BREAD FOR THE WORLD INC
425 3rd Street SW No 1200, Washington, DC 20024 www.bread.org

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Organizations Filed Purposes: To advocate for changes in policies, programs and conditions that allow hunger and poverty to persist, both in the United States and around the world.

Advocate for changes in policies/programs/conditions that allow hunger & poverty to persist.

Public Education: Bread for the World's 2019 Offering of Letters: Better Nutrition, Better Tomorrow campaign was launched in February 2019. The campaign equipped Bread members and the public to urge their members of Congress to increase U.S. funding for global nutrition in FY 2020 appropriations and to support a global initiative to accelerate progress on nutrition.(To be continued in Schedule O)Public Education: Bread for the World released Lament and Hope, a Pan African devotional guide that commemorates the quad-centennial of the arrival of the first enslaved people in North America. Bread educated its online community and membership about the contributions of Pan African leaders to better nutrition and encouraged them to engage in advocacy efforts around the Offering of Letters.Nearly 100 people attended Bread's first-ever Latino Hunger Summit in California, where local faith leaders and activists participated in a day of briefings on the relationship between hunger, nutrition, and immigration.

Outreach and Advocacy: Bread for the World's 2019 Offering of Letters: Better Nutrition, Better Tomorrow aimed to persuade Congress to make global nutrition a priority by increasing funding for maternal and child nutrition programs. Bread for the World members and staff campaigned for bipartisan resolutions in the House and Senate and $250 million for global nutrition in FY 2020-an increase from $145 million in FY 2019.(To be continued in Schedule O)Outreach and Advocacy: 2019 Advocacy Summit and Lobby Day. More than 300 people participated in a two-day Advocacy Summit and Lobby Day in June. In 200 meetings, participants urged members of Congress to cosponsor the global nutrition resolutions and increase funding for global nutrition. Election work. Bread for the World and Circle of Protection partners wrote to all of the major presidential candidates from both parties and invited them to submit videos about what they would do, if elected, to provide help and opportunity to people struggling with hunger and poverty in this country and around the world. Bread received eight videos from candidates. The videos were publicized through emails or digital ads to more than 110 million people, encouraging them to watch the videos. Bread let the presidential campaigns know about this digital outreach in advance, and it clearly moved several campaigns to send us their candidates' statements.

Public Policy: Bread for the World's work in recent years has been focused on the goal of helping to make hunger and poverty a higher U.S. priority - toward the long-term goal of ending hunger by 2030. (To be continued in Schedule O)Public Policy: Nutrition. Bread for the World's primary policy goal was to increase U.S. funding for global nutrition in the FY 2020 appropriations bill and to support sustained U.S. leadership to accelerate progress on nutrition through targeted legislation. Bread for the World members and staff campaigned for bipartisan global nutrition resolutions in the House and Senate. Bread for the World members helped achieve a broad base of bipartisan support for the global nutrition resolutions. Bread for the World also supported a $5 million increase for global nutrition in the government's FY 2020 appropriations legislation. To improve domestic nutrition, especially for children, Bread for the World endorsed three pieces of legislation related to improving summer meals programs.Criminal justice reform. Bread for the World worked with Congress and the Administration on implementation of the First Step Act, the bipartisan criminal justice reform law that reduces mandatory minimum sentences for nonviolent drug offenders and gives judges more flexibility in sentencing. The legislation provides for education, training, and treatment programs to reduce recidivism and help people successfully reenter society. Bread for the World endorsed this bill and urged its passage, though we identified several shortcomings to be addressed during implementation.Bread for the World and coalition partners met with Department of Justice officials and congressional leadership to ensure robust funding for new programs and racially equitable implementation of the bill. These meetings led to a bipartisan appropriations request and a report from the Department of Justice on their implementation progress and plan.Immigration. Our work in this area has focused on several priorities as Congress and the Administration spar over immigration issues. In March, Bread staff worked with the Interfaith Immigration Coalition to garner co-sponsors for H.R. 6, American Dream and Promise Act of 2019, and supported House passage. In June, the bill was approved by the House with seven Republicans voting in favor. The American Dream and Promise Act would give Dreamers a pathway to citizenship and provide protections for Temporary Protected Status recipients. In March, the Trump Administration decided to cut poverty-focused development assistance (including nutrition) to the Northern Triangle countries (Guatemala, Honduras, and El Salvador). Bread staff worked with the House Foreign Affairs Committee to pass H.R. 215, the bipartisan United States-Northern Triangle Enhanced Engagement Act. In August, the Trump Administration released a draft public charge rule that would penalize legal immigrants who have used public benefits. If implemented, millions of legal immigrant families would never be able to adjust their status (receive a green card, for example). The release of this proposed rule has already meant a de facto cut in assistance. Bread submitted a comment in opposition to the proposed rule and worked with our partners to encourage as many people as possible to submit comments. We hosted a September webinar for faith communities. Bread partnered in October with the Christian Community Development Association to convene a networking session with local leaders to learn how the rule is impacting their communities.Jobs. Bread for the World endorsed the Raise the Wage Act and urged its passage in the House. This bill would gradually increase the federal minimum wage to $15 an hour by 2024. Raising the minimum wage to $15 an hour would lift wages for 41 million workers and would lift 1.2 million households out of food insecurity.Tax credits. Bread continues to support the expansion of tax credits for working families and endorsed The Working Families Tax Relief Act (S. 1138). The bill would expand the EITC to workers not raising children, make the Child Tax Credit fully refundable and create a new Young Child Tax Credit. The bill would increase the income of 46 million households, 114 million people, and 43 million children.

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