It’s official! Congratulations to the ten states who placed in the Top 10.
- Oklahoma
- Vermont
- Oregon
- Idaho
- Connecticut
- Missouri
- Indiana
- Tennessee
- New York
- Wisconsin
In the coming week or so, we’ll be working with Tyson Foods and other partners to select the dates and receiving food bank for each truck.
In the meantime, we’d like to know how each state prevailed. Were you part of the team that led your state to victory? Let us know the secret to your success here in the comments.
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I go to Grad School at Springfield College School of Human Services in St. Johnsbury, VT. Our assistant director of recruitment (who totally rocks), sent me the link and I forwarded it to everyone I know. I volunteered at the central Food Bank in Barre, VT and saw first hand the tremendous good the food bank can do. Vermonters may be struggling, but we always find a way to lend a hand, or in this case a can. Special thanks to Tyson Foods and the other sponsors. I will feel especially proud and happy to support their products knowing that they are willing to step up and do so much good. We can make a difference- one person, one meal and one can at a time.
The Oregon Food Bank pushed out an email blast that linked back to your site. I then sent it out to all the people I could.
SO happy to see this happening for all of these families so deserved of a good meal.
THANK YOU!
As a minister of outreach for the Angel Food Ministries Mid-South in Tennessee, I posted this on Facebook and sent out a lot of emails to host sites for Angel Food. Some supported Tennessee, some Mississippi, and some Arkansas and some even took the banner to other states where there are AF host sites! AF knows no state barriers and is out there to feed kids wherever they are. Even our local deejays jumped in and put it on their FB page!
We have a large community of Homeschool families here and once the word gets out we all get involved.
I wonderful friend of mine who is always involved in charity and volunteering e-mailed me a notice with a link to the website. I am blessed to be a part of this opportunity and am blessed to have such wonderful friends who always think of others! Thank you Tyson and sponsors for doing this for Idaho at such a needed time!
I heard about the Can Drive while watching our local news. I’m proud to be a part of such a great cause! Thank you Tyson and all involved in making this Can Drive possible.
I received a message from My sister on Facebook, in reference to We Can End this. My sister and her Husband are involved the in food bank in Enosburg Falls, Vt. A small town with a lot of unemployed and low income personnel. The food bank in that town, although short lived has been a plus for the area. In knowing how it is there, I placed this on my facebook to try and help out my the food banks in my low income State of Vt.
We sent this e-mail to people who we knew had the love of God and the desire to end hunger.
We did a lot of praying and we all know GOD answers prayers.
I’ve been contributing and volunteering with the Oregon Food Bank for several years, and they told me about We Can Do It in an e-mail. I was delighted to help by simply clicking a button. Let’s do this again!
I put the link on my facebook and urged everyone to go on and vote. Hopefully it helped!
As a distributing agent and volunteer for the Oregon Food Bank, I thank you for this. It’s nice to know there are people out there who, in spite of our current economy, continue to be so generous.
I often work with the great folks at Share Our Strength and heard about this program a few weeks ago. My website, Change Becomes Change, often covers topics of hunger and this was no exception. In addition to sharing the story with my subscribers, I also spread the word on Twitter and Facebook and with friends offline everyday. There were a lot of Oregonians behind the effort and I’m so happy that my community is receiving a truck load of food.
I received a notice directly from the Oregon Food Bank. I’m on their volunteer list and have helped collect food at the Blues Festival for the past two years. I’m a business consultant and I use many social marketing sites to promote myself along with the events of friends, family and worthy causes.
I sent this notice out immediately when I received it and my contacts are many. I am grateful to be of service and proud and honored to be part of such a worthy cause. It is a deeply personal concern of mine for there is no excuse for anyone to ever be hungry. I thank everyone that participated in this food drive. Yes, WE CAN!
I wanted to do this because it is a great thing and it just took one min of my time donationg the virtual can
Great Job Vermont for placing 2nd to End Hunger. I run the Lyndon Area Meal Site in Lyndonville Vermont. We serve Meals-on-Wheels to the clients who are not so fortunate to be able to get to our meal site, and a sit down dinner at noon time to those who can, we are opened to the public 5 days a week. I am very fortunate to have a very devoted staff that really care about feeding the hungry. Most people don’t realize the NEED that is out there in the community unless they see it first hand. Thank you to Tyson, and to everyone who has devoted their precious time & energy, for this campaign, and who really care about their communities.
Again, Great Job Vermont!!!
The Eastern Oklahoma Food Bank is amazing! They provide so much for so many and they are very stratigic on how it is done. They work great with community partners, other agencies, schools, etc…Any group that is associated with them will always help out in any way possible!
love this thanks so much for giving me a chance to help
Foodshare used our facebook page, our blog, and our employee’s and volunteer’s facebook pages to promote this campaign, landing Connecticut in the top ten. We certainly hope Foodshare will receive at least some of the food promised to Connecticut.
We got an email from the director of the Vermont Foodbank, and our entire staff at The Vermont Chamber of Commerce donated through the link, and then forwarded the email on to friends and family. We also posted it on the Vermont Chamber of Commerce Facebook page and encouraged everyone to vote for VT, and we did this multiple times. The word went out far and wide thanks to social media and the people who care enough to take a few minutes from their busy days to do some good for our state. Thanks to everyone who helped, we are so happy our small Vermont got second place, and our people in need will benefit.
