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Resources
"Offering of Letters" Campaign:
Americans are told we can't afford to make school meals nutritious or expand the nutrition safety net enough so that everyone can eat. We're told that charities need to fill the gap. Millions of ordinary Americans are being encouraged to donate cans of food and volunteer their time at food pantries, believing that these efforts will make a significant difference, but a food bank employee quietly confided to us that canned food drives and employee-volunteer days were more valuable for public relations than ending hunger.
Charity is important, but it's not solving the underlying problem. In fact, it could be making it worse by allowing us to avoid asking the really hard question: Why, in a nation that has the means to feed everyone well and plentifully, are 49 million people not getting enough to eat?
Bread for the World's 2013 Offering of Letters is focued on public policy issues that keep many people in poverty in spite of our nation's incredible wealth.
Other resources related to "A Place at the Table" and the "Offering of Letters"
Resources for "Offering of Letters" Workshops
Policy Briefs and Fact Sheets:
For Your "Offering of Letters"
Policy Resources from Other Organizations
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