| Publications: |
Hunger Notes - updated daily Hunger Notes 1976-1999 published quarterly Newsletter |
| Purpose of the organization: |
For the past 33 years, since its founding in 1976, the mission of World Hunger Education Service is to undertake programs, including Hunger Notes, which: * inform the community of people interested in issues of hunger and poverty, the public, and policymakers, about the causes, extent, and efforts to end hunger and poverty in the United States and the world. * further understanding, which integrates ethical, religious, social, economic, political, and scientific perspectives on hunger and poverty. * facilitate communication and networking among those who are working for solutions. * promote individual and collective commitment to solutions to the hunger and poverty that confront hundreds of millions of the people of the world. |
| A list of members of the governing body of the organization, and their countries of nationality: |
Board of Directors Dan Shaughnessy (Chairperson), Margie Ferris Morris, Steve Hansch, Antonio Gayoso, Lane Vanderslice (Acting Treasurer), Elizabeth Whelan, Chuck Woolery, Linda Worthington (Board Secretary). All nationalities are American. |
| Description of the membership of the organization, indicating the total number of members: |
800,000 individual readership per year List of Associates available upon request |
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