9:30 AM                   Registration, Bagels, Coffee, Juice
 
10:00 AM                 Welcome and Overview of Agenda   (Dennis Hanratty, Board Chair)   
 
                               Overview of Hunger in NYS – Mark Dunlea
                                   
10:20 AM                  Dealing with Hunger and Poverty in 2008 elections /
                                Responding to the Food and Energy Crisis

11:20 PM                  Keynote Address: invited: Governor David Paterson
 
12:00 PM                  Lunch
 
12:45 PM                  Annual Membership Meeting
                                -         Issue priorities for 2008
                                -         Board Elections
 
1:30 PM                    Afternoon Workshops (max of 3 presenters per workshop)
                                -         Universal Health Care
                                -         Reforming Welfare: Raising the Grant, Welfare to Work;
                                          Living Wage Jobs
                                -         Community Food Security
                                -         The Role of the Faith Community in Addressing
                                           Hunger and Poverty
 
2:30 PM                    Next steps - Feedback
 
3:00 PM                    Adjournment / Reception

details to come