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The Stock the Shelves campaign is an annual drive by USA TODAY NETWORK-Wisconsin to support local food pantries.

This year's goal is to raise enough money for 550,000 meals to help combat food insecurity in the state.

The campaign partners with Feeding America Eastern Wisconsin, where each dollar donated provides $10 in purchasing power.

The Stock the Shelves campaign is back and ready to stuff food pantries across eastern Wisconsin, just in time for the holidays.

The annual campaign was launched in 1995 — a whopping 30 years ago — out of the Appleton Post-Crescent's newsroom. Back then, it benefited just two Fox Cities community organizations.

In 2010, it was broadened to cover the areas served by nine USA TODAY NETWORK-Wisconsin newspapers, and in 2011 that spre

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