This is a great country that we live in and we feel tremendous pride in running our growing small business SpicesInc.com. But we also realize that there are those in our country that are not as fortunate — maybe they have suffered greatly in the latest economic downturn or maybe they have just fallen through the cracks.

Did you know that 1 in 6 Americans goes hungry every day?

Hunger has a tremendous impact on those that are the most vulnerable — especially children and seniors. What would you do if this were happening to your kids or to your own grandma?

That is why starting on July 10, 2010 SpicesInc.com will begin donating 1% of all our product sales to Feeding America.

Formerly known as Second Harvest, Feeding America is the nation’s leading domestic hunger-relief charity.  Their mission is to feed America’s hungry through a nationwide network of member food banks and engage our country in the fight to end hunger.

While we know it is important to help those anywhere around the globe the need is so great right here in the US that we wanted to choose a charity that took care of our neighbors, our towns and our states. Feeding America only works domestically.

Each year, the Feeding America network provides food to more than 37 million low-income people facing daily hunger here in the United States, this includes more than 14 million children and nearly 3 million seniors.

The Feeding America network consists of more than 200 food banks that serve all 50 states, the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico. They secure and distribute more than 2.5 billion pounds of food and grocery products annually. Those member food banks support approximately 61,000 local charitable agencies and 70,000 programs, which provide food directly to individuals and families in need.

For every $1 that Feeding America receives they provide $15 worth of groceries to feed hungry families.

We decided on 1% of product sales instead of just 1% of profits as those numbers get so watered down.

In addition, if any of our customers want to give more we have added the option of donating in $1 and $5 increments and that can be added to their shopping carts prior to checking out.

We feel that we have a responsibility to ourselves, our kids and our communities to do this and it is just the right thing to do.

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