Web Site Resources

Action Connection – www.iamforkids.org
Children's Campaign, Inc.– P. O. Box 1718 – Tallahassee, FL 32303 – 850-425-2600
This is an online publication that is sent monthly to those who request it. This publication puts information in a nutshell with links if you want to read more. It gives the progress (or lack thereof) on legislation, and state programs that directly affect children. This publication gives the reader ideas of areas that need advocates as well as issues we need to actively let our congressman know what our desires are. The goal is to provide the most up-to-date-stay tuned to your email account for Breaking News, Front Burners, and more.

Bread for the World – www.bread.org
50 F Street, NW, Suite 500 · Washington, DC 20001, Tel. 202-639-9400 · 800-82-BREAD
Bread for the World is a collective Christian voice urging our nation’s decision makers to end hunger at home and abroad. By changing policies, programs and conditions that allow hunger and poverty to persist, we provide help and opportunity far beyond the communities in which we live. Bread for the World Institute provides policy analysis on hunger and strategies to end it. The Institute educates its advocacy network, opinion leaders, policy makers and the public about hunger in the United States and abroad. We are moved by God’s grace in Jesus Christ to work for justice for hungry people. This website will give you information, ways to get involved and ways to lend your voice with so many others to take action.

Children’s Defense Fund – www.childrensdefense.org
2659 Livingston Rd, Suite 200 – Jackson MS 39213 – 601-321-1966
The Children's Defense Fund’s Leave No Child Behind® mission is to ensure every child a Healthy Start, a Head Start, a Fair Start, a Safe Start, and a Moral Start in life and successful passage to adulthood with the help of caring families and communities. The Children’s Defense Fund does extensive research into children’s issues and then builds strong networks that can work on solving the issues. They also use grassroots support for policies that make children their top priority. One of the ways that local congregations can raise awareness for children’s issues is to purchase the Children’s Sabbath manual and observe in your congregation one Sunday in October devoting a worship service to this important issues. The 2008 manual is “My Boat Is So Small: Creating a Harbor of Hope and Health Care for All Children. This manual guides you in developing worship services, education programs, direct service activities, and social justice initiatives for your congregation, organization or community. The web site will give you information on the research, other programs that they support and see how public policy and legislation affects children.

Florida Impact – www.flimpact.org
1331 East Lafayette St, Suite A – Tallahassee FL 32301 – 850-309-1488
The legislative advocate for children’s issues that works with Christian churches. Our Florida Conference makes a contribution to this organization each year. Since 1979, Florida Impact has been dedicated to reducing hunger and poverty in Florida. Our mission is to inspire and enlist the people of Florida to secure justice for and with those whose economic rights have not been realized. We also work to increase access to food programs by conducting aggressive outreach strategies and public policy advocacy. This web site will give you much information about the issues of hunger and children in Florida. Their publications give the statistical information that will help educate people.They offer programs by which each congregation can involved.

F.R.A.C. (Food Research and Action Center) - www.frac.org
1875 Connecticut Avenue, NW Suite 540 – Washington DC 20009 – (202)986-2200 The Food Research and Action Center (FRAC) is the leading national nonprofit organization working to improve public policies and public-private partnerships to eradicate hunger and undernutrition in the United States. FRAC works with hundreds of national, state and local nonprofit organizations, public agencies, and corporations to address hunger and its root cause, poverty. FRAC harnesses the nation’s resources on behalf of those who need help to stave off hunger – poor children and their families, the elderly, the unemployed, low-income workers, the ill, and the homeless. On this site you will find resources, research, opportunities to be involved and read all of the information gathered from public forums.

SHARE – www.shareflorida.org
1405 East 2nd Avenue – Tampa FL 33605 – 800-536-3379 or 813-248-3379
SHARE Florida Food Network is sponsored by Cornerstone Family Ministries and TECO Energy. SHARE is a not for-profit organization that rewards personal community involvement with substantial savings on delicious food and groceries. SHARE encourages our members to donate their time to a worthy cause within the community. There are no income requirements. SHARE reaches across Florida through neighborhood locations in each community. On this site you can receive information of the SHARE locations and how your church can become a SHARE site. You can also receive some additional information.

Share our Strength – www.strength.org
1730 M Street NW, Suite 700, Washington DC 20036
800-969-2925 or (202)393-2925
SHARE OUR STRENGTH is a national organization that works hard to make sure no kid in America grows up hungry. We weave together a net of community groups, activists and food programs to catch children at risk of hunger and surround them with nutritious food where they live, learn and play. Why do we do it? We have all experienced hunger at one time or another: We’ve all craved a midnight snack, wanted something salty or needed some chocolate. But there’s a big difference between trying to satisfy a brief craving or stomach growl and wondering when or from where your next meal will come. More that 12.6 million – one in six – children in America are at risk of hunger. These children will endure lifelong consequences as a result of having limited access to nutritious food. In fact, they’re more likely to suffer poorer health, fatigue, hospitalizations, behavioral difficulties and impaired performance at school. And hunger doesn’t discriminate. It can affect any child – even those you’d least expect.This site will give you information, offer ways to get involved and keep you informed of legislative action that involves children.

Society of St. Andrew (SoSA) – www.endhunger.org
P.O. Box 536842 – Orlando FL 32853-6842 – 800-806-0756 or 407-650-1956

VISION: We envision a world in which physical and spiritual hungers are met through God’s grace and abundance.

MISSION: The Society of St. Andrew introduces people to God’s grace in Jesus Christ through meeting their hungers.

On this site you can receive information about the various ministries and ways that your local congregation can become involved in ending childhood hunger. SoSA’s innovative and cost effective methods enable us to provide food to the hungry for just pennies per serving! That means that for under $50, the Society of St. Andrew can provide a person the USDA recommended requirement of vegetables and fruits for an entire year. Churches can provide volunteers for gleaning events throughout each season.