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’s a sampling of some of our accomplishments and outreach:
- Over 1,400 registered dietitians visited The Vegetarian Resource Group booth at the national Food and Nutrition Conference & Expo held in Minneapolis, MN. Many collected information for themselves or to use with their students and/or clients.
- We were asked permission to reprint VRG’s Vegan My Plate (vrg.org/ nutshell/MyVeganPlate.pdf) in The Dental Hygienist’s Guide to Nutritional Care book.
- 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 My Vegan Plate. We sent 400 Vegan Journals 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 Vegan Journals to be distributed at Texas VegFest in Austin, Texas.
- A dietitian requested teen brochures and nutshell handouts to use at the University of Illinois in Chicago.
- A bookstore in Providence, RI and vegan restaurants in MA, MD, NJ, and VA are offering VRG brochures to their customers.
- 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.
- Finally, VRG is hosting several high school/college interns and volunteers this year.
This is just a small sampling of what we are doing at VRG every day. Thank you so much! We couldn’t do this without your support.
You can donate directly to The VRG at www.vrg.org/donate
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.