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“Our Children Are Hungry So We Feed Them”: The Black Panthers Serve Breakfast “Our Children Are Hungry So We Feed Them”: The Black Panthers Serve Breakfast
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A Good Source of Energy: School Breakfast during the 1970s on the Lower East Side A Good Source of Energy: School Breakfast during the 1970s on the Lower East Side
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Branching Out Anyway: The New York City School Breakfast Steering Committee Branching Out Anyway: The New York City School Breakfast Steering Committee
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From Nutrition to Advocacy: The Reorientation of Agnes Molnar From Nutrition to Advocacy: The Reorientation of Agnes Molnar
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“If You Know Somebody, Call Them Up”: Founding the Community Food Resource Center “If You Know Somebody, Call Them Up”: Founding the Community Food Resource Center
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Scaling the Downward Escalator: Developing a Food Advocacy Organization during the 1980s Scaling the Downward Escalator: Developing a Food Advocacy Organization during the 1980s
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5 If You Know Somebody, Call Them Up: Food Advocacy and the Beginning of the Community Food Resource Center
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Published:November 2019
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Abstract
The Community Food Resource Center, founded in 1980 by Kathy Goldman, was a nonprofit anti-hunger agency that, unusually, combined direct service with advocacy. This chapter examines the nonprofit within a longer tradition of successful grassroots food activism, including, most significantly, the Black Panthers’ Free Breakfast Program for Children. The chapter shows how, building on a set of connections forged over decades, Goldman, her staff, and grassroots allies built productive partnerships with city officials to improve New Yorkers’ access to food by harnessing the economic power of federal food programs to bring money into the city through job creation. This chapter also illustrates the web of activist relationships upon which the organization was founded. Examining food advocates’ policy and legislative work around school breakfast in particular sheds light on the entrepreneurial side of social politics: the fact that much of what gets codified publicly depends upon the personalities and leadership of key individuals working behind the scenes.
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