Bread for the World Institute

For General Operating Support

Overview
This grant would provide unrestricted funds for Bread for the World Institute, a faith-based organization that focuses public attention on the value of development assistance to reduce poverty. It also advocates for reform that will ensure that food aid and other assistance will have the greatest impact. During this grant period, the Institute will work to protect funding for development assistance, mobilize U.S. leadership for the next round of global development goals, and advocate for effective food security programs. The Institute actively participates in the Modernizing Foreign Assistance Network, a coalition of think tanks and advocacy organizations that promotes reforms of U.S. development aid.
About the Grantee
Grantee Website
www.bread.org 
Address
425 3rd Street SW, Suite 1200, Washington, DC, 20024, United States
Grants to this Grantee
for strengthening coverage of women’s economic empowerment in the Hunger Report  
This grant to Bread for the World Institute will support its twenty-fifth Hunger Report, which will focus on women’s important role in eliminating hunger. The purpose of the grant would be to elevate the faith community’s engagement and voice to promote women’s economic empowerment and to raise the profile of this issue in Bread for the World’s advocacy directed at the U.S. government and the post-2015 development goals.
for support of the Modernizing Foreign Assistance Network  
The Modernizing Foreign Assistance Network (MFAN), with Bread for the World Institute as the fiscal sponsor, has been a key voice since 2007 for foreign assistance and global development policy reform among policymakers, thought leaders, and the development stakeholder community. This project grant will support MFAN as it transitions over the coming months to a coalition focused specifically on policy reforms to strengthen transparency and accountability and to ensure that the aid is more responsive to the people and governments of developing countries.
for support of the Modernizing Foreign Assistance Network  
Bread for the World Institute is the fiscal sponsor of the Modernizing Foreign Assistance Network (MFAN), a group of think tanks, advocacy organizations, and development experts committed to making U.S. development assistance more effective, more accountable and more responsive to local needs and priorities. During the next eighteen months, MFAN will continue its efforts to hold policymakers accountable for implementing promised reforms, and will develop priority policy recommendations to inform future reform efforts. This grant also includes activities after the first quarter of 2013 that may lead to a restructuring or phaseout of MFAN.

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