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U.S. Federal Budget

• Call (800-826-3688) or email your senators and representative and tell them that fights over funding should not put people living with hunger at further risk. Urge them to pass spending bills that protect and strengthen programs that end hunger in the U.S. and around the world.
• Congress and the Trump administration continue to fail to agree on the final 2019 spending bills, which resulted in a partial government shutdown that lasted over a month. The government is currently operating under a three-week continuing resolution that will expire Feb. 15. The longer uncertainty continues around funding and the threat of a shutdown still looms, the greater the risk of increased hunger and hardship for those already struggling to put food on the table.

For more information on this issue:

• Bread Statement on Trump Border Address

Watch for action alerts. For additional talking points, contact organizing@bread.org or call 800-822-7323.

The 2019 Offering of Letters—Coming Soon

In 2019, we will raise our collective Christian voice and urge our government to accelerate progress toward ending hunger by increasing funding for global child nutrition programs. The 2019 Offering of Letters: Better Nutrition, Better Tomorrow will launch Feb. 11. Now is a great time to schedule a letter-writing event for your church, campus, or organization.

Activists in Action

Brianna Tenè Harris is a first-generation college student who openly talks about her desire to increase food access to low-income communities.

A native of Queens, New York, Harris will graduate from Spelman College in May with a dual degree in Spanish and Economics.

Since joining Bread for the World as an advocate, she has organized two events. The first was a community meeting that she co-organized.

The meeting brought together students and community groups to discuss root cause issues and solutions to hunger concerns impacting Georgian residents.

The second brought together a group of Spelman students to participate and discuss Bread for the World's Racial Wealth Gap Learning Simulation.

"Bread for the World is a great organization," Harris said. "I'm looking forward to partnering with Bread for one more event in the spring before I walk across the stage to start the next chapter of my life."

In addition to her work with Bread, Harris had the opportunity last summer to participate in the pilot cohort of the Zero Hunger Internship Program, a new initiative developed by the Congressional Hunger Center and the Bonner Foundation.

The program placed Harris with Feeding America, where she fully immersed herself in the politics of the Farm Bill and its impact on food assistance programs including the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), The Emergency Food Assistance Program, and the Commodity Supplemental Food Program.

Harris was so amazed at how much power policy has on food access, that she decided to continue this work into her fall semester at Spelman College. She is now actively working with the student groups to make sure her efforts do not fade once she graduates.

More Resources: Activist Tool Kit

The Activist Tool Kit is intended for new and current Bread grassroots hunger activists. It provides a set of how-to sheets for carrying out advocacy and fact sheets on the current issues Bread for the World is working on.

It's 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-tos:

• How to Conduct an In-District Meeting with a Member of Congress (or the Staff)
• Effectively Using Public Meetings to Engage with Members of Congress
• Writing a Letter to the Editor of Your Local Newspaper
• Conducting an Offering of Letters

Issues-related pieces:

• Hunger and Poverty State Fact Sheets
• Hunger by the Numbers (2017)
• Fact Sheet: Fortified for Life. How the U.S. Government Supports Global Nutrition
• Briefing Paper: A Multi-Sectoral Approach to Nutrition. Assessing USAID’s Progress
• Poverty-Focused Development Assistance (PFDA) 101
• The McGovern-Dole International Food for Education and Child Nutrition Program
• Getting to Zero Hunger by 2030: Race, Poverty, and Hunger
• Mass Incarceration: A Major Cause of Hunger
• Border Policy: Addressing Root Causes of Hunger and Immigration
• Fact Sheet: Hunger and Poverty in the Indigenous Community
• Fact Sheet: Hunger and Poverty in the African American Community
• Fact Sheet: Hunger and Poverty in the Latino Community

Biblical resources:

• 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 on Health as a Hunger Issue