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Presbyterian Hunger Program

2013 Grants and Programs

*These projects received funds from H000107 CentsAbility, and H999999 General Hunger Fund.

International Grants

Africa $286,000

Cameroon $13,000 Advocacy and Information Campaign on Economic Partnership Agreements Association Citoyenne de Defense Des Interets Collectifs (ACDIC)

The government of Cameroon is looking to sign an Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) with the EU which would only increase the dumping of foreign subsidized food items on the Cameroon market and further weaken the domestic market. A vast advocacy and information campaign will raise awareness amongst the general population and the media of the consequences to the food sovereignty of Cameroon if the EPA is ratified and mobilize people to pressure the government of Cameroon to act in interests of insuring food sovereignty.

Cameroon $18,000 Mainstreaming Communities Rights in Land Management in Cameroon Centre pour l'Environnement et le Developpement (CED) This project will put into place a mechanism to gather data on the impact of land grabbing by agro-industries in communities in 6 different locations in Cameroon and will use the findings to design policy that will protect the rights of communities in the process of allocating and managing land concessions. Land grabbing is a growing threat for communities in Cameroon. More than 2,000,000 hectares of land has been requested by Multinationals for agriculture. Land granted by the Government to Multinationals is taken from communities, exposing the communities and the people of Cameroon to long-term food insecurity. There currently is no system in place within the Government to select locations and organize land allocations in a way that protects communities' rights, the environment, and benefits local and national development.

Cameroon $4,000 Tree Yam Planting/ Increased Yam Production for Rural women of Batibo CISEGD – Community Initiative for Sustainable Environment and Gender Development The project will train 100 rural women farmers from 22 villages of Batibo, Cameroon in agro-forestry and yam production techniques. The goal of the project is to improve on soil conservation and increase Yam production. The project will establish two pilot agro-forestry tree nurseries of 10,000 trees and yam demonstration farms in 2 villages in order to provide practical education to people. 20,000 yam sets and 10,000 trees will be planted to grow harmoniously with the yams in 2 selected villages of Batibo Cameroon. The project will provide a sustainable long-term solution to the threat of rapid devastating degradation of agricultural and forest landscapes, declining yam yields, extreme poverty and climate change that have plagued these communities over the years.


Cameroon $45,000 Social and Economic Justice for All* RELUFA, Joining Hands Cameroon This program enables RELUFA to buy more food for existing granaries or to open new village granaries in northern villages in Cameroon where recurrent droughts create cyclic food scarcity that threatens local populations. Food is secured during the harvest times to store and sell during the lean period to protect local populations against speculation.

Democratic Republic of the Congo $10,000 BANA BASANKE (Children of Joy) Community Development Program for Presbyterian Community Church of Congo This pilot program, “Bana Basanka” (Children of Joy), is designed to promote the first coordinated efforts between three development programs for the provision of agricultural and preventative health assistance for decreasing the incidence of malnutrition, targeting families of 640 malnourished pre-school children and 110 already identified families of adopted orphans/street children in Kananga, West Kasai, Democratic Republic of Congo.

Democratic Republic of Congo $30,000 Monitoring the Implementation of social and environmental obligations of mining companies POM- Platform of Civil Society Organizations working in the Mining sector, Joining Hands DRC This campaign will work to ensure that communities living around the mining site of Tenke Fungurume Mining (TFM) are well informed of their rights guaranteed by the Mining Code and the agreement signed between the Congolese government and TFM, and are highly mobilized and actively campaigning for the satisfactory performance by the TFM mining project towards achieving its social and environmental obligations. Additionally, the network will work to make Tenke Fungurume Mining aware of its impact on the communities living around its mining operation site, the performance assessment of its social and environmental obligations, and suggestions for improvement.

Democratic Republic of Congo $5,000 Improving household food security and child nutrition in Zongo Soleterre It is estimated that more than 40,000 people have escaped the continuing violence in the Central African Republic and crossed the river to DR Congo's Orientale and Equateur provinces. Zongo lies on the banks of the Oubangui river and has welcomed many refugees. Some of them are staying with host families, many others in UNHCR refugees camps. This project will work with the St. Joseph Medical Surgical Center of Zongo to raise awareness about good child nutrition practices, will provide education and support to help parents make the best nutritional choices with available local resources and to detect and prevent early signs of malnutrition. The project will also improve water and sanitation services at the Center.

Egypt $40,000 Food, Thought and Action Together for Family Development, Joining Hands Egypt This campaign will work to empower small farmers to form organizational entities that advocate for improved agricultural policies and justice in food production, management and distribution.


Ethiopia $5,000 Farmer Household Empowerment through Women Send a Cow Ethiopia The project will change the conditions that cause hunger in the community by: 1. Providing the community with knowledge, skills and tools to increase and diversify agricultural and dairy production (vegetables, cereals, fruits, milk) for their own consumption; 2. Introducing sustainable and integrated farm systems to stimulate farm production for sale and income generation, and to increase food purchasing power; 3. Improving soil fertility and water availability for farming; 4. Promoting improved animal husbandry for livestock welfare and productivity; 5. Creating awareness on the importance of balanced diets and fair food distribution within the family; 6. Training on nutritious food preparation, conservation and consumption.

Ethiopia $5,000 Water Yeka Sedan Tarkanfi Sustainable Development Two springs will be capped to provide access to protected potable water sources in the Yeka Sedan community where there is currently no access. A water committee will be formed and trained on maintenance and management of the water sources. This project will reduce greatly the incidence of water borne diseases while improving levels of personal hygiene and environmental sanitation.

Ghana $7,000 Women Fighting Hunger (WFH) * World Partners for Development Women and girls of Akrofo will receive training in sustainable farming practices, including agroforestry techniques that improve crop yield and soil fertility. Poor land management methods have led to increasing deforestation, soil degradation and massive soil erosion, thereby contributing to low yields and declining food productivity. Instead of using the method of slash and burn, which has been negatively impacting the rich soil nutrients, causing bushfires in the regions and lowering crop yields, women will be encouraged to use sustainable farming techniques to improve food security, their quality of life, and make way for a promising future. The project will also train the community in food storage and seed preservation.

Kenya $10,000 DIG Deep, Build Up* Development in Gardening (DIG) DIG’s Sustainable Agriculture School Program will work with two primary schools in poverty stricken Migori District in Nyanza Province (Kenya). The project aims to improve school performance through producing nutritious food for students on school property, generating income to support school activities for the neediest students, and educating the broader community in sustainable agriculture through outreach and home gardens. The project will involve the students, PTA, school leadership, community elders and local officials to repurpose school land for tree nurseries, horticulture and staple crop production, animal husbandry projects and other activities. Harvests will support early childhood feeding programs; excess sales will fund student scholarships and the school will become a learning ground for the whole community.


Lesotho $5,000 Growing Nations Conservation Agriculture Cover Crop and Integrationof Livestock Grazing This project will conduct research into the benefits of use of cover crops in Lesotho and establishing whether farmers can successfully integrate livestock into their fields. Soil erosion, poor soil fertility and overgrazing are all major problems in Lesotho and the development of Cover Crops will help farmers protect and enrich their soils and provide grazing for their animals. Cover crops are a new concept to farmers in Lesotho and research trials will help develop best practices, which can be passed on to farmers through our extension work. The research will involve planting of different varieties of cover crops in amongst standing crops and grazing studies to establish the effect of grazing on the plots. The farmers of Lesotho will benefit from reduced levels of dependence on expensive fertilizers. Farmers will also have the ability to harvest seed and sell surpluses to surrounding farmers.

Liberia and Sierra Leone $40,000 West Africa Initiative: Phase 3 Yr 2* Agricultural Missions, Inc. In the second year of phase 3 of the West Africa Initiative, the program will continue to strengthen the functioning of community based groups, improving food security status of participating communities and improve the economic conditions through the following: 1) Training of group leaders and members in their respective roles and responsibilities; 2) Providing material and technical support to food production, processing and marketing activities; 4) Introducing and supporting economic activities such as Moringa and honey production; 5) Supporting economic activities of women through training in business and micro-credit management and providing initial capital for revolving loan programs. In an effort to build community asset, interested groups will be provided with production inputs for chosen activities, pre-approved by WAI, with the total profits contributed to the groups resources for support of its activities.

Madagascar $5,000 Improving Rural Populations Livelihoods SAF/FJKM The main goal of the proposed project is to increase and diversify food crops at the household level in the rural Analamanga Region. Yam seeds will be distributed to families through primary schools as well as to farmer leaders and the necessary technical training for the proper cultivation of yams will be provided. The project will also introduce a System of Rice Intensification (SRI) which will improve rice yields while decreasing reliance on costly, harmful additives.

Malawi $5,000 Chiyambi MicroLoan Foundation USA This project will provide Chiyambi (beginning) loans to 1,500 poor rural women in Malawi. The women will be provided with business education and training prior to loan disbursement. Support and peer mentoring from more experienced clients will be provided throughout the term of the loan. Through the Chiyambi loan program, these women will develop their own small sustainable businesses, and begin the journey to self-empowerment.


