#HungerFistBump

“It’s as American as apple pie. It’s an attaboy. When you give someone a fist bump, you’re telling them, Let’s go do this.” Scott Williams, Christian pastor, social-media strategist and self-appointed world ambassador for the fist bump.  Read more in The New York Times.

Image adapted from Wikimedia Commons photograph

The hashtag #hungerfistbump has appeared in many tweets from Church World Service as well as in CWS retweets of posts by the Food Research and Action Center (FRAC),  The Food Recovery Network and the Christian Theological Seminary to celebrate some sort of success related to addressing hunger.

Angela Ruprock-Shafer, who handled social media at CWS for many years, believes she might have been the first person to use the hashtag. Then again, maybe someone else used it before she did. "Surely others were using it before then," she said. Regardless, it's here to stay.

I mainly use Twitter to send out links to posts on my Bread New Mexico blog. And in hindsight, there are many tweets where #hungerfistbump would apply.

Like this one

BreadNM Blog: Students at #ABQ schools advocate for maternal, child nutrition programs via @bread4theworld campaign https://t.co/Fl7KQFPgDl

— Carlos Navarro (@CNinABQ) April 23, 2016

Or this one

BreadNM Blog: Watch @bread4theword activist Dave Miner promote #Indianapolis forum on hunger and system change https://t.co/jLwcioufK6

— Carlos Navarro (@CNinABQ) April 18, 2016

And this one too.

BreadNM Blog: Global Food Security Act Wins in a Landslide! #GFSA #hunger https://t.co/duuFW2bODt

— Carlos Navarro (@CNinABQ) April 13, 2016

Anyway, here are those early examples of #HungerFistBump

.@CTStweets Thank you for being such an amazing seminary and hosting the @bread4theworld hunger event last night!! #HungerFistBump

— Angela R-Schafer (@AngRSchafer) April 19, 2016

Cheers! #hungerfistbump RT @FeedINsHungry: Good morning from DC! We're here w/ @FRACTweets, @FeedingAmerica & 1100 friends to #EndHungerNow

— CWS (@CWS_global) February 28, 2016

@FoodRecovery @CWS_global this is making us tingly inside #fightwaste #feedpeople #hungerfistbump #newfriends #zerohunger

— ZeroHunger Challenge (@ZeroHunger) December 30, 2013

We hope to have many more #hungerfistbumps to show that were are making progress in addressing domestic and global hunger and poverty