About ThisBagFightsHunger

2009 has been a tough year for many people. Right now 1 in 8 Americans struggles to put food on the table.

So we asked ourselves, what could we do to help fight hunger in a truly significant way? Could we create something that has lasting impact beyond a one-time donation? That's how ThisBagFightsHunger got started.

The idea is simple. Fill the bag with food, donate it to your local food bank, and then pass the bag on to a friend to do the same. We did two things to make it easy to participate. First, we built this website so people with or without bags can enter their zip code to find the closest food drop location. Second, we put the instructions right on the bag so no matter who receives it they'll know what to do.

The design of the bag and this site are intentionally bold to make this new concept easy to understand and to begin a conversation about the role that each of us can play to fight this battle against hunger.

Finally, to create a sense of community behind this effort, we gave people the opportunity to track their bag. Each bag has a unique ID number on the tag. By entering the number on this site you can see how many times food has been donated using your bag.

Our hope is that this small grassroots campaign that began with friends and family and spreads far beyond that to feed as many people as possible. Please join us in this fight.

Founding sponsor of This Bag Fights Hunger is Chicago based Manning Productions.