Webinar Series: Native Farm to School with First Nations
January 14, 20 and 28 // 12pm MT
If your organization has an existing model for a Native Farm to School initiative -- or you are interested in starting one -- join First Nations Development Institute for its webinar series on best practices and resources and discuss challenges and opportunities. Upcoming webinar topics include evaluation and grants, lessons from the Southwest, and educational and funding opportunities for farm to school programs that serve Native students. Recordings for previous webinars in this series are also available.Learn more and register.
Keynote Panel Discussion: How to Best Advance MLK's Food Justice Vision
January 19 // 11am ET
Join Hunger Free America for a keynote panel during its 20th Annual MLK Serve-a-Thon to discuss the most effective ways to work toward food justice and honor Dr. King's legacy. Hunger Free America CEO Joel Berg will moderate the discussion of anti-hunger advocates and national service leaders and will conclude the panel with a Q&A from participants.Register here.
NC Farm to Preschool Survey 2021
Calling all early childhood educators and providers - We need your help! Please take this shortNC Farm to Preschool 2021 Survey so the NC Farm to Preschool Network and other partners can provide more resources to help in your work with children. We will be summarizing the statewide results and sharing them in the spring.Thank you!The deadline to complete the survey is January 31, 2021.
Farm to School to Healthcare Virtual Youth Food Summit Registration
Farm to School to Healthcare is presenting a virtual Youth Food Summit for youth and adults who are engaged in agriculture, food access and/or food justice activities. The purpose of the summit is to create a platform to uplift the work of youth from across northeastern North Carolina and to educate adult partners about best practices for working alongside youth. If you are interested in joining us, the Youth Food Summit will be on Martin Luther King Jr. Day, January 18th, from 10:00am – 2:30pm. You can register here: https://bit.ly/3p3VCQG. Please share widely with both youth and adult partners!
Grant Opportunities
The Gus Schumacher Nutrition Incentive Program
Deadline: March 16
USDA requests applications for the Gus Schumacher Nutrition Incentive Program (GusNIP) to support and evaluate projects intended to increase the purchase of fruits and vegetables by low income consumers participating in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) by providing incentives at the point of purchase through nutrition incentive grants; and to demonstrate and evaluate the improvement of dietary health through increased consumption of fruits and vegetables, reduced individual and household food insecurity, and reduced healthcare usage and associated costs through produce prescription grants. Applications are due March 16, 2021.Learn more here.
Please send grant opportunities to Arneisha Smallwood, ansmallw@ncsu.edu, or Tessa Thraves, tes_thraves@ncsu.edu.
Racial Equity Resources
JBF Food and Beverage Investment Fund for Black and Indigenous Americans
Deadline: January 22
In acknowledgement of the immeasurable contribution that Black and Indigenous Americans have made to the modern American foodscape, the James Beard Foundation has launched the James Beard Foundation Food and Beverage Investment Fund for Black and Indigenous Americans to provide financial resources for food or beverage businesses that are majority-owned by Black or Indigenous individuals. The fund will provide $15,000 grants to food and beverage business that are majority-owned by Black or Indigenous individuals. The first round of applications close at 3pm ET on Friday, January 22, 2021. Learn more and apply.
Additional Racial Equity Resources
The Center for Environmental Farming Systems (CEFS), one of our Farm to School Coalition of NC partners, has created a document of current webinars as well as resources to facilitate engagement and learning around Racial Equity, both in general and especially as it relates to food systems and education. View webinars/ resourceshere.
National Farm to School Network
A Shared Vision for School Food Policy
Tune in to FoodCorps virtual Town Hall on January 26 at 2pm ET with Krystal Oriadha of the National Farm to School Network, Amanda Venezia of Londonderry School District, NH, Noah Cohen-Cline of The Rockefeller Foundation, and Kumar Chandran of FoodCorps. Bring your ideas, comments, and questions as we look ahead to the next four years of school food policy. Register here.
