Bread for the World Institute

Public Education:Bread for the World Institute educates our network about hunger and how to end it. One area of work includes a focus on policies and structural issues that perpetuate hunger and poverty at disproportionate rates in African American/Pan African, Latino, and indigenous communities. (To be continued in Schedule O)Public Education:In 2023, Bread Institute's monthly newsletter, "Institute Insights," featured a range of topics, including promoting affordable fruits and vegetables; regenerative agriculture; the impacts of armed conflict, climate change, and gender bias on hunger; and the role of climate finance in ending hunger. Bread Institute held three Hunger Hotspots briefings, covering seven countries: Burkina Faso, Mali, Kenya, Haiti, Honduras, Afghanistan, and Cox's Bazar in Bangladesh.

Public Policy:(See Sch. O)Public Policy:Solving a complex problem such as hunger requires a clear understanding of the impact of specific policies and how policies affect each other. Bread's Policy and Research Institute's (PRI) nonpartisan analysis and identification of action steps help strengthen Bread as a trusted voice. Bread Institute contributed to research and thought leadership through briefings, coalition meetings, webinars, blogs, and policy papers on a variety of hunger-related policy and programs that came through Congress.Here are a few highlights from 2023: Bread's Policy and Research Institute supported our advocacy on the farm bill with research, analysis, coalition-building, and outreach events focused on Bread's legislative priorities. These priorities included the nutrition incentives program, known as GusNIP; Food for Peace; the McGovern-Dole Food for Education Program; and climate provisions. Our efforts included increasing grassroots support for legislation such as the Food Date Labeling Act.Bread for the World participated for the first time in the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP 28), the most influential world gathering on climate change. We were invited to accompany a youth delegation, advocating to make food security and nutrition central to the global climate agenda. In preparation for COP, Bread Institute gathered the Global Faith Leaders for Climate Justice to End Hunger Coalition for convenings in 2023. Bread Institute also convened an AIM4 Climate Summit event highlighting innovations to address the global food crisis in cooperation with USAID and other partners.International financial institutions (IFIs) are the largest source of international financing for many low- and middle-income countries. Their support is more critical than ever as increasing numbers of people around the world face hunger and life-threatening malnutrition. In 2023, Bread for the World recruited members of Congress to join a new IFI Education Caucus. The bipartisan Caucus will focus on educating members of Congress and staff on the IFIs and the need for the U.S. to maintain its leadership role in supporting international poverty reduction efforts.

Outreach & Advocacy:In June 2023, we hosted our annual June events in Washington, D.C. We held a Latino Consultation, Pan-African Convening, and Advocacy Summit to educate advocates about policies and programs that address hunger and poverty. The Latino consultation brought together 22 faith leaders, including a delegation from Puerto Rico. The Pan African consultation included approximately 60 faith leaders. (To be continued in Schedule O)Outreach and Advocacy (continued):Our Next Gen program was active on six college campuses in 2023, and we have plans to expand to an additional 5 campuses, including additional HBCUs and community colleges. The campuses that have been part of this work for several years are fully engaged with us around our farm bill advocacy and have held campus-based letter writing campaigns to Congress following our "Offering of Letters" model. They are also organizing around the issue of food insecurity on campus.