Malawi $10,000 “Inovations for Gender Equality for Community and Capacity Development” Foundation for Community and Capacity Development This project is an integrated livelihood program that will enhance the food production, storage and management capacity of vulnerable rural Malawian women. The project will provide Farm inputs to 150 women farmers including seeds, fertilizer, and introduce communal gardens into the community. Women farmers will be trained in food conservation and production as well as Livestock farming under the "pass on the gift" principle. Women and youth will also be provided with additional vocational skills training.

Nigeria $15,000 Community Advocacy for Livelihood Protection in the Niger Delta Social Development Integrated Center (Social Action) This project organizes Ogoni communities in the Niger Delta region of Nigeria with the aim of empowering those communities to safeguard their livelihoods which are under daily threat as a result of inadequate or poorly enforced regulations with respect to petroleum exploitation, as well as government agriculture and land use policies which displace local subsistence farmers from their land. The project includes: 1) a set of community-led advocacy activities in support of the implementation of the recommendations of the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) report on oil pollution in Ogoniland. Ogoniland is in the Rivers State and is one of the many oil bearing communities in the Niger Delta. The UNEP Environmental Assessment of Ogoniland in 2011 found that it could take up to 30 years to clean up the oil spillage in Ogoniland. 2) activities in support of the struggles of smallholder farmers against forced land acquisition in Ogoniland by the Rivers State government in favor of foreign owned commercial banana plantations.

Rwanda $8,000 PICO-Rwanda Development Project* PICO-Rwanda This project will work to reduce poverty and hunger by building grassroots leadership among 80 Nyange and Kigali residents, primarily women, through ongoing training in the PICO model that builds grassroots leadership among low and moderate income people of faith who tackle the conditions that result in poverty and food insecurity, who identify and act on their own economic development projects. The project will complement this work through monthly onsite training of 10 PICO Rwanda leaders that supports the Nyange and Kigali economic development projects. This work will build social capital among Rwandans living in poverty to undertake specific development projects, acquire skills that can be applied in multiple settings, and gain self-confidence to transform their lives.

Tanzania $6,000 Drilling a Borehole Kigamboni Pupils’ Care (KIPUCA) The community of Dondwe Village is faced with many communal problems including the lack of clean water. People are using stagnant water from ponds as their main source of water. The water in the ponds is polluted and not safe for human consumption. In July of 2010, a research study determined that 60% of the people in the village were suffering from skin infections, 8% of school children were suffering from schistosomiasis, 9% of the population was infected with enteric fever and 15% of infants were suffering from malnutrition. All of these factors could be improved with access to clean and safe water. This project will drill a 100m borehole well to provide the community with clean and safe water


for domestic use and gardening activities. KIPUCA will irrigate 2 acres of vegetable and fruits garden, which will be used to feed the children suffering from malnutrition and those living with chronic diseases such as tuberculosis (TB), anemia, HIV/AIDS and disabilities from Mkuranga district; and furthermore, these gardens will be used to conduct horticultural trainings and demonstrations for small farmers, youth and women on how to plan, implement and run small scale farms to combat hunger and diseases using this water.

Asia $57,000

India $45,000 Sustainable Agriculture through Conservation and Regeneration of Traditional Seeds CHETHANA, Joining Hands India This campaign is working to promote sustainable and organic farming as a means of ensuring the livelihood rights of small farmers, is focusing its efforts on saving traditional seeds and protecting biodiversity. The goal of the seed saving work is to stem the invasion of corporate seed and food monopolies while safeguarding India’s food sovereignty.

India $12,000 Rural Community Development Service Center 2013-2014* Sam Higginbottom Institute of Agriculture, Technologies & Sciences The project will work to build the capacity of marginal rural communities in the north of India, especially in the Allahabad District, through training in tailoring, organic farming and small-scale business for both income-generation and spiritual enhancement. The project will provide various kinds of training programs to rural leaders along with technical advice and guidance. The trained leaders are expected to pass their knowledge gained onto neighbors in their communities.

Europe $6,000

Russia $3,000 Seeds of Hope Farm Moscow Protestant Chaplaincy The Farm Project will: 1) Employ unemployed or underemployed persons residing in Moscow drawing heavily from those persons who currently receive food from the MPC food bank to staff the project which includes U.N. political refugees, Russian single mothers, and immigrants; 2) Provide training and experience for future employment; 3) Enable MPC food distribution programs to become more self-sustaining, relying on crops from the farm rather than solely on food purchases and donations; 4) Empower MPC social ministries transition from mercy-ministry to transformational ministry; 5) Provide opportunities to share the Good News of Jesus Christ.

Scotland, UK $3,000 Economic Justice and an End to Hunger Jubilee Scotland This project will enable people in Scotland, particularly congregations, to explore the links between global debt, tax and hunger. This will be achieved by holding a series of 'cafe-style' events in collaboration with Christian Aid and the World Mission Council of the Church of Scotland where people will learn about these issues and discuss them in an informal and accessible environment. Additionally,


Jubilee Scotland will produce a detailed briefing paper on these issues to highlight the need for cohesive solutions to global hunger to Scottish decision makers. Country/Region case studies with discussion points and activities will be produced and will be available to download; allowing people across Scotland and beyond to engage with these issues. This project is needed to help people discover the links between the global economy and hunger, and to empower them to take action for a change in unjust global systems.

Latin America, Caribbean and South America $284,500

Bolivia $40,000 Environmental Justice for the Communities Affected by Open Pit Mining RED UMAVIDA, Joining Hands Bolivia After the release of a government environmental audit, which was to assess the levels of contamination from local mining operations, the network is supporting these affected communities by organizing acts of awareness raising and advocacy, calling for corporate responsibility and remediation and re-assessment of Bolivian and international mining laws and policies and their implementation.

Gran Chaco Region $20,000 (Southeastern Bolivia, Western Paraguay and Northeast and Northwest Argentina)

Support and Accompaniment to Indigenous Peoples* Church World Service The CWS Chaco program is a long-term tri-national initiative in South America´s Gran Chaco region working to strengthen the organizational capacity of groups of indigenous men and women to secure legal title to their ancestral territory. The Gran Chaco is the victim of desertification and the depredation of natural resources, mainly deforestation due to soy cultivation by medium and large local and foreign companies. Semi-nomadic indigenous peoples who lived for centuries preserving the delicate eco-system of the forest are being evicted from their traditional lands. They are forced to live on smaller and smaller plots and rely on minimal subsistence farming of seasonal crops for their survival. In partnership with a small group of local partner organizations, the project focuses on four key goals: Recovery of indigenous ancestral land and its sustainable use; Skills training of Indigenous Women; Empowerment of Indigenous Youth, and Public Policy Influence in favor of Indigenous Rights.

Ecuador $6,000 The Tabuga Nutrition and Organic Gardening Project* The GROW Initiative In recent years the rural parts of Ecuador have seen a rise in unsustainable agricultural practices that have degraded the environment, raised the cost of food, disenfranchised women as providers for their family, and drastically increased malnutrition. This project combats this current trend by empowering the woman of Tabuga to improve the health of their families and community while opening the door to a long term sustainable agricultural program. Through education, home gardens, and development of demonstration gardens and a hightunnel hoophouse, this project engages women to produce healthy food for their families, reduces the use of unhealthy and expensive fertilizers and pesticides and increases their role as a provider. The project also introduces new technologies such as hoophouses, quickhoops and sustainable agricultural practices that will help to improve long term human and environmental health while mitigating the effects of extreme droughts and floods that are becoming increasingly more frequent.


El Salvador $12,000 FUNDAHMER- Fundación Hermano Mercedes Ruíz Red Uniendo Manos El Salvador, Joining Hands El Salvador This project will facilitate the formation of two community associations, one each in the communities of San Pedro and Flor de Muerto, each made up of 12 women and committed to the management of a community seed bank of native seeds and the production of organic fertilizer. In each community the seed bank would serve as a common resource and the organic fertilizer produced by the group would serve as an organic input in the communities and potentially beyond. This project will also establish 25 family vegetable gardens in each community. This project is needed to support the members of these communities in breaking their dependence on expensive chemical inputs and commercial seeds and creating sustainable modes of food production in their communities.

El Salvador $26,000 Food Sovereignty and Security* Red Uniendo Manos El Salvador, Joining Hands El Salvador The primary focus of the Network is on Food Sovereignty and advocacy toward the enactment of a Food Sovereignty, Security and Nutrition (FSSN) law. This includes a campaign focused on “No to GMO” and actions to rescue and promote native seeds and development of seed sanctuaries.

Guatemala $12,000 Building Capacity for Improved Food Production and Resource Management for Maya Communities in

Sarstun, Guatemala*

EcoLogic Development Fund

This project is the first congregation-based community organizing project in Central America. Following the PICO model, grassroots residents will join a Local Organizing Committee and receive on-going support and training as they become leaders in their congregations and communities, building a strong relational culture through one-to-one conversations across congregations and towns, prioritizing the top concerns in their community, researching potential solutions and holding public meetings that propose these solutions and hold elected officials accountable for resources and the will to bring about the changes needed.

