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JANUARY 2008

Edward M. Cooney to Receive Award for Child Nutrition

The 2008 Gene White Lifetime Achievement  Award for Child Nutrition will be awarded to  a leader who has spent over thirty-five years  combating hunger in the U.S. and internationally.  Edward M. Cooney, Executive Director of  the Congressional Hunger Center (CHC), will be  honored as a champion of child nutrition at the 5th  annual A Possible Dream Gala on March 4, 2008,  in Washington, DC.

Mr. Cooney has spent his professional career  dedicated to the cause of feeding hungry children.  His work began as a legal services attorney in  Connecticut in the early 1970s and progressed to  state, national and now international programs. He  has worked with nutrition and public assistance  program participants, faith-based groups, local and  state officials, and anti-hunger groups. His work  through public and private sectors has set policy  and promoted child nutrition programs worldwide.  He has been an ardent supporter of child nutrition  programs and has stood with the School Nutrition  Association as they have lobbied relentlessly on  behalf of these programs throughout the years.  Mr. Cooney has served as the chief lobbyist  and political strategist for the Food Research and  Action Center (FRAC). In this capacity, he worked  on every major federal food assistance program bill  from 1979 to 1996, including legislation, which  led to full funding of the Women, Infants, and  Children (WIC) program, increased participation  by low-income children in the School Breakfast  Program and improved access to and significant  benefit increases in the Food Stamp Program.

As the Executive Director of the Congressional  Hunger Center, a nonprofit anti-hunger training  organization that exemplifies a bipartisan  approach to ending hunger, Mr. Cooney oversees  the Bill Emerson National Hunger Fellows  Program, which provides yearlong leadership  development for emerging leaders in the fight  against hunger in the United States. He also  oversees the Mickey Leland International Hunger  Fellows Program, which sends talented US citizens  to the world’s poorest countries to continue  the fight against hunger.

Mr. Cooney will be the sixth recipient of the  award, created to honor the woman for whom  it was named—Gene White, an extraordinary  woman who dedicates her life to children and  the benefits that good nutrition can provide them.  Other recipients of this award include Senators  Bob Dole and George McGovern, Dr. Josephine  Martin and Catherine Bertini.

This year marks the 5th anniversary of this gala  event, which was designed to honor champions of  childhood hunger and raise awareness and funds  for the Global Child Nutrition Foundation’s efforts  to combat global child hunger through sustainable  school feeding programs. #

The Global Child Nutrition Foundation (www.  gcnf.org) is a nonprofit corporation whose mission  and vision are to help the nations of the  world nurture young bodies and advance young  minds through the time-tested practice of schoolbased  nutrition. The School Nutrition Association  (www.schoolnutrition.org) is a national, non-profit  professional organization representing more than  55,000 members who provide high-quality, lowcost  meals to students across the country.

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