Loseapalooza – Fight Hunger Through Social Media

No human being should go hungry.  I was trying to decide how to categorize a post on a charitable social media event that would fight hunger at the same time as promoting weight loss.  Charity, of course,  Health, for sure, but I went with Social Equity because I ended up phrasing it like that: No human being should go hungry.

Weight Watchers has teamed up with some great partners – Share Our Strength and Action Against Hunger – to fight hunger, promote weight loss and raise awareness for both worthy causes.

What you can do:

1. Visit the Lose-A-Palooza website (complete with informative video featuring Jenny McCarthy) and learn more

2. Tomorrow, on September 15, Tweet #LoseForGood and follow @sharestrength and @acfusa.  The site suggests (and I suggest) you tweet “Share the good with @sharestrength @acfusa and #LoseForGood, help fight hunger”

Weight watchers will donate $1, up to $25K,  for every tweet.  It would be a shame to, um, leave any of that on the table.  (Feel free to kill me in the comments for that terrible, terrible pun.)

This is all part of the Weight Watchers Lose for Good campaign, which aims to help people lose millions of pounds, to donate millions of pounds of food and to donate up to $1 million to fight hunger.

If you’ve been following us, you know that SocialYell really likes it when companies use their competencies for social responsibility, so we’re following this campaign with excitement.