The Gift Of Giving Every Penny Count Fundraiser collects in-kind donation of gift cards, gift certificates, auction items, memorabilia, collectible coins and paper monies ranging from $1000.00 to 10,000.00 and/or auction item to help support us The Gift Of Giving Every Penny Count Fundraising Event. This event will raise funds to help support The Gift Of A Helping Hand Emergency Shelter.

Users will interact with a comprehensive database of the more than 1,200 soup kitchens and food pantries in New York maintained by NYCCAH staff members spread throughout the city and updated via live interaction with open source Sugar CRM software. This database is the only source of information updated daily to reflect the fast-changing environment of charitable hunger response in NYC.The database is visually presented using the Google Maps API, allowing users to search for local emergency food programs via zipcode, borough and keyword. Results are presented in both map and text-list format. The inclusion of the Donate Now API will allow users to click on existing text results and pop-up balloons to donate to specific agencies, directing them to a database-generated donation page tailored to the agency in question.

HungerMaps provides the tools, and our users supply the data – anything that will make a difference in the fight against hunger. In New Orleans, users are mapping emergency food programs for Katrina survivors. In New York, users are mapping WIC centers, the results of a survey of produce retailers and others. In Anchorage, users are mapping food bank member agencies. HungerMaps provides the geocoding, and the Google API provides the geographic features. In enhanced maps like Seattle’s, users can also interact with specific data about which agencies need food, what kind of food they need, when they’re open and how to get there. In the near future, HungerMaps plans to provide more options for users, including shaded census data to help smaller users target scarce resources, and route planning for the logistical challenges of large organizations.