Summer break isn’t such a good time for all kids.

For me, summer break was a time for family vacations, playing at a nearby park and enjoying backyard barbecues with family and friends. In fact, I’m sure many of us happily remember digging into big slices of watermelon and savoring ice cream cones during hot summer days.

But for millions of children, summer break means an extended and sometimes even daily struggle with hunger.

During the school year, more than 19 million kids receive free and reduced-price lunches. These are children whose parents are struggling to make ends meet. For these families, knowing that their children can get a free or reduced-price meal at school means they have a little more money to put dinner on the table.

But during the summer, few of these children have access to programs that serve nutritious meals to those in need. We’ve partnered with Feeding America to close that gap. 

Right now, if you donate to Feeding America’s Magic Summer Lunchbox, we’ll double your donation.

That’s right. We’ll double it.

We’ve provide a $250,000 matching grant to Feeding America. For every dollar donated, up to $250,000, we’ll match it.

Your donation can go a long ways. For just $39, you’ll help provide three meals a day to a child in need all summer long. Combined with our matching grant, that means we’ll be providing two children with three meals a day all summer.

I hope you’ll join us in the fight end child hunger this summer by making a donation today.

The above post was originally published on May 20, 2010.