Subject: Personal Letter from Charlene Finck, Farm Journal Foundation President
From: "Farm Journal Media" <[email-masked]>
To: <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 4 Nov 2011 17:36:06 -0400 (EDT)

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Charlene Finck, Presi=ent

November 4, 201=

Greetings,

On Thursday, October 13th, Farm Journal Foundation=hosted a Farmers Feeding the World breakfast at the World Food Pr=ze in Des Moines, Iowa. We were honored to have both Howard W. Buffett, ex=cutive director of the Howard G. Buffett Foundation, and Kip Tom, presiden= and CEO of Tom Farms and member of the Farm Journal Foundation’s Bo=rd of Directors, speak at the breakfast. Kip opened up the program by disc=ssing Farmers Feeding the World’s goals:

1) To fight =unger at home and abroad by providing assistance to partner organizations =n the front lines of sustainable agricultural development and immediate hu=ger assistance.

2) To educate consumers about the important role far=ers play in feeding a hungry world, and the reasons he became involved wit= the Foundation.

Following this introduction, Howard and Kip shared =heir experiences from their March trip to Afghanistan as part of a Departm=nt of Defense Task Force for Business and Stability Operations (TFBSO) del=gation that included Andy Weber, chairman of Farm Journal Foundation; Howa=d G. Buffett, president of the Howard G. Buffett Foundation; and a profess=onal film crew. While in Afghanistan, the delegation witnessed important a=ricultural development work being done by the Howard G. Buffett Foundation= the U.N. World Food Program and the Norman Borlaug Institute, and saw its=impact on the daily lives of the Afghan people. In his remarks, Howard tou=hed on some of the TFBSO’s success stories in the war-torn country a=d the lessons that he took away from his time there.

Howard a=d Kip concluded their talk with a preview of the Farm Journal Foundation f=lm crew’s coverage of the trip, which shines a light on a side of Af=hanistan most of us don’t see on the evening news. I encourage you t= click on the following link to see the compelling culmination of their fo=tage, a short film entitled “From the Ground Up,” which, I am =xcited to announce, was recently nominated for an Emmy Award. You can also=view the Farmers Feeding the World breakfast presentation in its =ntirety:

http://www.agweb.com/farmersfeedingthew=rld/multimedia/

I hope you’ve enjoyed this recap of the Farmers Feeding the World breakfast and are inspired to dream big wi=h us. Please feel free to reach out to me at any time at (573) 581-9642 or=[email-masked].

Best regards,<=p>

Charlene Finck
President

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Farm Journ=l Foundation, 30 S. 15th Street, Suite 900, Philadelphia, PA 19102<=p>

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