Launched by the Congressional Hunger Center in consultation with leading anti-hunger organizations, Zero Hunger Academy is an online course containing four distinct learning modules designed to provide useful information to users to strengthen their understanding of hunger and food insecurity in America and introduce them to an array of perspectives on what are the most effective community and policy solutions. During this session, we'll preview some of the modules and learning content now available to the Bonner network and highlight other ways Bonners are getting involved in this partnership between the Congressional Hunger Center and Bonner Foundation including the Zero Hunger Internship Program and Zero Hunger Campus Network. Competencies: creates a broader place-based strategy for capacity building and sustained partnerships that contribute to community impacts.

1. Zero Hunger Partnership: It’s
about Service to Systemic
Change
Shannon Maynard – Congressional Hunger Center – Bonner Fall Directors’ Meeting – 10.30.18

2. Agenda
1. Introductions – how are students engaged in fighting hunger?
2. About CHC
3. Why Advocacy
4. Hunger – the Basics
5. Zero Hunger Initiative – Bonner Partnership
6. How You Can Get Involved

3. Congressional Hunger Center
The Congressional Hunger Center was
founded 25 years ago by Congressman Tony
Hall (D-OH), Frank Wolf (R-VA), and Bill
Emerson (R-MO) in 1993 after the Select
Committee on Hunger was eliminated as a
result of deep budget cuts by the 103rd
Congress. In the face of multiple famines and
growing domestic food insecurity, Tony Hall
began a 22-day, water-only fast. Ultimately, his
actions led to the founding of CHC and the
creation of the bi-cameral Congressional
Hunger Caucus.

4. Congressional Hunger Center (CHC) is on a mission to develop, inspire, and
connect leaders, and advocate public policies that create a food secure
world. We envision a world without hunger and poverty where every person
can achieve their full potential because equitable systems exist to achieve
financial freedom and full access to healthful, affordable, and culturally
appropriate foods.
Fight Hunger, Develop Leaders

6. How does CHC approach change?
Leadership Development – We provide leadership development opportunities for hunger
fighters to connect policy with practice, learn together in peer cohorts, apply an equity lens
to their work, and make meaningful contributions to the fight against hunger in the U.S.
and overseas. Our flagship programs include the Bill Emerson National Hunger Fellows
Program and Mickey Leland International Hunger Fellows Program.
Network Building – We facilitate collaboration across our network of 550 Fellowship alums
and 300+ partner organizations and work at the intersection of hunger and its root causes.
Advocacy – We are a one-stop shop for policymakers in need of accurate, field-based
information, and expertise on hunger and its root causes.

7. Why Advocacy?

8. Source: Bread for the
World Institute:
http://www.bread.org/sites/
default/files/downloads/201
4_churches_hunger_fact_s
heet.pdf

9. To End Hunger, We Need Policy Change
To achieve policy change, everyone needs to be an advocate.
Advocacy: Advocacy is an activity by an individual or group which aims to influence decisions within
political, economic, and social systems and institutions
National - Congress
State – DA, state legislature, governor, board of regents
Local – commissioners, city council
School – University Food Policy
What is your sphere of influence?

10. How Many People are Hungry?
41,204,000 People in the United States are Food Insecure (12.9%)
Food Insecurity
Low food security - reports of reduced quality, variety, or desirability of diet. Little or no indication of
reduced food intake.
Very low food security - Reports of multiple indications of disrupted eating patterns and reduced food
intake.
$21,122,544,000 – Annual Food Budget Shortfall (average cost of a meal in the US is $3)
Not all people who are food insecure live in poverty, and vice versa (policy problem)

11. Partnership
With
Bonner:
Zero Hunger
Campus
Network
Zero Hunger
Academy
Zero Hunger
Internship
Program

12. Zero Hunger
Internship
Program

13. Zero Hunger Internship Program
"I really want to continue to learn about more ways to incorporate innovative policy solutions to address
the needs of special populations in the U.S. Learning about ways to address the special needs of
various groups while cultivating the diversity they bring and allowing them to flourish, thrive and
succeed without sacrificing any part of their identity.
Working with a faith based policy organization also inspired me to seek ways to gather individuals of
minority faiths to advocate for policy that is in line with their teachings, which often include ending
hunger and poverty. I want to learn more about how the shared values among faiths can be used to
create a sense of shared purpose among different faith groups and in turn gather large grassroots
support for issues impacting our communities as a whole.” – Nesreen Abu Khalaf

14. Zero Hunger
Campus
Network
Spelman University, Atlanta, Georgia
Earlham College, Richmond, Indiana
Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New
Jersey
Waynesburg University, Waynesburg,
Pennsylvania
Berea University, Berea, Kentucky

15. Zero Hunger Campus Network
Students complete Zero Hunger Academy
Students collaborate to conduct local policy research, culminating in a Community Report
Students will organize a public forum on their campuses to present the findings from their
Community Reports
Students launch an advocacy campaign or action or develop a capacity building project to address
the needs or gaps in services identified in the Community Report

16. Zero Hunger Academy
The Basics
Root Causes of Hunger and Poverty
Policy Making Process
Creating Change

17. Zero Hunger Academy

18. Get Involved
❑ Promote and participate in Zero Hunger Academy!
❑ Help us recruit Zero Hunger Interns for Summer 2019 (applications open in January 2019 and close
in March 2019 for 10-week paid summer internship)
❑ Help us recruit Emerson National Hunger Fellows and Leland International Hunger Fellows for
2019-2020 Classes! Application deadline is January 15th
❑ Invite CHC to speak on your campus. Contact sstevens@hungercenter.org.
❑ Does your school operate Master’s programs and create tuition assistance programs? Who can we
contact?