2009

This year, The Solae Company, LLC became the first Champion of Children’s Dreams and sponsor with a $50,000 contribution. This event not only heightens awareness of the need for sustainable school feeding programs in developing countries, but is an important source of funding for the foundation through corporate sponsorships.

Solae’s dedication to ending childhood hunger has been evident through their support of GCNF’s efforts since 2007 when a company representative first attended the Global Forum in Chicago, IL.  Solae witnessed, first-hand, leaders from developing countries participating in a five-day program that included a workshop in which delegates prepared country specific plans for developing their school feeding programs through the use of GCNF’s School Feeding Toolkit. Read more…

The Global Child Nutrition Foundation is grateful for the efforts of the volunteers whose goal is to Change Our World. Change Our World is an integral campaign for GCNF that aims to activate SNA members and the community at large and is fueled by the innovative fundraising strategies of volunteers. The Change Our World campaign helps to bring awareness to global hunger issues, while helping to support the Foundation’s efforts. Every nickel, dime and quarter helps us continue our efforts to assist developing countries to build or expand sustainable school feeding programs.  Read more…

National Harbor, Md., October 20, 2009 – The 2010 Gene White Lifetime Achievement Award for Child Nutrition will be awarded to Dan Glickman, former U.S. Secretary of Agriculture, former Congressman and long-time champion of child nutrition causes worldwide.  

Mr. Glickman, current Chairman and CEO of the Motion Picture Association of America, Inc. (MPAA), will be honored by the Global Child Nutrition Foundation at the non-profit’s annual A Possible Dream Gala scheduled for Tuesday, March 2, 2010 at the Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center in Washington, DC.

Dan Glickman will be the eighth recipient of the Gene White Lifetime Achievement Award for Child Nutrition, presented each year to an individual whose work has contributed toward helping the world’s poorest children receive adequate nutrition, thrive and reach their full potential.  Other recipients of this award include Senators Bob Dole and George McGovern, Dr. Josephine Martin, Edward Cooney, the Honorable Catherine Bertini, and Marshall Matz.

Mr. Glickman has led the fight to end hunger both domestically and internationally throughout his career.  Most recently, he joined the Honorable Catherine Bertini, former Executive Director of the UN World Food Programme, in co-chairing the Chicago Council on Global Affairs’ Global Agricultural Development Leaders Group.  The group’s findings, Renewing American Leadership in the Fight Against Global Hunger and Poverty, were issued early this year. Under his leadership as Secretary of Agriculture from March 1995 to January 2001, the Department focused extensively on improving our nation’s diet and nutrition and on fighting hunger.

Before his appointment as Secretary of Agriculture, Mr. Glickman served for 18 years in the U.S. House of Representatives, representing Kansas’ 4th Congressional District. During that time, he served as a member of the House Agriculture Committee, including six years as chairman of the subcommittee that had jurisdiction over most federal farm policy issues.

Mr. Glickman serves as vice Chairman of the Friends of the World Food Programme and on the board of directors of America’s Second Harvest, and Food Research and Action Center, among other organizations.

The Global Child Nutrition Foundation (www.gcnf.org) is a nonprofit corporation whose mission and vision are to provide a social safety net and child development opportunities in low income countries through the promotion of school feeding programs. The School Nutrition Association (www.schoolnutrition.org) is a national, non-profit professional organization.

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Schwan’s Food Service, Inc’s commitment to GCNF’s vision of “A world in which hunger is not a barrier to children learning” has been unwavering since the foundation was established in 2006 as the international arm of the School Nutrition Association.  “We have long supported the work of the SNA, and so when this international effort was launched, with the purpose of creating community-based, sustainable school food programs in targeted countries of need, we decided to support the effort with a $500,000 donation, to be provided over a five-year period,” said Mark Jansen, President of Schwan’s Food Service, Inc. Read more…

The WFP issued a statement on 13 September, 2009 regarding the death of Norman E. Borlaug. GCNF recognizes Borlaug for his role in agricultural innovation and the development of high-yield crops. Many refer to Borlaug as the Father of the Green Revolution.

To read what the WFP says: http://www.wfp.org/stories/statement-josette-sheeran-regarding-death-norman-borlaug