If your parent group or school (or even the student council or National Honor Society at your school) does any sort of hunger-fighting work, you're going to love the fall 2011 offerings from Schools Fight Hunger.

Does your school run a food drive in the fall semester sometime? If so, you have to connect with Schools Fight Hunger and the 2011 Child Hunger Ends Here program. And if not, this is a great year to get started. Tens of thousands of schools already do this.

This year, the folks at ConAgra Foods are helping make traditional food drives even more fun and more effective. There's a very cool free planning toolkit for food drives (we've seen the banners -- awesome!); there's the chance for participating schools to win very nice prizes (ultimate field trip, anyone?); and -- best of all -- ConAgra is making a big extra donation to Feeding America based on your hunger-fighting work at your school.

A couple of notes:

1. If any group at your school has already done hunger-fighting work, make sure your school gets credit on the national honor roll at www.schoolsfighthunger.org/schools.html.


2. Please take a minute to forward this note to your principal or club director or anyone at your school who does this kind of work. There's no doubt in my mind that their work will be easier and more effective this year if they take advantage of all the free tools and offers. That link for the fall 2011 free kit is www.schoolsfighthunger.org/requestkit.html.

Supporting Schools Fight Hunger and celebrating the work of PTOs and PTAs who get involved is just about our favorite work here at PTO Today. Thanks in advance for all you do for this important cause.