Haiti $45,000 Protection of the Environment for Food Sovereignty* FONDAMA, Joining Hands Haiti The network is working towards comprehensive agrarian reform in Haiti in order to ensure that agricultural lands remain in the hands of small farmers for the production of healthy food that will nourish the entire population and ensure food sovereignty.

Haiti $11,000 FONDAMA’s Yard Garden Project-Extending the Road to Life Yard Garden Program Nationally MPP–Mouvman Peyizan Papay This program will build on the work MPP is doing in Papay and train a corps of 28 or more farmers, in the mountains of Leogane and Verettes, in yard garden techniques, teaching them not only to carry out the system in their own yards, but provide them with the skills necessary to teach the techniques to their neighbors, teaching their neighbors to teach as well in an ever expanding wave of exchange and change.


Haiti $30,000 The Road to Life Yard and Moringa MPP–Mouvman Peyizan Papay This is an integrated sustainable agricultural development program that includes training in organic farming and moringa trees production. The project will work with families in the Papay area to produce vegetables in tires, produce fruits, produce and process moringa into moringa leaf powder, raise goats, rabits and fish. Production of rice, cassava and bananas have recently been introduced. And alternative systems for producing charcoal are being developed such as using corn plants or coconut husks.

Honduras $5,000 Defense of the collective and individual rights of the Lenca People and COPINH Agricultural Missions, Inc This project provides legal assistance to the Lenca People, and their organization COPINH, in Rio Blanco to defend their ancestral territory from a hydro-electric dam project which was initiated within their territory without the approval of the people, resulting in their forced eviction from their lands. The project is in violation of UN ILO Convention 169, to which Honduras is a signatory, which guarantees the rights of indigenous peoples to prior consultation and collective consent before mega projects can be undertaken within indigenous territories.

Honduras $15,000 Apoyo a la Seguridad Alimentaria del Pueblo Garifuna, mediante la producción en Territorio recuperado de Vallecito OFRANEH Vallecito is part of the ancestral heritage of the Garifuna, Black Honduran, communities in Honduras, consisting of an area of 980 hectares of which 80% was occupied illegally for almost a decade by persons associated with organized crime. The Garifuna people are currently struggling to reclaim Vallecito and have succeeded in reclaiming some of their land there. This project will work to ensure sustainable livelihoods for Garifuna people as they settle on their reclaimed lands. The project will introduce sustainable agricultural practices to the zone, consisting of the planting of yucca, plantains, and the creation of a fish pond for the raising of tilapia.

Nicaragua $5,000 Escuelas Saludables: Keeeping Children in School to End Poverty Food for the Hungry This project will construct four environmentally friendly restrooms for the school in Alemania Federal community in the Chinandega region of Nicaragua. The project is needed because education is critical to empower at-risk children to overcome poverty for a brighter future. A lack of proper sanitation infrastructure in Alemania Federal’s school keeps children from taking full advantage of educational opportunities because of poor health. For this and related reasons, children often drop out of school before the sixth grade. By constructing these restrooms and educating children on their proper use as part of a larger integrated program, children will have improved health, thereby increasing regular school attendance.


Nicaragua $12,500 Building the Next Generation of Food Soveriegnty Leaders in Central America Grassroots International This program will support the growth of the food sovereignty movement in Central America by developing and training the next generation of local agroecology leaders/organizers, especially women, youth and indigenous people. Fortunately, a promising and growing movement among rural communities is pushing for food sovereignty as an effective solution to hunger. To fuel this momentum, community organizations on the ground need to strengthen the skills of their leaders and build the powerful network of cooperation and support that can successfully push through solutions in a unified and coordinated way. Using a train-the-trainer model and popular education techniques based on the needs and realities of farming communities, the Central American Peasant School in Managua, Nicaragua is equipping the next generation of leaders with the skills they need in agroecology, leadership and advocacy.

Peru $45,000 1) No Greater Rights for Foreign Investors; 2) The Health of La Oroya; 3) Renewing Life with Youth Environmentalists; 4) Fair Trade* Red Uniendo Manos Peru, Joining Hands Peru The network is campaigning against the protections granted to corporations above and beyond that of sovereign governments in the state-investor clauses within free trade agreements. They are also working with the regional government of Junin on the implementation of a healthcare program for those affected by the contamination in La Oroya. Additionally, they are building a network of young Peruvian and Bolivian environmentalists by gathering youth once a year to learn and problem solve about the environment. Lastly, Red Uniendos Manos Peru continues to work on improving the lives and livelihoods of Peruvian artisans through their fair trade program.

Middle East $14,000

Israel $10,000 Job Opportunities for Arab women in Agriculture Workers Advice Center This project will work to achieve 500 job opportunities for Arab women in Israel as agricultural laborers. WAC will negotiate legal wages and working conditions for the women while pressuring the government to reduce the importation of foreign workers in order to increase the availability of jobs.

Israel $4,000 Weaving Project and Visiting Center Sindyanna of Galilee This project enhances Arab women's empowerment by creating employment for women while developing the olive oil sector and stressing values such as land preservation, environmental concerns and Fair Trade commerce. Women are trained in basket weaving which they can do from home to generate income. The Visitor's Center allows customers the opportunity to interact with the weavers and get to know "the person behind the basket."


Worldwide $35,000

Worldwide $35,000 Rural Network/Rural Sustainability/Education Agricultural Missions 1) Facilitate staff visits to partners in various regions and countries for purposes of assessment, learning about the realities faced by partners and offering moral support. 2) Support south-south exchanges that facilitate mutual learning and support, strategizing and exchange of ideas. 3) Facilitate exchanges between international partners and North American churches and ecumenical and community organizations, for purpose of mutual learning and education for advocacy. 4) Provide a forum for education and advocacy on global issues of justice such as land grabs, global warming and the environment and the food and energy crises. 5) Improve access to food in local communities. 6) Promote the equality of women in all aspects of community life. 7) Bring the analyses and priorities of global south partners into the US churches, and general public.

International Grants Total $682,500


National Grants

Synod of the Alaska Northwest $0

Synod of the Covenant $51,300

BREAD Organization-CBCO Grant $6,000 Columbus, OH This grant will support BREAD's existing campaign against vacant houses in Franklin County Land Bank. BREAD will continue training leaders to follow-up with representatives of the Land Bank and ensure that vacant houses are renovated or demolished in order to improve neighborhoods.

Campaign for Migrant Worker Justice $6,000 Toledo, OH Campaign for Migrant Worker Justice works to ensure North Carolina farm workers, starting with the tobacco pickers, will have work free of discrimination and will labor in safer and dignified work environments, and have improved workplace security. This will set the standard for improvements to all federal guest worker programs that are the only current legal avenue for foreign workers to work in US agriculture.

Contact Center $3,000 Cincinnati, OH The Contact Center has organized to improve diverse public policies benefiting low-income people. The Food Security Project is a new program that combines community gardening with public policy advocacy. Local members will garden, take cooking classes and advocate for improved domestic anti-hunger programs.

Eastminster Presbytery $9,000 Mineral Ridge, OH Through the innovative re-purposing of its camp, the leveraging of unique missional strengths within its membership; and through its collaboration with diverse Christian organizations, as well as secular organizations and educational institutions, Eastminster Presbytery's innovative agricultural training program will give economic opportunity to socially disadvantaged people, while also becoming a model for how faith-based community organizing can jump start local food systems and community well-being.

Goodness Grows $4,000 North Lima, OH The local food economy of eastern Ohio and western Pennsylvania will have greater diversity and creativity in five years thanks to the creation of an effective new agricultural training program for adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities. By joining the efforts of hard-working trainees, creative educators, dedicated public servants, innovative farmers, adaptive technicians, visionary Christians and compassionate volunteers, the Growing Special Growers effort will be a model of a new path to self-sufficiency for persons challenged with social disadvantages.


John Knox Presbyterian Church– Congregational Hunger Ministry (CHM) $1,000 Grand Rapids, MI John Knox Community Food Pantry is a ministry of the local Presbyterian Church in collaboration with other area faith groups and congregations. We work to alleviate hunger among the residents of SE Kent County and provide for the supplemental nutritional needs of the poor in our neighborhood.

North Presbyterian Church– Congregational Hunger Ministry (CHM) $1,000 Cincinnati, OH By providing Northside residents with access to nutritious food, NPC is helping to address root causes of hunger in our community by collaborating with other Northside non-profits Churches Active in Northside (CAIN) and the Northside Farmer's Market (NFM) that are community-building and ensure the dignity and empowerment of all participants.

Presbytery of Detroit- Hunger Action Enabler Grant $6,300 Detroit, MI This presbytery matched grant supports the hunger work of the local presbytery that includes national initiatives.

Presbytery of Western Reserve- Hunger Action Enabler Grant $5,000 Cleveland, OH This presbytery matched grant supports the hunger work of the local presbytery that includes national initiatives.

Synod of Lakes and Prairies $30,000

Center for Rural Affairs* $5,000 Lyons, NE The Center for Rural Affairs will empower members of the Santee Sioux and Omaha tribes to take control of their own food productions systems that will provide their community members with access to healthy, fresh, affordable food. This will be accomplished through development of organic community and individual gardens. These same community members will be able to earn income from some of the food they grow by selling at farmers markets formed or expanded through this grant.

