How to End Hunger

Hunger Programs

What does a world without hunger look like? It looks like everyone having the nutritious meals they need to flourish. Churches, charities, food banks, and non-profit organizations cannot get there alone. Government programs and policies play an important role too.

Policy Change

This is an important time to get involved and make your voice heard. Congress and the president are making major decisions that could hit individuals and families living in poverty and at risk of hunger hard. Bread for the World’s policy agenda focuses on the most timely issues that impact hunger. These are some of the issues that Congress or the administration needs to address in order accomplish this goal.

Community Action

When we come together, we have power. Partnering with God to end hunger requires us to organize ourselves for action. When we come together as churches, campus groups, community organizations, or individuals of good will, collective action makes a bigger impact than individual protest. Because we live in a democracy, Congress listens when people speak up, and we can be heard better when we speak together. Advocacy to end hunger — involving educating, organizing, and mobilizing — starts with us in our communities.

Faith Action

Throughout the Scriptures, God speaks of our purpose to rebuild, restore and renew all that is broken (Isaiah 61). We work to end the brokenness of hunger and poverty in our communities, in our country, and around the world. We partner in God’s work to lift the barriers that impede the flourishing God intended for all people.

Research

In order to solve a problem, it’s important to know its causes. Research helps identify the root causes of hunger and strategies to end it that have worked in the past.

Research is also a way of gathering information and knowledge. And in our day and age, information is power.

Bread views research as a way of actively engaging decision makers and others on the issue of hunger. It’s not all academic or theoretical. For example, Bread’s briefing papers and annual Hunger Report...

Partnerships and Coalitions

While Bread is the largest organization of its kind, we still believe that we cannot end hunger on our own. Everyone, including our government, must do their part. Building political will within the government to end hunger takes the work of many individuals and organizations. That’s why Bread joins with partners and is part of coalitions to carry out its mission.