Our Impact

Bread for the World is a collective Christian voice urging our nation's leaders to end hunger at home and abroad.

When you add your voice to ours, you are building the political will to end hunger. Together we are helping to win changes in U.S. government policy that create help and opportunity for people who are hungry.

Since its founding in 1974, Bread has achieved many victories. For example, we helped strengthen national nutrition programs, reducing hunger in the United States. We helped strengthen and improve U.S. international assistance, thus supporting the dramatic progress against hunger that many countries in Africa, Asia, and Latin America have achieved. This progress shows that it is possible to end hunger by 2030 in our own country and abroad.

Bread’s strength is its grassroots network of members, activists, and churches across the country. Bread members are thoughtful and persistent in communicating with their members of Congress. Leader activists, Bread teams, and regional staff speak up in every congressional district in the country to end hunger at home and around the world. Bread’s two affiliates, Bread for the World Institute and the Alliance to End Hunger, give us further depth and reach.

Bread lobbies Congress and the president on a range of issues that impact hungry people — including child nutrition, immigration reform, incarceration, and international development assistance. Over the years, Bread has touched the lives of hundreds of millions of hungry people. And we have seen that a series of advocacy victories can build momentum toward a change in national priorities.

The 2016 elections will be a further opportunity to influence our nation’s commitment to ending hunger. Bread does not endorse candidates. Rather, our Vote to End Hunger campaign encourages voters to raise hunger as an important issue in the campaign and at the ballot box. Our goal is to elect a president and Congress who make hunger and poverty one of our nation’s top priorities. 

Bread invites you to join us — as a member, a leader activist, part of a Bread team, or by getting your church involved. We will equip you with resources, encouragement, and inspiration. If you become an active part of Bread, you will see that you are helping to make a better future.

"I the Lord love justice."

Isaiah 61:8

Ongoing Campaigns

Bread for the World has various methods for engaging individuals and groups (such as congregations, campuses and community groups) in its mission of ending hunger. Each year we set a policy-change agenda to move us closer to our goal. Our members and activists use our recurring methods described below to advance that agenda. Other ways you can end hunger are described in Get Involved. 

Mobilizing the Faith Community

Bread for the World is a collective Christian voice urging our nation's leaders to end hunger at home and abroad. God's grace in Jesus Christ moves us to help our neighbors, whether they live in the next house, the next state, or the next continent. We are an organization that operates on the principle that Christians are motivated by their faith to address hunger around the world. Bread also believes that it is the moral calling of Christians to be politically engaged. Practicing faith-filled citizenship is our right under the U.S. Constitution. Hunger is a profoundly political issue and one that should be a top concern of our federal government. We are serving God when we raise issues of hunger and poverty with our government.

Advocating for Change

Bread for the World’s work in organizing communities and individuals to speak up about hunger and poverty gets results!

Advocacy is hard work, and sometimes the victories do not come right away. But Bread has been doing advocacy for decades and has the expertise, experience, and track record for bringing hope and opportunity to people in the U.S. and abroad.

Our first victory more than 40 years ago laid important groundwork that we’ve built on ever since. In 1975, the year after Bread was founded, Congress passed the Right to Food Resolution. It declared that everyone has...

Engaging Individuals

Bread for the World urges elected leaders in Washington, D.C., to enable people in the U.S. and abroad to feed their families and move out of poverty. But our ability to bring about change for hungry people depends on the actions of people like you — citizens and residents who communicate with their elected representatives in Washington, D.C.

Members of Congress want to hear from constituents about the issues they will vote on. When you, your friends, your community, and others in your congressional district or state tell your elected officials in the U.S. Senate and House of...

Researching Hunger

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