WEBINAR – Host a Nonpartisan Virtual Candidates Forum
Virtual candidate forums are a great way to highlight food and farm issues and spark dialogue between the community and elected officials.
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2020 Shared Gifting Microgrant Overview
Food councils – be the grantee and the grantor! We’re inviting you to be the funder for our 2020 Food Council Microgrants. Applications will open in July.
How food councils are supporting covid-relief efforts
Community Food Strategies released $24,500 in small grants to 25 food councils. Read brief summaries of their work.
Facilitation Workshop: Decision Making through Open, Narrow, Close
In this Facilitating Virtually session, we’ll describe and practice a decision-making technique called Open, Narrow, Close. – a narrowing process to get to a few great ideas. We’ll also review the value of shared leadership and roles.
Facilitation Workshop: Leadership & Facilitating Humans
In this Facilitating Virtually session, we’ll help you understand your leadership style and how it impacts group dynamics. We’ll model tools to help facilitate more effectively through everyday disruptions and difficult personalities.
2020 Microgrants for Covid-19 Relief: Applications Closed
In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, Community Food Strategies is offering block grants to food councils up to $1000 to support immediate and long-term relief efforts.
Food Council Connections Calls
We’re hosting statewide calls twice a month to hear from food councils, share updates, hear strategies, and find additional supports for ongoing needs.
Video: Connecting Food and Community
How do you build community through food? Community leaders in our network answer this question to create this powerful reminder of the importance and value of growing and sharing food in our communities. Food is a connector.
Facilitating Virtually workshop series
We are offering an online series of Facilitating for More Voices workshops. Every other week on Thursdays, 12:30 – 2:00pm, from March 26th to May 28th.
Developing Partnerships through Data
Developing Partnerships through Data “After teaching people about healthy eating, you can’t send them back into a food desert,” says Alyssa Mouton, Community Health Education Gaston County Department of Health & Human Services. “The benefit of the food council, she says, is that it helps “look at things on a systems level.” Contents How […]