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
Tools
from our Resource Library
For Education
U.S. Hunger and Poverty State Fact Sheets
These fact sheets provide a snapshot of hunger and poverty in the United States and in each state plus Washington, D.C.
Fact Sheet: Hunger and Poverty in Puerto Rico
Even before Hurricanes Irma and Maria struck Puerto Rico, hunger and food insecurity were much more common among Puerto Ricans than among their fellow U.S. citizens in the 50 states.
Before...
Fact Sheet: Fortified for Life. How the U.S. Government Supports Global Nutrition.
Good nutrition is a critical part of ensuring that all human beings can use their bodies and minds to live an active life and reach their full potential.
For Faith
Unity Declaration on Racism and Poverty
A diverse body of Christian leaders calls on the churches and Congress to focus on the integral connection.
Dear Members of Congress,
As the president and Congress are preparing their plans for this year, almost 100 church leaders—from all the families of U.S. Christianity—are...
In Times Like These … A Pan-African Christian Devotional for Public Policy Engagement
This devotional guide invites deepened relationship with and among Pan-African people and elected leaders in the mission to end hunger and poverty.
Sermon by David Beckmann at Duke University Chapel
Remarks delivered October 1, 2017 at Duke University Chapel in Chapel Hill in North Carolina.
Thank you for inviting me to preach here at Duke University Chapel. And I especially want to thank the Bread for the World members who have come this morning.
Bruce Puckett urged...
For Advocacy
U.S. Hunger and Poverty State Fact Sheets
These fact sheets provide a snapshot of hunger and poverty in the United States and in each state plus Washington, D.C.
Fact Sheet: Hunger by the Numbers
In 2017, 11.8 percent of households in the U.S.—40 million people—were food-insecure, meaning that they were unsure at some point during the year about how they would provide for their next meal.
Sentencing Reform and Corrections Act of 2017
Unnecessarily long prison sentences, combined with the lack of rehabilitative programs for people in prison, exacerbate hunger, poverty, and existing inequalities.
Overly harsh mandatory minimum prison sentences have contributed to the rapid increase of our country’s prison population. The...