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Woman’s World, November 15, 2010 Doing Good: “Together We Can Help Make Miracles Happen” “What if we formed a community of donors?” she proposed. If we match a family here with a family in Pembroke, maybe we can help make miracles happen.” |
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AOL News: Philanthropy Project, March 16, 2010 Fighting Hunger, Family to Family “When I read about a community so profoundly poor that women and children were not eating the last week of the month, I walked into my living room where my daughters were and said, 'We're going to do something as a family,' (said) Koner, a 57-year-old single mother of two.” |
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Family Circle, December 2009 A Mighty Heart “We match families who have kids around the same age and ask donors and recipients to write each other, send pictures and share their lives.” |
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USA TODAY, November 25, 2009 The spirit of this season: Be thankful, spend less “Koner matched Kim and Kelli Weeks, 29, a lawyer in San Francisco. Kim's need for help met Kelli's need to do something more than work and play. She wanted to show a mother, struggling to provide the basics for her children, that someone cared.” |
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AARP Bulletin, September 14, 2009 Family to Family Pam Koner is connecting communities to fight hunger “Koner came up with an idea to connect families in need with donor families. Today her nonprofit Family-to-Family connects more than 600 sponsor and recipient families in communities across the nation.” |
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Mlive.com, The Flint Journal, July 23, 2009 Mothers helping others: Burton woman helps bring national hunger-relief organization, Family to Family, to Michigan “With the aid of one local mom, a nationally recognized "hero" is bringing her hunger-relief effort to struggling households in Burton.” |
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CNN Heroes , May 2009 Watch the CNN Video on Pam Koner and Family-to-Family, broadcast in May 2009. Video features: CNN Heroes, Pam Koner; A Different Kind of Pen Pal; Neighbors 5,000 Miles Apart. |
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Fox 19, Cincinatti, May 21, 2009 Faith Works with Sheila Gray: Family-to-Family: Mary Kay Woodruff “A northern Kentucky woman said something was missing in her life until she started helping to feed a family. It didn’t take long for Mary Kay Woodruff to inspire her neighbors and friends to get involved.” |
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CNN Money.com, April 14, 2009 Heroes of the Economy “Koner never expected she'd need to focus her efforts on her own town. Then layoffs began to hit the middle class-community in Hastings-on-Hudson, N.Y., and she knew she needed to take action.” |
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real women. real advice. February 19, 2009 Fighting hunger, one family at a time "I made contact with the pastor and I said, 'I want to help, what can I do?' And, I'll never forget this, he said: "I prayed for a miracle." "I said, 'I'm not a miracle. I'm just an ordinary mom and I want to help.'" |
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New York Daily News, December 9, 2008 Families ‘adopting’ Families- page 2 “Want to help a poor Brooklyn family without leaving your desk? Instead of “adopting” a child orphaned by AIDS in South Africa… you can now “adopt” a family in need – on a web site.” |
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The Journal News, November 27, 2008 Close-up: Pam Koner, Founder of Family-to-Family “Hastings resident Pam Koner…mailed out 25 boxes of gifts, wrapping paper, and ribbons to needy families across the country last year.” |
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New Jersey Herald, June 23, 2008 Family helps others through nonprofit organization “After his birthday party this year, 9-year-old Chad Frey got his biggest surprise: The best presents are the ones you give to others.” |
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Capessa, December 18, 2007 Fighting Hunger: A Family Effort “I made contact with the pastor and I said, ‘I want to help, what can I do?’ And, I’ll never forget this, he said: “I prayed for a miracle.” “I said, ‘I’m not a miracle. I’m just an ordinary mom and I want to help.’” |
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The New York Times, June 24, 2007 Ugandan Reaches Out to Hastings Organization “Mr. Kasekende was taken with the group’s premise of pairing a family in need and a family with enough to share, and he asked Ms. Koner for help starting a program in Uganda. In May, he became the chairman of Family-to-Family’s first international chapter.” |
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My Lifetime.com, June 12, 2007 Fostering Family Ties – How One Woman is Stocking the Cupboards of Hungry Families “Pam Koner was reading the Sunday newspaper on her deck in 2002 when she spotted a photograph of a girl sitting on a filthy mattress eating her one meal of the day, pasta with chicken neck bones.” |
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Celebrate with Style LLC, 2007 Connecting Families, Making a Difference “On any given day, Pam Koner, a single mom of two teenage girls, fields hundreds of emails. Some are from families that need help, but most are from families that want to offer their services to her charity, Family-to-Family.” |
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American Profile, January 1-7, 2006 Fostering Family Ties ‘Lisa Dyson, a pastor at Church of the Cross, says the relationship between donor and recipient families is just as important as what’s packed in the boxes. "It sends a message that somebody cares, and that somebody thought of them time after time…The Family-to-Family program expands their horizons."’ |
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ABC’s Good Morning America, March 29, 2004 Wealthy Families Help Families in Poor Town “One city is a community entrenched in poverty. The other is thriving in plenty. The two are now united through a mission of hope that began when a mom from Hastings picked up the morning paper.” |
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People Magazine, December 1, 2003 Genuine Care Package ‘When she first heard about the boxes stuffed with groceries like spaghetti and cereal, Lily Davis of Pembroke, Il., could hardly believe the bounty had come from complete strangers. "I said, 'Are you sure?' These people have never met me."’ |
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The Seattle Times, November 24, 2003 Monthly food boxes fill a need, bridge a gap between towns “We’re not sending money and it’s not a one-shot,” Koner says. “We’re sending food and we’re offering friendship. We don’t just do Thanksgiving and Christmas. We all send a box every month…and we send a letter that says, ‘How are you?” |
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CBS News, The Early Show, October 21, 2003 Helping Those In Need – The Story Of A Woman Making A Difference In A Community Miles Away “Hunger is alive in America,” Dyson says, “If you're coming here with a faint heart and a weak stomach, you're not going to be able to last." |
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The New York Times, September 12, 2993 Shopping for the Family (It’s 1000 Miles Away) “She hopes that the food will feed more than hungry bodies. ‘The idea that people 1000 miles away know that you exist is so profound’, she said. ‘That just changes life’s color wheel, and all of a sudden possibilities unfold.” |
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