Summer Meals Webinar Series

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The School’s Out Food’s In Webinar Series is under way. This series provides a variety of insights to improve program delivery and promotion, along with tools to help guide your work.  Follow the links below to register for upcoming webinars in the series:

Level Up: Applying Technology to Summer Meals

Thursday, March 5^th 1pm EST

The right technology solutions can make summer meals a more effective program at the state, sponsor and site level. Join No Kid Hungry and global IT and business firm CGI to learn about technology trends and discuss how technology can be and already is being used to modernize programs, increase efficiency and improve decision-making.

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Developing your Summer Meals Marketing Plan

Wednesday, March 11^th 2pm EST

Research shows that fewer than half of all low-income families know about summer meals programs in their area. Reaching families in the right places with the right messages about summer meals can increase participation at sites in your community. This webinar will provide a process to develop a comprehensive communications and outreach plan, tools to help you implement your strategy, and examples of effective outreach in action.

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Kicking Off Summer: Strategies and Resources to Spread the Word

Wednesday, March 25^th 2pm EST

When done well, summer meals kickoff events can have a big impact on participation. From coordinating events across a city to holding virtual kick-off events, this webinar will share examples of what has worked in various communities and tools to help you implement your kick-off strategy. It will also feature information about how you can participate in National Text for Summer Meals Day 2015.

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See the full webinar series here.

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Advocacy Action: Breakfast After the Bell Hearing Today!

A Message from the Children's Alliance:

Breakfast After the Bell hearing TODAY.  Send a message now - and share this alert!

We know schools do their jobs better when more kids eat breakfast at school: attendance goes up, discipline problems go down, and students achieve more when they start their day right.  Washington has been missing out on a simple and effective way to get the school day off to a great start: make breakfast part of the school day.   We're thrilled that the school breakfast bills (SB 3457  HB 1295) are moving forward. At Monday's Senate Ways and Means committee hearing, a whopping 48 organizations signed in to support Breakfast After the Bell (one senator said that could be a record!). Today (Tuesday), the House Appropriations committee will also have a hearing - let's break their record, too!   Make a big noise for Breakfast After the Bell - click here and send a message directly to all three of your lawmakers.  Let them know this legislation invests in students and makes smart choices for their education.  Now - share this note and the link with your colleagues - ask them to take action today! Thanks to our partners at United Way of King County and Washington Appleseed for testifying about how the bills work for kids by focusing on schools where students are most likely to be going hungry and falling behind.

Job Opportunity- Americorps Vista Positions with United Way of King County

United Way of King County is seeking 2 exceptional AmeriCorps VISTA members to join a team of dynamic change agents working to fight poverty in King County! United Way's mission is to bring caring people together to give, volunteer, and take action to help people in need and solve our community's toughest challenges. United Way deploys AmeriCorps VISTA members with partner agencies to expand their capacity to end homelessness, give all kids an equal chance to succeed, and meet the basic needs of our community's most vulnerable.

Application Deadline: March 30th, 2015
Start Date: April 28, 2015 

Available Positions:

• Outreach & Communications Associate, Rainier Valley Corps (5623 Rainier Avenue S, Seattle)
• Program Improvement Specialist, Puget Sound Labor Agency (2800 1^st Ave, Seattle

See additional information and how to apply here