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Weinfield NS, Mills G, Borger C, Gearing M, Macaluso T, Montaquila J, Zedlewski S. 2014. Hunger in America 2014: National report. Chicago, IL: Feeding America, 161 pp., exec. summ. (24 pp.).

Annotation: This report documents the role that the charitable food assistance network plays in supporting families in the United States. Topics include collecting data about food programs and their clients, the national network of food programs, characteristics of program clients and their households, and their use of food assistance. Surveys and data tables and figures are included.

Keywords: Charities, Data collection, Family support programs, Financing, Food banks, Food supply, Local initiatives, National initiatives, Networking, Nutrition, Supplemental food programs

Foster LK, Gerould P. 2004. Fathers' impact on children's nutrition. Sacramento, CA: California Research Bureau, 42 pp.

Annotation: This report, which is based on input from focus groups and research, looks at the relationship between fathers and children as it relates to children's nutrition. The report offers several options for policymakers that focus on targeting and outreach to fathers. The report, which includes an executive summary, also contains the following sections: (1) nutrition as a public policy issue, (2) fathers' involvement with their children, (3) fathers, children, and food, (4) food assistance resources, (5) a note about physical activity, (6) options for action, (7) bibliography, and (8) endnotes. Statistical information is presented in tables throughout the report. The report includes black-and-white drawings.

Keywords: Child nutrition, Fathers, Food banks, Low income groups, Obesity, Outreach, Parent child relations, Physical activity, Public policy, Supplemental food programs

General Accounting Office. 1990. Views on temporary emergency food assistance program and commodities for soup kitchens: Testimony. Washington, DC: General Accounting Office, 13 pp.

Annotation: This statement before the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry, U.S. Senate, discusses the effectiveness of two programs of the Hunger Prevention Act of 1988: the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Temporary Emergency Food Assistance Program and a new program to provide commodities to soup kitchens or food banks, based on comments of officials in certain local recipient agencies and of individual recipients.

Keywords: Commodity Supplemental Food Program, Food banks, Soup kitchens, Surveys
   

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