November 17, 2024 • 14 mins
Original Air Date: November 17, 2024
Getting close to Thanksgiving so it’s Hungerthon time! Why Hunger executive director Jenique Jones shares this year’s journey with Q104.3's Ken Dashow.
Getting close to Thanksgiving so it’s Hungerthon time! Why Hunger executive director Jenique Jones shares this year’s journey with Q104.3's Ken Dashow.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome to Sunstein Sessions on iHeartRadio, conversations about issues that matter.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
Ken dash Out sitting in for Shelley Sunstein, as they
do every year around Thanksgiving, because we give thanks for
what we have and a lot of people don't have.
And it's something that you wish didn't happen as much
as it was, or going in the right direction. But
if you've listened to me at all, or this station
or back at the old place in any w since
nineteen seventy seven, started with Harry Chapin came up and
(00:29):
explained what was World Hunger Year, what his vision was
with Bill Airs, and since then Bill would come up
and Noreen would come up. And now it's a joy
and a thrill to talk with Janique Jones, the new
executive director of Y Hunger. Jenny, congratulations, thank you so much,
and it's a pleasure to be here. Oh love having you.
This is our annual, this is our Thanksgiving. What brought
(00:49):
you to Why Hunger?
Speaker 3 (00:51):
You know, I worked in food banking for a long
time and just saw lines continuing to grow and grow
and grow and got a little ticked off by that
because it felt like, you know, so I wanted to
give out food is temporary and people would be able to,
you know, not be dealing with food and security. But
I wanted to make a switch and start to work
to end hunger.
Speaker 4 (01:09):
Right.
Speaker 3 (01:09):
I really do believe, you know, Harry was onto something
when he said it's solvable. So my hope is to
put my old job out of business.
Speaker 2 (01:16):
That's exactly it. Why hunger is about teaching people or
finding methods of making them food secure. As Harry always said,
we have four times of food we need to feed America.
WHI are kids going to bed starving? And you got
to ask that question, don't you? And that's where we
begin every year. I would love to think you're going
to tell me that here closing out twenty twenty four,
(01:37):
that it's better than it has been, that there is
less hunger in America.
Speaker 4 (01:41):
You know, I wish I could.
Speaker 3 (01:43):
The reality is there's over forty seven million people, fourteen
million of them to your point, who are children who
are food and secure? And and what people need to
understand is food insecure is not you know, the guy
sleeping under the bridge. Food and secure is the person
living on social security who has to choose between their
diabetes medicine and having three meals a day. It's the
(02:05):
working mother who eats one meal a day so that
her kids can eat three.
Speaker 4 (02:09):
Right, That's what food and security really is.
Speaker 3 (02:11):
And so I think it's really important to know that
you know, your neighbor, your coworker, those might all be
folks who are suffering.
Speaker 4 (02:19):
You know, with the indignity of being food insecure.
Speaker 3 (02:23):
You know, it's not what we saw in the commercials
back during you know, we are the world right that
type of hunger, but it is really you know, kids
don't learn if they don't have food, you know, and think,
even if you're going to work and you're hungry, how
can you concentrate? Are you able to be your best self?
So that's what we want to work on. We want
to work on not having that exist.
Speaker 2 (02:44):
Because if hunger is better, I'm not saying we could
solve it completely, but if it gets a lot better,
it fixes so many other things. Kids can stay in school,
kids can concentrate, get better grades, feel more secure. It's
it's a peel that solve so many other social issues.
If children have shelter, safe shelter and food to eat.
(03:06):
And I understand it completely, but the other thing that
you touched on is you said, not just people. We
see homeless people in the street hopeful maybe we give
some money, maybe we don't. But there's a shame with
having worked your whole life and suddenly finding yourself not
being able to provide for yourself, for your family, and
you go without so that nobody else knows and it's okay.
(03:28):
And how do we break through to those people and
say it's not okay, we're here. How did they reach
why hunger? How did they reach us?
Speaker 3 (03:36):
I mean, the first thing I would tell people is
I think people not only is there shame, but there
is a lack of understanding of what is available to you.
