World Food Program

The United Nations World Food Program (WFP) is an organization that deals with immediate food emergencies, as well as assists countries in developing infrastructure to be able to cope with poverty related issues on their own.

On the WFP website they have set out 5 objectives:

1. Save lives and protect livelihoods in emergencies
2. Prepare for emergencies
3. Restore and rebuild lives after emergencies
4. Reduce chronic hunger and undernutrition everywhere
5. Strengthen the capacity of countries to reduce hunger

We have, for years, given money to the WFP and now want to do it on a larger scale.

So why the WFP? We began by looking only at secular organizations. We weren't interested in an organization with an ideological agenda (beyond that of 'stability and education lead to a better world') of any kind. Also, an extremely efficient organization is a must. No CEO's driving BMW's.

Research has shown that people are more likely to give more if there is a specific person or situation that their donation is going to - an fortunate fact, in that it encourages people to give more, but an unfortunate fact in that it makes fund raising for bigger picture projects more difficult. We both feel like it is important to support more large-scale solutions to the problems of poverty and we wanted to give to an organization with a large scope. The WFP seems to fit the bill.