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Full Schedule

  • Saturday, May 3, 2025
  • 9:30 AM – 4:00 PM East Coast USA Time
    Registration Open
  • Sunday, May 4, 2025
  • 8:00 AM – 6:00 PM East Coast USA Time
    Registration Open
  • 9:45 AM – 11:15 AM East Coast USA Time
    Child Nutrition Programs 101
  • 9:45 AM – 11:15 AM East Coast USA Time
    Hunger & Higher Ed: What Comes Next
  • 9:45 AM – 11:15 AM East Coast USA Time
    Lobby Day 201
  • 9:45 AM – 11:15 AM East Coast USA Time
    SNAP 101
  • 11:30 AM – 1:15 PM East Coast USA Time
    Welcome Plenary Panel and Lunch: Mobilize and Manifest a Nation Free From Hunger
  • 12:00 PM – 5:00 PM East Coast USA Time
    Rally Poster Making - CLOSED
  • 1:30 PM – 2:20 PM East Coast USA Time
    CACFP: Reflecting on the Past and Shaping the Future
  • 1:30 PM – 2:20 PM East Coast USA Time
    Creating Safe Spaces: Strengthening Food Access for LGBTQIA2S+ Individuals.
  • 1:30 PM – 2:20 PM East Coast USA Time
    From Advocacy to Action: Expanding Summer EBT Nationwide and Ensuring Continued Participation.
  • 1:30 PM – 2:20 PM East Coast USA Time
    Moving Forward With the Chip Card Transition
  • 1:30 PM – 2:20 PM East Coast USA Time
    Preserve & Protect WIC: How to Advocate for WIC in This Current Political Climate
  • 1:30 PM – 2:20 PM East Coast USA Time
    Tax credits/guaranteed income alleviate hunger - Children need them, mothers have earned them!
  • 2:30 PM – 3:20 PM East Coast USA Time
    Beyond Bars: Transforming Food Security for Formerly Incarcerated Through Community-Centered Legislation
  • 2:30 PM – 3:20 PM East Coast USA Time
    Convening WIC Advocates: Few in Number, Fierce in Fight.
  • 2:30 PM – 3:20 PM East Coast USA Time
    How to Build a Healthy School Meals for All State Campaign
  • 2:30 PM – 3:20 PM East Coast USA Time
    Importance of Multiple Benefit Programs for Food-Insecure Older Adults
  • 2:30 PM – 3:20 PM East Coast USA Time
    Local Coalitions Driving Food Is Medicine Policy Change.
  • 2:30 PM – 3:20 PM East Coast USA Time
    Voter Engagement in Hunger Relief Settings: Lessons from 2024.
  • 3:20 PM – 4:00 PM East Coast USA Time
    Affinity Groups Coffee Break
  • 4:10 PM – 5:00 PM East Coast USA Time
    An Update from National Immigration Experts & WIC Providers
  • 4:10 PM – 5:00 PM East Coast USA Time
    Federal Feeding Programs in Indian Country: Fulfilling the Federal Trust Responsibility
  • 4:10 PM – 5:00 PM East Coast USA Time
    Food Is Medicine
  • 4:10 PM – 5:00 PM East Coast USA Time
    Supporting Community Eligibility Through State Policy
  • 5:00 PM – 6:30 PM East Coast USA Time
    Welcome Reception
  • Monday, May 5, 2025
  • 6:45 AM – 7:30 AM East Coast USA Time
    Morning Guided Walk
  • 6:45 AM – 7:30 AM East Coast USA Time
    Morning Yoga
  • 7:30 AM – 5:30 PM East Coast USA Time
    Registration Open
  • 8:00 AM – 9:15 AM East Coast USA Time
    Breakfast & Plenary: Reconciliation Update - A View from Capitol Hill: A Conversation with House Agriculture Committee Ranking Member Angie Craig (D-MN)
  • 9:25 AM – 10:15 AM East Coast USA Time
    CACFP Advocacy Institute: Enhancing and Strengthening the CACFP—Why Your Voice Matters!
  • 9:25 AM – 10:15 AM East Coast USA Time
    Equitable Access to School Meals and the Youth Experience.
  • 9:25 AM – 10:15 AM East Coast USA Time
    Feeding MI Families Community Food Advocacy Fellowship: Elevating Individuals with Lived Experience of Hunger.