I'll never forget meeting a woman and she was talking
about she was working at a bank and she was
raising our kids, and she thought she made too much
money to go to a food pantry. She's like, I
make forty five thousand dollars a year. That's for people
who are, like you said, homeless, or who are in
(03:58):
public assistance. And the reality was we were like, no,
this is free, this would be for you too. So
I think there's not their shame, and then there's just
a lack of understanding. People think they should be doing better.
But you know, we have an amazing hotline that people
can call and get support. They can go to you know,
y hunger dot org find food and never remember the
(04:18):
number offhand.
Speaker 2 (04:19):
It's one eight hundred five hungry. I know it by heart.
What eight hundred five hungry?
Speaker 4 (04:24):
There you go.
Speaker 3 (04:25):
See this is because you've been doing this for so long,
in this for a while.
Speaker 4 (04:28):
I'm still new at again.
Speaker 3 (04:29):
But like they can contact us and we can help
connect people to different types of resources, whether that is
the local church where they can get food, or social
services and the like.
Speaker 2 (04:41):
You know, the folks that for everybody down in New Jersey,
my Red Bank, my home away from home. The Monmouth
Food Bank does a great job. They've really got their
act together and taking care of a lot of folks
down there. And like you said, the local church, the
local why for me, especially Thanksgiving, we give thanks for
what we have, but to me checking on your neighbors
and just saying everything okay, or if you're pretty sure
(05:03):
somebody's having that problem, but you know they're too embarrassed
to say it, leave them a note, you know, put
a little note on their door or something. Saying Hey,
I don't know if this affects you, but if you
need food, call one eight hundred five hungry. That's the
why Hunger Hot one eight hundred five hungry.
Speaker 4 (05:18):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (05:19):
I mean I've had you know, we've all had friends
who've been going through hard times, and sometimes it's just
a matter of, hey, I haven't seen you know, we'll.
Speaker 4 (05:24):
Come over for dinner. Very good, right, yep.
Speaker 3 (05:26):
So I think, you know, we have to be more
compassionate because we all go through hard times. Unless you
are uber rich, you're going to be going through hard times.
And there I think we've all experienced it to some extent.
Speaker 2 (05:38):
Yeah, without a doubt, and who knows what's going to
happen to social services in your future. So that's part
of why we do the Hunger Thought is to help
each other. You've been doing this, like I said, the
first one I was part of was nineteen seventy seven,
but I said, Hobart College my freshman year, and then
by the time I finally jumped to any W in
eighty two, it's been a big part of my soul
(05:59):
that it's we don't just say donate, but especially for
my Beatle fans, they're such great presies. Yoko has been
such a supporter of this cause since the earliest days
with sign merch and stuff, and Sean has continued the cudgels.
What do we have for presies for the Key one
to four point three Beatles audience?
Speaker 4 (06:18):
So we we have some really awesome stuff.
Speaker 3 (06:19):
We have some imagine there's no Hunger like T shirts, sweatshirts.
Speaker 4 (06:25):
They're actually really really cool.
Speaker 3 (06:27):
The sweatshirt, for instance, it has like John Lennon's like
face on the back. It's like a really cool stencil
imagine there's no hunger, little y Hunger logo. We have
a pajmina scarf, so you know that looks it's super elegant.
So for those folks who are they don't want a
T shirt or a sweatshirt, you know, because they're they're
they're fancy, they can get that.
Speaker 4 (06:48):
So we have some really cool, awesome stuff.
Speaker 2 (06:51):
If you go to y hunger dot org, right, you
can see all the items you can bid on y
hunger dot org.
Speaker 3 (06:56):
And we actually had a if you're on Instagram or
any social media, we have a lovely model from our
staff who has it?
Speaker 4 (07:05):
Where is it all?
Speaker 3 (07:06):
And you can see it live and in person, well
not in person, but you can definitely see it.
Speaker 2 (07:09):
Yeah, and we will all look like her when we
see when we wear it. I mean I've always worn
it proudly. And I love when I walk down the
street or something, we're walking my dog and I'm wearing
my white Hunger, somebody will smile and point and go,
great people.
Speaker 4 (07:21):
Yeah, I love that. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (07:22):
I have a Harry Chapin shirt that I get stopped
at anytime I wear it.
