Dear Hunger Advocate,

Last fall, President Obama made a historic pledge to end childhood hunger by 2015.  To help move this goal forward, the President must include substantial new funding in his FY 2011 budget for child nutrition programs.  In addition, Congress must make important changes to child nutrition programs through the legislative process to ensure that these programs are more effective in reaching needy children.

Federal child nutrition programs–including the School Breakfast and School Lunch Programs, the Child and Adult Care Food Program (CACFP), the Summer Food Service Program (SFSP), and the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC)–play a critical role in addressing the needs of food-insecure children.  We need your help to make sure these programs are strengthened.

It is up to the anti-hunger community to keep up the pressure and ensure that President Obama’s budget includes enough funding for child nutrition programs to end childhood hunger by 2015.  Please take a few moments today to raise your voice and share your commitment to achieving this important goal.  We are asking you to take action in two important ways:

• Send an email to the Obama Administration and your Members of Congress.
• Follow up your emails with phone calls to the White House and the offices of your Members of Congress.  When calling the Advocacy Hotline, please use PIN #82776.

To take further action please visit the Hunger Action Center.

The numbers of food-insecure children in our communities are growing–and the time to act is now.  We need the full backing of Administration and Congress to help make an end to childhood hunger a reality.

Your support for federal child nutrition programs will make a difference for millions of children–in your community and throughout the nation.

Sincerely,

Maura Daly

This just in from the Hunger Action Center of Feeding America, formerly Second Harvest.