Put the Giving Back in Thanksgiving with Free Resources from The Family Dinner Project

Thanksgiving is the ultimate American family dinner. Even families who have all but lost touch with the family dinner tradition sit down together on Thanksgiving Day. And The Family Dinner Project a grassroots movement that champions family dinner as an opportunity to have food, fun and conversation about things that matter wants to see the day devoted to more than eating.

In partnership with Giving Tuesday, a campaign to make the Tuesday after Thanksgiving (Dec. 3) a national day of giving, The Family Dinner Project has created a Thanksgiving toolkit including free tips, tools, infographics and printables to help families have conversations about how to give on Giving Tuesday and beyond, whether giving takes the form of money, time or simple acts of kindness. Visitors can access:

• Infographic: tips to help families talk about giving back
• Infographic: giving decision tree
• Infographic: how kids benefit from family dinners
• Infographic: 4 weeks to better family dinners
• Free printable PDF: conversation starters about giving
• Free printable PDF: Thanks + Giving place cards
• Free printable PDFs: games for giving
• Videos + stories: examples of how kids give back
• Recipes to make good use of Thanksgiving leftovers

Visit The Family Dinner Project for more online resources and community-based programs to help families improve the quantity and quality of their meals together making dinner simpler, more nutritious, more fun and more meaningful. Connect with The Family Dinner Project on Facebook, Pinterest and Twitter.

Contact: Amy Yelin, Amy@TheFamilyDinnerProject.org 617-448-0824
John Sarrouf,JohnS@TheFamilyDinnerProject.org 617-290-6430