Speaker 4 (07:26):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (07:27):
I mean, you know, Kat's in the Cradle is something
that we're still playing all these all these years because
the songs that's such heart and soul. My biggest shock
is a couple of years ago when I went DMC
Darryl mcdangel at finding out that a he's one of
the biggest classic rock fans in the world, one of
my biggest fans, and that he sings Cats in the
Cradle in his show and we're hanging out like he
(07:48):
seriously goes, Man, that hit me that you know, it's
exactly what's wrong in this world, you know, and he
gets it. He absolutely gets it. Janique, what's the next
step moving forward for Why Hunger? Where do we go
from here? How do we increase awareness and what we're doing, I.
Speaker 3 (08:04):
Mean, you know where we are committed to working with
communities to solve the issues of hunger where they are
because what we know is what works in New York
City might not work in Idaho.
Speaker 4 (08:14):
It might not work.
Speaker 3 (08:15):
You know, we're in twenty three countries, so definitely won't
work in Brazil. So that is that is our goal.
We want to continue to raise money because we can do.
We can tell you is that Hunger Thoon and the
support that we've gotten from like this radio station has
helped us connect almost.
Speaker 4 (08:29):
A million people to food.
Speaker 1 (08:30):
Wow.
Speaker 3 (08:31):
You know, over the past few years good we've been
able to give out one point one million dollars to
different organizations to support their work. We've been able to
respond to different crises around climate so you know, all
over the world we're seeing people impacted by hurricanes and
the like, and we've been able to go in and
provide funds immediately when sometimes there aren't even folks on
(08:56):
the ground yet. So that's what donating and getting involved
in Why Hunger helps us to do.
Speaker 2 (09:01):
And right here at home in the Tri State area,
do you have the numbers offhand of what are we
facing with food and security right here in the New
York City area.
Speaker 3 (09:09):
One every one in three people are facing food in security.
Speaker 2 (09:14):
One in three. Yeah, are you serious?
Speaker 4 (09:16):
Serious? Yeah, that's that.
Speaker 2 (09:19):
I don't even know what to say.
Speaker 3 (09:20):
Well, because again, remember we're not talking about I'm destitute
and I have nothing. We're talking about those people who
are making those hard choices, right, you know, who are
choosing between medicine and doctor's visits and food or you know,
scrimping a little. What people need to understand is that
food is your most elastic budget, right right. You have
(09:40):
to pay the rent, you have to keep the lights on,
you have to do that, but you can scale back
the groceries, right you can.
Speaker 4 (09:48):
I used to call it the struggle spaghetti.
Speaker 3 (09:49):
You know that big pot of meatless spaghetti that you
make that lasts for a week.
Speaker 4 (09:53):
Like, that's what people are doing in order to survive.
Speaker 2 (09:57):
One in three. So I think it's time for help.
I mean again, Thanksgiving, we give thanks for what we
have and for those who don't have. Go to y
hunger dot org and you know it's you can donate,
But I think it's even cooler to get one of
the great gifts that you can pick up. We have
signed merch as.
Speaker 3 (10:14):
Well, yes, yes, so you know we always we always
have a cool Bruce Springsteen stuff, but we we have
We have a drumhead from Questlove because we did our
big Amplify concert, so he signed, you know, one of
the drumheads. We have a guitar signed by Sima Funk
again from our our Amplified concert. And you know, there's
(10:35):
a something signed by some folks from the Grateful Dead.
So we have a ton of really cool merch that
if you go to hungerthon dot org you can you
can see it, you can bid on it personally. I
there's a few trips in there to see folks in
concert that if I could, I would bid on myself.
Speaker 2 (10:53):
So we've got Bruce Merch, We've got John Lennonbert, we
got Grateful Dead y hunger dot org. And not only
you're getting something for yourself, but you're really doing good
and helping out folks and helping out your neighbors. One
in three, my goodness, that's that's incredible. The Hunger Thong
runs from when to when when when you can bid
on these items.
Speaker 4 (11:13):
So we're right in the middle of it now and
we run through December.
Speaker 2 (11:15):
Through December what date is there a cutoff?
Speaker 3 (11:18):
So there there usually is a cutof but we fish,
we find that we continue to extend. But really it's
it's really meant to be our holiday campaign. So you know,
even though technically we end early December, very often we'll
go through like mid December, just because we know that
while this campaign was started around Thanksgiving, Christmas and Hanukkah
(11:40):
and these other holidays follow right behind, and people are
still working. They want to, you know, provide things for
their children. And again I'm gonna pick giving my kid
a lovely Christmas over me eating.
