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 | | Instead, CFRC is becoming a high-profile think tank, one that helps strengthen the entire structure of food access in New York City. |
 | | When Kathy Goldman first founded CFRC in 1980 with a $6,000 grant to promote school breakfasts, there were only 40 emergency food programs in New York, and they mostly provided basics: hot meals and pre-packed bags of donated or surplus groceries. |
 | | Under Murphy, CFRC, which now has a $9 million annual budget and a staff of 92, is evolving from a scrappy underdog organizer into a polished training center, not unlike the Academy for Educational Development, the research and advocacy organization where Murphy worked in Washington. |
| www.citylimits.org /content/articles/articleView.cfm?articlenumber=1066 (1046 words) |
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