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| Form 990, Part III, Line 4c, Program Service Accomplishments: | Bread co-chairs the Interfaith Working Group on Foreign Assistance. In December, the group held our annual faith leader fly-in to Washington. This fly-in had a record number of diverse faith constituencies, including Rabbis, Imams, Pastors, and lay parishioners all in attendance. Over the course of the week, 21 faith leaders advocated with 11 target Congressional offices in support of appropriations for agriculture (Food for Peace, McGovern Dole) and State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs (including Feed the Future, USAID's Global Health account, International Disaster Assistance, and Development Assistance, among others). State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs received a 6% increase over FY21's appropriated number, which is an historical increase when considering the supplemental funding. Some accounts that received the most increased funding over last year's allocations included the International Disaster Assistance account, the Migration and Refugee Assistance accounts, and McGovern-Dole Food for Education account. Bread for the World advised leaders in Congress and the Treasury department about the importance of robust FY23 funding for U.S. foreign assistance and international climate finance, appropriate to match the scale of the global challenges we face. We sent a letter signed by 100 development, faith-based, foreign policy, science, environmental and conservation, health, and business groups asking Congress to seek the highest possible amount for directly appropriated international climate finance. We asked, at a minimum, to retain $64.5 billion for U.S. foreign assistance programs; $1.275 billion for Bilateral Economic Assistance, environment programs; and $2.485 billion for multilateral assistance. Every dollar we invest in climate finance is an investment that leads to avoided costs and increased economic opportunity through increasing political and social stability, supporting broader peacebuilding efforts, lowering the cost of responding to extreme-weather-related disasters, and opening new markets for trade in low-carbon and resilience goods and services, including those pioneered and commercialized in the U.S. In April, Bread for the World secured nearly 180 signatures from Republican and Democrat members of Congress on a letter urging the House Appropriations Committee to fund global nutrition at $300 million in FY23 appropriations. The letter urged support for the Maternal and Child Health (MCH) account and for the Nutrition Account within the Global Health Programs account at USAID. While we did not achieve the goal of $300 million, this work helped create the political will for the $160 million we did achieve. This was a $5 million increase in FY23 over FY22. In July, USAID announced a U.S. commitment of $200 million to treat children with severe malnutrition. This is the largest single investment in malnutrition treatment in history. This support will allow UNICEF to reach an additional 2.4 million children suffering from severe wasting in countries with the greatest need in the Horn of Africa and the Sahel region. Bread for the World's activists and partners played a pivotal role in advocating for this funding by organizing letters to members of Congress; participating in partner/coalition letters to congressional leadership, including a joint letter from the U.S. CEO Council for Nutrition (co-chaired and co-founded by Bread for the World); and meeting with more than 40 congressional offices in Washington, D.C. The Global Malnutrition Prevention and Treatment Act exists because of Bread's unique combination of Washington, DC policy analysis, lobbying, relationships, and coalition-building, enacted alongside persistent grassroots/tops advocacy in targeted congressional districts. In October 2022, the Global Malnutrition Prevention and Treatment Act was signed into law. This legislation scales up the prevention and treatment of global malnutrition and brings strategic vision, coordination, effectiveness, and accountability to the U.S. government's existing global nutrition efforts. It does so in a way that supports and partners with local and country-led nutrition strategies. Because of this legislation, U.S. government aid will better reach women and children with life-saving nutrition interventions. The Global Food Security Reauthorization Act was included in the National Defense Authorization Act that passed in December. The reauthorization included positive updates, including an increased authorization amount ($1.2 billion, up from $1 billion in GFSA 2018), which gives us room to advocate for a further $200 million in funding to Feed the Future every year from the appropriations process. It includes stronger language on the impacts of wasting and stunting on adolescent girls, who are some of the most impacted by food insecurity, malnutrition, stunting, and wasting due to cultural norms that too often deprioritize them. It also includes a new climate/resilience focus because the extreme weather events that come from climate change are huge contributors to global hunger and malnutrition. The bipartisan, bicameral Food Donation Improvement Act was passed by Congress in December 2022 and signed into law January 2023. This bipartisan legislation addresses one of Bread for the World's Farm Bill priorities: reduction of food waste. It strengthens existing protections to better support businesses, manufacturers, retailers, farmers, and restaurants to donate their excess food. Bread for the World led an event on this legislation at the Capitol and advocated alongside coalition members. The legislation had more than 50 co-sponsors in the House and Senate and was supported by a coalition of more than 70 nonprofit and corporate leaders and more than 60,000 petition signers. Congress approved a 43% increase in appropriations for the World Bank's International Development Association (IDA) in the $1.7 trillion funding bill that funds military and government through September 2023. The International Development Association (IDA) is the World Bank's fund for the poorest countries, and it plays a key role in boosting nutrition for women and children in these vulnerable countries. Every $1 contribution from the