Speaker 2 (11:52):
That's what's happening so exactly, So this whole, the whole
point of this that we do every year is twofold one.
Please give whatever you can and don't be embarrassed. If
you've got five dollars, that's five dollars that's going to
a good cost, that's going to help. And the other
thing that I always point out about why hunger, there's
something called charity Navigator and you can't buy it. You
(12:12):
can't you can't slip money to people. They will tell
you how what charity is doing. Just ninety percent of
the money go out the door to needy people. Is
the administrative cost fifty percent of it. And some of
them are like that, which I don't support. But why
Hunger has always had a spotless golden record, always four stars,
(12:33):
which is the highest that you can ever get on
Charity Navigator. So if you're worried about anybody taking fact
finding junkets to Jamaica or going on front, none of
that happens. This organization runs lean and mean and all
the donations go out to help people. And I know
that from my own experience for the last my god,
fifty years, forty years. Wow, it's a lot, but it's
(12:55):
amazing of what you guys do. So again, donate whatever
you can, a little, a lot, get some Bruce merch
or some John Lennon stuff that you can get, and
give a great gifts for the holidays. You want to
talk about giving a gift that means something. Seeing this
and you know you're doing something that helps people in need,
and it's cool for your friends. It's great gift ideas.
(13:15):
But also last thought again, reminder, there's food insecurity. There's
your neighbors, there's your friends. There are people you know
who have a look in their eye. Please pass along
the information about why hunger dot org.
Speaker 3 (13:26):
Yeah, and I just I want to add to that,
ninety one cents of every dollar we're given goes back
out into the community. So, like you said, we're not
you know, we're not keeping it for ourselves. But more importantly,
I see the checks that people send in, and people
have literally given us five dollars, you know, they give
us five dollars a year unless you and that warm.
(13:47):
Those actually warmed our heart even more than the big
checks from you know, the big companies and things, because
those are people who probably don't have it to give,
but want to support this and want to help their
neighbors who might be a little less fortunate.
Speaker 2 (14:00):
Amen, Janique Jones, Executive director, y Hunker, thank you so
much for coming by, Keep doing the good work and
happy Thanksgiving.
Speaker 4 (14:07):
That gotcha, Thank you.
Speaker 1 (14:09):
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Welcome to Sunstein Sessions on iHeartRadio, conversations about issues that matter.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
Ken dash Out sitting in for Shelley Sunstein, as they
do every year around Thanksgiving, because we give thanks for
what we have and a lot of people don't have.
And it's something that you wish didn't happen as much
as it was, or going in the right direction. But
if you've listened to me at all, or this station
or back at the old place in any w since
nineteen seventy seven, started with Harry Chapin came up and
(00:29):
explained what was World Hunger Year, what his vision was
with Bill Airs, and since then Bill would come up
and Noreen would come up. And now it's a joy
and a thrill to talk with Janique Jones, the new
executive director of Y Hunger. Jenny, congratulations, thank you so much,
and it's a pleasure to be here. Oh love having you.
This is our annual, this is our Thanksgiving. What brought
(00:49):
you to Why Hunger?
Speaker 3 (00:51):
You know, I worked in food banking for a long
time and just saw lines continuing to grow and grow
and grow and got a little ticked off by that
because it felt like, you know, so I wanted to
give out food is temporary and people would be able to,
you know, not be dealing with food and security. But
I wanted to make a switch and start to work
to end hunger.
Speaker 4 (01:09):
Right.
Speaker 3 (01:09):
I really do believe, you know, Harry was onto something
when he said it's solvable. So my hope is to
put my old job out of business.
Speaker 2 (01:16):
That's exactly it. Why hunger is about teaching people or
finding methods of making them food secure. As Harry always said,
we have four times of food we need to feed America.
WHI are kids going to bed starving? And you got
to ask that question, don't you? And that's where we
begin every year. I would love to think you're going
to tell me that here closing out twenty twenty four,
(01:37):
that it's better than it has been, that there is
less hunger in America.
Speaker 4 (01:41):
You know, I wish I could.
