...In 1971, United Bronx Parents administered New York City’s first free summer meals program after the municipal government refused to take on the responsibility. Under the leadership of Executive Director Evelina Antonetty and coordinator Kathy Goldman, the grassroots antipoverty agency transformed...

...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...

.... This chapter catches the shift from Executive Director Kathy Goldman’s expansive vision of eradicating hunger to a defensive practice of damage control, as budget cuts and welfare reform ushered in a new common sense that increasingly sought to punish poor people out of poverty. The chapter also highlights...