Bread For The World

Public Education: The Offering of Letters (OL) is Bread for the World's primary activism tool and on-ramp. The OL is a powerful event concept, where churches and community groups organize letter-writing to their Congress members and advocate for ending hunger. These letters and emails from congregations, campuses, and community groups help inspire Congressional leaders to change policies and programs to reduce hunger in the U.S. and around the world.

Public Policy: For several years, Bread for the World has been sounding the alarm about multiple crises that have caused soaring rates of global hunger. Over time, Bread advocates have been winning increases in U.S. funding to respond to these needs, including $5 billion for global emergency food and nutrition responses in 2022, in response to one of the worst global hunger crises in decades.(To be continued in Schedule O)

Outreach and Advocacy: Our bipartisan network includes tens of thousands of people and churches who are active in every congressional district.(To be continued in Schedule O)Grassroots Organizing. In 2022, Bread saw remarkable policy impact and legislative victories, along with high engagement on our digital channels. We organized in-district meetings with members of Congress and their staff on U.S. and global hunger-related policies. We held 2,163 strategy meetings in the field. More than 1700 people attended our educational webinars. Our advocacy efforts and OL events with individual members, churches, and faith partners in 2022 resulted in 69,479 letters written to Congress on hunger-related issues, 273 "smart calls" (calls/emails from individuals directly to members of Congress or their top staff leaders) on our issues, and 361 visits with Congressional offices in DC and the field. In June 2022, we hosted our annual Advocacy Summit in Washington, D.C. As part of the Summit, we held a Latino consultation, a Pan-African convening, and a Hill Day to educate and inform advocates about policies that address hunger and poverty. Our collective voice echoed through the halls of Congress.