2018 Iowa Hunger Summit
| 9:00 | Morning Panels | |
| Iowa Ballroom, 2nd Floor | |
| 9:00 | Welcome |
| Madeline Goebel | Director, Iowa Hunger Summit and Community Outreach, World Food Prize Foundation | |
| 9:05 | Food Recovery: How Food Waste Undermines Food Security |
| Moderator: Lea Hensel | Communications & Marketing Coordinator, Iowa Waste Reduction Center Aubrey Alvarez | Executive Director & Co – Founder, Eat Greater Des Moines Derek Nelson | Director of Sustainability, Kum & Go Denise Osterhues | Senior Director, Corporate Affairs, The Kroger Co | |
| 9:55 | The Economics of SNAP: Understanding SNAP in our Communities |
| Moderator: Michelle Book | CEO, Food Bank of Iowa Jeanne Blankenship | VP, Policy Initiatives and Advocacy, Academy of Nutrition & Dietetics Regenea Hurte | Executive Director, Iowa Hunger Coalition & Iowa Food Bank Association Cheryl Kennedy | FNS Acting Regional Administrator, USDA | |
| 10:45 | Confronting Genocide: the 1979 Iowa SHARES Campaign to aid Cambodian Refugees |
| Amb. Kenneth M. Quinn | President, World Food Prize Foundation | |
| 11:05 | Aegis Trust:Feeding humanity to prevent violence, insecurity and future genocides |
| Dr. James Smith | Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Aegis Trust Beth Crookham | Chair, Global Implementation Board, Aegis Champions of Humanity Freddy Mutanguha | Africa Representative, Aegis Trust Nancy Reynolds | Board Chair, Health Builders Dr. Yogesh Shah | Peace and Health Lead, Aegis Champions of Humanity | |
| 12:00 | Iowa Hunger Luncheon | |
| Des Moines Exhibits Hall, 3rd Floor | |
| Norman Borlaug Day Proclamation by Governor Reynolds | |
| Governor Kim Reynolds signs the official proclamation declaring October 16 as Norman E. Borlaug/World Food Prize Day in Iowa | |
| Presentation of Robert D. Ray Iowa SHARES Humanitarian Award | |
| This year’s award will honor 14 individuals and organizations who, following the late Iowa Governor Robert D. Ray’s inspired humanitarian leadership, made Iowa SHARES into a statewide campaign that delivered lifesaving food, medicine and volunteer doctors and nurses to the Cambodian border of Thailand, where thousands of victims of the Khmer Rouge Genocide had escaped. | |
| 1:30 | Breakout Sessions Hall of Cities, 3rd Floor 1:30 | Round One Council Bluffs Community Engagement and Collaboration: The Crisis Center Mobile Food Pantry The Crisis Center Cedar Rapids Malnutrition and Violence Broadlawns and Aegis Trust Davenport Integrating Partners through Grassroots Cooperation: Community and Private Partners Addressing Local Food Insecurity & Jefferson County Hunger Dialogue & Pathfinders Resource Conservation Development, Inc Dubuque Grassroots School Based Food Assistance Interstate 35 School Waterloo Collaboration for Capacity Building in Nonprofit Intrapreneurship Horizons, A Family Service Alliance 2:30 | Round Two Council Bluffs Identifying Iowa Funding Partners and Resources Iowa Council of Foundations Cedar Rapids Increasing Access to Fruits and Vegetables: Leveraging Partnerships to Help Seniors Lee County Health Department & Heritage Area Agency on Aging Davenport Building Hunger Awareness through Urban Agriculture Chicago High School for Agricultural Sciences Dubuque Fostering Access to Local Food Practical Farmers of Iowa Waterloo Telling the Story of Hunger Through Data DMARC 3:25 | Closing Session | 2018 ALICE Report Iowa Ballroom, 2nd Floor Deann Cook | Executive Director, United Ways of Iowa 4:00 | 2018 Iowa Hunger Summit Concludes |
| 10:00 | Student Breakout Sessions | |
| Hall of Cities, 3rd Floor | |
| International Track | Dubuque | |
| 10:00 | The United Nations and Hunger Iowa United Nations Associations |
| 11:00 | Creating School Gardens to Combat Hunger Iowa State University – Global Resource Systems |
| Local Track | Davenport | |
| 10:00 | Building Hunger Awareness through Urban Agriculture Chicago High School for Agricultural Sciences |
| 11:00 | Focus on Food Banks Iowa Food Bank Association |