Speaker 3 (01:43):
The reality is there's over forty seven million people, fourteen
million of them to your point, who are children who
are food and secure? And and what people need to
understand is food insecure is not you know, the guy
sleeping under the bridge. Food and secure is the person
living on social security who has to choose between their
diabetes medicine and having three meals a day. It's the
(02:05):
working mother who eats one meal a day so that
her kids can eat three.
Speaker 4 (02:09):
Right, That's what food and security really is.
Speaker 3 (02:11):
And so I think it's really important to know that
you know, your neighbor, your coworker, those might all be
folks who are suffering.
Speaker 4 (02:19):
You know, with the indignity of being food insecure.
Speaker 3 (02:23):
You know, it's not what we saw in the commercials
back during you know, we are the world right that
type of hunger, but it is really you know, kids
don't learn if they don't have food, you know, and think,
even if you're going to work and you're hungry, how
can you concentrate? Are you able to be your best self?
So that's what we want to work on. We want
to work on not having that exist.
Speaker 2 (02:44):
Because if hunger is better, I'm not saying we could
solve it completely, but if it gets a lot better,
it fixes so many other things. Kids can stay in school,
kids can concentrate, get better grades, feel more secure. It's
it's a peel that solve so many other social issues.
If children have shelter, safe shelter and food to eat.
(03:06):
And I understand it completely, but the other thing that
you touched on is you said, not just people. We
see homeless people in the street hopeful maybe we give
some money, maybe we don't. But there's a shame with
having worked your whole life and suddenly finding yourself not
being able to provide for yourself, for your family, and
you go without so that nobody else knows and it's okay.
(03:28):
And how do we break through to those people and
say it's not okay, we're here. How did they reach
why hunger? How did they reach us?
Speaker 3 (03:36):
I mean, the first thing I would tell people is
I think people not only is there shame, but there
is a lack of understanding of what is available to you.
I'll never forget meeting a woman and she was talking
about she was working at a bank and she was
raising our kids, and she thought she made too much
money to go to a food pantry. She's like, I
make forty five thousand dollars a year. That's for people
who are, like you said, homeless, or who are in
(03:58):
public assistance. And the reality was we were like, no,
this is free, this would be for you too. So
I think there's not their shame, and then there's just
a lack of understanding. People think they should be doing better.
But you know, we have an amazing hotline that people
can call and get support. They can go to you know,
y hunger dot org find food and never remember the
(04:18):
number offhand.
Speaker 2 (04:19):
It's one eight hundred five hungry. I know it by heart.
What eight hundred five hungry?
Speaker 4 (04:24):
There you go.
Speaker 3 (04:25):
See this is because you've been doing this for so long,
in this for a while.
Speaker 4 (04:28):
I'm still new at again.
Speaker 3 (04:29):
But like they can contact us and we can help
connect people to different types of resources, whether that is
the local church where they can get food, or social
services and the like.
Speaker 2 (04:41):
You know, the folks that for everybody down in New Jersey,
my Red Bank, my home away from home. The Monmouth
Food Bank does a great job. They've really got their
act together and taking care of a lot of folks
down there. And like you said, the local church, the
local why for me, especially Thanksgiving, we give thanks for
what we have, but to me checking on your neighbors
and just saying everything okay, or if you're pretty sure
(05:03):
somebody's having that problem, but you know they're too embarrassed
to say it, leave them a note, you know, put
a little note on their door or something. Saying Hey,
I don't know if this affects you, but if you
need food, call one eight hundred five hungry. That's the
why Hunger Hot one eight hundred five hungry.
Speaker 4 (05:18):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (05:19):
I mean I've had you know, we've all had friends
who've been going through hard times, and sometimes it's just
a matter of, hey, I haven't seen you know, we'll.
Speaker 4 (05:24):
Come over for dinner. Very good, right, yep.
Speaker 3 (05:26):
So I think, you know, we have to be more
compassionate because we all go through hard times. Unless you
are uber rich, you're going to be going through hard times.
And there I think we've all experienced it to some extent.
Speaker 2 (05:38):
Yeah, without a doubt, and who knows what's going to
happen to social services in your future. So that's part
of why we do the Hunger Thought is to help
each other. You've been doing this, like I said, the
first one I was part of was nineteen seventy seven,
but I said, Hobart College my freshman year, and then
by the time I finally jumped to any W in
eighty two, it's been a big part of my soul
(05:59):
that it's we don't just say donate, but especially for
my Beatle fans, they're such great presies. Yoko has been
such a supporter of this cause since the earliest days
with sign merch and stuff, and Sean has continued the cudgels.
