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finishing his career as a high-ranking executive. He was an activist on and chair of many boards (including the Minnesota Opera, the Minnesota Orchestra, Minnesota Public Radio, FFH, etc.). Tom was an outstanding chair of the FFH board. He always allowed for plenty of discussion and then would cut it off at just the right moment, stay on time for topic. The meetings always started and ended right on time, yet everyone felt included in the discussion by the time the votes were taken. He was a visionary, and, like Christopher, was deeply committed to the intellectual dimension and to proving impact. He visited many of FFH’s programs worldwide, always paid his own way, and was often deeply moved by the what he saw as a result of FFH’s programs. He had a huge heart (everyone could feel that) with unusual wisdom and business acumen–a rare combination. Tom and Christopher worked very well together; they made a superb team. FFH moved to Davis, California, from Santa Monica in about 1982 and on 20 March 1983 their newly constructed international center was dedicated. Davis was chosen for its agricultural university and its leadership in agriculture. In those days FFH’s main activity was still applied nutrition, which involved applied technology, using bamboo for irrigation pipes, and much more crop-related resources. In addition, FFH wanted to be near an international airport and to the general resources of the university from libraries to experts. Throughout its long history, MFM / FFH has discussed moving from the “wrong coast” to the east coast (which would aid in recruiting staff, communicating with major organizations in the field) but sunny, innovative California has always won out in the end–and its distance from the center of action (“the thick of it”) does have definite advantages. Address: Manager, Donor Communications, Freedom from Hunger, 1644 DaVinci Court, Davis, California 95616. 371. Dodson, Chris. 2011. Recent history of Freedom from Hunger: The story behind the annual reports (Continued– Part III). SoyaScan Notes. Jan. 9. Conducted by William Shurtleff of Soyinfo Center. • Summary: Continued: Question: What has been the effect on FFH and its programs of the large grant received from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation? CD: Gates was the foundation that funded the Microfinance and Health Protection (MAHP) program. FFH proposed the program to Gates and Gates said, “yes,” that they were interested. It was a 5-year grant. Gates had never been in microfinance at that time, so on the recommendation of Sam Daley-Harris at the Microcredit Summit Campaign, who had worked with Christopher to keep microfinance focused on the poorest of the poor, to a meeting. In March 2005 they met in San Francisco; the Gates people didn’t want to talk about Freedom from Hunger at all; they just wanted to talk about the microfinance community and the potential. In MEALS FOR MILLIONS, SOY, AND FREEDOM FROM HUNGER 172 © Copyright Soyinfo Center 2011 June the Gates foundation called to say they were putting out a request for proposals in the field of microfinance to six organizations and FFH was one of them. The proposal was due Sept. 2. FFH took a big breath, let out a loud “whoop,” and then settled down to try to craft a proposal. It had to be filled with new ideas, because Gates likes to fund only innovative projects. In about the 2nd week in July Gates called to ask: “Is FFH planning to submit a proposal?” FFH said “Yes.” And they said, “How come we haven’t heard from you? We’ll help you with the details of the proposal and its submission. Why don’t you talk to us?” So that’s how the world of Gates works! What a relief. But they didn’t direct or shape the proposal in any way. FFH had always been focused on “integrated services of microfinance”–its long-time specialty and innovation–and more specifically “integrating health with microfinance.” FFH got the proposal in on time and was one of four organizations that was awarded a major grant on the first round; they also got the largest grant. Now, the five years have passed and FFH has just this summer reported everything that it has learned from MAHP. It was “blockbuster.” They thought they would reach 30,000 people; they ended up reaching 300,000. As the 2010 annual report states: “The average annual cost of adding health protection services to microfinance programs is only 29¢ per person... and some services can be expected to more than break even generating modest profits at larger scale.” Each of the program highlights is bulleted. Counting the number of women who get loans plus integrated services is a big, complex job. Part of the complexity is that FFH is working with 112 partners around the world; it asks each of those partners to submit the number of women served twice a year. It’s a very big project. While FFH has less connection with the lowincome women in the field than they did, say, ten years ago, that also means that FFH is reaching many, many more women. In the early 2000s FFH decided that, since they have this proven Credit with Education program that they’ve been working on for ten years (all the lessons, techniques for loan repayments, loan disbursements, etc.) they will offer their services, their programs, to partner organizations and to train them to do the program that FFH has designed, tested and evaluated. It’s a dissemination strategy, working through these existing partner organizations to deliver the services that FFH has perfected. FFH’s programs team (staff) goes regularly into the field (to Africa, etc.) to work with both the partners and the women to teach them how to do the program, then FFH staff returns to ensure that the partner organizations are still doing it. “Our programs team is out in the field a great deal of the time. They will be out there for 2-3 weeks at a time, visiting 2-3 programs, then they come back to Davis, have several weeks here, then back out to the field again. I’d guess they spent 40-50% of their time overseas, in the field, and 60-
50% back at Davis. Of their time overseas, our program staff spends about half their time training our partners and the other half working with local women in villages. Our core program remains Credit with Education.” Other recent large grants of $100,000 or more are shown in the mini annual report in the section titled “Donor spotlight.” The Gates grant was much more than $1 million. Master Card Foundation is more than $1 million; they are funding a new “Advancing Integrated Microfinance for Youth” (AIM Youth)–targeting young men and women ages 13-24 and teaching them a combination of financial education + financial services (access to saving accounts, how to budget money, what do you want vs. what do you need). Chris’ dream (after she retires) is to organize and preserve FFH’s rich history. Note: At the beginning of this interview, in the interest of full disclosure, Chris Dodson explained that she is married to Christopher Dunford, PhD–who is known professionally in the development community as “Chris Dunford.” In 1980 Christopher and Chris first met. 1982 Jan.–Chris was hired as Office Manager, Tucson, Arizona Program of Meals for Millions/Freedom from Hunger Foundation. 1984 Aug.–He was first hired in Arizona as the Program Director for the Arizona program. 1984 Oct.–Christopher and Chris were married. 1986 Jan.–Both transferred to Davis, California (FFH’s International Center); he as Program Director, U.S. MEALS FOR MILLIONS, SOY, AND FREEDOM FROM HUNGER 173 © Copyright Soyinfo Center 2011 Programs; she as Assistant to the President and Board of Trustees. 1988 Sept.–Christopher trekked to Nepal with Kathleen Stack and Ellen Vor der Bruegge 1991 Feb. 1–Christopher became president of Freedom from Hunger (at Davis). Thomas R. McBurney became chair, board of trustees, in 1991, the same year Christopher Dunford became president of Freedom from Hunger. Tom's term as chair expired in Nov. 1999, but he remained on as a trustee until Nov. 2005, when his term expired. He returned as a trustee in Nov. 2007 until his death in March 2009. Photos show: (1) Portrait photo of Christopher Dunford (taken by Karl Grobl in Aug. 2008). (2) Portrait photo of Thomas McBurney. These two visionary men worked as a team for almost 20 years (1991-2009). Address: Manager, Donor Communications, Freedom from Hunger, 1644 DaVinci Court, Davis, California 95616. 372. SoyaScan Notes.2011. Soyfoods historical research and writing wish list (Overview). Compiled by William Shurtleff of Soyinfo Center. • Summary: 1. Early history of Chinese soyfoods companies and products in America and Europe. Especially Chinese tofu manufacturers in San Francisco and Los Angeles from 1850 to 1910. 2. Statistics on soyfoods in China during the 1980s. 3. The Swedish trading mission in Canton during the 1700s and 1800s and its work with soy sauce.
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