I saw this on facebook and twitter and shared and retweeted it multiple times. Hunger is a very real problem in Vermont…and I am thrilled that we will be one of the ten staes receiving this donation!
St Vincent de Paul Food Recovery Network in Portland engaged our staff, volunteers to send the link out to face book, e-mail blast and phone calls. With a lot of help from Oregonians it worked and we will be able to help more people in need. Thank you everyone
Our very own Jason Ashley Wright, the Tulsa World Scene writer, posted it on his FB page. I would imagine with Jason’s following, lots of Tulsans climbed on board to support.
I got a link sent to me in an email, I donated and am very excited to see that we came out #2!
“We Can End This” was first forwarded to me by a friend who involved in the local Foodbank. Vermont is a tiny state, but one whose citizens are extremely aware and concerned about critical human and environmental issues, and who act upon those concerns community by community.
What I did was to immediately forward the link (after adding a can myself, of course) to about 30 people I was sure would do the same. All of these people have many like-minded friends, so who knows how many ended up donating a can? Hundreds? It’s the ripple effect. The important thing is to throw the stone in the water. I am grateful to Tyson and very proud of Vermont for putting its care into action with many thousands of cans.
When I received my encouragement email… i immediately posted it to my facebook account. I actually encouraged everyone to push for their state… but if they wanted to give extra attention to Oklahoma, they had my blessing… lol While it is great to have our state do well, it is more important that people are being fed… whether from Oklahoma or Wisconsin, people who are hungry are going to be fed! Keep up the good work everyone!
Our organization picked up the feed on Twitter and Facebook from the Vermont Foodbank. We re-posted and re-tweeted multiple times to reach our statewide network of AmeriCorps members, alums, and supporters. Go VT!
Our local food bank sent out an email to all the food distibution centers and we in turn put the word out to friends, clients, staff and family. Thank you so much.
This has been a great contest. I hope next year if the contest is used that states will be able to participate by a percentage of the population entering not actual numbers. A small state has a much lower chance winning when actual numbers are used. Vermont was truely blessed and lucky to have been one of the smallest states but come out number 2 due to the large number of highly motivated people who support our food bank.
we won because we wanted it more ,we did not give up and we are always on the computer
We enjoyed participating in this contest at Harvesters – The Community Food Network – we have a 26-county service area that includes portions of Missouri and Kansas, and we were successful in getting Missouri in the top 10! We frequently posted on facebook, we regularly treeted about it, sent it to our volunteers, posted it on our individual facebook accounts and encouraged our volunteers and other supporters to join us in the campaign. Thanks very much for the opportunity – we hope you’ll do it again – it was fun and a great way to engage local supporters!
Thank you Debbie for sending me the link. I know several people that benefit from this program. Without it they would go for days with no food. Thank you to all who helped make this possible. Love ya all.
Harvesters in Kansas City sent out an email blast and used Twitter and Facebook to get the word out. Thank you for helping us feed hungry families in our community!
I am a staff member of St. Vincent de Paul of the Portland Council in Oregon. I received an email from Jacque who is the Director of our Food Recovery Network and I forwarded to everyone on my email list, posted on Facebook and also talked to anyone who would listen. Way to go Oregonians, we placed #3!!!!!!
Imani Health Institute of Burlington, Vermont was pleased to forward this site and help contribute to our state. We distribute 16,000 lbs of food each month to the community and are greatful for the donations we receive. We at Imani believe food is a right not a priviledge and we are more than willing to take that extra step to do whatever possible to prevent someone from going to sleep with an empty stomache.
The Foodbank of Northern Indiana serves one of the hardest hit areas in the country in this recession so they posted on Facebook and I reposted your link. I am so glad we were one of the top ten states! Way to go Hoosiers!
Our local food bank in Tulsa sent an email blast to lots of folks who are interested in supporting efforts to end hunger in northeastern OK. They asked us to forward the email to everyone we knew. I think Tulsans, especially, really support these kinds of efforts–our city won the “top Zoo”
award through much the same process.
Thank you for creating a project like this and allowing us to feel we are a part of it. It is one of the best efforts to bring the appropriate people and organizations together for the common purpose of ending hunger in America that I have seen. I, along with so many other Vermonters, sent out about 100 e-mails with the site and posted it on Facebook. The local food shelf and food bank are non-profits our Downtown Randolph Business Group regularly supports with contributions generated through the events and programs we promote. How many responded I will never know but I do know that many did and sent it on to many others, sort of a Chain Letter for the common good. After we defeat hunger in America, I hope we learn enough to take on the rest of the world!
As I posted originally, Vermont is small but Vermonters are big when it comes to helping their neighbors. Like so many others, when I received the information on the project, which is one of the best examples of what people can do when brought together for common purpose, I voted, volunteered and send an e-mail with the link to about 100 people and posted it on Facebook. I asked them to vote and send it to their friends as well. I do not know how many responded, but I do know some who did and even some from other states. Why they went for Vt as opposed to their state is an unknown but I did notice that their states did not finish in the top 10. Great project! Don’t stop. After we end hunger in America, lets end it everywhere!
Congratulations Tennessee Food Banks! Tyson Foods Thanks so much!