Click To Feed The Hungry

The Hunger Site is owned and operated by Tim Kunin and Greg Hesterberg, co-owners of CharityUSA.com, which is the parent company of GreaterGood Network. Long-time friends and activists, they bought The Hunger Site in mid-August of 2001.

Greg and Tim are dedicated to maintaining the site's position as a leader in online activism and a dynamic force in the fight to end world hunger. The Hunger Site is NOT a nonprofit organization and cannot accept financial donations directly.

GreaterGood.org is an independent charitable organization devoted to addressing the health and well-being of people (particularly women and children), animals, and the planet.

GreaterGood.org distributes funds generated through the GreaterGood Network of websites to the many charitable organizations responsible for implementing programs. 100% of the funds generated through the GreaterGood Network pass through GreaterGood.org to their partner charities.

On average, over 220,000 individuals visit The Hunger Site each day to support the work of our nonprofit partners, Mercy Corps and Feeding America (formerly America's Second Harvest), with simple, online actions.

Today, The Hunger Site continues its ambitious goal to harness the power of the Internet for good, uniting people around the world to form an online community devoted to the eradication of hunger. In February 2007, The Hunger Site reached a milestone; since it began, its supporters and sponsors funded a milestone value of more than 500,000,000 cups of food for the hungry.

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Tim Kunin has traveled extensively to visit charity partners and purchase some of the fair-trade products available on our sites. He is convinced that providing a market for products made by rural women artisans is the best method of reducing inter-generational poverty.

Travels have taken Tim to Canada, Mexico, El Salvador, Guatemala, Columbia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Sweden, England, France, Spain, Germany, Italy, Morocco, Mali, Burkina Faso, Ghana, Ethiopia, Uganda, Kenya, Rwanda, Mozambique, South Africa, Israel, India, and Afghanistan. Tim has purchased unique products in each of these countries which can in turn be purchased from the web stores here.

Greg Hesterberg was chairman of two statewide consumer and environmental organizations (MaryPIRG and PIRGIM) while in college. After 20 years running a successful publishing firm, Greg delights in finding innovative ways to make the world a better place.

When you click on the "Click Here to Give" buttons or banners , your click is counted by their servers and you move to the Thank You page, where you will see small ads for their site sponsors.

There is no charge to you; cups of food are fully paid for by these sponsors. 100% of sponsor advertising fees goes to their charitable partners. Every click on the yellow button results in funding for Mercy Corps and Feeding America. The more people who click, the more cups of food they can fund.

Site sponsors purchase small ads on the Thank You page for a certain amount of time. The Hunger Site then tabulates the number of people who click during that time frame and bill the sponsor for the appropriate amount. The Hunger Site divides the click monies between two leading hunger relief organizations: Mercy Corps and Feeding America.

You can click once a day, every day of the year on The Hunger Site and on each of their other Click to Give™ sites. Their agreement with their sponsors allows them to count one click, per person, per calendar day.

A monitoring system is set up to check this. While you could click on the button ten or a hundred or a thousand times, they will only count one click from you.

- You can visit this lens daily and click on the above banner;
- You can link to The Hunger Site via Facebook or MySpace (see details below);
- You can visit The Hunger Site;
- You can sign-up for a daily email reminder to click daily by CLICKING HERE.

Link To The Hunger Site
If you are on Facebook or My Space, you can become a Friend or a Fan by using the appropriate links below. Together, we can spread the word on how to fight world hunger with each and every click.

Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/TheHungerSite
My Space: http://www.myspace.com/hungersite

You can share this with others by forwarding this lens or using the free e-card program.

While The Hunger Site encourages you to pass along the message of The Hunger Site, they respectfully request that people do not send unsolicited messages promoting The Hunger Site to people they do not know or post inappropriately to newsgroups or in other places.

Anything regarded as unsolicited e-mail (spam) will not help this cause but, in fact, will hurt it. Unsolicited e-mail can alienate people who might otherwise visit The Hunger Site and help fight hunger.

The Hunger Site is the flagship site in the growing GreaterGood Network of cause-related sites, which includes The Breast Cancer Site, The Child Health Site, The Literacy Site, The Rainforest Site, and The Animal Rescue Site. Anyone with access to the internet is empowered to make a real difference by visiting these do-good sites.

Each site is focused on a specific need and allows supporters to benefit leading charities with simple, everyday online actions such as clicking to give and shopping to give more. That goodwill translates to funding for established non-profit organizations that implement vital programs and initiatives.

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