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Hunger Down Meeting Notice and Program Summary

August 18, 7 pm

A management subcommittee of the Hunger Down Advisory Task Force will meet on Monday, August 18, 7 pm at the Blackstone Valley Tourism Council, Visitor Center, 175 Main St., Pawtucket. The purpose will be to go over details of the program and lay out a plan to launch it. If you want to be involved with the Task Force or Committee and can't make it, please email us at musicinri@gmail.com. Please pass this message along to anyone you can who might be interested. A Facebook event under the RI Music Hall of Fame Facebook page will be posted by Thursday so please invite people to attend and promote through social media. Call 401-724-2200 if you have any problems getting into the Visitor Center.

Program Summary 

Hunger Down is a program dedicated to intensifying efforts by Rhode Island's local music, community to reduce hunger in Rhode Island. Entertainment venues and those managing annual entertainment events will be encouraged to provide food and monetary collection vehicles at all events to become a "Hunger Down Zone." Response from the local music community has been extremely positive and many are anxious to get this going.

Member venues and artists will promote food and monetary collections at their events and optionally may offer various incentives including ticket or other discounts. Venues may drop off food and other contributions to any food pantry or hunger relief organization, or to the Rhode Island Community Food Bank itself.

Incentives can include things like the following:

  • Venues or artists could provide discounts for tickets or other items, or free tickets for donations at some events.

  • Those donating food may provide email addresses to win prizes

  • Kids may submit selfies or photos of themselves donating to be posted if desired or to win prizes.

  • Venues or artists could hold meet and greets where people donating food or money can go backstage pre-show and get autographs and/or photos with artists or we could bring outside celebrities into events or hold special events.

  • Businesses may provide discounts to Hunger Down members.

Businesses may get involved by offering prizes, collecting food, donating products or services for sale or auction, or making direct donations to hunger relief in addition to other ways of participating that will be developed.

All members of Hunger Down (artists, venues, organizations and businesses) will be prominently displayed on a special website that will promote this program and other arts-related hunger relief efforts.

Our goal is to get the public used to the idea that any entertainment entity is a place to drop off food or donate money, and encourage them to take advantage of this so it becomes part of our culture. We also hope to get kids across the state involved in a worthwhile charitable effort and encourage them to continue doing these kinds of activities throughout their lives. Finally, we will use this program to promote the need for stronger hunger relief efforts and publicize what’s being done by existing hunger relief entities and other ongoing efforts in an effort to encourage donations and more participation by the general public.

Hunger Down is currently a project the RI Music Hall of Fame, the End Hunger Foundation, and RIPULSE. We hope to work as closely as possible with the Rhode Island Community Food Bank, along with other hunger relief and arts entities throughout the state.

An ongoing Advisory Team is being established to plan the official launch of the program, assist with strategy and administering the program going forward. Mark Cutler and Steve Maciel will co-chair the Advisory Team.

 

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