6/15: NYCCAH Co-Sponsoring FREE Conference: Ending Hunger & Poverty in NYC

Friday, NYCCAH is pleased to be co-sponsoring "Ending Hunger and Poverty in NYC: A conference for anti-hunger advocates, emergency food providers, and faith leaders"!

CONFERENCE FLYER

Friday June 15
Sixth Street Community Synagogue
325 E. 6th Street, NYC (btwn 1st and 2nd Ave)

Agenda (with initial confirmed speakers)

9:00 - Registration

9:20 - Welcome

9:40 - 30 Years of Combating Hunger in
NYC; Future Directions feat. Mark Dunlea, Hunger Action Network of NYS; Joel Berg, NYC Coalition Against Hunger; Doreen Wohl, Westside Campaign Against Hunger; Bill Ayers, WhyHunger

Workshops

10:45am

• The Role of the Faith Community in anti-hunger advocacy - John Janka, Middle Collegiate Church;Metropolitan Council on Jewish Poverty; others

• How can EFPs do a better job of ending hunger in their community, looking at operation (e.g. nutrition), services (referrals to other services), and issue advocacy - Christy Robb, St. John's Bread and Life; Neighbors Together, Doreen Wohl, WSCAH

11:45am

• Bringing hunger groups into the Food Justice Movement (CSAs, Farm Bill, gardens); - Just Food, Nancy Romer, Brooklyn Food coalition, others

• Addressing the Problem of Growing Income Inequality - James Parott, Fiscal Policy Institute, Prof. Bill DiFazio, Dennis Hanratty, Mt. Vernon United Tenants,

1pm Adjournment

To register (FREE): hungerconference@gmail.com