Dakota Resource Council $7,000 Dickinson, ND DRC will address the poverty-producing impacts of the unplanned oil development in North Dakota; will work with farmers and ranchers to get the tools and policies needed to protect their livelihoods in the Oil Patch and to reverse agriculture concentration; and will build and strengthen the connections between consumers and producers for a fair and accessible system of healthy local foods.


Dakota Rural Action* $8,000 Brookings, SD Dakota Rural Action will accomplish the goals of the South Dakota Food and Agriculture Sovereignty Project in 2014 by expanding the Farm-to-School program in South Dakota, growing the membership and producers of the SD Local Foods Cooperative, training and networking beginning farmers, engaging farmers and the public in policy issues, releasing an expanded 2014 SD Local Foods Directory (print and online), improving access to land for beginning farmers and ranchers, and providing leadership training and experiences to project participants.

Presbytery of Des Moines- Hunger Action Enabler Grant $3,000 Des Moines, IA This presbytery matched grant supports the hunger work of the local presbytery that includes national initiatives.

Iowa Citizens for Community Improvement $3,000 Des Moines, IA Iowa CCI’s Worker Justice Campaign supports and empowers low-wage immigrant workers who are not paid for the work they do, and are therefore unable to adequately feed their families. We work with individual workers to reclaim these wages, provide leadership development opportunities, and organize workers to bring about concrete policy changes to address issues of wage theft and promote economic justice in the public and private sectors.

Southern Heights Presbyterian Church- Congregational Hunger Ministry (CHM) $1,000 Lincoln, NE Southern Heights Presbyterian Church is working to increase the number of low-income families that are able to grow their own food, thereby increasing food security and health outcomes for this population.

Wisconsin Council of Churches $4000 Sun Prairie, WI The Wisconsin Council of Churches provides educational resources for Presbyterians and other denominations about the causes and consequences of hunger, and the importance of public policy in addressing hunger. Our grassroots Hunger Advocacy Network regularly contacts state and federal policymakers in support of measures to fight hunger.

Synod of Lincoln Trails $35,000

Angelic Organics Learning Center $7,000 Caledonia, IL AOLC helps organizations and congregations play direct roles in food system change through creation and implementation of local food systems projects. In the project year, AOLC will primarily focus on developing the Eat to Live (E2L) Englewood project, a collaborative effort of AOLC and Real Men Charities, Inc to develop an urban Farm and Garden at 70th Place and Princeton in southeast Englewood and Chicago’s 6th ward, as a community environment, economic, and cultural development project helping neighbors of all ages learn to grow, cook, and eat healthy food and live healthier lives.


Presbytery of Chicago- Hunger Action Enabler Grant $4,000 Chicago, IL This presbytery matched grant supports the hunger work of the local presbytery that includes national initiatives.

Chicago Fair Trade $5,000 Chicago, IL Our “Building a Base of Conscious Consumers” will engage congregations, classrooms, and after school programs to increase awareness of dangerous working conditions for global workers, and building on this awareness, work to influence individual and institutional consumer behavior to purchase products and support companies that offer fair wages and safe working conditions embodied by fair trade principles.

Dupage United-CBCO Grant $6,000 Glen Ellyn, IL The purpose of this grant is to allow the organizers to focus on the recruitment of new institutions and the identification of leaders in the Fox Valley from Elgin, through the Tri-Cities, down to Aurora to do institutionally based community organizing. Institutions will be taught a practice of “institutional organizing” to develop leadership, identify issues, reweave relationships, and build the capacity within institutions to act on issues that affect families.

Illinois People's Action $3,000 Bloomington, IL This grassroots and faith based organizing campaign will create a movement to stop abuse of the poor by high cost, long term payday type lenders. It will give congregations and faith leaders opportunities to accomplish the goals outlined in "A reformed understanding of usury" to create a more just world.

Indianapolis Congregational Action Network (IndyCAN)- CBCO Grant $5,000 Indianapolis, IN This grant will help IndyCAN deepen the leadership capacity of clergy and laity, to advance the Opportunity for All Platform and win 2-3 new policy/resources that will reduce the systemic causes that lead to homelessness and hunger in Marion County.

Organization for the Northeast- CBCO Grant $5,000 Chicago, IL This grant will support ONE Northside with affordable housing by preserving affordable housing that exists, developing new opportunities and strong policy work that ensures low income people can remain in the community.


Synod of Living Waters $41,100

All Churches Together (ACT-II)- CBCO $6,000 Fairhope, AL ACT-II staff and leaders will seek policy changes that waive government costs when non-profits do certified repairs for low-income, owner-occupied houses. They will seek these changes with the county commission and 12 municipalities in the county. ACT-II will also seek line-item funding for the REPAIR BALDWIN collaboration from government entities.

Christian Outreach Alliance $1,000 Selma, AL Over 200 hungry families and elders in Selma, Ala. enjoy fresh vegetables and fruit along with canned food each month, thanks to an initiative between the national Presbyterian Church and the local Christian Outreach Alliance. Farm Fresh Food bags connects farmers' produce with hungry poor at the local food pantry, in a program that supports struggling farmers and provides nutritionally rich fresh food for the poor.

Food Literacy Project $4,000 Louisville, KY The Food Literacy Project will bring the Field-to-Fork experience to life for at least 2,000 Louisville residents, affecting lifestyle change by increasing knowledge, awareness, skills and self-efficacy needed to make healthy choices and implement healthy behaviors. The Food Literacy Project will also engage youth and families in an effort to increase access to nutritious foods and promote health in the community.

Kentucky Association of Food Banks $3,000 Berea, KY Hungry Kentuckian’s immediate need for sustenance will be met and long-term solutions to hunger will be advanced. The Farms to Food Banks program will increase access to fresh produce among hungry Kentuckians, reduce the amount of wasted food, and strengthen Kentucky’s agricultural economy through increased cash flow for farmers.

Presbytery of Middle Tennessee- Hunger Action Enabler Grant $3,500 Nashville, TN This presbytery matched grant supports the hunger work of the local presbytery that includes national initiatives.

Presbytery of Sheppards and Lapsley- Hunger Action Enabler Grant $3,600 Birmingham, AL This presbytery matched grant supports the hunger work of the local presbytery that includes national initiatives.


Rural Resources $5,000 Greeneville, TN Rural Resources will address food insecurity/food deserts in Greeneville, TN by involving food insecure teens in growing fruits and vegetables in the garden at Rural Resources along with cooking and other skills including starting a farm/food related business to give them the experience to address their own food insecurity. Food grown will be combined with food grown by other local growers and transported via our Mobile Farmers' Market—a converted school bus—into public housing and low wealth neighborhoods to benefit neighbors who struggle with transportation and accessing fresh, locally-grown food.

Tennessee Immigrant and Refugee $5,000 Nashville, TN With this grant, we will strengthen and expand our policy advocacy and civic engagement programs to combat anti-immigrant state legislation that attempts to undermine the food security of immigrants and refugees by limiting access to benefits and creating barriers to integration. We will also engage in federal and local advocacy to limit the impact of harsh deportation programs on children and families in Tennessee. If immigration reform passes we will also work to ensure that undocumented families in Tennessee are able to apply for legalization—providing relief from deportations, greater stability for families, and access to better jobs.

Workers Dignity Project $5,000 Nashville, TN Workers’ Dignity Project will empower workers to improve workplace conditions and recover stolen wages in Middle Tennessee. Currently waging the “Just Hospitality” Campaign, mostly immigrant women workers are working to improve their wages and conditions in Nashville’s hotels.

Workers Interfaith Network $5,000 Memphis, TN This grant will enable WIN to move to a larger space with adequate training room. We will also be hiring an Executive director this January and planning our next five years fighting for justice in the workplace. Our Workers Center members plan to train more organizers to take on campaigns in specific industries.

Synod of Mid-America $17,500

Presbytery of Giddings-Lovejoy- Hunger Action Enabler Grant $5,500 St. Louis, MO This presbytery matched grant supports the hunger work of the local presbytery that includes national initiatives.


Missouri Rural Crisis Center $12,000 Columbia, MO The Missouri Rural Crisis Center (MRCC), a statewide farm and rural membership organization, will address rural hunger by both meeting the immediate food needs of rural families and by addressing root causes of hunger through our public policy and advocacy programs. Thousands of rural Missourians will participate in MRCC programs that provide: high-quality food to limited-income families, sustainable agriculture production alternatives, advocacy campaigns that promote fair and equitable farm policies and programs, and organizational capacity building and leadership development.

Synod of the Mid-Atlantic $75,000 Presbytery of Baltimore- Hunger Action Enabler Grant $5,000 Baltimore, MD This presbytery matched grant supports the hunger work of the local presbytery that includes national initiatives.

