The president of a Christian anti-hunger lobbying group won the premier award for fighting world hunger.
Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton awarded the World Food Prize to Bread for the World President David Beckmann at the State Department on Wednesday (June 16).
Beckmann, an economist and ordained Lutheran minister, shared the $250,000 prize with Jo Luck, president of Heifer International.
So. What happens with the prize money? Will it be spent to reduce world hunger? Hungy people want to know.
Frances Scott
Sigh! – I wish we didn’t have to see the words Christian and lobbying used together so much.
I wish there weren’t so much lobbying, but if the bad guys lobby, the good guys need to lobby too.
I’ve been a member of BFW since its first meeting, in NYC in the 1970s. The idea is that the organization leverages member contributions–sending x amount of money to poor folks gives them x amount of money; using x amount to get the government to fund domestic anti-poverty programs and foreign aid gets many times x amount of money to poor folks. BFW has been VERY effective in its lobbying efforts so, when I contribute to BFW I get a bigger bang for my buck than I could by contributing directly to a conventional charity–though of course I contribute to conventional charities too.
Check out Bread for the World at [url=http://www.bread.org]http://www.bread.org[/url]