This fall, Kraft Foods will embark on its largest branded initiative ever to fight hunger in America. Yesterday the company kicked off Huddle to Fight Hunger, an integrated marketing campaign designed to achieve an important goal: give 20 million meals or more to Feeding America, the nation’s leading hunger relief organization. The campaign will culminate in San Francisco on January 9 with the first-ever Kraft Fight Hunger Bowl featuring college football teams from the WAC and PAC-10.

Having taken a short rest after its recent World Basketball Festival in New York, Nike is going to pay homage to another urban sport, skateboarding, with the upcoming launch of the Zoom Paul Rodriguez 4 shoe. The new range will be available for purchase starting August 21, and ahead of the release, Nile SB is unveiling a set of videos featuring Paul Rodriguez, an American professional skateboarder and actor, which were shot to support the new line.

Gatorade’s G Series line of products will make its Canadian debut in spring 2011. During the inaugural G Series Symposium held last week at the MaRS Centre for Innovation in Toronto, the three-step sports nutrition G Series portfolio was unveiled to an audience of athletic trainers, educators, professional athletes and nutritionists gathered to discuss and learn about the hydration and nutrition needs of today’s performance athletes.

The only rules you should follow are your rules, says Nike in its new collaborative promotional project with Foot Locker, one of the most famous footwear retailers. The companies joined forces earlier this year, and are creating a new ‘constitution’, which is based on the people’s choice. The new vibrant “I am the rules” campaign for Air Max 90 features big soccer stars including Marouane Chamakh, Andrey Arshavin, Stefano Okaka Chuka and Ingrid Graziani among dancers, DJs and others.

Procter & Gamble announced the first in a series of global ‘Thank You Mom’ initiatives at the inaugural Singapore 2010 Youth Olympic Games, an international multi-sport event that features athletes between the ages of 14 and 18. Recognizing the essential role that families play in an Olympic athlete’s life, P&G is defraying travel and lodging costs for 25 moms from across the globe so that they can share their child’s Youth Olympic Games experience in Singapore.

Coca-Cola and ParticipACTION, the national voice of physical activity and sport participation in Canada, are providing the tools to empower teens to be active living ambassadors with their peers. Sogo Active, the national physical activity program of Coca-Cola Canada in collaboration with ParticipACTION, has grown to almost 13,000 youth and 1,300 Community Host members in just over a year. This summer the program is reaching out to all Canadians aged 13-19 with more support, resources and incentives designed to get teens active.