2021 Offering of Letters to Congress
Welcome to the 2021 Offering of Letters to Congress. We expect to fully launch the Offering of Letters by mid-February. As we continue our advocacy efforts to expand anti-hunger programs in response to COVID-19, our educational materials will focus on four issues: food systems, climate change, racial and gender equity, and economic justice.
Supplemental materials will be rolled out for each of the four issue areas, respectively, on a quarterly basis.
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The Offering of Letters is a key organizing and advocacy tool at Bread for the World. It is when people in your congregation, campus, or group gather to write personalized letters and/or emails to members of Congress on hunger and poverty issues. Christians may use this tool to further God’s kingdom on earth by working to end hunger and poverty in our lifetime.
Bread’s organizing team plays a pivotal role in the Offering of Letters. In March, organizers will lead a series of Offering of Letters webinars. Learn more and register here.
We look forward to adding your voice to the important work of ending hunger through this year’s Offering of Letters.
Have a question? Connect with a regional organizer: 800-822-7323 or organizing@bread.org.
Tools
from our Resource Library
For Education
Election Resources
One of the best times to raise the issues of hunger and poverty is during election campaigns. Engage candidates in your state/district on hunger and poverty using our elections resources.Fact Sheet: Expand the Child Tax Credit to Significantly Reduce Child Hunger
Expanding the CTC would do more to reduce hunger and poverty among our nation's children than any single policy has in decades.Racially Equitable Responses to Hunger During COVID-19 and Beyond
Food insecurity and COVID-19 have a reciprocal relationship. Learn more.
For Faith
Finding Hope, Ending Hunger on Both Sides of the Border: A Bilingual Latino Devotional
Devotional writers challenge us to feel the Spirit of God within us and to hear God’s urgent call to demand justice so all can put food on the table.The Bible on Health as a Hunger Issue
“As you therefore have received Christ Jesus the Lord, continue to live your lives in him, rooted and built up in him and established in faith.” These words from Colossians 2:6 remind us of the faith that is active in love for our neighbors.
The Bible on...
Unity Declaration on Racism and Poverty
A diverse body of Christian leaders calls on the churches and Congress to focus on the integral connection.
Dear Members of Congress,
As the president and Congress are preparing their plans for this year, almost 100 church leaders—from all the families of U.S. Christianity—are...
For Advocacy
Fact Sheet: Coronavirus (COVID-19) and SNAP
The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) is designed to respond to changes in need, making it well suited to respond to crises such as the COVID-19 pandemic.
Fact Sheet: Why We Need $200 Million for Global Nutrition Programs
Bread for the World and its partners are asking Congress to provide $200 million for global nutrition in the fiscal year 2020 budget.
Fact Sheet: Hunger by the Numbers
In 2017, 11.8 percent of households in the U.S.—40 million people—were food-insecure, meaning that they were unsure at some point during the year about how they would provide for their next meal.