|
1975
|
A
community group met at Dialogue House to discuss domestic
and world hunger...decided to form an organization:MANNA
|
| 1976 |
Hired
staff person, Janet Christianson (now Janet Wolf) |
| 1977 |
Staff
involvement in national advocacy...
- Formulating
the Food Stamp Act
- Started
organizing a statewide network (TN Hunger Coalition)
- Organized
the coalition that started the Nashville Second Harvest Food
Bank
- Started
the Child Care Food Program
|
|
1978
|
Local
organizing campaign around School Breakfast, food for elderly;
Nutrition education (Eclipse of the Blue Moon Food) |
|
1979
|
Contract
with state to do Food Stamp Outreach |
|
1980
|
TN
Hunger Coalition and MANNA became separate organizations |
|
1981
|
Cuts
in federal budget resulted in cuts in poverty and food programs,
and in MANNA staff (VISTA, CETA) |
| 1982 |
Local
School Breakfast organizing campaign, Food Stamp monitoring and
advocacy, CCFP (Child Care Food Program) continued, dealing with
cuts in funding |
| 1983 |
State School Breakfast campaign local School Breakfast mandate passed,
Started campaign to bring WIC to Nashville |
|
1984
|
State School Breakfast mandate passed, WIC started in Nashville
on pilot basis |
| 1985
|
Expansion of WIC in Nashville |
|
1986-88
|
Work to take sales tax off food --TFT (Tennesseans for Fair Taxation)
started |
|
1989
|
Federal matching funds for Food Stamp Outreach available...Started
our FSO project work on welfare reform (AFDC Coalition) |