  • 9:25 AM – 10:15 AM East Coast USA Time
    Leveraging the State Options Report to Shape SNAP in Your State
  • 9:25 AM – 10:15 AM East Coast USA Time
    Optimizing TEFAP: Food, Funding, and Partnerships
  • 9:25 AM – 10:15 AM East Coast USA Time
    Walking Together, Elevating Voices, Amplifying Impact: Project Bread's Council of Experts and Policy Work.
  • 10:25 AM – 11:15 AM East Coast USA Time
    CACFP Coffee Talk
  • 10:25 AM – 11:15 AM East Coast USA Time
    From Base to Table: Bridging the Gaps in Military Family Nutrition
  • 10:25 AM – 11:15 AM East Coast USA Time
    Mini Plenary: Healthy School Meals for All Evaluation Results: What we have learned from the first years of implementation
  • 10:25 AM – 11:15 AM East Coast USA Time
    SNAP-Ed's role in addressing food and nutrition insecurity in the 2025 Farm Bill.
  • 10:25 AM – 11:15 AM East Coast USA Time
    Utilizing Data and Community Voices to Create Anti-Hunger Pathways in Rural Food Bank Agencies
  • 11:30 AM – 1:15 PM East Coast USA Time
    Picnic Lunch
  • 1:30 PM – 2:20 PM East Coast USA Time
    Advocacy in Challenging Times: Strengthening Food Security Through Local Action Directed at Federal Policymakers.
  • 1:30 PM – 2:20 PM East Coast USA Time
    Expanding CACFP Access and Building Partnerships: Insights from Anti-Hunger Organizations
  • 1:30 PM – 2:20 PM East Coast USA Time
    Growing Justice From the Ground Up: Co-Creating Food Security Solutions in Latinx Communities.
  • 1:30 PM – 2:20 PM East Coast USA Time
    Maximizing Meal Access During the Summer and Afterschool Hours.
  • 1:30 PM – 2:20 PM East Coast USA Time
    Mini Plenary: Mobilizing to Protect and Strengthen SNAP, School Meals, and Nutrition Programs During Budget Reconciliation
  • 2:30 PM – 3:20 PM East Coast USA Time
    A New Approach to Measuring Hunger & Food Insecurity
  • 2:30 PM – 3:20 PM East Coast USA Time
    Advancing WIC through the Six Dimensions of Food Security: A Framework for Advocacy.
  • 2:30 PM – 3:20 PM East Coast USA Time
    Bolstering CACFP through Farm to Early Care and Education
  • 2:30 PM – 3:20 PM East Coast USA Time
    Do's and Dont's of Capitol Hill Advocacy: A Bipartisan Approach to Supporting the Federal Nutrition Programs
  • 2:30 PM – 3:20 PM East Coast USA Time
    Getting to Yes: Winning over lawmakers and funders on anti-hunger policies and programs.
  • 2:30 PM – 3:20 PM East Coast USA Time
    Securing SNAP Mini-Plenary: Cross-Political Strategies to Protect the Program Amid Budget and Farm Bill Challenges
  • 3:30 PM – 4:00 PM East Coast USA Time
    Affinity Groups Coffee Break
  • 3:30 PM – 5:00 PM East Coast USA Time
    Mid-Atlantic Anti-Hunger Coalition
  • 3:30 PM – 5:00 PM East Coast USA Time
    Midwest Region Meeting
  • 3:30 PM – 5:00 PM East Coast USA Time
    Mountain Plains Region
  • 3:30 PM – 5:00 PM East Coast USA Time
    Northeast Region Anti-Hunger Network
  • 3:30 PM – 5:00 PM East Coast USA Time
    Southeast Anti-Hunger Coalition Meeting
  • 3:30 PM – 5:00 PM East Coast USA Time
    Western Region Anti-Hunger Consortium
  • 4:10 PM – 5:00 PM East Coast USA Time
    California Advocates Regional Meeting
  • 4:10 PM – 5:00 PM East Coast USA Time
    New York Advocates Regional Meeting
  • 4:10 PM – 5:00 PM East Coast USA Time
    Southwest Region Meeting
  • Tuesday, May 6, 2025
  • 7:00 AM – 8:00 AM East Coast USA Time
    Hill Day Breakfast
  • 8:30 AM – 9:15 AM East Coast USA Time
    SNAP Matters Rally
  • 9:30 AM – 5:30 PM East Coast USA Time
    Capitol Hill Visits (on your own)