Prepare to indulge your taste buds while making a difference for America's youth! Taste of the NFL is spicing things up in the Big Easy with a Louisiana-inspired celebration of football, food, and philanthropy, all to support GENYOUth's mission to tackle student hunger and food insecurity. 

Presented by Frito-Lay, Quaker, and the PepsiCo Foundation, Taste of the NFL will be held during Super Bowl LIX Weekend. Adding gridiron sizzle to this unprecedented culinary gathering will be over 30 NFL Legends including Doug Flutie, Kyle Rudolph, Stephen Tulloch, Mark "Mighty Mouse" McMillian (who will also be at Taste of the NFL as a chef from Grillin' McMillian) and Demario Davis, among other NFL greats. 

Taste of the NFL will raise critical funds for GENYOUth's commitment to tackling food insecurity. Net proceeds will benefit GENYOUth's efforts to end student hunger by supporting school nutrition programs and delivering critical school meal equipment packages to high-need schools throughout Louisiana. For more info: https://tasteofthenfl.com/

📸: NFL

Be part of America’s largest pizza delivery by joining the World Pizza Champions on National Pizza Day. We're joining up to make February 9, 2025 the largest pizza delivery of the year to help local soup kitchens or shelters. 🍕

Do you know a local pizzeria in your town that would like to make an impact for people in need (in your community)? It's easy to get started 👉 https://sliceouthunger.org/paa

OR, find out if a local pizzeria you love has accepted our pledge to support their community by helping hunger relief organizations. 600+ pizzerias across the U.S. are already onboard! https://sliceouthunger.org/members

What better way to celebrate National Pizza Day!

In 2020, when schools across the country closed to slow the spread of Covid-19, federal lawmakers did something unprecedented: They decided to pay for free lunch for every public school student in America, every day, no questions asked.  Millions of children rely on free or reduced price meals at school. But now, that is not the case any longer at all schools. Children now go into debt in order to eat.

Debt can plague many of us at one time or another, but for a child debt should not be part of their young life. The national public school meal debt is $262 million a year. 30.4 million students can't afford their school meals. The average meal debt per child in the U.S. is $180.60 (yearly).

👉 We're giving major kudos to an organization whose focus is on eliminating that debt: All For Lunch. https://allforlunch.org/

If you're in a position to help, their website has details. Otherwise, sharing this information with others is always impactful! Thank you!

Source: Education Data Initiative, January 2024
📸: Feeding America