Major Accomplishments:              Just Harvest's advocacy accomplishments include successful community-based campaigns to bring the National School Breakfast Program to the Pittsburgh Public Schools and several other local school districts; campaigns which have won millions of dollars in new funds for emergency food assistance programs from our city and county governments; winning the opening of a WIC Program satellite office in the predominantly low-income town of Duquesne, and major improvements in state welfare and food assistance policy.              In 2000, Just Harvest launched a major community-based outreach campaign to assist low-income working people in utilizing the Earned Income Tax Credit and the Pa. State Tax Forgiveness Program.              We are also a key participant in an initiative to strengthen and revitalize farmers’ markets in Southwestern Pennsylvania in order to stablize family farmers’ incomes and improve access for low-income consumers to fresh, nutritious, and affordable produce.              Our advocacy on child nutrition issues has expanded access for thousands of low-income children to the School Breakfast, Summer Food, and Child and Adult Care Feeding Programs.              From 1995 to 2001, we trained more than 150 low-income women in community advocacy and leadership skills through our Women’s Leadership and Organizing Project.              In 1994 we published Hometown Hunger, reporting on a comprehensive research study we conducted on childhood hunger in Pittsburgh and Allegheny County. The study concluded that one in seven children under 12 in Allegheny County is hungry or at risk of hunger. Related research we completed in co-operation with Massachusetts General Hospital (published in the January 1998 issue of Pediatrics) showed that hungry children are more than seven times as likely as non-hungry low-income children to suffer from significant psychological and behavioral problems.              For several years, we have spearheaded organizing efforts in Allegheny County to oppose punitive federal and state welfare reform measures and to involve welfare recipients in advocacy efforts. We have won several important policy changes from the Pa. Department of Public Welfare to improve treatment of people on welfare and food stamps. Most recently, our advocacy and organizing efforts – along with those of allies across the state – were instrumental in winning a new “expanded TANF” policy that has thus far prevented any of Pennsylvania’s clients from losing benefits as a result of the 5-year time limit. Currently, our Welfare Justice Project is working in both the state policy arena and in the federal TANF re-authorization debate to promote expanded educational opportunity for welfare recipients as a path to economic self-sufficiency and to reduce barriers to food stamp participation for eligible families.              Just Harvest is a past recipient of the Congressional Hunger Center’s Victory Against Hunger Award (1997, 2001, and 2002), World Hunger Year’s Harry Chapin Food Self-Reliance Award, and the Pennsylvania Public Health Association’s Rodale Award for Health Promotion.