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Acknowledgements
Bread for the World Institute wishes to thank all those
who contributed to the development of the 2014 Hunger
Report. First, thanks to those who contributed content: Bread
for the World and Bread for the World Institute colleagues
Amelia Kegan, Michele Learner, Derek Schwabe, and
Andrew Wainer; Duke Storen of Share Our Strength; Sarah
Burd-Sharps and Kristen Lewis of Social Science Research
Council; Steve Wamhoff of Citizens for Tax Justice; Maurice
Bloem, Matthew Hackworth and their colleagues at Church
World Service; and a special thanks to Congressmen Frank
Wolf and Jim McGovern.
Faustine Wabwire of Bread for the World Institute prepared the way for Chapter 5 with her briefing paper, “A
Global Development Agenda: Toward 2015 and Beyond.”
Carter Echols, formerly with Bread for the World’s church
relations department, wrote the Christian Study Guide.
We work with some terrific photographers. Richard Lord
and Laura Elizabeth Pohl provided many of the photos.
Bread for the World’s own Joe Molieri contributed photos,
including a beautiful cover shot. Joe also produced multimedia material for the 2014 Hunger Report website at www.
hungerreport.org. Infographics on the website were designed
by Tim Moyer. Bread for the World’s Hans Friedhoff and
Sonora Bostian designed the website itself.
These people reviewed draft chapters and participated in
consultations with Bread for the World Institute as the report
was in development: Uma Ahluwalia, Ann Beltran, Maurice
Bloem, Patty Barker, Joel Berg, Carolyn Bibb, Kim Bobo,
Ed Bolen, Kim Caldwell, Sister Simone Campbell, Kumar
Chandran, HyeSook Chung, Nancy Conley, Judy Conti,
Minerva Delgado, Christian Dorsey, Tony Fairhead, Jesse
Epp-Fransen, Andy Fisher, Sara Gold, Sara Griffen, Kelly
Haines, John Hill, Saru Jayaraman, Jim and Linda Jones,
Elyssa Koidin, Helly Lee, Jodie Levin-Epstein, Michael Liv-

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ingston, Marquis Lowe, Elizabeth Lower-Basch, Eric Mathis,
Dave Miner, Maisha and Omo Moses, Bonnie O’Keefe, Beatriz Otero, Nancy Pope, José Quiñonez, Yasmin Reyazuddin,
Kathy A. Saile, Karen Schulman, Terry Seamens, Arloc
Sherman, Martin Shupack, Albert Sykes, Amy Traub, Beau
Underwood, Deborah Weinstein, Nicole Woo, and Leslie G.
Woods.
Chapter 4 would not have been written without time spent
with the following people fighting hunger in their communities around the country: Sameerah Ahmad, Bryan Allan,
Christine Alongi, Patty Barker, Patrick Casey, Stephanie
Cihon, Angela Collier, Nancy Conley, Steve Copley, the team
at DataKind and DC Action for Children, Dominic Durren,
Ginny Sorensen, Denise Garner, Julie Gehrki, Douglas
Hairston, Tony Hall, Alicia Hammonds, Elizabeth Henry,
Cindy Hubert, Barbie Izquierdo, Terry Jones, Eric Mathis,
Marquez McCoy, Dave and Robin Miner, Brother Mike
Murphy, Megan Newell-Ching, Eduardo Ochoa, Edward
Oliver, Barb Petee, Sarah Perfetto, Harriett Phillips, Mike
Ransom, Ginny Sorensen, Julie Sutton, Sharon Thornberry,
Rachel Townsend, Janet Van Nest, Jennifer Vigran, and
Starr Yurkewycz.
Several colleagues in the Alliance to End Hunger and
Bread for the World deserve special mention: Adlai Amor,
Christine Melendez Ashley, LaMarco Cable, Gary Gook,
Kyle Dechant, Diane Ford Dessables, Dulce Gamboa,
Michele Gilligan, J.K. Granberg-Michaelson, Jon Gromek,
Matt Gross, Danielle Haddy, Chris Matthews, Katy Merckel,
Rebecca Middleton, Matt Newell-Ching, Robin Stephenson,
and Jamie Thomas.
To anyone who contributed and was left out by mistake,
we are sorry for the oversight but please know we are no less
grateful to you as we are to those named above. All mistakes
and errors are ours.