Center On Hunger And Poverty

The SAGE Encyclopedia of World Poverty Center on Hunger and Poverty Contributors: Amitabh Vikram Dwivedi Edited by: Mehmet Odekon Book Title: The SAGE Encyclopedia of World Poverty Chapter Title: "Center on Hunger and Poverty" Pub. Date: 2015 Access Date: May 6, 2017 Publishing Company: SAGE Publications, Inc City: Thousand Oaks Print ISBN: 9781483345703 Online ISBN: 9781483345727 DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.4135/9781483345727.n104 Print pages: 188-189 ©2015 SAGE Publications, Inc. All Rights Reserved. This PDF has been generated from SAGE Knowledge. Please note that the pagination of the online version will vary from the pagination of the print book. SAGE Contact SAGE Publications at http://www.sagepub.com. SAGE Reference The Center on Hunger and Poverty (CHP), developed from the Physician Task Force on Hunger, is a part of the Institute on Assets and Social Policy (IASP), which is a subdepartment of the Heller School for Social Policy and Management at Brandeis University. The university is located in Waltham, Massachusetts. The IASP develops alternative strategies, processes, and policies that enable people to access opportunities and build resources to participate fully in all aspects of social and economic life and live securely. Dr. Larry J. Brown, executive director of the CHP, and responsible for the Physician Task Force on Hunger in America, took the initiative in organizing field trips and reporting across the country concerning the issue of hunger during the 1980s. His reports pointed out that economic inequality and poverty are the root cause of poverty. The CHP moved from Tufts University to Brandeis University in 2000. The CHP, as an independent center, gives more focus and awareness of its aims. It has graduated from working through the Asset Development Institute and the Food Security Institute through various ranges of products. This enables it to better compete for research grants and recruiting top-level research staff. The CHP, as part of the IASP, has focused on domestic hunger and its dimensions, health and nutritional consequences, and policy responses over time. The center is also doing research in hunger and food insecurity prevalent at the local, state, and national levels; program design and evaluation for innovative community initiatives in the hunger and nutrition field; development of nutrition education materials, particularly for low-income families with children; and promotion and expansion of the child nutrition and food stamp programs. These targets include a wide range of areas, from publication and research to advocacy and policy formation, development of educational materials, training, and outreach. These activities require a wide range of resources and skills. The CHP achieved success to date in its initiation and in the process of drafting the Hunger Relief Act through preparing the Welfare Development Scale and the National Food Security Scale. It was also a part of a network sponsoring and initiating the Mickey Leland Childhood Hunger Relief Act, which conducted the 1993 congressional analysis for 30 million hungry Americans and child poverty in America. Also, it created the Nutrition-Cognition Initiative and was part of an initiative entitled the Medford Declaration to End Hunger in the United States. The CHP mobilized the leaders of more than 3,000 organizations that represent around 100 million members. Special projects are also being carried out, including Feeding Children Better, which facilitates technical expertise and resources to food banks across the United States to improve the nutritional quality of supplies. Know Hunger, an educational program, is designed to help students know nutrition and hunger issues affecting their direct vicinity. This program is associated with the Gerda and Kurt Klein Foundation, which is a nonprofit public organization aimed at assisting y