Community of the Beloved* $7,500 Asheville, NC Because our organization is based on mutuality and are able to see that people living in poverty are best equipped to create solutions to their struggles and to voice the need for change. Led by a vision to end hunger, friends who are homeless or poor are hired as food justice advocates to study and lead food justice efforts, create community gardens, support neighbors living in poverty in growing food, and supplying healthy food to neighbors in need thus lowering food insecurity and increasing good health in our neighborhood.

Presbytery of Eastern Virginia- Hunger Action Enabler Grant $4,000 Norfolk, VA This presbytery matched grant supports the hunger work of the local presbytery that includes national initiatives.

Presbytery of Peaks- Hunger Action Enabler Grant $3,500 Covington, VA This presbytery matched grant supports the hunger work of the local presbytery that includes national initiatives.

Rural Advancement Foundation International USA - $8,000 Just Contracts, Fair Returns: RAFIUSA's Campaign Pittsboro, NC Production contracts regulate over 90% of all broiler chickens sold, and comprise over 20% of beginning farmer income, yet these contracts place producers in unfair, even usurious situations. This grant will provide needed support for farmers who take their livelihoods at risk by speaking out against predatory integrator practices, and for fair regulation of the industry. The grant will both facilitate the support of producers willing to speak out, and communication on behalf of producers who are not able to speak because of the threat of retaliation.


Presbytery of Salem- Hunger Action Enabler Grant $5,000 Clemmons, NC This presbytery matched grant supports the hunger work of the local presbytery that includes national initiatives.

Presbytery of Shenandoah- Hunger Action Enabler Grant $3,000 Harrison, VA This presbytery matched grant supports the hunger work of the local presbytery that includes national initiatives.

Student Action with Farmworkers $8,000 Durham, NC Through Student Action with Farmworkers' Student Organizing School, we will train and mentor ten college students in North Carolina to be leaders in the farmworker movement. These student organizers will in turn raise awareness and engage their peers in movement building activities in support of farm labor reform and immigrant access to education in NC.

Toxic Free North Carolina, Inc. $3,000 Raleigh, NC Toxic Free NC will provide 80 farmworkers and their families with increased access to fresh, pesticide-free produce this summer by supporting organic gardens in farmworker camps. We will educate workers about pesticide hazards and impacts on their health, particularly reproductive health. We will also produce a short documentary film featuring farmworkers, allowing farmworkers to share issues from their own lives with the broader community.

United Workers Association* $14,000 Baltimore, MD The United Workers will build a large grassroots movement for human rights to Fair Development that adheres to these core principles: universality, equity, transparency, participation and accountability. We will hold developers accountable for creating low wage service jobs and demand living wages and union protections. We will call on government leaders to ensure that all publicly funded projects include public benefits including community benefits agreements. And we will continue to build a multi-racial statewide movement for Healthcare as a Human Right sharing our stories and demanding that healthcare not be treated as a commodity but rather as a public good.

Virginia Interfaith Center for Public Policy $3,000 Richmond, VA The Virginia Interfaith Center for Public will provide increased capacity and resources to Virginia’s Presbyteries on a range of hunger and poverty public policies, including educational programming and advocacy action opportunities. Support from this grant will result in increased engagement of Presbyterians in Virginia in the processes that impact public policy related to hunger, poverty and other social justice initiatives.


Virginians Organized for Interfaith Community Engagement (VOICE)- CBCO Grant $6,000 Arlington, VA This grant will support an ongoing effort to preserve and develop affordable housing for vulnerable populations in Central and Western Fairfax, VA.

Presbytery of Western North Carolina- Hunger Action Enabler Grant $5,000 Morganton, NC This presbytery matched grant supports the hunger work of the local presbytery that includes national initiatives.

Synod of the Northeast $155,500

Presbytery of Boston – Boston Food Justice Young Adult Volunteer Project* $10,000 Boston, MA The Boston Young Adult Volunteers (YAV) Program gives young adults a year-long experience living together in intentional Christian community and engaging in the mission of Presbytery congregations and food justice non-profits to secure healthy and sustainable food for all people, especially the most vulnerable. The program cultivates spiritual growth, vocational discernment, and leadership development among the volunteers, and congregational and social transformation in the Boston metro area communities served.

Capital District Community Gardens $3,000 Troy, NY Capital District Community Gardens’ seeks to expand the Community Gardening Program, Gardener Education and Squash Hunger Program Capacity. This expansion will be achieved by increasing the number of community gardens, first-time gardeners, outreach to gardeners to ‘grow a row’ for donation to Squash Hunger, and increase the number of other produce collection spots, as well as increase local farm gleanings/donations.

Coalition for Economic Justice $14,000 Buffalo, NY With support from the Presbyterian Hunger Program, CEJ will build leadership development skills in our membership; organize local, grassroots campaigns rooted in the needs of low-income and minority communities to promote economic and social justice in our region and across the state. We will accomplish these goals by pursuing projects and issues that create dignity in the workplace, hold governments and corporations accountable, create real community wealth, and empower people to become more engaged in their communities.

Faith in New York- CBCO Grant $6,000 Corona, NY Faith in New York is pushing to hold city leaders accountable to a 2008 community benefit agreement that will provide 2000 units of affordable housing and FiNY is working to leverage an additional 19 billion dollars in Hurricane Sandy relief for affordable housing.


First Presbyterian Church-Congregational Hunger Ministry (CHM) $1,000 Roselle, NJ The Light and Love Garden will serve the people of Roselle by providing a space for individuals and families to grow their own food. Our goal is to cultivate healthy food as well as community!

FOCUS Churches of Albany $6,000 Albany, NY As people of faith we believe charity and justice go hand-in-hand. Empowered by God we feed people today through hospitable food programs, and tomorrow, by growing into advocates pursuing the common good for all people.

Food AND Medicine – Jobs with Justice Education Fund $7,000 Brewer, ME With support from the Presbyterian Hunger Fund, Food AND Medicine will lift up the voices of low-income people in the Greater Bangor area through organizing in areas that directly affect their lives. Our work through this grant will: build a strong coalition of local faith congregations in addressing root causes of poverty, develop a regional commitment to increased access to local food for all residents (including low-income, farmers, children and elderly), and engage low-income bus riders in an effort to organize and better the transportation system for all involved.

Food for Maine’s Future $5,000 Sedgewick, ME Food for Maine's Future and the CIW have joined together to fight for fundamental change in a food system that has undervalued labor for generations. Together we are building unity among farmers and farmworkers and learning from each other's successes and failures, inspiring the food movement to stand with and support grassroots farm labor activism.

Hartford Food System $2,000

Hartford,CT

The Hartford Community Kitchen program of Hartford Food System will implement multi-week , multi-generational communal cooking activity to increase the healthy food knowledge, consumption and cooking skills of our residents, while boosting demand for neighborhood access to healthier food. In an economically stressed urban environment, the ability to consistently access healthy food and make healthy meals is often constrained by time and income barriers. We believe that shared cooking instruction and hands-on experience that focus on healthful, delicious, but economical meal preparation in a supported communal setting can help overcome these barriers that community members face on a daily basis.

Presbytery of Hudson River- Hunger Action Enabler Grant $5,000 Scarborough, NY This presbytery matched grant supports the hunger work of the local presbytery that includes national initiatives.


Hunger Action Network of New York State* $5,000 Albany, NY Hunger Action Network of NYS will seek to raise the minimum wage in NYS to $10 an hour. Special attention will be paid to tip workers who were not directly included in recent raise to $9. We will also seek to reduce the more than $1 billion loss by wage theft in NYS annually.

Long Island Jobs with Justice $5,000 Hauppauge, NY Long Island Jobs with Justice will create a coalition of workers, people of faith, and community members to support critical community issues, including an equitable transit system, the rights of Walmart workers, and immigrant rights.

Merrimack Valley Project $3,000 Lawrence, MA Through the MVP Immigrant Organizing Project we are organizing with hundreds of recent immigrants to Lawrence and Lowell, the Valley’s major cities to: 1) help them win services to make their immigrant status or path to citizenship more secure; 2) protect themselves from eviction due to foreclosure; 3) protect and improve their service-sector jobs; and 4) develop their leadership skills, all of which will benefit the Valley’s 110,000 immigrant residents.

Metro IAF- CBCO Grant $6,000 Rego Park, NY This grant will help to advocate for legislation that will protect kindergarten and ensure that it is seen as an essential part of education for New York children.

Presbytery of Monmouth- Hunger Action Enabler Grant $4,500 New Egypt, NJ This presbytery matched grant supports the hunger work of the local presbytery that includes national initiatives.

Naugatuck Valley Project $3,000 Waterbury, CT NVP is organizing with hundreds of poor and working poor people in the Valley—the majority of them immigrants and African Americans, many of them aged, and most of them women—to: 1) improve home healthcare services for poor elders who want to age at home; 2) improve the jobs of home care workers, almost all poor immigrant women; 3) make their affordable housing developments more energy efficient and more sustainable, using this as an opportunity for green job training; and 4) develop the leadership and organizing skills of an additional 15-25 leaders to join our leadership team.

Presbyterian Church of Barnet- Congregational Hunger Ministry (CHM) $1,000 Barnet, VT The Presbyterian Church of Barnet and the West Barnet Meal Site have served the needs of the surrounding rural community for over 20 years, providing not only nutritious meals, but also essential social interaction for low-income seniors.


