Acknowledgements and Sponsors

Acknowledgments

Bread for the World Institute wishes to thank the following colleagues at Bread for the World and the Alliance to End Hunger for their help in producing the report. Several staff at Bread for the World will get special mention. Rachel Black of the government relations department wrote the tax policy section of Chapter 2. Rachel, Erin Kolodjeski, Sophie Milam, and Monica Mills in Bread for the World’s government relations department helped think through other sections of this report. Carter Echols, Margaret Mary Kimmins and Gary Cook in the church relations department, along with Tammy Walhof, David Maus, and Kathy Pomroy of the organizing department wrote the study guide. Organizers Derrick Boykin and Flavia DeSouza were especially helpful in New York City on visits to the South Bronx. The communications department staff of Hans Friedhoff, James Frank, Brian Duss, and Adlai Amor created a dynamic website to accompany the print edition of the report that includes several additional features. Interns are crucial to all projects at Bread for the World, Bread for the World Institute and the Alliance to End Hunger. The following interns contributed sidebars or helped with research: Sarah Custer, Claire DiSalvo, Christine Elliott, Salik Farooqi, Mark Fenton, Emily Nohner, Vivian Secaida, and Cristina Sepe.

For the articles they contributed to the report, we wish to thank Nathalie Moberg and Corryne Deliberto of World Vision; Jodie Briggs and Michelle Chau of National Center for Children in Poverty; Alejandra Lopez-Fernandini of New America Foundation; Felipe Salinas of Texas A&M; Charles Uphaus, of Bread for the World Institute when he wrote for us, but now with USAID; Danielle Mutone-Smith, formerly of Bread for the World, now with Women Thrive Worldwide, and James McDonald of Bread for the World.

Rick Reinhard, Margaret W. Nea, Jim Stipe, Celia Esceudero-Espadas, and Richard Lord shot most of the pictures in this report as they have in recent years. Bread for the World communications intern Mark Fenton also provided a number of shots.

Others we want to thank include experts and sponsors who commented on an early draft of the report: Alan Gold of Results, Andrew D. Genszler of Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, Ann Tutlwiler of U.S. Department of Agriculture, Arloc Sherman of Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, Benjamin Goldstein of Center for American Progress, Bob Francis of Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, Brian Greenberg of Interaction, Carol Wayman of Corporation for Enterprise Development, Charles Rutheiser of Annie E. Casey Foundation, Christina Chan of CARE, Dan Gustafson of Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Danilo Pelletiere of National Low Income Housing Coalition, David Waskow of Oxfam America, Debbie Weinstein of Coaltion on Human Needs, DeWayne Davis of the Episcopal Church, Ed Cooney of Congressional Hunger Center, Elaine Bauer of Catholic Health Association, Gabriel Laizer of Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Gawain Kripke of Oxfam America, Jessica McGlynn of World Wildlife Foundation, Jim Weil of Food Research and Action Center, Julie Brewer of U.S. Department of Agriculture, Karen Schulman of National Women’s Law Center, Kinsey Alden Dinan of National Center for Children in Poverty, Leslie Woods of Presbyterian Church USA, Lionel Derenencourt of the Presbyterian Church USA, Melissa Boteach of Jewish Council for Public Affairs, Miquela Craytor of Sustainable South Bronx, Natalie Branosky of U.K. Centre for Economic and Social Inclusion, Oscar Castaneda of Heifer International, Robert Zachritz of World Vision, Roxana Ulloa Barillas of U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, Sheri Brady of Voices for America's Children, Sofiya Leonova of Corporation for Enterprise Development, Tom Prevost of Cooperative Baptist Fellowship, William Stokes of Carver Terrace Fellowship. Winston Caroo of Agricultural Missions, Inc.

In addition to desk analysis, Bread for the World Institute does primary research gathered from domestic and international travel. This is an ongoing effort, but in the last year trips around the United States were especially important to issues covered in this edition. For their generous time spent with us in eastern Kentucky, we wish to thank Sr. Kathleen Weigand and the other sisters at St. Vincent Mission; Beverly May, Truman Hurt, Sara Pennington, Carl Shoupe, Carroll Smith, Randy Wilson, Elijah Collet, and Kevin Pentz of Kentuckians for the Commonwealth; Dee Davis of Center for Rural Strategies; Jeremy Lewis and Joshua Speight of Cooperative Baptist Fellowship; and in West Virginia, Rory McIlmoil of Coal River Mountain Watch. For their generous time with us on Rosebud and Crow Creek reservations in South Dakota, we wish to thank Dustin Miller, Jason Yates, Ken Haukaas, Chauncey Long Crow, and Ronda Hawk. In the South Bronx, we want to thank Miquela Craytor, Julien Terrell, Marta Rodriquez, and Amilcar Laboy. In the District of Columbia, we worked with William Stokes and Darrell Lewis of Carver Terrace Fellowship; Robert Egger, Michael W., and Marianne Ali of the DC Central Kitchen. For information gathered in Burkina Faso, we relied on Cheryl Morden, Tom Pesek and Yaovi Finnnian of the International Fund for Agricultural Development and Jacob Ouedraogo and colleagues who run the Programme d’Investissement Communautaire en Fertilité Agricole.

