississippi State University.

10/13/09
A new citywide food drive effort is underway, this time in the nation's capital. Seven Washington Metropolitan Area Universities are teaming up to fight hunger in an End Of Semester Food Drive during the months of November and December. Info can be found here. Check back for more updates leading up to the events.

10/7/09
A late addition to the 2009 results. Edgar Meyer, the CKI Governor of the district covering Mississippi, Tennessee and Louisiana reports that his fraternity, Lamda Chi Alpha raised 67,000 pounds of food for Jackson, Mississippi soup kitchen Stewpot Ministries. Amazing results from one group.

9/16/09
The list of 2009 results has been posted on the RESULTS page. Overall numbers have grown once again. It is fantastic to see that in spite of the economic conditions throughout the country this past year, all those involved with STUFH continued to find ways to grow their efforts and continue to help out the hungry and those less fortunate. Click over to the link to see all those who have reported numbers. More reports will continue to come in over the next few weeks. Any school that has not yet reported and wishes to can e-mail Dan Kahn at dkahn@stufh.org.

9/07/09
Two new great updates to pass along.

The first one is a roundup of the 2009 Buffalo Can Challenge at UC Boulder. This is a yearly event to raise food and awareness for the Boulder Community Food Share. This year's event brought in more than 8,000 pounds of food by the participants. For detailed information, including a video roundup of the event, click here. Images from the event can also be found in the PICTURES link.

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The second is a report from the University of New Mexico:

My name is AnnaMarie and I work with food drives for Roadrunner Food Bank and I wanted to let you know about the University of New Mexico regarding food donations and food drives.

I have 22 different organizations that we have worked with within the past year only. These organizations have helped collect over 3,500 pounds of food, and roughly around $467.

Thanks to UNM and these organizations their food drives have been a great success.

Thanks again,

Annamarie Maez
Roadrunner Food Bank
Albuquerque, NM 87109

8/31/09
Some more reports have been submitted with end of the year results below:

Deb McGeorge, the food resource developer of Food For Lane County in Eugene, Oregon once again reports that the students of the University of Oregon came through with 21,000 pounds of food to help feed the hungry of the Eugene area. Deb is also planning another exciting event, a food battle between California State University and the University of Oregon. By tapping into this historic college rivalry, Deb is hoping to generate a tremendous amount of food for those in need. Oregon remains one of our great states in it's significant support for food banks in the war against hunger.

It is wonderful to report that Oregon State University remains one of the best universities in the nation in the war against hunger. Ryan McCambridge, the food share coordinator for the Community Food Share foodbank in Corvallis, Oregon, reports that OSU held its annual food drive in February and raised in money and food the equivalent of 551,000 pounds of food to help fight hunger in Oregon. The entire campus with over 20,000 students, faculty and staff mobilizes for this effort which makes such a difference for so many in need.

Kristie Brinkley from the University of Central Missouri reports that students ended up collecting 750 lbs. of food, 100 bags/boxes of clothing for Big Brothers Big Sisters of Johnson County and several boxes of school supplies (still awaiting their final result email) for the Johnson County Teachers Warehouse.

Peter O'Konski reports that St. Joseph's University raised 5,070 pounds of much needed food at their end of year food drive. An additional 520 pounds was raised during Greek Week.

Tremendous results from all those involved in these efforts.

8/12/09
Two new reports have been submitted with end of the year results:

Dr Juliet Berling, environmental professor at SUNY Binghamton, reports once again that her students came through in a big way to help fight hunger by raising 13,345 pounds of food, clothing and other donations for their local Chow Food Bank. SUNY Binghamton was one of the very first universities to join STUFH back in 1999 and in the past decade, over
70,000 pounds of food has been raised to help feed the hungry in their local college community.

Reverend Larry Riley of the Second Harvest Foodbank of Northeast Florida reports that the local colleges of Jacksonville together raised over 13,000 pounds of food. In particular, he points out the tremendous work on the college level done by Professor Steve Stohl of the St. John's Riverside Community College who throughout the years has been one of the heroes in the War Against Hunger in North Florida.

7/29/09
Maureen Polimadei of the San Diego Food Bank wrote in with some end-of-the-school-year STUFH results.

The San Diego Food Bank partnered with two local universities to collect unused food from student housing. The University of San Diego collectetd 694 pounds; the much larger San Diego State University collected 1,570 pounds of food. The San Diego Food Bank would like to thank Barbara at USD and Benita at SDSU for assisting with the coordination.

7/13/09
Kristin Reed, President of CKI, writes in with a great letter showing the great efforts and attitudes of STUFH participants and partners.

Greetings Daniel!

I wanted to take a quick moment to write you and say Thank You from the bottom of my heart for everything you do to help make the world a better place. I will be retired next month as President of Circle K International but I want you to know that STUFH will always have a place in my heart.

Although I may be done with Circle K I still have another year left in college and would love to help you spread the word, create resources, or help in any capacity. Essentially, if you need any help from SUNY Collegian you know where to find me!

Again, thank you for making a difference one stomach and one community at a time :) I've been blessed to work with such an amazing service partner!

Changing the World Together,
Kristen M. Reed
International President, Circle K International

7/01/09
Kristie Brinkley of the University of Central Missouri wrote in with results of efforts to gather food and donations for local area groups.

We ended up collecting 750 lbs. of food, 100 bags/boxes of clothing for Big Brothers Big Sisters of Johnson County and several boxes of school supplies (still awaiting their final result email) for the Johnson County Teachers Warehouse.

Thanks and Have a great 4th of July Weekend!

Kristie Brinkley, Coordinator
Volunteer Services and Non-Traditional Student Services
University of Central Missouri
Office of Campus Activities

6/09/09
A few Food Fight reports have been submitted recently, of those campaigns that started in the latter part of the 2008 calendar school year.

