2. Action Against Hunger | ACF International is
an international humanitarian organization
committed to ending world hunger.
• Recognized as a leader in the fight against malnutrition, Action Against
Hunger | ACF International saves the lives of malnourished children while
providing communities with access to safe water and sustainable solutions to
hunger. With 30 years of expertise in emergency situations of conflict,
natural disaster, and chronic food insecurity, ACF runs life-saving programs
in some 40 countries benefiting five million people each year.
• ACF's 4,600+ professionals work in over 40 countries to carry out innovative,
life-saving programs in nutrition, food security & livelihoods, and water,
sanitation, & hygiene. ACF’s humanitarian programs directly assist some five
million people each year, along with countless others through capacity
building programs in collaboration with government ministries. Committed to
principled humanitarian action, ACF restores dignity, self-sufficiency, and
independence to vulnerable populations around the world.
3. Leadership
• Executive Team
• Nan Dale, Chief Executive
Officer
• Nan Dale joined Action Against Hunger as its
Chief Executive Officer in January 2007. She has
had a distinguished career in the international
humanitarian field, as well as in public health, child
welfare and juvenile justice. Before joining ACF,
Ms. Dale served as President and CEO of Helen
Keller International and The Children’s Village.
4. Nan Dale
• Nan Dale has had a distinguished career in both international public health,
as well as in child welfare and juvenile justice. Before joining Action Against
Hunger | ACF-USA, Ms. Dale served as President and CEO of Helen Keller
International, managing an agency devoted to the prevention of malnutrition
and the elimination of preventable blindness around the world. Prior to that
position, she served for 22 years as the President and CEO of The Children’s
Village (CV), a multi-service agency for children, adolescents and families,
located principally in Dobbs Ferry, New York. She also created and ran the
Children’s Village Institute, a separate not-for-profit corporation to house
the Center for Child Welfare Research, initiated to bridge the gap between
practitioners, academics and policy makers. During her tenure at CV, she
brought the agency from a fledgling organization with an annual budget of $3
million to a multi-service $43 million agency with a national reputation for
program excellence and innovation.
5. Nan Dale
• Ms. Dale’s international work began when she took a leave of absence from
CV in 1993 to see if she could be of service to the victims of the ethnic
cleansing taking place in Croatia and Bosnia-Herzegovina. She developed The
Croatia Project to improve conditions in the refugee camps, develop schools
and psycho-social supports and train local personnel and NGO staff members
in post traumatic stress syndrome and conflict resolution work with
adolescents.
• After returning to CV, Ms. Dale became engaged in a range of international
programs, including assisting Doctors of the World in Sierra Leone to assess
the efficacy of providing support services to war victims testifying before
the world court, working with the American Friends Service Committee in
Iraq in 1999 to assess the effect of the United Nations Sanctions on maternal
and child health, implementing programs to bring troubled youth from New
York City to Ghana to install computers in local schools, and developing
youth exchanges between Croatia and Children’s Village.
