{"id":24120,"date":"2024-12-31T09:00:46","date_gmt":"2024-12-31T14:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/?p=24120"},"modified":"2024-12-13T13:08:41","modified_gmt":"2024-12-13T18:08:41","slug":"please-show-your-support-for-all-the-good-work-the-vegetarian-resource-group-does-year-round-by-donating-to-vrg-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/2024\/12\/31\/please-show-your-support-for-all-the-good-work-the-vegetarian-resource-group-does-year-round-by-donating-to-vrg-5\/","title":{"rendered":"Please Show Your Support for all the Good Work The Vegetarian Resource Group Does Year-Round by Donating to VRG!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/vrglogogreensmallest.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-24121\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/vrglogogreensmallest.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"286\" height=\"290\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Vegetarian Resource Group continues to be very busy on a daily basis. Below are some examples of successes and activities. Your support is greatly appreciated! You can donate to VRG at vrg.org\/donate<\/p>\n<p><em>Here\u2019s a sampling of some of our accomplishments and outreach:<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Over 1,400 registered dietitians visited The Vegetarian Resource Group booth at the national Food and Nutrition Conference &amp; Expo held in Minneapolis, MN. Many collected information for themselves or to use with their students and\/or clients.<\/li>\n<li>We were asked permission to reprint VRG\u2019s <em>Vegan My Plate <\/em>(vrg.org\/ nutshell\/MyVeganPlate.pdf) in The Dental Hygienist\u2019s Guide to Nutritional Care book.<\/li>\n<li>VRG sent 600 I Love Animals and Broccoli Coloring Books plus El arco iris vegetariano coloring books to PG County Maryland WIC. A nutritionist from a county health department in New Jersey asked to reprint our <em>My Vegan Plate<\/em>. We sent 400 <em>Vegan Journals<\/em> for grab bags for the Columbia, South Carolina VegFest and also Sarasota, Florida VegFest, and we shipped a box of brochures for tabling at a Black Family Wellness Expo in Alabama. We also shipped a box of <em>Vegan Journals<\/em> to be distributed at Texas VegFest in Austin, Texas.<\/li>\n<li>A dietitian requested teen brochures and nutshell handouts to use at the University of Illinois in Chicago.<\/li>\n<li>A bookstore in Providence, RI and vegan restaurants in MA, MD, NJ, and VA are offering VRG brochures to their customers.<\/li>\n<li>Some of the places VRG had booths at this year include the Santa Cruz VegFest in California, Wilmington VegFest in North Carolina, New England VegFest in Massachusetts, the Animal\/Vegan Summit in Virginia, as well as the Maryland Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics meeting in Minneapolis, Minnesota.<\/li>\n<li>Finally, VRG is hosting several high school\/college interns and volunteers this year.<\/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 The 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 is greatly appreciated! You can donate to VRG at vrg.org\/donate Here\u2019s a sampling of some of our accomplishments and outreach: Over 1,400 registered dietitians visited The Vegetarian Resource Group booth at the [&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-24120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24120","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=24120"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24120\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24122,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24120\/revisions\/24122"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}