{"id":324,"date":"2013-06-14T09:02:22","date_gmt":"2013-06-14T14:02:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1978classnews\/?p=7"},"modified":"2014-05-30T14:11:37","modified_gmt":"2014-05-30T19:11:37","slug":"ross-fraser","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1970sclassnews\/2013\/06\/14\/ross-fraser\/","title":{"rendered":"Ross Fraser &#8217;78"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am currently the director of media relations for Feeding America, the nation\u2019s largest domestic hunger relief organization. We are a network of more than 200 food banks that provide food to more than 5.7 million low-income Americans each and every week through 61,000 food pantries, soup kitchens, and other emergency feeding sites. This year we will distribute more than 3.5 billion pounds of food and groceries. We serve every community in the nation.\u00a0<i>Forbes&#8217;<\/i>\u00a0Magazine lists Feeding America as the fourth largest charity in America, noting that we received $1.2 billion in donated food and funds in 2011. We also have a four star rating from Charity Navigator.<\/p>\n<p>I oversee strategy and partnerships with a number of national media organizations. Some of the highlights of my work include:\u00a0 The \u201cIdol Gives Back\u201d campaign on FOX\u2019s\u00a0<i>American Idol,\u00a0<\/i>which raised more than $15 million for Feeding America; a partnership with ABC News<i>,\u201cCrisis At Home: Hunger in America\u201d\u00a0<\/i>a multi-platform series which featured stories on\u00a0<i>\u201cWorld News Tonight with Diane Sawyer,\u201d \u201cNightline\u201d\u00a0<\/i>and\u00a0<i>\u201cGood Morning America,<\/i>\u00a0which also partnered with Feeding America on the \u201cMillion Pound Food Challenge;\u201d \u00a0and The National Association of Letter Carriers\u00a0<i>Stamp Out Hunger Food Drive,<\/i>which collects 70 million pounds of food annually. This month (June, 2013) we partnered with NBC News properties for the release of our \u201cMap the Meal Gap\u201d study, which provides estimates of food insecurity at the county level for the entire nation:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.multivu.com\/mnr\/62036-feeding-america-map-meal-gap-documents-americans-living-at-risk-of-hunger\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.multivu.com\/mnr\/62036-feeding-america-map-meal-gap-documents-americans-living-at-risk-of-hunger<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0I also oversee our official partnerships with ABC\u2019s daytime program \u201cThe Chew,\u201d the CMT Network and TLC. Feeding America is currently partnering with Fox Sports, which airs our psa\u2019s during NASCAR races and Major League Baseball games.\u00a0\u00a0Visit\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.feedingamerica.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.feedingamerica.org\/<\/a>. Find us on Facebook at\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/FeedingAmerica\" target=\"_blank\">www.facebook.com\/FeedingAmerica<\/a>\u00a0or follow us on Twitter at\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/FeedingAmerica\" target=\"_blank\">www.twitter.com\/FeedingAmerica<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1970sclassnews\/files\/2013\/06\/Ellen-and-Ross-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-8\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1970sclassnews\/files\/2013\/06\/Ellen-and-Ross-2-300x177.jpg\" alt=\"FOOTHILL UNITY-AMERICAN IDOL\" width=\"300\" height=\"177\" \/><\/a>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1970sclassnews\/files\/2013\/06\/Tim-McGraw-and-Ross.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-11\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1970sclassnews\/files\/2013\/06\/Tim-McGraw-and-Ross-300x204.jpg\" alt=\"Tim McGraw, David Grossnickle, Jeff Fuller, Ross Fraser\" width=\"270\" height=\"184\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1970sclassnews\/files\/2013\/06\/ross-ann.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-10\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1970sclassnews\/files\/2013\/06\/ross-ann-300x278.jpg\" alt=\"ross-ann\" width=\"243\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1970sclassnews\/files\/2013\/06\/Ross_Simon.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-9\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1970sclassnews\/files\/2013\/06\/Ross_Simon-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Ross_Simon\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s Ross on Fox News <a href=\"http:\/\/video.foxbusiness.com\/v\/2542500298001\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/video.foxbusiness.com\/v\/2542500298001\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am currently the director of media relations for Feeding America, the nation\u2019s largest domestic hunger relief organization. We are a network of more than 200 food banks that provide food to more than 5.7 million low-income Americans each and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1970sclassnews\/2013\/06\/14\/ross-fraser\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":478,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-324","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1970sclassnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1970sclassnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1970sclassnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1970sclassnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/478"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1970sclassnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=324"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1970sclassnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":540,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1970sclassnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324\/revisions\/540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1970sclassnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1970sclassnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1970sclassnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}