The Resolve to Fight Poverty Conference

We can live in a world where everyone has a roof over their head, enough food to eat and access to clean drinking water. While we have made progress, we are still a long way away from making this a reality.

The National Student Campaign Against Hunger and Homelessness is dedicated to making that vision a reality by engaging and training students to meet individuals' immediate needs while working for long-term systemic solutions to poverty.

We know that students have been involved on this issue for years - volunteering, raising funds and getting involved in their communities. Just this past spring, students raised $45,000 for the Hunger Clean Up, an annual event that benefits local, national and international hunger relief agencies.  This fall we're going to take student action against poverty to the next level.

Three hundred students from across the country will come together at the Resolve 2011 Conference at the University of Maryland outside Washington, D.C. this November 4-6.  We'll learn the skills and information to launch effective anti-poverty campaigns across the country, build alliances with students and advocates and be a critical part of the Resolve to Fight Poverty - a national student movement working to turn vision to reality and make sure we live in a world without poverty.  At the conference, students will hear the latest on the issues, learn the skills to take action and build the networks and alliances to fight poverty back home.

Students will be joined by the experts of the anti-poverty movement.  The program focuses on four issue tracks: hunger, housing and homelessness, humanitarian and disaster relief efforts, and economic development and trade.  The conference will feature workshops, plenary sessions, an opportunities and action fair and regional Resolve to Fight Poverty planning sessions to give students the skills, information and action plan to be effective advocates for change in their campus communities.