Blog

What started as a family garden has grown into so much more. The O’Connell family of Brentwood built a garden and began offering their produce in exchange for donations to benefit End 68 Hours Exeter Chapter. Helping Hands Farm hosted a pumpkin festival and raised more than $1070 to support SAU16 families. We are grateful...  Read More

This thank you is LONG overdue… it’s been busy gearing up for this years program. Thanks to our entire community we are starting this year STRONG!! We received over 2000 food items and over $2500 during our Market Basket (Lee, NH) fundraiser! This was our best year yet! We cannot thank our volunteers enough for...  Read More

End 68 Hours of Hunger has been an operation for more than 10 years, and Richard Launchbury from Amadeus has been packing week 4 since the very first week of packing for Dover.  He is retiring from this job and we want to recognize him for his outstanding and faithful service for the last 10...  Read More

‘Backpack’ food programs linked to higher test scores Sep 15, 2021 Article from the Conway Daily Sun — Weekend backpack food programs result in improvements to end-of-grade reading and math scores for economically disadvantaged primary school students, according to new research released by the Carsey School of Public Policy at the University of New Hampshire....  Read More

The 20th Annual Dracut Old Home Day was a Huge success! The event has raised more than $100,000 since its inception to help out town departments and various nonprofits including End 68 Hours of Hunger Dracut’s Chapter. The Dracut chapter set up a booth and had some pretty awesome raffles, collected monetary donations and non...  Read More

End 68’s Derry/Chester Chapter recently held their most successful food drive to date. We want to thank everyone who donated. Thanks to the generosity of the community they raised $10,000 in food and cash donations. This sets us up for next few months of providing weekly bags of food to Derry school children. A huge thank...  Read More

Thank you to Dr. Sean Curran, Amy Strawbridge and the wonderful staff at Dr. Sean Curran Dentistry for choosing End 68’s Lake County Chapter as the recipients for “Smiles for life, Whitening for Charity”!! We received over $1500! Over the summer, the dental office participated in Smiles for Life, a charity that donates time and...  Read More

Exciting Saturday coming up! Saturday, September 18th we will be at Market Basket in Lee, NH for the Barrington Chapter’s largest fundraiser of the year! We are beyond excited because we were unable to do this last year due to Covid and Market Basket has been great having us come back this year. We will...  Read More

September kicks off the month long golf fundraiser at Hilltop Golf Course for End 68 Hours of Hunger’s Conval chapter! Like to golf? You can play a round for us or enter one or all of the contests and win prizes! Like to meet friends for drinks and snacks? You can do that too! Thank...  Read More

The city of Eastlake, OH will host a craft and vendor event benefitting End 68’s Lake County Chapter! Join us at the Eastlake Senior Center on September 19th from 10-3.  Read More