Poverty Initiative $5,000 New York, NY Through our Poverty Scholars and Building Generations of Religious Leaders Programs, we will deepen collaborative learning and strategy within our existing network through study intensives, symposia and southern strategic dialogue, while expanding the network in strategic regions of the country (“Bible belt” and “Rust Belt”) through our ongoing Pedagogy of the Poor national tour.

Restaurant Opportunities Center United* $10,000 New York, NY ROC-United will create a national groundswell of support to address the root cause of hunger by lifting the wages of millions of impoverished workers, many of whom lack food security. By organizing workers, employers, consumers, and faith allies to win an increase in the regular and tipped minimum wage, millions of working families will have access to affordable food and groceries. The campaign will demand that America’s working poor earn a wage that allows them to put food on their own families’ tables.

Rural Development Leadership Network- General Support $5,000 New York, NY RDLN will contribute to the capacity of approximately ten historically oppressed poor rural communities in diverse areas to lead their own development process, through mentoring, peer exchange, hands-on development, and networking. We will hold a four-week Rural Development Institute and organize an Network-wide gathering in a poor rural community around the theme of food, health and social justice.

Rural & Migrant Ministry - Justice for Farmworkers Campaign* $12,000 Poughkeepsie, NY The Justice for Farmworkers Campaign will empower farmworkers, approximately 80,000 in New York State, to end decades of discriminatory laws and exploitation through passage of a new law, the Farmworker Fair Labor Practices Act. Subsequent implementation of this law will allow farmworkers to earn not a poverty wage, but a living wage for themselves and their families. In addition, passage of this law will become a motivating symbol for other farmworkers across the country, demonstrating that change is possible and justice achievable.

St. Augustine Presbyterian Church $2,000 Paterson, NJ St. Augustine Presbyterian Church will support a community besieged by blight, hunger and illness by permanently transforming an abandoned and vacant lot in the heart of a crime-ridden neighborhood into a community-led urban agricultural initiative. Families will be fed, healthy nutrition will be sustained and the land will be healed with the work of the Governor Street Community Garden.

Stony Point* $15,000 Stony Point, NY The Stony Point Center will continue the “Growing Food Justice” program that includes the establishment and expansion of a productive farm on Stony Point Center’s campus and educational food justice activities.


The Boston Project Ministries $5,000 Dorchester, MA The Boston Project Ministries is working alongside children, teens, and adult neighbors to end hunger in the Talbot-Norfolk Triangle neighborhood. We are implementing a set of comprehensive strategies that include improving food access, providing nutrition education, helping neighbors grow their own food, improving financial security, and advocating for increased garden space as a balanced approach to intense housing development. We envision an older, inner-city neighborhood becoming a green, healthy, hunger-free, and sustainable community for ALL families – a picture of God’s shalom where poverty no longer exists.

Vermont Interfaith Action (VIA)- CBCO Grant $6,000 Burlington, VT Vermont Interfaith Action works to increase the supply of affordable housing in Chittenden County and throughout Vermont.

Workers’ Center of Central New York $4,000 Syracuse, NY “Dairy Workers United” is a project of the Workers' Center of Central New York. Our goals are to organize dairy workers in the central New York region, the nation's leading yogurt-producing region, and promote fair employment practices for the dairy workers through the development of a “Milk Cows Not Workers” campaign.

Synod of the Pacific $53,500

Bay Area Organizing Committee- CBCO Grant $6,000 San Francisco, CA BAOC seeks to address a variety of housing concerns at the local level such as marginal living conditions for working poor immigrants, lack of affordable housing options for seniors and working families, and lack of adequate shelter and transitional housing system for the homeless.

Bienstar* $7,000 Hillsboro,OR Bienstar will grow and strengthen our place-based Recetas Para Exito program by training residents in culinary skills, food service regulations, educate participants about their workers’ rights, and help participants receive the necessary licenses to secure food service employment in the state of Oregon. After completing the training phase, participants will have the opportunity to work for the Bienestar LLC, to develop and sell food products at local farmers markets and provide catering services where they will hone their skills in an actual working environment and gain experience in small business.

Presbytery of Cascades- Hunger Action Enabler Grant $3,000 Portland, OR This presbytery matched grant supports the hunger work of the local presbytery that includes national initiatives.


City Slicker Farms $4,000 Oakland, CA At City Slicker Farms, our mission is to empower West Oakland community members to meet the basic need for fresh, healthy food by creating sustainable, high-yield urban farms and backyard gardens. Through our Backyard Garden, Community Market Farms, and Urban Farming Education Programs, City Slicker Farms is preserving and re-imagining green space in the inner-city for sustainable food production and environmental conservation; giving low-income families support to grow their own food; engaging residents in environmental education and green job skills; and serving as a model for improving access to affordable, fresh, healthy foods.

Community Presbyterian Church- Congregational Hunger Ministry (CHM) $1,000 Waldport, OR Community Presbyterian Church's goal was to open the eyes of our congregation to the homeless situation in our community and reach out to children and families with the love of Christ. We provide a safe, warm environment where children are encouraged to read, positive relationships are formed and nutritious meals are served.

Ecumenical Ministries of Oregon* $8,000 Portland, OR Ecumenical Ministries of Oregon works to improve food access and economic opportunities in Rockwood, one of metro Portland, Oregon's poorest and most diverse neighborhoods. In partnership with the community, we will establish a community food center with garden and community kitchen space with regular classes, set up a WIC and SNAP accessible farm stand, assist corner stores in increasing produce availability and support the establishment of a food co-op.

Huerto de la Familia* $9,000 Eugene, OR Huerto de la Familia cultivates community integration and economic self-sufficiency among Latino immigrant families by offering opportunities and training in organic gardening, farming and the creation of small businesses. During the grant period we propose to accomplish four tasks: 1) to offer business training and counseling through our Cambios Micro Development Program, 2) initiate a food booth incubator, 3) plan for a business incubator, and 4) submit a federal grant to the Department of Health and Human Services.

United lu-Mien Community, INC. $1,000 Sacramento, CA Our Healthy Eating, Healthy Community project, part of our overall emphasis on developing healthy habits, will enable 75 elderly and disabled Iu-Mien refugees and 25 Iu-Mien youth to improve their diets. Elderly and disabled participants will learn how to improve the nutritional value of traditional foods by making healthy substitutions for the pork fat and salt presently prevalent in their diets. Youth will learn the importance of healthy eating, how to choose healthy prepared foods, and the basics of food preparation.

Presbytery of Redwoods- Hunger Action Enabler Grant $4,000 Morganton, NC This presbytery matched grant supports the hunger work of the local presbytery that includes national initiatives.


Presbytery of Sacramento- Hunger Action Enabler Grant $2,500 Sacramento, CA This presbytery matched grant supports the hunger work of the local presbytery that includes national initiatives.

Sacramento Valley Organizing Committee (SVOC)- CBCO Grant $6,000 Vallejo, CA The purpose of this grant is to build an educated and active constituency around one of the top priority areas of the cluster--homeless youth and children

Presbytery of Stockton- Hunger Action Enabler Grant $2,000 Newman, CA This presbytery matched grant supports the hunger work of the local presbytery that includes national initiatives.

Synod of the Rocky Mountains $4,000

Montana Food Bank Network $4,000 Missoula, MT MFBN will engage Montanans experiencing hunger in order to learn more about the situations they face and include them in community meetings intended to increase understanding of the issue of hunger in our state. Community meetings will also provide an opportunity for community members to take action to address hunger at the local level. MFBN will utilize information gained at the local level to advocate for policy change at the federal level.

Synod of South Atlantic $54,000

Athens Land Trust $4,000 Athens, GA Athens Land Trust is partnering with the Clarke County School District and others to provide the Young Urban Farmer Development Program for at-risk youth who are learning to grow food and become entrepreneurs as well as, the School Farm Project which will teach students to grow food for school meals on the school campuses. These two programs will work hand-in-hand to provide hope and economic opportunities to at-risk youth while also offering much needed additional sources of fresh produce to students in school meals and introducing them to lifelong healthy eating habits.

Presbytery of Central Florida- Hunger Action Enabler Grant $2,000 Orlando, FL This presbytery matched grant supports the hunger work of the local presbytery that includes national initiatives.


Charleston Area Justice Ministry- CBCO Grant $5,000 Charleston, SC This grant will propel Charleston Area Justice Ministry’s forward into 2014 where we have a plan in place to hire another full time organizer. With another organizer, we have the potential to engage another 10-15 congregations and build the power of people to tackle even larger problems within our community. This building of power will also continue to push us closer to self-sustainability.

Community Presbyterian Church- Congregational Hunger Ministry (CHM) $1,000 Lauderdale by the Sea, FL This program will help empower children and their struggling families who are "Hungry" for food, spiritual substance and emotional support; building functional skills, knowledge and awareness that help develop the strengths, gifts and talents of each participant from the youngest to the oldest. This program would help participants be more self-sufficient, productive and independent of support for generations to come, as well as empowering them to help others through what they learn.