The first, from Martha Faupel, Executive Director of the Food Bank of East Alabama tells us Last year's Food Fight between Auburn University and the University of Alabama yielded the following totals:

* Auburn University - 212,199 pounds
* University of Alabama - 270,915 pounds

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A reporrt from the Summit League Food Fight has been published on the league's website. That article can be found here. Great numbers by the league as a whole, bringing in over 14,000 pounds of food.

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Jeanna Kindle of the Los Angeles Regional Food Bank reports that the largest of the Food Fights, between UCLA and USC, brought in the equivalent of nearly 56,000 pounds of food stuff, or one and a half truckloads. Other schools in surrounding areas participated with nearly 15,000 pounds of collections. Those schools include Art Center College of Design, Cal State University Dominguez Hills (my alma mater), Cal State L.A., Cal Poly Pomona (my son's alma mater), Cleveland Chiropractic College, East L.A. College, Occidental College, Pepperdine University, Pitzer College, and Southwestern University.

6/06/09
An e-mail from Joyce Kinde of the University of Colorado comes in with news about the second annual Buffalo Can Challenge, a campus wide canned food drive held this past April.

Theresa Cusimano suggested that I pass onto you the results of our recent Buffalo Can Challenge campus wide canned food drive conducted here at the University of Colorado at Boulder on April 24 and 25, 2009. This is the second year of our event. We increased the number of teams that participated and were grateful to have not only student participation this year but staff teams building as well. Our website is http://www.colorado.edu/vch/bucc/.

I have attached our fact sheet to give you an idea of how well we did as well as a few pictures for you. You can see all the photos at http://cuboulderbucc2009.shutterfly.com.

Thank you for this opportunity to brag just a bit!

With Gratitude,

Joyce Kinde
Assistant Director
Office of Parent Relations and IECE
University of Colorado at Boulder

6/04/09
Eric Wolverton of the Care and Share Food Bank of Flagstaff reports that the students at North Arizona University at Flagstaff came through once again in the war against hunger. The students raised 3,841 pounds of food to help feed the hungry in North Arizona. This much needed food is especially significant in these difficult economic times.

6/02/09
Middle Tennessee State University recently held a STUFH food drive and collected over 200 pounds. They hope that this will be a starting point for this club and hopefully word will spread to the other clubs in the Kentucky-Tennessee district of CKI.

5/07/09
A great letter from the new president of STUFH at the University of Illinois | Urbana-Champaign below:

Hello,

My name is James Constable and I have been elected by the former Exec Board to be the new President of this wonderful club. Although I am relatively new at it, I feel extremely honored to be a part of an organization that works hard to fight local hunger, and at the same time enjoys doing it! Last year the club was pretty small but this year a main objective is to expand the club in such a way where the word about STUFH is spread among the campus easily. As a team, we plan on organizing the club in such a way where more fundraising happens, since our main goal is donate as much as possible to our Eastern Illinois Foodbank.

I wish to keep in touch with you on how our club here at the University of Illinois is doing. Hopefully in time enough awareness of STUFH's mission will be heard and there will be more volunteering opportunities throughout our campus. I am aware of the past few years of tremendous success and I only want to help continue the growth of an organization that is truly special. Thanks!!

Sincerely,

James Constable
University of Illinois | Urbana-Champaign

5/05/09
Kristen Reed of Circle K International passes along an article about the New England District Circle K and a recent Walk for Hunger. That article can be found here.

4/30/09
Once again, the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville worked hard to support their local Northwest Arkansas Food Bank, (formally the Ozark Food Harvest) in Springfield, Missouri. The major industry in Fayetteville is Tyson Foods and on Saturday, January 14, 2009, Tyson helped raise and donate 38,000 pounds of chickens to help feed the hungry on their on-campus food drive. The project was supported by hundreds of student volunteers from the University. Dan Schroeder, Operations Manger of the food bank, reports that this significant support made a tremendous impact in their efforts to feed the hungry and made a real difference in their local communities.

4/15/09
Martha Faupel, Executive Director of the Food Bank of East Alabama wrote in with results from the annual Food Fight between the University of Alabama and Auburn University. The past year's "Food Fight" between Auburn University and the University of Alabama yielded the following totals:

* Auburn University - 212,199 pounds
* University of Alabama - 270,915 pounds

These numbers, along with earlier submitted numbers from the SEC, Summit League, LA area Food Fights show the numbers approaching the one million pounds level, which is a fantastic amount to report. Of course, as always, the real winners are the people who are fed by this donated food!

4/11/09
As reported in November, the Summit League athletic conference held Food Fights throughout the men's and women's basketball seasons of its member schools. Oakland University was able to claim the title by raising nearly 4,300 pounds of food. The full report of this initiative and the schools' successes can be found here.

3/20/09
A letter Trent University's Circle K group about a successful plan to collect food donations from your local community.

On the first Saturday thirteen Circle K members from Trent University passed out flyers to 2000 homes letting them know we would be back the next Saturday sometime between 9-3 to pick up any non-perishable food donations for the Kawartha Food Share. On the back of the flyers, we left a space where they could leave their name and contact information for a $100 gift certificate to a local grocery store. The following Saturday twelve of us, including a local Kiwanis President, ventured out to collect the food people left on their doorstep. All together we collected over 1300 pounds of food on this single event. We nearly doubled that all together this year.

It was a great event and we were able to feed alot of people from the community we have grown to love.

McKensi Mills
President of Trent University Circle K

2/02/09
The head of STUFH, Dan Kahn, was recently elected to the Board of Directors of the Congressional Hunger Center on December 18, 2008 for a three year term. The Congressional Hunger Center (CHC) is a nonprofit anti-hunger training organization founded by former Rep. Tony Hall and located in Washington, D.C.