Community & Projects
Goal 1
HEALTHY FOOD ACCESS
Food is nutritious, accessible, affordable, and culturally desirable for all members of our community.
Project 1.1: Collaborative Purchasing
We’ve created a network of partners to collaboratively and equitably purchase more local, healthy and culturally relevant foods for our community. This regionally vibrant purchasing network also grows our local economy.
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Outcome: Collaborative purchasing across the hunger relief system has fostered positive impact on community well-being, our local food system and food economy, and our environment. Featuring these healthy, fresh foods also reduces stigma traditionally associated with food pantry use by conveying respect for the community.
Project 1.2: Coming Soon
We explore best practices, tools, relationships, and resources, designing the collaborative infrastructure and initiatives needed to organize our community. We avoid strategies and behaviors that diminish transparency. Using these models, we ensure equitable and just decision-making to efficiently and effectively improve food access for all.
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Outcome: Our coalition is more efficient, transparent, equitable and effective at working together with our diverse community to decrease food access barriers .
Project 2.1: Coming Soon
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Project 2.2: Coming Soon
We broker and build relationships among key partners in the hunger relief system, encouraging collective efforts to share and learn from one another in a transparent and equitable manner.
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Outcome: Our hunger relief system is more efficient, effective, and equitable–best suited for the communities we serve. When partners share resources, data and knowledge funding and time is saved amongst the system and the community is better off for it.
Goal 2
FOOD INFRASTRUCTURE
Our local food system infrastructure, including locally owned food and farm enterprises, has the capacity needed to grow, process, store, distribute, and prepare the nutritious, culturally desirable, affordable food we want and need.
Goal 3
FOOD SOVEREIGNTY
Our local food system is equitable—developed, led by, cared for, owned by, and maintained by the people, with the people.
Project 3.1: Food Justice Projects
FSN members advance food justice focused project ideas for consideration and endorsement by the coalition, such as improving local food system infrastructure within low-income neighborhoods. At any given time FSN has 2-3 community food justice projects under way.
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Outcome: Revitalization of our local food economies, improved community health, strengthening of cultural identity, and increased food access and resiliency through sustainable infrastructural changes.
Project 3.2: Policy & Advocacy
After a data dive and extensive community story- gathering, we have identified barriers to healthy food access and associated policy solutions. We’re now deploying a community-specific, multi-tiered policy and systems change strategic plan based on our findings and community priorities.
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Outcome: Sustainable systemic changes, multilevel impact, community capacity and leadership development, and equitable food justice for all throughout our 2 counties.
Project 4.1: Coming Soon
We’ve created a network of partners to collaboratively ...
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Project 4.2: Coming Soon
We broker and build relationships among key partners in the hunger relief system, encouraging collective efforts to share and learn from one another in a transparent and equitable manner.
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Outcome: Our hunger relief system is more efficient, effective, and equitable–best suited for the communities we serve. When partners share resources, data and knowledge funding and time is saved amongst the system and the community is better off for it.
