This program presents a unique opportunity to engage the parents of young and pre-teen children, who are often hard to reach because of scheduling conflicts and time constraints. By reaching out to parents through their children, the Child Nutrition Seder can be a particularly effective means by which to get these members of the Jewish community involved in a significant and ongoing way.

Though the Seder is a one-time event, it is meant to serve as a gateway to engage participants in more sustained anti-poverty advocacy. Part of the planning process will also be to develop structures and relationships through which future advocacy and activism can be more easily planned and more quickly implemented.

The Seder will be an opportunity to:

• Educate the Jewish community and its partners about the prevalence of hunger and malnutrition in the US, its life-long impacts on children, and the solutions to address this growing problem;
• Enable the Jewish community to play a leading role in advocating for a strong Child Nutrition Reauthorization;
• Create a cadre of informed activists to supply a continuous stream of strong Jewish voices on the issue of domestic hunger;
• Strengthen relations between Jewish Community Relations Councils, congregations of many denominations, as well as other local partners; and
• Mobilize towards the national goal of ending childhood hunger by 2015.