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8:05am December 30th, 2009

Year of the Kitchen Garden!

Dear Cause Members,

It's been quite a year for kitchen gardens and Kitchen Gardeners International. From helping to plant a garden at the White House to helping fight food insecurity around the world, KGI has made a real difference thanks to the participation and support of people like you.

I've… (more)

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7:48am December 3rd, 2009

Strange but true: You can help plant gardens by shopping this holiday season

Hi everyone!

We have an exciting opportunity to earn money for our cause just by doing what many of use are already doing anyway this time of year - shopping for the holidays.

Hundreds of websites like Target, Best Buy, and Expedia have agreed to donate a percentage of any purchase you make to… (more)

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12:41pm November 12th, 2009

Happy birthday Cause members!

We've seen a spike lately in members setting up Birthday Wishes
as a way of raising funds for our Cause. Thank you for doing this and for those of you with birthdays coming up later this fall or winter perhaps it's something you want to consider.

Thanks again for joining and supporting our cause… (more)

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9:15am November 6th, 2009

Tick. Tock. Let's make one last push to reach 400 total donations!

You folks have done such a great job the past couple of weeks. Thank you one and all.

As of now, we've had 365 donations come in as part of America's Giving Challenge (AGC) and have raised nearly $7000 which Kitchen Gardeners International will use to help more people to grow their own healthy,… (more)

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7:09am October 30th, 2009

We've made it into the top 25! Can we shoot for the top 20?

Thank you, gracias, and merci to all those who have made a donation to our cause the past two weeks.

You might have seen the White House kitchen garden featured again in the news yesterday. It's so encouraging to see the garden revival taking place in our country. Our Cause (and KGI's work in… (more)

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BULLETIN

2:10pm October 27th, 2009

Gardeners Have the Power!

Dear Kitchen Gardener,

KGI is a 501c3 nonprofit community of over 18,000 people from 100 countries who are growing some of their own food and helping others to do the same. We have a rare opportunity to expand the number of people we are reaching and the number of gardening groups we are helping… (more)

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7:33am October 24th, 2009

It's time to make the donuts!

Yes, yes, I know that's really the wrong saying for a cause focused on giving healthy veggie gardens to people in need, but it's my way of saying that it's time for everyone to wake up to the problem of global food insecurity and to support our cause in America's Giving Challenge as an important… (more)

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8:00am October 22nd, 2009

Sow $10. Reap $50,000 to help plant vegetable gardens around the world

Wow! You folks have done an amazing job the past few days taking our cause from 1827th place (i.e. dead last) to 28th place in America's Giving Challenge. If we can have another 50 people step forward today with donations, we can move into the top 20 and put us within range of winning one of the… (more)

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12:22pm October 20th, 2009

Great Day. Great work. Let's keep it going.

Although we missed out on the daily challenge grant today, we had a great day. Let's keep up the momentum and see what surprises we can pull off in the days ahead.

Roger Doiron
Cause Creator
CrushHunger.org

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9:45am October 20th, 2009

Photo finish ahead - we need your $10 donation by 3pm today

We're pushing hard to finish in second place today in the America's Giving Challenge daily challenge (the Cause that can generate the most donations in a 24 hour period) and need another 20 $10 donations in the next 2 hours to make it happen. A second place finish would help us win a $500 grant… (more)

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6:13pm October 19th, 2009

CRUSH hunger needs your help tonight

We're entered in the America's Giving Challenge and need to bring in a number of new donations between now and 3pm tomorrow if we're going to stay in contention.

If you haven't yet donated, please help out here:
http://www.causes.com/donations/select_donation_method?cause_id=11991

Many thanks,… (more)

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6:35pm October 18th, 2009

How will we feed 9 billion people in 2050?

Monsanto and Bill Gates have their own answer to the question, but the honest answer is that we don't yet know how we'll pull off that enormous challenge. What we do know for certain is that the more gardens we have - kitchen gardens, community gardens , school gardens, backyard gardens, etc - the… (more)

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1:52pm October 16th, 2009

Help us CRUSH world hunger and leverage a $50,000 grant!

Hi everyone,

Today is World Food Day and we have rechristened our cause "CRUSH Hunger" to recognize the over 1 billion people who suffer from food insecurity. Helping people, in the US and around the world, to grow some of their own food is going to be an important part of the solution.… (more)

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BULLETIN

3:03pm August 13th, 2009

Kitchen Gardeners Unite!

Thanks for helping the the kitchen garden cause. We recently went over 25,000 members thanks to people like you reaching out and inviting friends to join.

If you're not subscribed to Kitchen Gardeners International's newsletter, you can read the latest issue online here:… (more)

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8:07am June 5th, 2009

Ask for/give the gift of Food Independence for your birthday and ours

America will turn 233 years old this July 4th and we're working to make our country's birthday party into a ripe and juicy celebration of local foods which we're calling Food Independence Day.

For those of you celebrating birthdays of your own this summer, I'd be delighted if you'd consider using… (more)

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BULLETIN

11:53am March 10th, 2009

White House Victory Garden: Each one, reach one.

Please help us grow the White House Victory Garden Petition by visiting this link and clicking on the green button saying “Ask Friends to Sign”:

http://apps.facebook.com/causes/petitions/43

With spring planting just around the corner, the next month is going to be critical for the Eat the… (more)

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BULLETIN

9:39am March 6th, 2009

100,000 Voices for a New White House Victory Garden?

Please help us grow the White House Victory Garden Petition by visiting this link and clicking on the green button saying “Ask Friends to Sign”:

http://apps.facebook.com/causes/petitions/43

With spring planting just around the corner, the next month is going to be critical for the Eat the… (more)

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BULLETIN

5:06am March 1st, 2009

Eat the View in the Chicago Tribune

Good day!

Two short news items for you:

1) I've got an op-ed in today's Chicago Tribune :
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/chi-perspec0301gardenmar01,0,7242582.story

If you like it, please help spread it around by using the different sharing (Digg, e-mail, posting to Facebook) tools… (more)

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BULLETIN

1:55pm January 20th, 2009

A Fresh Start for America, a Fresh Facebook Petition

The "new era of responsibility" starts at home, at our homes and America's home, the White House.

We've added a new "Replant a Victory Garden at the White House" petition to our Facebook Cause. Please sign it (even if you've already signed the one at EatTheView.org - we'll… (more)

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BULLETIN

8:18am January 7th, 2009

2000 votes in a week? Yes, we can!

Please vote for change we can believe in and TASTE here:

http://www.change.org/ideas/view/green_the_white_house

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12:24pm December 23rd, 2008

What can 10,000 Facebook users accomplish in a week?

Wow! Over 10,000 of you have signed onto our Facebook Cause in support of the White House Garden Campaign. I'm curious to see what 10,000 people working together can do.

1) Can we raise $1000 to help gardeners in need through donations (even $10 is a big help), pledges, and matching challenges?… (more)

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11:44am November 26th, 2008

Please vote for us on Change.org

Change.org is collecting the "Top 10 Ideas for America" to be presented to the Obama Administration on Inauguration Day and we'd like to see if we can get an organic garden on the White House lawn as one of them.

You can help us by visiting and voting for our proposal here:
… (more)

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6:15am October 24th, 2008

"This Lawn is Your Lawn" coming to a TV screen near you!

Hi ,

It’s Roger of the “Eat the View!” campaign writing with BIG news. Our video “This Lawn is Your Lawn” which urges the next president to transform the “First Lawn” into the “First Garden” has been chosen as one of the winners of the Climate Matters video contest and will be… (more)

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