Join Share Our Strength’s Dine Out For No Kid Hungry™. In 2010, over 4,000
restaurants, 15 sponsors and partners, and millions of consumers participated in the weeklong campaign, raising a record $1.5 million+ in restaurants. At the same time, participating restaurants saw increased customer traffic and sales while engaging guests and employees in a cause that impacts every community: ending childhood hunger in America.

For example, last September, Joe’s Crab Shack restaurants gave out bounceback coupons for in-store donations: an order of key lime pie for a $1-4 donation and complimentary crab nachos with a donation of $5 or more. All year, the restaurants donated proceeds from Crabby t-shirt sales to No Kid Hungry. The result? Increased sales and a 24% redemption rate that led the group to double its goal and raise $325,000 last year.

This year, from September 18 to 24, participating restaurants will use a variety of tactics to raise funds to support Dine Out For No Kid Hungry campaign to help more kids get the food they need – through school breakfasts, afterschool snacks, summer meals, SNAP (food stamps) and WIC programs, and nutrition education. American Express is proud once again to be a national sponsor.

Visit DineOutforNoKidHungry.org to register today. The site also offers a Participant Resource Center with marketing support, downloadable promotional tools, templates and guidelines for media outreach, ideas for employee training and engagement, and successful restaurant case studies. Consumers will find participating restaurants on the searchable “Find a Restaurant” map on the same Dine Out For No Kid Hungry website.