{"id":20552,"date":"2023-01-10T10:00:17","date_gmt":"2023-01-10T15:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/?p=20552"},"modified":"2022-12-29T13:19:18","modified_gmt":"2022-12-29T18:19:18","slug":"please-show-your-support-for-all-the-good-work-the-vegetarian-resource-group-does-year-round-by-donating-to-vrg-through-cfc-your-state-campaign-or-directly-to-us-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/2023\/01\/10\/please-show-your-support-for-all-the-good-work-the-vegetarian-resource-group-does-year-round-by-donating-to-vrg-through-cfc-your-state-campaign-or-directly-to-us-6\/","title":{"rendered":"Please Show Your Support for all the Good Work The Vegetarian Resource Group Does Year-Round by Donating to VRG Through CFC, Your State Campaign, or Directly to Us!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/2021CFCThemeMark.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-20554\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/2021CFCThemeMark.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"165\" \/><\/a>The Vegetarian Resource Group continues to be very busy on a daily basis. Below are some examples of successes and activities. Your support through Combined Federal Charity (CFC) or your Local\/State Campaign is greatly appreciated! You can also donate directly to VRG at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vrg.org\/donate\">vrg.org\/donate<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Here\u2019s a sampling of some of our accomplishments and outreach:<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>VRG Nutrition Advisor Reed Mangels, PhD, RD, presented a webinar for Women\u2019s Health Dietetic Practice Group and Vegetarian Nutrition Practice Group titled \u201cVegetarian and Vegan Diets Prior to and Throughout Pregnancy: A Practical Update.\u201d VRG Foodservice Advisor Chef Nancy Berkoff, EdD, RD, presented on tips for serving vegan options in long-term care facilities at a meeting of the Maryland Dietetics Health Care Communities.<\/li>\n<li>The Vegetarian Resource Group staff did a virtual in-service for ten University of Maryland dietetic students.<\/li>\n<li>VRG commissioned a YouGov national poll to find out how many adults are vegan or vegetarian. Results are published in <em>Vegan Journal<\/em> and at vrg.org<\/li>\n<li>The Vegetarian Resource Group submitted comments to the Food and Drug Administration on Labeling of Meat or Poultry Products Comprised of or Containing Cultured Animal cells.<\/li>\n<li>The Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research asked to reproduce VRG\u2019s <em>My Vegan Plate<\/em> in print and electronic content for use with patients and health care providers.<\/li>\n<li>Congratulations to The Vegetarian Resource Group Nutrition Advisor Reed Mangels, PhD, RD, who the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics has selected as the recipient of the 2022 Excellence in Community and Public Health Practice Award. The award was presented to Dr. Mangels at the Food &amp; Nutrition Conference &amp; Expo\u2122 (FNCE\u00ae) in Orlando, Florida.<\/li>\n<li>VRG donated 1,000s of handouts that were distributed in New York City, Long Island, Boston, Baltimore, Kalamazoo, Quincy, Daytona Beach, Albany, Hoboken, and many other places. VRG exhibited at the Richmond VegFest in Virginia, Raleigh VegFest in North Carolina, San Francisco VegFest in California, and Food &amp; Nutrition Conference &amp; Expo\u2122 in Orlando, Florida. Finally, we hosted over 20 virtual interns\/volunteers this past year. They all worked\/are working on a number of exciting outreach and research projects!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This is just a small sampling of what we are doing at VRG every day. Thank you so much! We couldn\u2019t do this without your support.<\/p>\n<p>You can donate directly to VRG at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vrg.org\/donate\">www.vrg.org\/donate<\/a><\/p>\n<p>You can also mail donations to The Vegetarian Resource Group, PO Box 1463, Baltimore, MD 21203 or call in your donation to (410) 366-8343 Monday through Friday 9am to 5pm EST<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Vegetarian Resource Group continues to be very busy on a daily basis. Below are some examples of successes and activities. Your support through Combined Federal Charity (CFC) or your Local\/State Campaign is greatly appreciated! You can also donate directly to VRG at vrg.org\/donate Here\u2019s a sampling of some of our accomplishments and outreach: VRG [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20552","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20552","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20552"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20552\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20555,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20552\/revisions\/20555"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}