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Check out various local events below to find opportunities to join an event and get involved in growing the movement to end hunger. It starts with a meal, and it starts with you.

"Unity In Diversity, All Are One" Meal Packaging Event

Join Rise Against Hunger and Unity in Diversity for a family-friendly service opportunity bringing people together across faiths, backgrounds and perspectives to make a difference in the fight against hunger. 

Together, volunteers will package 100,000+ meals that will support nutrition, education and health for families facing hunger around the world. The event is an opportunity to celebrate what unites us and demonstrate what is possible when we work together.

Attendees are also encouraged to bring non-perishable food items to support the Food Bank of Central & Eastern North Carolina.

Date: October 24, 2026

Time: 8 a.m. to 3 p.m.

Location: 3200 Wellington Court, Suite 112, Raleigh, NC 27615

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LA Thanksgiving Pack-A-Thon

Join dozens of volunteers in the Los Angeles area to package meals and make an impact worldwide. Fundraising to pack 50,000 meals to be sent globally. Sponsorships available!


Date: November 21, 2026

Time: 9 a.m. to 12 p.m.

Location: 9115 Dice Rd. #16,
Santa Fe Springs, CA

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Atlanta 200k Thanksgiving Pack-A-Thon

Fundraising to pack and distribute 200,000 meals locally and globally. Join more than 500 volunteers in Atlanta to package meals and make an impact over an action packed weekend!

Date: November 20+21, 2026
Time:  2 p.m. to 9 p.m.

Date: Rise Against Hunger Warehouse, 1000 Williams Drive, Suite 1022 Marietta, GA 30066

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Vietnamese Community Event

Join Rise Against Hunger and our longstanding partner Children of Vietnam for a community event celebrating Vietnamese heritage, raising support for our mission to provide nutrition, education and economic empowerment for communities facing hunger.


Date: December 6, 2026

Time: 10 a.m. to 3:00 p.m

Location: 30079 Ahern Ave, Union City, CA 94587
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Atlanta Pickleball Tournament

This is your chance to participate in Georgia’s largest charity tournament and support global hunger relief. Every year, we raise enough to provide hundreds of kids with meals for an entire school year. Don’t miss this special event — and sign up by May 3 for early registration at a reduced rate! 

Date: June 5, 2027
Time: 8 a.m. to 9 p.m
Date: Life Time Peachtree Corners, 6350 Courtside Dr NW, Norcross, GA 30092
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Strength, Stability And Hope

The gift that filled Nelly’s table.

“We were yielding very little, and the crops could not sustain us the whole year,” Nelly remembers. As a mother of seven and a farmer with two decades of experience, the stress of inconsistent yields was all-consuming. A poor harvest not only strained her family financially, but also limited their own meals to just two a day. Their story reflects that of many in their fishing and farming village near a lake in the Karonga district of northern Malawi. Here, heavy rainfall makes conventional farming methods nearly impossible. The entire village is, quite literally, saturated in food insecurity — a reality that leaves families struggling to survive season after season without a dependable source of nourishment.

In 2019, Nelly began participating in Harvesting Prosperity and Resilience, a sustainable agriculture project implemented by Rise Against Hunger in partnership with the Foundation for Community Support Services (FOCUS). The project works with 3,100 smallholder farmers in Malawi’s Karonga and Mzimba districts to strengthen food and nutrition security by improving production methods, nutrition practices and household income.

Just one year later, Nelly was ready to expand the variety of crops on her farm. What land once only produced maize began to flourish with sesame, cowpeas, rice and groundnuts during the rainy season (summer), as well as maize and vegetables during the dry season (winter). Through climate-smart agriculture training, she learned new techniques like manure making, pit planting and mulching, crop rotation and intercropping. Equipped with these tools, Nelly’s farm began to thrive.

After the 2023–2024 growing season, she sold enough produce to purchase an ox cart. Her harvests in 2024-2025 season yielded over 500 pounds of crops, including 22 bags of groundnuts, seven bags of maize, 12 tins of sesame and three bags of rice. With this surplus, she was able to invest in a motorbike, which she now uses to transport African doughnuts (mandasi) that she cooks and sells — creating yet another source of income for her family.

The transformation reaches far beyond her finances. Nelly now has the stability to provide for her husband and children. “I am able to eat different food types, pay school fees for my children and fulfill the visions that I have made with my family,” she beams. “I am now sleeping peacefully without any fears of food or paying school fees for the children.”

Her leadership has also grown. Today, Nelly serves as a leader in the Harvesting Prosperity and Resilience project, teaching other farmers in her district to adopt climate-resilient, labor-saving practices. By sharing her knowledge, she is multiplying her impact — empowering her neighbors to experience the same transformation she has achieved.

Across Nelly’s community, food and economic security are on the rise. Lombani, a government extension officer for the region, explains, “I can see the community is being transformed in the sense that in the area, there is food, income and nutrition security. Development is also happening at the household level.”

Nelly reflects on what it means to invest in holistic programs that address the root causes of hunger: “We are now healthy people. Children are going to school after eating their breakfast, having high yields and different types of crops due to conservation agriculture practices. With the support from the project, we have food, and we can access other food items from the market after selling our produce.”

This is the gift that fills: a future full of stability, strength and hope. It fills tables with food, families with security and communities with the resources to thrive. It’s an investment in futures rooted in resilience and hope.