Congregations for Community Action (CCA)- CBCO Grant $5,000 Melbourne, FL This grant will allow CCA to train and educate church pantry volunteers to listen and work with families to identify their needs and locate services and individuals that can walk with them and empower them to improve their situation. Through these relationships CCA will begin to organize homeless individuals and families to help themselves and others.

Presbytery of Florida- Hunger Action Enabler Grant $3,000 Chipley,FL This presbytery matched grant supports the hunger work of the local presbytery that includes national initiatives.

Hillsborough Organization for Progress and Equality- CBCO Grant $6,000 Tampa, FL This grant will help us continue to achieve local systemic change that increases access to affordable housing for very low and extremely low-income people; build a diverse geographic, multiracial, intercultural, interfaith and economic power base, by gaining 4 new member congregations; and identifying, training and engaging hundreds of potential leaders in grassroots listening, issue development and network building processes.

Interfaith Action of Southwest Florida – Faith-Based Organizing for Fair Food* $12,000 Immokalee, FL This grant will enable Interfaith Action to significantly strengthen its call for justice from Wendy's and other supermarkets like Publix, Ahold and Kroger that have refused to join the Fair Food Program. IA will continue a partnership with CIW, supporting the farmworkers' efforts for justice in the fields by following their leadership. The more companies that join the Fair Food Program, the more robust its reforms become due to a yet larger market demanding fair pay and work conditions in their suppliers operation.


Just Harvest USA $10,000 Immokalee, FL Just Harvest coordinates a national consumer movement in partnership with the Coalition of Immokalee Workers (CIW) – a grassroots, farmworker-led organization – to create a more modern, more humane Florida tomato industry that respects farmworkers’ rights and dignity. The resulting Fair Food Program was heralded in The Washington Post as “one of the great human rights success stories of our day.” In addition, Just Harvest collaborates with sustainable-food organizations and individuals to come together in partnership with a directly impacted community to shift the national food movement dialogue towards an inclusion of farmworkers as integral partners in shaping that vision.

Northwest Florida Congregations in Action (NWFCIA)- CBCO Grant $6,000 Pensacola, FL Northwest Florida Congregations will continue to work to reduce youth violence and shootings in Escambia County by half through launching a powerful faith based grassroots organizing initiative that will mobilize hundreds of families.

Synod of Southern California and Hawaii $28,300

Inland Empire Sponsoring Committee (IESC)- CBCO Grant $6,000 Pomona, CA This grant is general support for Inland Empire Sponsoring Committee, an organization of organizations working throughout the Inland Empire of southern California to enable these institutions and their members to engage more effectively in public life and to strengthen the local institutions.

Koreatown Immigrant Workers Alliance- General Support* $10,000 Los Angeles, CA This important grant from PHP will support KIWA in implementing its core work of organizing low-income working people and their families in Los Angeles’ most dense neighborhoods to uphold low-wage workers’ rights, increase affordable housing and green spaces and fight for sustainable community development and just immigration reform. It will help KIWA work with those most disenfranchised and affected by poverty and structural inequality to create fundamental and systemic changes in community conditions, while allowing the organization to provide much-needed services (such as assistance in filing wage claims, ESL and computer classes, organic community gardens) to its members and larger community.

Presbytery of Pacific- Hunger Action Enabler Grant $6,300 Los Angeles, CA This presbytery matched grant supports the hunger work of the local presbytery that includes national initiatives.

Presbytery of San Fernando and San Gabriel- Hunger Action Enabler Grant $5,000 Panorama City, CA This presbytery matched grant supports the hunger work of the local presbytery that includes national initiatives.


San Diego Downtown Fellowship $1,000 San Diego, CA San Diego Downtown Fellowship of Churches and Ministries is launching innovative outreach among 1,000 homeless in downtown San Diego, ensuring responsible feeding that includes helping people toward transitional steps for recovery and housing. This timely project will help the church and the community to be effective partners and demonstrate that working together we can solve complex issues around poverty

Synod of the Southwest $23,000 Albuquerque Interfaith- CBCO Grant $6,000 Albuquerque, NM ABQ Interfaith seeks to expand institution-based organizing, including congregations, schools, and unions, into Santa Fe, engaging institutions there in developing leaders, strengthening relationships and building the capacity to hold public officials accountable to an agenda for families.

Pima County Interfaith Council- CBCO Grant $5,000 Tucson, AZ This grant will help PCIC Inc. expand into Santa Cruz and Cochise Counties in order to reflect the broadening of the organization's work and mission.

Tolani Lake Enterprises, INC.* $4,000 Winslow, AZ This grant will help the senior citizens of Tolani Lake to have fresh, nutritious, culturally relevant foods served at the community senior center. The residents of Tolani Lake will also have access to fresh, nutritious, culturally relevant foods and will be able to counter the ill effects of living in a food desert. Low-income community members will be able to purchase fresh produce at fair/reduced prices.

Trinity Presbyterian Church $3,000 Winslow, AZ A Community Garden of Chinle has been established at Trinity Presbyterian Church in the heart of the Navajo Nation that will enable people who have limited access to fruits and vegetables to grow their own produce. With high unemployment and poverty rates as well as lack of refrigeration and electricity in many areas, fresh fruits and vegetables are not only key to affordable food, they are essential in diabetes prevention and other health-related concerns.

World Hunger Ecumenical Arizona Task Force, Inc. $5,000 Phoenix, AZ In utilizing funding from the Presbyterian Hunger Program, WHEAT Equips & Empowers Faith Communities in the Fight Against Hunger through educational offerings, advocacy trainings, impactful volunteer opportunities and community outreach projects.


Synod of the Sun $43,000 Allied Communities of Tarrant- CBCO Grant $6,000 Fort Worth, TX This grant will support ACT develop Housing Civics Academies; work with elected officials and the City of Fort Worth to continue building a working relationship and work towards improved housing opportunities in the area; and engage institutions in the area to collaborate in this effort.

First Presbyterian Church- Congregational Hunger Ministry (CHM) $1,000 Waco, TX Through the meal delivery, First Presbyterian volunteers are present all over the city, building relationships with homebound in need, many of which live in neighborhoods where our members would not otherwise frequent. Our community benefits greatly and those who are homebound and unable to prepare meals, have access to nutritious food and the added bonus of interaction with the faithful volunteers.

Latino Farmers’ Cooperative of Louisiana $5,000 New Orleans, LA The Latino Farmers’ Cooperative of Louisiana seeks to improve the social and economic welfare of its members and empower them through an integrated, sustainable community food system. This grant will help us combat food insecurity and diet-related health epidemics by increasing capacity to provide emergency food assistance, nutritious low cost food, health and nutrition education, social services, and food-centric community events. Through this holistic approach, we hope to foster the development of an empowered, engaged and resilient Latino community in the greater New Orleans area.

North and Central Louisiana Interfaith (NCLI)- CBCO Grant $6,000 Monroe, LA This grant will aid in efforts to build an affordable housing strategy by collaborating with other organizations to get workers trained for living wage employment with jobs, leading to home ownership for workers and their families.

Other Worlds $6,000 New Orleans, LA Other Worlds’ Harvesting Justice program works to strengthen the transformation of the food supply chain, meaning reclaiming food, land, and agriculture from agribusiness and returning them to the hands of communities. Currently, the main focus of this program is education, movement support, advocacy via the new book, Harvesting Justice: Transforming Food, Land, and Agricultural Alternatives in the Americas and accompanying popular educational curriculum. Other Worlds is currently working to integrate these materials into grassroots organizing efforts, campaign support, and educating the general public about how they can get involved in food sovereignty struggles.


Texas Impact – General Support/Economic Justice/Food Justice $7,000 Austin, TX Texas Impact is a statewide, nonpartisan, social justice advocacy organization for mainline religious communities in Texas. In 2013 Texas Impact will work with legislators to develop legislation including incentives for urban agriculture as well as regulations on predatory lending practices that trap low-income Texans in a cycle of debt.

Voices Organized in Civic Engagement (VOICE) Education Fund- CBCO Grant $6,000 Oklahoma City, OK Congregation-based community organizations (CBCOs) are coalitions of churches, school, unions, and

non-profits that work on public policy and political initiatives around issues like affordable housing,

public education, workforce training and job creation, immigration rights, criminal justice, predatory

lending, and pay equity.

World Hunger Relief, Inc.* $6,000 Elm Mott, TX World Hunger Relief, Inc. is addressing poor nutrition in McLennan County by improving access to healthy foods, developing knowledge and skills related to eating healthy, and educating our community on the complex root issues to this problem. We do this through after-school garden clubs, educational programs at our training farm, and though partnerships with churches and other organizations.

Synod of the Trinity $22,800 Media Mobilizing Project – Media and Communications Institutes $8,000 Philadelphia, PA In 2013-14, MMP will train hundreds of low-income people in media strategies as part of a movement to end poverty. We will train low-income people to produce media that uplift low-income struggles and strategies to solve them in poor communities.