What do we have for presies for the Key one
to four point three Beatles audience?
Speaker 4 (06:18):
So we we have some really awesome stuff.
Speaker 3 (06:19):
We have some imagine there's no Hunger like T shirts, sweatshirts.
Speaker 4 (06:25):
They're actually really really cool.
Speaker 3 (06:27):
The sweatshirt, for instance, it has like John Lennon's like
face on the back. It's like a really cool stencil
imagine there's no hunger, little y Hunger logo. We have
a pajmina scarf, so you know that looks it's super elegant.
So for those folks who are they don't want a
T shirt or a sweatshirt, you know, because they're they're
they're fancy, they can get that.
Speaker 4 (06:48):
So we have some really cool, awesome stuff.
Speaker 2 (06:51):
If you go to y hunger dot org, right, you
can see all the items you can bid on y
hunger dot org.
Speaker 3 (06:56):
And we actually had a if you're on Instagram or
any social media, we have a lovely model from our
staff who has it?
Speaker 4 (07:05):
Where is it all?
Speaker 3 (07:06):
And you can see it live and in person, well
not in person, but you can definitely see it.
Speaker 2 (07:09):
Yeah, and we will all look like her when we
see when we wear it. I mean I've always worn
it proudly. And I love when I walk down the
street or something, we're walking my dog and I'm wearing
my white Hunger, somebody will smile and point and go,
great people.
Speaker 4 (07:21):
Yeah, I love that. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (07:22):
I have a Harry Chapin shirt that I get stopped
at anytime I wear it.
Speaker 4 (07:26):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (07:27):
I mean, you know, Kat's in the Cradle is something
that we're still playing all these all these years because
the songs that's such heart and soul. My biggest shock
is a couple of years ago when I went DMC
Darryl mcdangel at finding out that a he's one of
the biggest classic rock fans in the world, one of
my biggest fans, and that he sings Cats in the
Cradle in his show and we're hanging out like he
(07:48):
seriously goes, Man, that hit me that you know, it's
exactly what's wrong in this world, you know, and he
gets it. He absolutely gets it. Janique, what's the next
step moving forward for Why Hunger? Where do we go
from here? How do we increase awareness and what we're doing, I.
Speaker 3 (08:04):
Mean, you know where we are committed to working with
communities to solve the issues of hunger where they are
because what we know is what works in New York
City might not work in Idaho.
Speaker 4 (08:14):
It might not work.
Speaker 3 (08:15):
You know, we're in twenty three countries, so definitely won't
work in Brazil. So that is that is our goal.
We want to continue to raise money because we can do.
We can tell you is that Hunger Thoon and the
support that we've gotten from like this radio station has
helped us connect almost.
Speaker 4 (08:29):
A million people to food.
Speaker 1 (08:30):
Wow.
Speaker 3 (08:31):
You know, over the past few years good we've been
able to give out one point one million dollars to
different organizations to support their work. We've been able to
respond to different crises around climate so you know, all
over the world we're seeing people impacted by hurricanes and
the like, and we've been able to go in and
provide funds immediately when sometimes there aren't even folks on
(08:56):
the ground yet. So that's what donating and getting involved
in Why Hunger helps us to do.
Speaker 2 (09:01):
And right here at home in the Tri State area,
do you have the numbers offhand of what are we
facing with food and security right here in the New
York City area.
Speaker 3 (09:09):
One every one in three people are facing food in security.
Speaker 2 (09:14):
One in three. Yeah, are you serious?
Speaker 4 (09:16):
Serious? Yeah, that's that.
Speaker 2 (09:19):
I don't even know what to say.
Speaker 3 (09:20):
Well, because again, remember we're not talking about I'm destitute
and I have nothing. We're talking about those people who
are making those hard choices, right, you know, who are
choosing between medicine and doctor's visits and food or you know,
scrimping a little. What people need to understand is that
food is your most elastic budget, right right. You have
(09:40):
to pay the rent, you have to keep the lights on,
you have to do that, but you can scale back
the groceries, right you can.
Speaker 4 (09:48):
I used to call it the struggle spaghetti.
