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WITH YOUR HELP, WE RECEIVED AN ASTONISHING 2,200 ENDORSEMENTS FOR OUR GUIDING PRINCIPLES TO DISTRIBUTE TO CONGRESSIONAL MEMBERS AT OUR FEBRUARY CAPITOL HILL BRIEFING!

While NERAHN members were in Washington, D.C. attending the FRAC/America’s Second Harvest Conference, we felt it was the perfect time to hold a Congressional Briefing to explain to members of Congress our proposed Child Nutrition Reauthorization Guiding Principles. Federal reauthorization is taking place this year on five child nutrition programs:

The National School Lunch Program,
The School Breakfast Program,
The Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children (WIC),
The Summer Food Service Program, and
The Child and Adult Care Food Program, which provides food at day care and after-school programs.

These programs are greatly underutilized and do not reach all eligible at-risk children. We drafted our “guiding principles” for Congress on reauthorization, and organized a campaign to gather 1,000 endorsements of these principles from organizations and individuals throughout the region. We exceeded our goal, and gathered 2,200 endorsements! (Click here for list) The briefing was an enormous success! Congressman James McGovern (D-MA), the Acting Co-Chair of the Congressional Hunger Center, spoke to a packed room on the Congressional perspective on child hunger, while Dr. Larry Brown, of the Center on Hunger and Poverty at Brandeis University, discussed the impact of child hunger. A NERAHN member also explained our guiding principles for reauthorization.We could not have come this far without your help and support! Thank you to everyone who contributed to our successful event. Pictures of the event can be found in the link below.