Alliance to End Hunger

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Alliance to End Hunger seeks to expand federal government intervention in food output, including food stamps as an option at restaurants. Goals are centered on "racial equity".

White House Conference on Hunger

A report from the Alliance to End Hunger was generated July 15 2022 for the White House "to inform the Conference on Hunger, Nutrition and Health in September 2022". In bold in the report: "Expand and strengthen the federal nutrition programs to increase access and affordability of food." Part of that expansion is to stop encouraging healthier choices under taxpayer funded programs like food stamps, as that is "racist":

Excerpt:

"Expand choices under SNAP. “There shouldn't be any food policing.”

• Limited choices hurt those with dietary restrictions
• Incentives are unnecessary and actually insulting
• Have never thought “if someone could just control my diet.”
• Paternalistic, culturally insensitive, and racist to tell people what they can and cannot consume. Should have more dignified approach. 24
• Food insecurity is not about being able to make healthy decisions or lacking awareness of which foods are good or bad for you - it’s about knowing where your next meal is coming from. “Trust SNAP recipients to make health-conscious decisions.”

In order to end hunger by 2030 (aligning with the United Nations 2030 goals), the Alliance to End Hunger recommends in part that policies such as raising the minimum wage, encourage formation of labor unions, make sure convicted criminals can get jobs and make childcare "more affordable".

Excerpt:

"Alliance to End Hunger suggests the additional following strategies are considered in the White House’s roadmap to end hunger by 2030:

• Raise the minimum wage so that individuals working fulltime do not have to rely on public benefits to afford basic essentials like housing, food, and transportation;
• Enact and enforce needed worker protections to ensure good health and safety;
• Provide benefits and protections for contract or “gig” economy workers;
• Support policies that make it easier for workers to form labor unions;
• Promote and enforce fair hiring practices to address racial, gender and sexual orientation discrimination, and to allow individuals with previous arrests or convictions a chance at gainful employment; and
• Enact policies to make childcare more affordable for low- and middle-income families.

Partners

"Convening partners" are listed as DoorDash, End Child Hunger in Alabama, FoodFinder, Healthy Living Coalition, Instacart, Islamic Relief USA, March of Dimes, Nuro, RESULTS, Souper Bowl of Caring and WHEAT.

Board

Board for 2022 via the Alliance to End Hunger website:

• Chair of Board: Dave Miner
• Vice Chair: Lisa Davis
• Secretary: Harriet Giles
• Treasurer: Rebecca Middleton
• Chair of Membership & Governance (M&G) Committee: Marv Baldwin

Board of Directors

• Marv Baldwin, Former Alliance Board Chair
• Carrie Calvert, Feeding America
• Lisa Davis, Individual Member
• John Driscoll, Carecentrix
• Harriet Giles, Auburn University
• Nicole Heckman, AARP Foundation
• Anwar Khan, Islamic Relief USA
• Meighen Lovelace (at-large), Hunger Free Communities Advisory Council
• Patti Marshman-Goldblatt, CauseConnections Consulting
• Terry Meehan
• David Miner, Chairman Emeritus of Bread for the World and Indy Hunger Network board member
• Rebecca Middleton, World Food Program USA
• Roxanne Moore, Sodexo Stop Hunger Foundation
• Amy Crook Kowalski, Eleanor Crook Foundation
• Barb Petee, ProMedica
• Kelsey Freeman Saelens, Cargill, Inc.
• Courtney Smith, Share Our Strength
• Atul Tandon, Opportunity International
• Heather Valentine, Bread for the World