Presbytery of Washington Hunger Action Enabler Grant $2,000 Eighty Four, PA This presbytery matched grant supports the hunger work of the local presbytery that includes national initiatives.

Philadelphians Organized to Witness, Empower and Rebuild (POWER)- CBCO Grant $6,500 Philadelphia, PA Congregation-based community organizations (CBCOs) are coalitions of churches, school, unions, and

non-profits that work on public policy and political initiatives around issues like affordable housing,

public education, workforce training and job creation, immigration rights, criminal justice, predatory

lending, and pay equity.


Presbytery of West Virginia- Hunger Action Enabler Grant $6,300 Charleston, WV This presbytery matched grant supports the hunger work of the local presbytery that includes national initiatives.

National (Initiatives which are partially or fully national in scope.) $245,007.09

Agricultural Missions $35,000 New York, NY Agricultural Missions, Inc. seeks to accompany rural peoples in their struggles for justice and a decent and sustainable way of life. We seek to assist these communities to empower themselves, allowing them to define the solutions to their challenges and take control over their own lives.

Americas Program $5,000 Washington, DC By writing, translating, publishing and disseminating reports on food-related issues, the Americas Program will enhance the effectiveness and strength of our grassroots partners in their food justice campaigns and increase overall public awareness of issues such as GMO contamination, corporate control of the food system, speculation and hunger, and the need for food sovereignty. As a communications hub in the hemisphere we will facilitate the formation of networks for cross-border work on these issues.

Bread for the World* $8,000 Washington, DC Bread for the World works to create an outpouring of citizen action which leads to the placement of hunger and poverty atop the president’s list of executive priorities, as well as increase congressional support for laws which end hunger and provide much needed funding for ending poverty at home and abroad.

Church World Service $3,000 Washington, DC This grant will help enable the CWS Advocacy Program to impact the US government -- and to help lead faith-based coalitional advocacy efforts -- to end global hunger, malnutrition and extreme poverty.

Corporate Accountability International* $5,000 Boston, MA Corporate Accountability International mobilizes thousands of people across the country and around the world to protect access to the water and healthful food they need to survive and thrive. The organization works with a wide range of people, including parents, health professionals, community leaders and activists in communities of color and low-income communities, to (1) counter the corporate influence leading to the exploitation of the earth’s limited resources; and (2) advocate for changes in public policy that result in long-lasting, positive change. In so doing, the organization secures a just world where corporate power does not trump the critical needs of all people.


Creation Justice Ministries $5,000 Washington, DC Creation Justice Ministries, with support from PHP, will provide education and advocacy opportunities on issues of creation care to 37 denominations, their congregations, clergy, and congregants. Our ministry focuses on climate justice, sustainable agriculture, lands protection, and clean/accessible water.

Ecumenical Advocacy Alliance $5,000 Geneva, Switzerland EAA will reach out to our member churches and local communities to be better and effective advocates for a just food production and distribution system; advocates for just, sustainable and healthy consumption of food; advocates to affirm and realize the right to food for all people.

Ecumenical Advocacy Days $5,000 Washington, DC This grant will support EAD's 2014 national gathering, "Jesus Weeps: Resisting Violence, Building Peace." This year's theme will confront and imagine how to transform the violence in our world, and will seek a vision of peace in the community, peace among the peoples, peace in the marketplace, and peace with the earth.

Food Chain Workers Alliance $9,000 Los Angeles, CA With support from the Presbyterian Hunger Program, the Food Chain Workers Alliance will increase the leadership skills of low-wage food system workers, develop stronger relationships between food workers and their organizations, work towards policies that help to end hunger and poverty, and build public support for food workers' organizing campaigns that aim to win a voice in the workplace and in the food system.

Heifer International $18,000 Little Rock, AR Heifer works to meet the need as global hunger and poverty levels are at unprecedented levels. More than ever before, now is the time for us to act swiftly, with intelligence and with more heart and conviction in our mission than ever before. Because food security is directly tied to national security, failure to improve agricultural productivity and develop vibrant small farms jeopardizes the future of many families.

Interfaith Worker Justice $8,000 Chicago, IL This grassroots and faith based organizing campaign will create a movement to stop abuse of the poor by high cost, long term payday type lenders. It will give congregations and faith leaders opportunities to accomplish the goals outlined in "A reformed understanding of usury" to create a more just world.


International Labor Rights Organization $12,000 Washington, DC ILRF's campaign will build momentum towards a new model of corporate accountability where: 1) brands and retailers—starting with the apparel industry—are legally responsible for the safety and welfare of workers in their contract factories; and 2) workers are empowered to protect their safety by exercising their rights to organize, bargain collectively, and refuse dangerous work. By implementing this new model of corporate accountability we help to rectify the underlying causes of poverty and hunger for global supply-chain workers.

Jubilee USA $10,000 Washington, DC With the support of the Presbyterian Hunger Program, Jubilee USA Network will win shifts in the international financial system that benefits more than a billion of the world’s most poor and vulnerable people. Jubilee will harness its diverse grassroots support, including faith communities across the country, to influence Congress, the White House, international financial institutions, the United Nations and G20 nations to address systemic root causes of poverty.

National Family Farm Coalition $8,000 Washington, DC This grant will allow the Coalition to include more of its membership in its campaigns to educate a wider public; achieve fair pricing for dairy and other commodity producers; and expose and slow the grabbing of natural resources by extraction, agribusiness and investment corporations. This will lead to more media support and public pressure on Congress and the Administration to take notice and to change policies in ways that lower poverty levels, eliminate hunger and advance food sovereignty worldwide.

National Coalition for the Homeless * $5,000 Washington, DC NCH programs mobilize and benefit people who are experiencing, or at risk of experiencing, poverty, hunger and homelessness by informing the community of national policy priorities and discussions, connecting people experiencing homelessness to re-housing and other services, giving leadership training, and providing a significant platform for self-advocacy.

National Farm Worker Ministry $8,000 Raleigh, NC The farm workers laboring in our fields, orchards, dairies and vineyards are the backbone of our multibillion dollar agricultural industry and yet are among the poorest and most oppressed workers in the country. National Farm Worker Ministry will educate, equip and mobilize national member organizations, and other faith communities, groups and individuals in support of farm worker led efforts to improve their living and working conditions.

Oakland Institute $10,000 Oakland, CA The grant will assist OI in further strengthening and building on our research, advocacy, and communications strategy, and address the lack of recourse witnessed during the course of large-scale land deals.


Presbyterians for Earth Care (PEC) $7,500 Washington, DC This grant will assist PEC to communicate with individuals and congregations through e-mail, social media, our web site and quarterly newsletter provides Presbyterians and the public with educational resources to connect, equip and inspire people to act and educate others. We will track use of communication tools to determine the most effective strategy for involving people of faith in caring for God’s creation and use the data to improve PEC communications.

Rural Coalition $7,500 Washington, DC The Rural Coalition's work in 2014 is dedicated to assuring that the hard-fought gains for American Indian, African-American, Asian-American, Euro-American, Latino and women family farmers, and farmworkers and especially women and youth in Farm Bills are not lost in the noxious 2013 farm Bill Debate, and that the rights of these communities are advanced in the upcoming debates over immigration, trade, labor rights and climate change. We endeavor to engage our members and allies in unified democratic participation to secure food, farm, and trade policies that assure food sovereignty and the rebuilding of rural communities in the US and our sister communities across the world sustaining communities, the land and resource base, and future generations.

Sustainable Agriculture and Food Systems Funders $1,000 Washington, DC SAFSF seeks to provide opportunities for collaboration, increasing awareness of the issues as well as funding needs, and expanding beyond the current membership to increase support and funding for organizations that (i) promote sustainable and just food production; (ii) link to concerns about sustainability and justice of our food system; and/or (iii) connect food production with issues of environmental stewardship, diet and heath, and viability of communities.

Souper Bowl of Caring $1,507.09 Columbia, SC Souper Bowl of Caring is a national organization serving “the least of these” by engaging youth in churches and schools to use the energy of the Super Bowl to serve their neighbors in need.

Training Grant s for Community Organizing $54,500 USA

$7,500 DART Network Miami FL $4,000 DART Organizer/Clergy Miami FL $5,000 PICO Network Oakland CA $7,500 IAF Network Austin TX $7,500 Interfaith Funders Syosset NY $5,000 Alliance Schools/IAF Albuquerque NM $7,500 CBCO Network PC(USA) Albuquerque NM $4,000 Inter Valley Project West Newton MA $3,000 Scholarships for Individuals

$1,500 GBCO Training Fairhope AL $2,000 Albuquerque Interfaith Albuquerque NM


United States Food Sovereignty Alliance $14,000 New York, NY During 2014, the USFSA will work to win community control over land and fisheries through a Day of Action connecting local campaigns to resist land grabs, promote improved working conditions for farmers, producers, farm and food workers by creating and distributing an new educational resource on immigrant rights and trade and heal and protect the earth's land, water, seeds and food systems by supporting a national seed keepers collective and agroecology exchanges. The USFSA will also and sponsor the Food Sovereignty Prize, which honors grassroots activists furthering food sovereignty.

National Grants Total $857,507.09

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