Hunger Project

The Hunger Project "is a global, strategic organization committed to the sustainable end of world hunger.

"In Africa, Asia and Latin America, The Hunger Project empowers millions of women and men to end their own hunger. The Hunger Project has pioneered low-cost, bottom-up, gender-focused strategies in each region where hunger persists. These strategies mobilize clusters of rural villages to create and run their own programs that achieve lasting progress in health, education, nutrition and family income."

Werner Erhard, along with John Denver, Robert W. Fuller, and others, founded The Hunger Project in 1977.

Funders
Our past and present corporate and foundation sponsors include:
 * 2130 Partners
 * AT&T
 * Bank of America
 * Chase Manhattan Bank
 * Clark Transfer
 * Cross Family Foundation
 * Coca-Cola Company
 * Comdisco Inc.
 * Milton Cooper Foundation
 * Drexel, Burnham, Lambert Inc.
 * Duke Engineering & Services, Inc.
 * ELFA AB
 * Gap International
 * Glaxo Smith Kline
 * Israel and Matilda Goldberg Family Foundation
 * Steven B. Hard Foundation
 * Herbalife Family Foundation
 * H.J. Heinz Company Foundation
 * Hershey Family Foundation
 * Home Box Office
 * JMJ Associates
 * JMW Associates, Inc.
 * Kaiser Permanente
 * Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation
 * Muriel McBrien Kauffman Foundation
 * Kimco Realty Corporation
 * Thomas Leavey Foundation
 * Lend Lease
 * Maclaren Europe Ltd
 * Merrill Lynch & Co., Inc.
 * Newman's Own
 * Nikken Inc.
 * Ogilvy & Mather/WPP Group
 * Pfizer Inc.
 * Robertson Foundation
 * Sarah and Matthew Rosenhaus Peace Foundation
 * Sara Lee Corporation
 * Scholastic, Inc.
 * Seagull Pewter & Silversmiths Ltd.
 * Jane M. Sheehan Charitable Foundation
 * Showtime
 * Silver Mountain Foundation
 * Alan B. Slifka Foundation
 * Sony Corporation
 * Submersible Systems, Inc.
 * Swiss Development Corporation
 * Leon Tempelsman and Son
 * Toyota Motor Corporation
 * Wolff, Bergman, Coleman, Silverman and Weissmann, LLC
 * World Bank
 * Xerox Foundation

Board
Accessed November 2011:


 * Steven J. Sherwood
 * Mary Ellen McNish (ex-officio)
 * Joaquim Alberto Chissano
 * Charles Deull
 * V. Mohini Giri
 * Carl-Diedric Hamilton
 * Joan Holmes
 * George Mathew
 * Sheree S. Stomberg
 * Speciosa Wandira
 * Lena Ariola, Treasurer

Honorary members
 * M.S. Swaminathan
 * Queen Noor of Jordan
 * Javier Perez de Cuellar
 * Amartya Sen

Directors (updated February 2006)

 * Charles Deull, Secretary
 * Lena Ariola, Treasurer
 * Joan Holmes - President, The Hunger Project
 * Queen Noor of Jordan
 * Peter G. Bourne - Chair, Visiting Scholar, Green College, Oxford
 * Javier Perez de Cuellar - Former Secretary-General, United Nations
 * Joaquim Alberto Chissano - Former President, Mozambique; 1997 Africa Prize Laureate
 * Amartya Sen - Lamont University Professor, Harvard 1998 Nobel Laureate in Economics
 * V. Mohini Giri - Former chair, National Commission for Women, India
 * Steven J. Sherwood - Chair, CWS Capital Partners LLC, U.S.
 * Speciosa Wandira Kazibwe - Former Vice President of Uganda
 * Chair - Audit and Finance Committee - George M. Weiss - President, Beechtree Capital Group, LLC, U.S.
 * Cecilia Loría - Former Director, INDESOL, Mexico
 * Chair Emeritus - M. S. Swaminathan - Chair, M. S. Swaminathan Research Foundation, India
 * George Mathew - Director, Institute of Social Sciences, India

Criticism

 * Suzanne Gordon, "Let Them Eat EST" - Mother Jones, December 1978. (Est supporters mentioned in this article include Roger Sant, Vicki Sant, Greg Votaw, Roy Prosterman, Valerie Harper, Harry Chaplin, John Denver, and Buckminster Fuller).

Contact
The Hunger Project, 5 Union Square West, New York, NY 10003 Phone: +1-212-251-9100 Fax: +1-212-532-9785 Web: http://www.thp.org

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