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Amb. Tony P. Hall | Alliance to End Hunger
Lucy Sullivan | 1,000 Days
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A child dying from hunger is a terrible tragedy. As individuals who have committed our careers to combating hunger and malnutrition, we have unfortunately seen this calamity up close and personal. The world has made astonishing progress, but now for the first time in decades, global hunger is on the rise. [READ MORE (DEVEX)]
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Roxanne Addink de Graaf | Partners Worldwide
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How can business end global poverty and hunger? This is a driving question for Partners Worldwide, and one of the motivators for us to join the Alliance to End Hunger. [READ MORE]
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Minerva Delgado | Alliance to End Hunger
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The Hunger Free Communities (HFC) Summit is an event I look forward to every year. It’s when I get to visit with so many of the people that I interact with by phone and webinar throughout the year. On November 6th and 7th, the Alliance to End Hunger partnered with Tampa Bay Network to End Hunger to host the 2017 National Sunshine Summit to End Hunger in Tampa, Florida. [READ MORE]
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Nathan Magrath | Alliance to End Hunger
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With Alliance member Trees for the Future and FAO, the Alliance to End Hunger hosted a roundtable discussion on agroforestry, and how trees can be utilized in an astonishing number of ways to protect farms, bolster food security, and build an enabling environment for smallholder farmers’ livelihoods to thrive. [READ MORE]
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It’s Appropriations Season, and while this may not sound particularly exciting to those outside of the daily grind of legislative processes, it is monumentally important for our collective cause to end hunger at home and abroad. In fact, what happens in the current appropriations battles could have a massive effect on poor and hungry people in the United States and around the world. [READ MORE]
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The Stephen J. Brady Stop Hunger Scholarships are now open for applications through December 5! This program recognizes and rewards students ages 5-25 who have made a significant impact in the fight against hunger in the United States. Winners receive a $5,000 scholarship plus a $5,000 grant for their hunger-related charity of choice. Visit HelpStopHunger.org for application details.
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Upcoming Events:
No Kid Hungry 2017 National Summer Meals Summit
December 4-5
Washington, DC
Share Our Strength is looking forward to welcoming new and familiar faces to the National Summer Meals Summit on December 4th and 5th, 2017 at the Renaissance Arlington Capital View Hotel in Arlington, VA just outside Washington, D.C.! The summit brings together national, state, and local experts from around the country to discuss effective practices and lessons learned in operating successful summer meals programs. REGISTRATION is open, and you can view a draft agenda.
2018 Presidents United to Solve Hunger Leaders Forum & Universities Fighting World Hunger Summit
March 15-16, 2018 (PUSH Leaders Forum)
March 16-17, 2018 (UFWH Summit)
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
The PUSH Leaders Forum gathers leadership from around the country to strategize how to build university commitments to end hunger on campus, in communities, and around the world. The UFWH Summit gathers hundreds of university students, organizations, and anti-hunger leaders to empower global university movements to end hunger everywhere. Email Harriet Giles (gileshw@auburn.edu) at Auburn University to learn more.
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