About Bread for the World 40th Anniversary Commemorative Book | Page 19
Bread fought the House of
Representatives’ proposal to cut
$3.5 trillion over ten years from
programs vital to hungry and poor
people. By 2013, only less than $50
billion was cut.
Bread won a five-year
extension of the earned
income tax credit and the
child tax credit. EITC
alone benefits more than
13 million low-income
working families.
2011
2012
2010
Bread’s second president,
Rev. David Beckmann, was awarded the
World Food Prize. He was cited for
“building Bread for the World…into
(one) of the world's foremost grassroots
organizations leading the charge to end
hunger and poverty…around the globe.”
2006
2007
2008
2009
2010
2011
2012
2013
2014
2014
Bread celebrates
its 40th anniversary and
launches Bread Rising,
its most ambitious
comprehensive campaign.
Bread convinced Congress to
restore food stamp eligibility for
legal immigrants, thus providing
more than $1 billion in groceries
to hungry families each year.