Speaker 3 (09:49):
You know that big pot of meatless spaghetti that you
make that lasts for a week.
Speaker 4 (09:53):
Like, that's what people are doing in order to survive.
Speaker 2 (09:57):
One in three. So I think it's time for help.
I mean again, Thanksgiving, we give thanks for what we
have and for those who don't have. Go to y
hunger dot org and you know it's you can donate,
But I think it's even cooler to get one of
the great gifts that you can pick up. We have
signed merch as.
Speaker 3 (10:14):
Well, yes, yes, so you know we always we always
have a cool Bruce Springsteen stuff, but we we have
We have a drumhead from Questlove because we did our
big Amplify concert, so he signed, you know, one of
the drumheads. We have a guitar signed by Sima Funk
again from our our Amplified concert. And you know, there's
(10:35):
a something signed by some folks from the Grateful Dead.
So we have a ton of really cool merch that
if you go to hungerthon dot org you can you
can see it, you can bid on it personally. I
there's a few trips in there to see folks in
concert that if I could, I would bid on myself.
Speaker 2 (10:53):
So we've got Bruce Merch, We've got John Lennonbert, we
got Grateful Dead y hunger dot org. And not only
you're getting something for yourself, but you're really doing good
and helping out folks and helping out your neighbors. One
in three, my goodness, that's that's incredible. The Hunger Thong
runs from when to when when when you can bid
on these items.
Speaker 4 (11:13):
So we're right in the middle of it now and
we run through December.
Speaker 2 (11:15):
Through December what date is there a cutoff?
Speaker 3 (11:18):
So there there usually is a cutof but we fish,
we find that we continue to extend. But really it's
it's really meant to be our holiday campaign. So you know,
even though technically we end early December, very often we'll
go through like mid December, just because we know that
while this campaign was started around Thanksgiving, Christmas and Hanukkah
(11:40):
and these other holidays follow right behind, and people are
still working. They want to, you know, provide things for
their children. And again I'm gonna pick giving my kid
a lovely Christmas over me eating.
Speaker 2 (11:52):
That's what's happening so exactly, So this whole, the whole
point of this that we do every year is twofold one.
Please give whatever you can and don't be embarrassed. If
you've got five dollars, that's five dollars that's going to
a good cost, that's going to help. And the other
thing that I always point out about why hunger, there's
something called charity Navigator and you can't buy it. You
(12:12):
can't you can't slip money to people. They will tell
you how what charity is doing. Just ninety percent of
the money go out the door to needy people. Is
the administrative cost fifty percent of it. And some of
them are like that, which I don't support. But why
Hunger has always had a spotless golden record, always four stars,
(12:33):
which is the highest that you can ever get on
Charity Navigator. So if you're worried about anybody taking fact
finding junkets to Jamaica or going on front, none of
that happens. This organization runs lean and mean and all
the donations go out to help people. And I know
that from my own experience for the last my god,
fifty years, forty years. Wow, it's a lot, but it's
(12:55):
amazing of what you guys do. So again, donate whatever
you can, a little, a lot, get some Bruce merch
or some John Lennon stuff that you can get, and
give a great gifts for the holidays. You want to
talk about giving a gift that means something. Seeing this
and you know you're doing something that helps people in need,
and it's cool for your friends. It's great gift ideas.
(13:15):
But also last thought again, reminder, there's food insecurity. There's
your neighbors, there's your friends. There are people you know
who have a look in their eye. Please pass along
the information about why hunger dot org.
Speaker 3 (13:26):
Yeah, and I just I want to add to that,
ninety one cents of every dollar we're given goes back
out into the community. So, like you said, we're not
you know, we're not keeping it for ourselves. But more importantly,
I see the checks that people send in, and people
have literally given us five dollars, you know, they give
us five dollars a year unless you and that warm.
(13:47):
Those actually warmed our heart even more than the big
checks from you know, the big companies and things, because
those are people who probably don't have it to give,
but want to support this and want to help their
neighbors who might be a little less fortunate.
Speaker 2 (14:00):
Amen, Janique Jones, Executive director, y Hunker, thank you so
much for coming by, Keep doing the good work and
happy Thanksgiving.
Speaker 4 (14:07):
That gotcha, Thank you.
Speaker 1 (14:09):
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