United States leverages or attracts nearly $13 from other donors and the World Bank, so this increase will have exponential impact. IDA focuses on nutrition in both emergencies and long-term development contexts. This increase is a huge victory for the work that Bread leads as part of the International Financial Institutions Working Group. It also complements the work Bread has done on the Global Malnutrition Prevention and Treatment Act, the $5 billion supplemental that our work helped achieve for the global hunger crisis, and the Global Food Security Act. The funding bill included strong increases for many of Bread's international anti-hunger priorities, including a $10 million increase for Food for Peace over last year's budget; a $6.3 million increase for the McGovern-Dole International Food for Education and Child Nutrition Program; a $20 million increase for USAID's Maternal and Child Health account; a $5 million increase for USAID's Global Nutrition account; and a roughly $200 million increase in the Development Assistance account. Summer meals for school-aged children were included in the omnibus appropriations bill at year-end. In 2019, 80 percent of children who were eligible for summer meals did not access them. This legislation will expand the summer EBT program nationwide and will enable summer meal programs to be more flexible, which will address this gap, especially for children in rural communities. This is the first new permanent federal food assistance program of this magnitude enacted in nearly 50 years. Bread and its members have long advocated for lawmakers to make these improvements a priority, including in our previous Offering of Letters and recent Advocacy Summits. Bread for the World's statement was sent to all members of the House and Senate Agriculture Committees, the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, and the Republican National Committee. |
| Form 990, Part III, Line 4c | Also included in the omnibus legislation is the House's reauthorization of the Healthy Meals, Healthy Kids Act, which Bread supported. It seeks to increase access to free meals for children in high-poverty schools and to increase nutrition standards in those meals. Passage of the Keep Kids Fed Act will ensure free summer meals for about 30 million kids in America, regardless of income. The bill included nearly $3 billion to extend all pandemic school meal waivers through the summer, as well as supply chain flexibilities and increased federal reimbursements through the 2022-23 school year. During and after last year's United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP), following Bread for the World's October Climate and Hunger Convocation in Nairobi, Kenya, Bread for the World advocated with high-level government officials for continued action on climate. We expressed gratitude to the U.S. government for their involvement in the intersection between climate change, food security, and agriculture at COP's first ever Food Systems Pavilion. We also applauded the United States' doubling its pledge to the Adaptation Fund to $100 billion. Bread for the World was proud to support the work of the PREPARE initiative, through which the United States has instituted a whole-of-government approach to addressing climate change and food insecurity. The National Strategy that came out of the White House Conference on Hunger, Nutrition, and Health is a long-term vision for addressing hunger in America. It contains many policies that Bread supports and that could have bipartisan support, from school meals to SNAP to the Child Tax Credit. It elevates nutrition security alongside food security - because we want people to thrive, not just survive, by having the right nutrition. The largest victory is the inclusion of a goal to end hunger and increase healthy eating and physical activity by 2030. Bread has long served as a prophetic voice, calling for this ambitious goal. |
| Form 990, Part VI, Section A, line 6 | Membership includes individuals or organizations who make an annual financial contribution to BREAD or who otherwise distinguish themselves through their service to BREAD. |
| Form 990, Part VI, Section A, line 7a | Each member is entitled to vote for each vacant Board of Director position that is to be filled by voting members. Members can cast their ballots by mail or electronic means. Five hundred member votes constitute a quorum for a valid election. This is the sole voting privilege enjoyed by members. |
| Form 990, Part VI, Section B, line 11b | The Controller and Director of Finance compare the Federal Form 990 to the audited financial statements. All variances are verified against schedules to determine that they are correct. |
| Form 990, Part VI, Section B, line 12c | On an annual basis, members of the Board of Directors sign a new conflict of interest statement. Any possible conflicts listed are reviewed by the Vice President of Finance and Administration to determine if they truly reflect a conflict. If so, the statements are discussed with the Audit Committee. If the Committee believes the conflict is real, the Board Member is asked to either resign from the Board or to stop the activity that is creating the conflict. |
| Form 990, Part VI, Section B, line 15 | Periodically, the human resource department receives general market data from an outside compensation consultant to determine if salaries are in line with organizations of similar mission and/or size. A more thorough market analysis of compensation of specific positions is provided by an outside compensation consultant on an ad hoc basis. The President's salary is reviewed by the Board of Directors on a periodic basis. This is discussed and documented in the executive session. These notes are kept by the Board Secretary and are not open to the public. However, the Board does seek the same independent comparison data for the President that BREAD seeks for all other staff, including other members of the Executive Team. |
| Form 990, Part VI, Section C, line 19 | BREAD's website includes governance and financial information. Several charity and business rating sites, such as the Better Business Bureau and Charity Navigator also post these documents and additional information. BREAD also makes information available to the public upon request. |
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