A number of other people helped in various ways to produce this report. We are grateful to you too and apologize if you were not named individually. To all who supported this effort, again, thanks so much.

Sponsors

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Published with the generous support of Margaret Wallhagen and Bill Strawbridge.

Benefactors (Gifts of $10,000 or more)

Catholic Charities, U.S.A. (CCUSA) includes more than 1,700 local agencies and institutions nationwide, providing help and creating hope for more than 8.5 million people of all faiths. For more than 280 years, Catholic Charities agencies have been providing vital services in their communities, ranging from day care and counseling to emergency assistance and housing. More than half of Catholic Charities services are in food services: food banks and pantries, soup kitchens, congregate dining and home delivered meals. Today, as part of its Campaign to Reduce Poverty in America—a multi-year, multi-faceted initiative aimed at cutting poverty in half by 2020—CCUSA is urging Congress and the Administration to improve programs and policies for the poor and vulnerable in four key issue areas: health care, housing, hunger, and family economic security.

Sixty-Six Canal Center Plaza
Suite 600
Alexandria, VA 22314
Telephone: (703) 549-1390
Fax: (703) 549-1656
www.catholiccharitiesusa.org

Community of Christ World Hunger Team seeks to engage the church and others in a response to the needs of hungry people throughout the world. Its primary purpose is to support programs of food production, storage and distribution; fund projects to provide potable water; supply farm animals; instruct in food preparation and nutrition; and educate in marketing strategies for produce. It also seeks to advocate for the hungry and educate about the causes and alleviation of hunger in the world. The majority of proposals reviewed by the committee originate with Outreach International and World Accord, agencies recognized by the church as engaged in participatory human development that is global in scope. Direct grants to Community of Christ jurisdictions for community hunger projects, as well as disaster relief, also are considered.

1001 W. Walnut
Independence, MO 64050-3562
Telephone: (816) 833-1000, ext. 2216
Fax: (816) 521-3097

Evangelical Covenant Church

Covenant World Relief is an effective and efficient humanitarian aid ministry of the Evangelical Covenant Church with a sixty-year history. CWR collaborates with partners around the world to provide relief, rehabilitation, and transformational community development. These partnerships empower local ministries, increase local involvement, reduce overhead and facilitate immediate response to disaster and human suffering. Our charge is to love, serve and work together with the poor, the powerless, and the marginalized.

5101 North Francisco Ave.
Chicago, IL 60625-3611
Telephone: (773) 784-3000
Fax: (773) 784-4366
www.covchurch.org/cwr
Blog: blogs.covchurch.org/cwr
Facebook: www.facebook.com/covenantworldrelief

Evangelical Lutheran Church of America is a 30-year-old ministry that confronts hunger and poverty through emergency relief, long term sustainable development and organizing, education, advocacy and stewardship of financial resources. Seventy-two percent of the program works internationally and 28 percent works within the United States. Lutheran World Relief (Baltimore) and Lutheran World Federation (Geneva) are key implementing partners in international relief and development throughout the world.

8765 W. Higgins Road
Chicago, IL 60631-4190
Telephone: (800) 638-3522, ext. 2709
Fax: (773) 380-2707
www.elca.org/hunger

United Methodist Committee on Relief is the not-for-profit global humanitarian aid organization of the United Methodist Church. UMCOR is working in more than 80 countries worldwide, including the United States. Our mission, grounded in the teachings of Jesus, is to alleviate human suffering—whether caused by war, conflict or natural disaster, with open hearts and minds to all people. UMCOR responds to natural or civil disasters that are interruptions of such magnitude that they overwhelm a community's ability to recover on its own. We partner with people to rebuild their communities, livelihoods, health, and homes. In times of acute crisis, we mobilize aid to stricken areas--emergency supplies, fresh water, and temporary shelter--and then stay, as long as it takes, to implement long-term recovery and rehabilitation. UMCOR is a member of several global alliances that share the same mission to restore well-being to women, children and men. Together with these and many local partners, UMCOR embodies the life-saving humanitarian presence of the people of the United Methodist Church.

