There’s a moment every backyard chicken keeper knows well. You open the nesting boxes in the morning and find more eggs than you expected. Your fridge is already full. Your neighbors have politely declined for the third time this week. Your kids have eaten eggs every way imaginable. What do you do with the rest? […]
Most people who care about hunger don’t think of themselves as donors. They assume that meaningful giving requires a significant check, a level of financial cushion they may not have, or a formal connection to the philanthropic world. None of that is true. A small donation to fight hunger, directed at the right place, can […]
Walk into most food bank warehouses and you’ll see the same picture. Stacked cans of soup and vegetables. Bags of dried beans and rice. Boxes of pasta. Bottles of cooking oil. These items are donated with genuine good intentions, and they absolutely serve a purpose. But they don’t solve the protein gap in food banks. […]
One of the most common reasons people hesitate to donate, even when they want to give, is uncertainty about what happens after they do. Does the money go to salaries? To overhead? To something vague and unmeasurable? Basically, how Egg Posse works. We think you deserve a clear answer. Here’s exactly how Egg Posse works, […]
Hunger relief can feel like a massive, abstract problem that requires massive, abstract solutions. It doesn’t. Some of the most effective hunger relief work happens at the neighborhood level, driven by people who simply decided to do something within their own community. Here are five concrete ways you can help end local hunger without going […]
A single egg weighs about two ounces. It costs somewhere between 15 and 25 cents depending on where you shop. And it contains a nutritional profile that most foods twice its size and ten times its price can’t match. Understanding egg nutrition for food insecurity isn’t just interesting science. It’s a compelling case for why […]
If you keep backyard chickens, you already know the problem. Your hens don’t check the calendar. They don’t know you’re going on vacation, that your kids just went back to school, or that your fridge is already full. They just keep laying. An easy solution is to donate backyard chicken eggs. For a lot of […]
There’s a version of hunger most people never see. It doesn’t look like the images you might expect. It lives in the house three doors down, in the car of a coworker who skips lunch, in the backpack of a kid who eats free breakfast at school because it’s the most reliable meal of their […]
When people think about fighting hunger, they usually picture canned goods. Rows of soup, beans, and vegetables stacked in a food bank warehouse. And while those donations absolutely matter, they miss something important: protein. Eggs are one of the most complete sources of nutrition available. A single egg contains six grams of high-quality protein, along […]
Forty-seven million Americans will go to bed hungry tonight. You’ve probably heard that statistic before. Maybe it made you feel something. Maybe you donated to a food bank. Maybe you moved on. But have you ever considered donating eggs to a food bank? Here’s the part nobody talks about: most of what those food banks […]