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LEAD2FEEDHIGH SCHOOL LEADERSHIP PROGRAMThe World Hunger Leadership Challengewas created by the Lift a Life Foundation and the Yum! Foundation, incooperation with the USA TODAY Charitable Foundation, to encouragehigh school students to hone leadership skills through launching a servicelearning project that solves hunger issues.Program components• In-classroom, standards-based curriculum on the topic of leadership — based on the bookTaking People With You by David Novak — provided to participating schools• Classroom and training activities centered on the challenge of solving world hunger• A personal copy of Taking People With You for each participating teacher• The electronic edition of USA TODAY to accompany the curriculum• $500,000 in prizes awarded to winning teams in the form of: 1 team will win $25,000 for their hunger project charity 10 teams will win $5,000 for their hunger project charity 425 teams will win $1,000 for their hunger project charity• Teacher incentives for those who participateProgram details• FREE leadership program, open to any high school in the United States• 10-lesson curriculum that is easy to implement and requires minimal teacher preparation• Students will work in teams to identify a hunger-related problem, develop a solutionand execute their planAct now! Program available for the 2012-13 school yearINSPIRE. LEAD. MAKE BIG THINGS HAPPEN.Register NOW for the 2012-13 school year!LEAD2FEED.COM

LEAD2FEEDHIGH SCHOOL LEADERSHIP PROGRAMStudent Frequently Asked QuestionsWhat is the World Hunger Leadership Challenge?The World Hunger Leadership Challenge is a team-based, service-learning leadership program — your chanceto be part of a team in an effort to know yourself, grow yourself and solve hunger issues through service learning.In this leadership program, you will perform team activities from David Novak’s book Taking People With You.Others resources, such as USA TODAY, will be available to help you learn, develop, grow and take on the teamhunger challenge.Why take the World Hunger Leadership Challenge?The short answer is that people need your help. Thousands of high school students across the nation aretaking the World Hunger Leadership Challenge as an opportunity to make the world a better place while learningabout making big things happen. You could partner with the United Nations World Food Programme to addressinternational hunger needs or you could work locally to alleviate hunger in your own community. Whether yourteam chooses to work locally or think about hunger on a global scale, the World Hunger Leadership Challengecurriculum will give you the tools to make it happen. We believe so strongly in this that we’re putting up $500,000in prizes to help teams just like yours make a big difference. There will be 436 team winners who will have theirprize money donated to a hunger initiative in support of their project.Basic hunger factsIn this program, you will get the opportunity to researchhunger, but here are some facts to get youthinking:• There are nearly 1 billion hungry people in theworld today.• Hunger and malnutrition are the number one risk tohealth worldwide — greater than AIDS, malaria andtuberculosis combined.• There are hungry people in your own community. Inthe U.S. in 2010, 48.8 million people lived in foodinsecurehouseholds. This was the highest amountof food insecurity (hunger) ever.• There are non-profit organizations around the worldand in your own city that are working to fight hunger,and you can join them.• The issues of hunger and poverty go hand-in-hand.What will I accomplish in the World HungerLeadership Challenge Program?• Work with a hunger charity to make a difference inyour community or around the globe.• Learn about yourself and how to be a leader tomake BIG things happen.• Become part of a team.• Identify a relevant, hunger-related problem.• Develop an idea and execute your plan.• Discover and develop your own leadership skills.• Compete nationally to win team awards and moneyto be applied to a hunger non-profit of your choice.Register NOW for the 2012-13 school year!LEAD2FEED.COM