475 Riverside Dr., Rm. 330
New York, NY 10115
(212) 870-3808
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www.umcor.org

Patrons (Gifts between $5,000-$10,000)

Allegany Franciscan Ministries is a non-profit Catholic organization focused on improving the overall health status of individuals through increasing access to health services and information. Guided by the tradition and vision of the Franciscan Sisters of Allegany, New York, Allegany Franciscan Ministries provides grants to organizations primarily in three regions of Florida. Allegany Franciscan Ministries strives to be a catalyst for systemic change, committing resources and working collaboratively to promote physical, mental, spiritual, societal and cultural health and well-being in these communities.

Allegany Franciscan Ministries
33920 US Highway 19 N, Suite 269
Palm Harbor, FL 34684
(727) 507-9668
www.afmfl.org

American Baptist Churches World Relief Office is funded by the One Great Hour of Sharing offering. It is the responsibility of the World Relief Committee to designate where donations will go in the coming year. The Committee’s purpose is to support, enable and encourage emergency relief, refugee work, disaster rehabilitation, and development assistance. Today, One Great Hour of Sharing serves people in over 80 countries around the world. Sponsored by nine Christian U.S. denominations and Church World Service, One Great Hour of Sharing makes sure that it can respond to needs as soon as they happen and that tens of thousands of people receive support for ongoing relief, rehabilitation, and development. Gifts reach the ministries and people in need through a network of regional and international partnerships.

American Baptist Churches World Relief Office
P.O. Box 851
Valley Forge, PA 19482
Phone: 1-800-222-3872 x2245
www.abc-oghs.org

Baptist World Aid is the relief and development arm of the Baptist World Alliance and is engaged primarily in disaster relief and community development. It aids victims of disasters by working through indigenous Baptist conventions and unions in the country of the disaster and through BWAid Rescue24, a search, rescue and recovery operation. BWAid provides assistance i n health, education, vocational training, agriculture, and other types of projects.

The BWA is a fellowship of 216 Baptist conventions and unions comprising a membership of more than 37 million baptized believers and a community of 105 million. It aims to unite Baptists worldwide, lead in world evangelism, respond to people in need, defend human rights and promote theological reflection.

405 North Washington Street
Falls Church, VA 22046 USA
Telephone: (703) 790-8980
Fax: (703) 790-5719
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www.bwanet.org/bwaid

Canadian Foodgrains Bank is a partnership of all major Canadian church-based agencies working to end hunger in developing countries. The three pillars of our work are (a) increasing and deepening the involvement of Canadians in efforts to end hunger; (b) supporting partnerships and activities to reduce hunger on both an immediate and sustainable basis; and (c) influencing changes in public policies necessary to end hunger. In addition to cash donations, substantial amounts of food grain are donated directly from Canadian farmers and from more than 200 community groups that collectively grow crops for donation to the Canadian Foodgrains Bank. In 2008-09, approximately $12 million in grain and cash donations was collected in addition to the $29 million matching support from the Canadian International Development Agency. Hunger-related programming is supported by the Foodgrains Bank through its 15 member agencies and includes food aid, food security, nutrition programming, and food justice.

Box 767, 400-393 Portage Avenue
Winnipeg Manitoba
Canada R3C 2L4
Telephone: (204) 944-1993
Toll Free: 1-800-665.0377
Fax: (204) 943-2597
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www.foodgrainsbank.ca

Church of the Brethren, Global Food Crisis Fund

In a world with a billion hungry people, the Global Food Crisis Fund is the Church of the Brethren’s approach to education, advocacy, and action on matters of food security. It crosses cultural and national barriers to serve humanitarian need and to build mutual understanding. It affirms the parallels between the Millennium Development Goals and the Sermon on the Mount. Its grants for programs in 32 countries are directed to helping people who live on the margins move from subsistence to sustainability. Among its components are “My 2-cents worth” collections in homes and churches, “Regnuh: Turning hunger around” campaigns by age groups, and hands-on growing projects of congregations and partners to launch agricultural developments in poor communities.

In summary, what the Global Food Crisis Fund is about is partnering with the poor in promoting environmentally sustainable agriculture, raising awareness as to the causes of hunger, and entering into works of compassion that convey the love and fullness of Christ.

Global Food Crisis Fund
Church of the Brethren1451 Dundee Ave
Elgin IL 60120
Telephone: 1-800-323-8039, ext. 264
Fax: (847) 742-6103
www.brethren.org/genbd/global_mission/gfcf.htm

The Cooperative Baptist Fellowship is a fellowship of Baptist Christians and churches who share a passion for the Great Commission of Jesus Christ and a commitment to Baptist principles of faith and practice. The Fellowship's purpose is to serve Christians and churches as they discover and fulfill their God-given mission. One of the Fellowship’s strategic initiatives is engaging in holistic missions and ministries among the most neglected in a world without borders. With more than 1,800 contributing churches and more than 3,000 individual contributors, the Fellowship supports a global mission’s field force of 131 personnel.

