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	Vote for The Hunger Project! The Hunger Project could receive up to US$1.5 million from the American Express Members Project, but only if enough people nominate our project, People Ending Their Own Hunger, by September 1. Take a couple of minutes now to add your nomination!
	August 2008 Newsletter: Global Update - Our First Electronic Version! Each month, we will share highlights of our partners' work and how this is making an enormous difference to their lives. This month, read how partners in our epicenters in Africa are achieving food security and how our partners in Bangladesh and India are fighting corruption! We encourage you to forward this email to your friends and colleagues and ask them to sign up to receive email updates from The Hunger Project!
	July 2008 Newsletter: Celebrating Community Leaders Empowering Women. In October, The Hunger Project will award its coveted Africa Prize for Leadership for the Sustainable End of Hunger to honor Civil Society Leadership for the Empowerment of Women. Read about the Africa Prize and why it is important to celebrate these community leaders creating extraordinary change.
	July 7, 2008: The Hunger Project featured on two major networks in one day! Click here for full story and clip on CNN! Click here to watch the clip on NBC's Today Show!
	June 2008 Newsletter: The World Food Crisis: The Sustainable Solution. Hunger is back on the world’s agenda. Experts are not only calling for short-term emergency aid. They are also demanding that the world take this opportunity to invest in, and scale up, sustainable solutions based on building self-reliance at the grassroots level. The Hunger Project’s approach is just such a sustainable solution.
	May 2008: Profiles of Inspiring Hunger Project Animators in Dhaka, Bangladesh
	May 2008 Newsletter: All Politics Is Local. Making local government work is essential to achieving the end of hunger and poverty. Read how The Hunger Project is working in partnership with local governments throughout South Asia, Africa and Latin America.
	April 2008 Newsletter: Progress on Scale-up in Ghana. The Hunger Project has made major strides in scaling up our Epicenter Strategy in Ghana. Read about how, in just the first 18 months, we've expanded the number of clusters of villages mobilized to form epicenters in the Eastern Region of Ghana from seven to 30!
	March 2008: Jill Lester Visits The Hunger Project-India. Jill Lester traveled to India, the country of The Hunger Project's first program, to meet many of our colleagues and partners and see first-hand the inspirational work we do on the ground.
	March 2008: Two Million Women Leaders and Counting. The Hunger Project featured in an online exhibit by the International Museum of Women on Women, Power and Politics.
	March 8, 2008: International Women's Day was celebrated around the world, including: Bangladesh: 52 organizations in our National Girl Child Forum attended marches and rallies New York City: The third annual community celebration India celebrates International Women's Day Senegal celebrates International Women's Day
	March 2008 Newsletter: Honoring Joan Holmes: A Leader for the 21st Century. Joan is being honored as one of the Women's eNews 21 Leaders for the 21st Century this May. Read about why she is being recognized for her work to topple the tyranny of patriarchy.
	February 2008: Highlights from the Investor Trip to Benin. A total of 17 investors participated in this trip, which took place from February 3-8, 2008.
	February 2008: Updates from South Asia The Hunger Project-Bangladesh holds its 9th Animator Reunion amid great enthusiasm The Hunger Project-India's work in Himachal Pradesh State
	February 2008 Newsletter: New Hope in Rural Mexico. Read how The Hunger Project is sparking the creation of economically vibrant rural communities that express Mexico's rich cultural heritage.
	February 2008: Radhia Adivasi: A Courageous and Powerful Elected Woman Representative. Jim Whitton, Regional Director for US Funding, shares Radhia's story. Jim traveled to India with Hunger Project investors in early February.
	January 2008 Newsletter: Welcome, Jill Lester and Highlights of 2007. Jill Lester, a highly successful executive from Australia with senior experience in government, the private sector and nonprofit governance, will become The Hunger Project’s new CEO in mid-January 2008. Also included: highlights from 2007.
	November 30, 2007: New York City Community Celebrates World AIDS Day 2007
	November 2007 Newsletter: Partners in Making History! Read how Hunger Project investors are truly stakeholders in a new future and learn how you can participate!
	November 2007: Investor Leaders visit Bangladesh. Click here to read the report and listen to the conference call recorded from Bangladesh.
	October 17: International Day for the Eradication of Poverty. The Hunger Project-Bangladesh played a leadership role in the public demonstrations in Dhaka.
	October 13-14: The 30th Anniversary celebration of The Hunger Project featured the premier of a dynamic new 8-minute video that takes us on a journey into the lives of hungry people and what becomes possible when they are empowered and powerful Keynote Presentation by Joan Holmes including the Remarks of Four Global Women Leaders from Developing Countries. Click here to reach the reports by Joan Holmes and the country directors presented at the Global Board meeting.

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