Grassroots Advocacy Toolkit

A set of how-to sheets for carrying out advocacy and fact sheets on the current issues Bread for the World is working on.

For new and current Bread grassroots hunger activists.

Ideal as a starter toolkit for new Bread activists or as a set of updates for current activists.

Form your own toolkit by printing out some or all of the sheets in the kit.

How-to pieces:

• The Biblical Basis for Advocacy to End Hunger
• The Bible and Immigration Reform
• The Bible and Poverty-Focused Development Assistance
• The Bible and Mass Incarceration
• The Bible and Elections
• The Bible on Health as a Hunger Issue
• How to Conduct an In-District Meeting with a Member of Congress (or the Staff)
• Effectively Using Public Meetings to Engage with Congressional Candidates
• Writing a Letter to the Editor of Your Local Newspaper

Issues-related pieces:

• Facts on Hunger and Poverty in the United States and Internationally
• Hunger and Mass Incarceration
• The Global Food Security Act of 2016
• African Growth and Opportunity Act
• Budget 101
• Poverty-Focused Development Assistance (PFDA) 101
• Immigration, Hunger, and Opportunity
• Budget Reconciliation 101
• The Consequences of Sequestration and Tight Budget Caps
• Hunger and Poverty Among the Hispanic Community
• Hunger and Poverty in the African-American Community