2930 Flowers Road South, Suite 133
Atlanta, GA 30341
(770) 220-1600
www.thefellowship.info

Feeding America (formerly named America’s Second Harvest)

Feeding America provides individuals and families facing hunger with the fuel to survive and even thrive. As the nation’s leading domestic hunger-relief charity, our network members supply food to more than 25 million Americans each year, including 9 million children and 3 million seniors. Serving the entire United States, more than 200 member food banks support 63,000 agencies that address hunger through emergency food assistance and programs.

Feeding America feeds hungry Americans each year, educates the public about hunger in America, and advocates for public policies that improve the lives of hungry Americans. In 2008, Forbes magazine gave Feeding America a charitable commitment rating of 98 percent—meaning 98 percent of all product and financial donations received by the Feeding America network go directly toward feeding hungry people, rather than to administration or fundraising.

35 East Wacker Drive, Suite 2000
Chicago, IL 60601
1-800-771-2303
feedingamerica.org

Franciscans Sisters of Allegany

The Mission of the Franciscan Sisters of Allegany is to live the Gospel of Our Lord Jesus Christ. We witness to God’s love in the Franciscan tradition by living as sisters with all creation and by joyfully serving others, especially those who are poor or marginalized. As Franciscan women, we live our charism of hospitality in love, joy and simplicity. Following Jesus and Francis, we minister to all people, committing ourselves to justice, peace and active love. We seek to follow the Gospel in a contemplative spirit of prayer, simple communal lifestyle, and dedicated service to the people of God.

Franciscan Sisters of Allegany,
PO Box W,
St Bonaventure, NY 14778
(716)-373-0200
www.AlleganyFranciscans.org

Foods Resource Bank is a Christian response to world hunger. Its goal is for hungry people to know the dignity and hope of feeding themselves by making it possible for them, through sustainable smallholder agricultural programs, to produce food for their families with extra to share, barter or sell. Foods Resource Bank endeavors to build networks with various agricultural communities in “growing projects” in the United States, allowing participants to give a gift only they can give. These volunteers grow crops or raise animals, sell them in the United States and the resulting money is used by implementing members (denominations and their agencies) to establish food security programs abroad. Foods Resource Bank creates solidarity between America’s bounty and the needs of the world’s hungry.

4479 Central Avenue
Western Springs, IL 60558
(312) 612-1939
www.FoodsResourceBank.org

Presbyterian Hunger Program

The Presbyterian Hunger Program provides a channel for congregations to respond to hunger in the United States and around the world. With a commitment to the ecumenical sharing of human and financial resources, the program provides support for the direct food relief efforts, sustainable development and public policy advocacy. The Presbyterian Hunger Program helps thousands of Presbyterian Church (USA) congregations become involved in the study of hunger issues, engage with the communities of need, advocate for just public policies and business practices, and move toward simpler corporate and personal lifestyles.

100 Witherspoon Street
Louisville KY 40202.
Telephone: (502) 569-5832
Fax: (502) 569-8963
www.pcusa.org/hunger.

World Relief

Since 1944, World Relief has been empowering churches to serve the world’s most vulnerable. World Relief equips churches to minister to people’s physical, emotional and spiritual needs. Long-term development happens as local communities and churches are engaged in the planning and implementation of programs—meaning programs continue long after World Relief funding and staff is directly involved. World Relief serves the most vulnerable, regardless of religion, race, ethnicity or gender. In 20 countries and 20 locations in the United States, World Relief’s innovative ministries focus on economic development, health and social development, and refugee care.

7 E Baltimore Street
Baltimore, MD 21202
(443) 451-1900
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www.WorldRelief.org

World Vision is a Christian relief and development organization dedicated to helping children and their communities worldwide reach their full potential by tackling the causes of poverty. Motivated by our faith in Jesus, World Vision serves the poor, regardless of a person’s religion, race, ethnicity, or gender, as a demonstration of God’s unconditional love for all people. World Vision provides emergency assistance to children and families affected by natural disasters and civil conflict, works with communities to develop long-term solutions to alleviate poverty, and advocates for justice on behalf of the poor. World Vision serves more than 100 million people in nearly 100 countries around the world.

34834 Weyerhaeuser Way South
Federal Way, WA 98001 USA
(888) 511-6593
www.worldvision.org

The 2010 Hunger Report