The Baltimore Food & Faith Project is concerned with food issues. It was begun in 2007 by the Johns Hopkins Center for a Livable Future. Darriel Harris is the project officer.

Patrick Webb wrote the 2008 paper “More Food, But Not Yet Enough.” He is an expert in global food security and development policy and a professor at the Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy at Tufts University.

Preble Street, a shelter and service provider in Portland, Maine, has developed a Maine Hunger Initiative.

The New Entry Sustainable Farming Project at Tufts University Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy assists people with limited resources to begin farming in Massachusetts. Its larger goal is to promote economic self-reliance and food security. Contact project director Jennifer Hashley.

C. Smalley is president of Arizona Theological Seminary and Bible College. In the school’s academic philosophy, which Smalley wrote, the school bills itself as favoring “academy model” over the “university model” of education adopted by most seminaries. It has also forgone accreditation with non-Christian educational entities. Contact

David Buschart is a professor of theology and historical studies at Denver Seminary. He has written that the challenges facing seminaries reflect the social, economic and cultural shifts affecting all institutions.

The Rev. James McDonald is president of San Francisco Theological Seminary, the only Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) seminary in the western United States. SFTS announced in 2011 that it would close its Southern California campus, saving the school $450,000 per year.

Ann Jefferson is program coordinator for Theological Education for Leadership, a new distance learning program at Pacific School of Religion in Berkeley, Calif.

Robert Freeman is assistant professor of distance learning at Fuller Theological Seminary in Pasadena, Calif.