About Bread for the World Comprehensive Timeline: 1974 - 2014 | Page 4

2005

90 percent, or $114 billion. As a result, families in these
countries have more food, better housing and health
care, and more access to small-scale enterprises.

Bread works with coalition partners to successfully
resist a major push to cut food stamps again. In an
effort to achieve bipartisan support of positive change
for hungry people, Bread develops and campaigns
for the Hunger Free Communities Act, which briefly
provides small grants to community coalitions against
hunger across the country.

2000

Hungry people see a significant increase in their food
stamp benefits thanks to an increase in the shelter cost
deduction. Congress also restores food stamp eligibility to legal immigrants and reduces red tape, thus
providing more than $1 billion in groceries to hungry
families each year.

2006

Bread members cont inue their winning record of significant increases in funding for programs that address
the root causes of poverty in developing countries. A
$1.4 billion increase in 2006 goes largely to addressing the HIV/AIDS pandemic. Now that millions more
people are receiving life-saving medications, more people in the working years of their lives are again able to
produce food, care for their children, and contribute
to their communities.

2001

Bread builds on the success of the Jubilee debt-relief
campaign by pushing for increased funding for poverty-focused development assistance. Congress passes
the Hunger to Harvest resolution, which calls for significant new poverty-focused development assistance
to Africa, and for President Bush to work with other
world leaders to dramatically reduce hunger and poverty on the continent. Congress also increases development assistance by $593 million.

2007

Bread pushes for broad reforms in the U.S. farm bill,
seeking updates to an outdated and unfair system
of trade-distorting commodity programs, along with
increases in the food stamp program (now called
the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or
SNAP). Bread and our coalition partners achieve the
largest ever funding increase for food stamps and food
banks—an additional $10 billion over 10 years—but
failed to win significant reforms in the commodity programs. Funding for the national nutrition programs
nearly tripled over the decade, from $32 billion in
2000 to $95 billion in 2010.

2002

Bread campaigns to improve Temporary Assistance to
Needy Families (TANF) and block changes that would
make it more difficult for struggling families to lift
themselves out of poverty. Bread eventually loses on
this issue, but is able to help stall harmful changes for
four years.

2003

2008

To support the Millennium Development Goals, Bread
helps establish the Millennium Challenge Corporation,
a new U.S. assistance program focused on good governance, accountability, and poverty reduction. MCC
has provided more than $8.4 billion in investments that
support country-determined projects worldwide.  This
year, Bread also helps win the largest increase in poverty-focused development assistance in nearly 20 years.

As food prices rise dramatically worldwide, Bread
helps to win $1.8 billion in funding to respond to a
global hunger crisis. Congress also triples spending
commitments for poverty-focused development assistance over this decade—from $7.5 billion in 2000 to
$22 billion by 2010.

2009

2004

The U.S. government leads the world in investment in
agriculture and nutrition in low-income countries—an
initiative that Bread supports and helps to shape. Over
a period of several years, the hunger crisis of 2008 was
reversed, and the world got back on track toward end-

Bread helps win increases in poverty-focused development assistance, $1.5 billion for the Millennium Challenge Corporation, and $2.9 billion in the fight against
HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria.
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