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
Tools
from our Resource Library
For Education
The Nourishing Effect
Hunger and food insecurity add at least $160 billion a year to U.S. healthcare costs.
The Impacts of Proposed Fiscal Year 2018 Budget Cuts on the Latino Community
To end hunger and poverty in the United States by 2030, our country needs to support a budget that improves the lives of men, women, and children. Unfortunately, the Trump administration and Congress are proposing dramatic cuts to programs that promote economic opportunity or provide food...
The Dream Act of 2017 (S. 1615 & H.R. 3440)
Overview
The United States is a nation of immigrants. Throughout its history, people have moved here from all over the world and have contributed to their communities and our national life. Today, as in the past, immigrants are also creating prosperity for this nation.
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For Faith
The Bible on Health as a Hunger Issue
A brief examination of the biblical approach to health as a hunger issue.
Includes an introduction to the issue, a Scriptural reflection, practical actions you can take, and a prayer.
Bread Newsletter January 2016
In this issue: Another Great Year for Bread; Catholics Begin Observance of Holy Year of Mercy; Serving on ‘God’s Wave Length’ for 39 Years; and more.
Interfaith Religious Leaders’ Pledge to End Hunger
A wide array of the nation’s faith leaders have come together on the eve of Pope Francis’ arrival in the United States to commit ourselves to encourage our communities to work for the end of hunger by 2030 and, toward that end, for a shift in U.S. national priorities.
We are deeply pleased...
For Advocacy
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.
...
The State of Black Poverty: A Pan-African Millennial Perspective on Ending Hunger by 2030
Over the past year and a half, about two-dozen young adults from the United States and countries in Africa and the Caribbean, have gathered virtually and in person to reflect on the effects of hunger and poverty in black communities. The working group has been considering socio-political and...
Fact Sheet: The Hunger-Medicaid Connection
Congress is considering proposals that would jeopardize healthcare coverage for millions of poor and near-poor adults and children.
Legislation under consideration in the House and Senate would gut...