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The WorldManna.org Pledge:
I pledge to join WorldManna.org with people of
all faiths to help hungry people throughout the world. I will purchase
food items whenever possible that carry the WorldManna.org logo,
indicating that 1% of the proceeds of that food product will be donated by
the manufacturer to prevent world hunger.I have indicated how much my
household spends on groceries so that, WorldManna.org. has the purchasing
power to convince food manufacturers to contribute.
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About WorldManna.org
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Mission Statement
The Time Is Now
Who We Are
• The Founders
• Seed Funders
Consumers
Partners
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Mission Statement
WorldManna.org can generate billions of dollars to fund the work of existing anti-hunger groups and government entities and hunger prevention initiatives by creating unique partnerships between consumers of all faiths and food manufacturers. We intend to leverage the massive purchasing power and good will of consumers to transform the social consciousness and philanthropic culture of the food manufacturers; and also to raise public and political awareness of the issue of hunger and the need to find permanent solutions.
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The Time Is Now
Food is available: 12 million American families and 840 people worldwide suffer from hunger during a time when our world has adequate resources to feed them.
World Communities are concerned: The United Nations General Assembly, an international body of 191 member countries, in September 2000, unanimously committed to reduce by half world hunger by 2015 and eradicate hunger in the 21st century. (The Millennium Project at UN Millennium Project).
Domestic Organizations are following the lead: The National Anti-Hunger Organizations (NAHO)* comprised of 13 major national anti hunger groups,* issued on June 3, 2004, a new "Blueprint to End Hunger in America." The NAHO Blueprint recommends investing in and improving the national nutrition safety net so that the hunger and food insecurity among Americans can be cut in half by 2010 - and to eradicate by 2015. Blueprint to End Hunger in America
* The National Anti Hunger Organization is comprised of the following groups:
America's Second Harvest
The End Hunger Network
Bread for the World
Food Research and Action Center
Center for Budget and Policy Priorities
Mazon: The Jewish Response to Hunger
Center for Hunger and Poverty
National Interfaith Hunger Directors
Community Food Security Coalition
Results
Congressional Hunger Center
World HungerYear
Share Our Strength
WorldManna.org can provide the resources necessary to implement these and other thoughtful programs and policies. |
Who We Are The Founders
 Yosef I. Abramowitz, CEO of jflmedia.com/Jewish Family & Life and
publisher of SocialAction.com, is a protégé of Nobel Peace Prize Winner Elie
Wiesel. He serves as the President of the UCS: The union of Councils for
Jews in the Former Soviet Union, the leading grassroots non-profit
organization fighting anti Semitism, xenophobia and racism within the former
Soviet Union. UCSJ has twice been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize.
Additionally, Mr. Abramowitz successfully led the Jewish community's
campaign in 1997 to reinstate over $7billion in the federal budget to
restore benefits for legal immigrants in the United States.
 Hallel and Aliza Abramowitz-Silverman, daughters of Yosef and Rabbi Susan Silverman. As young children they observed that certain food items seemed to be more desirable because food manufacturers (in this case Paul Newman and his spaghetti sauce) were committed to donating proceeds from the sale of the product. They also noticed that the small kosher symbol found on many food products provides a meaningful way to identify kosher products. With youthful creativity, they proposed that all foods carry a symbol indicating that the manufacturer donates proceeds to feed hungry people.
Seed Funders
WorldManna.org is grateful to The Nathan Cummings Foundation and The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee for providing the seed funding.
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Consumers
Will amass billions of dollars of purchasing power by indicating how much money they spend on food and prefer products that carry the WORLDMANNNA.ORG logo.
(Click here for more info on consumers' role.)
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Partners
National, international, and governmental anti -hunger organizations and faith based groups will encourage their millions of constituents to sign the pledge and will help
WorldManna.org determine its policies regarding distribution of funds.
(Click here for more info on partners' role.)
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Food manufacturers who contribute 1% of the proceeds from their products will carry the
WorldManna.org logo on their products.
(Click here for more info on corporate role.)
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Internet Partner:
"As co-chair of the Millennium Project Hunger
Task Force, I give my full support for WorldManna. WorldManna will not
only raise funds necessary for ground-level project implementation, but
also, raise international awareness of the enormous worldwide hunger
problem."
- Pedro Sanchez, Co-Chair, UN Millennium Project Hunger
Task Force & Director of Tropical Agriculture, The Earth Institute at
Columbia University
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