Feeding America’s Post

Read about #FarmToSchool Success! In our latest case study, we spoke with Becca Perrin, the Food Hub Account Manager at Green Mountain Farm to School. Check it out to learn: ✏ Getting started selling food to schools ✏ How state and federal funding is changing the landscape ✏ Why food hubs play an important role in farm to school work Read Here: https://lnkd.in/g4RDGz4p

Jazmyn Rudolph and Jay Eury, Pittsburgh Food Policy Council grant consultants, are ready to start providing assistance! Assistance may look like coaching, writing, advising, researching opportunities, connecting to funders, proposal submission, and/or reporting. Support will be prioritized to expand equitable investment in the food system. To that end, support will be prioritized for those that don’t have grant writers or development staff. Projects will be prioritized that are led by people who are Black, African American, and/or of African descent; Immigrants, Indigenous, and/or People of Color. They will also be prioritized based on serving those communities most impacted by food insecurity–food apartheid communities. Learn more here: https://lnkd.in/eHejuj2V

Today only, September 28th, is 'Give What You Can Day' at Slow Food USA. All day long, you can become a member of our community for any dollar amount. Today you can join at an amount that makes sense for your budget, even for $5, $10 or less (or more!). Should you decide to join, this link will get you started: https://lnkd.in/ec8z5zKw. Then all you need to do is click on 'New York' and, below it, 'Hudson Valley' as your very favorite chapter.

Service Insights on Meal Connect, our new neighbor intake tool from Feeding America, helps us to better understand our neighbors who experience food insecurity. The localized data allows the CPFB and partner food pantries to adjust programs and advocate for policies that will improve their experiences in the charitable food system and reduce food insecurity over time. Watch this video to learn more! https://lnkd.in/eXqQm8B5

Investing locally

We’re going big to make hunger history. We’re working on a big, bold moonshot goal to cut hunger in half for all Minnesotans by 2030. New knowledge and partnerships have led us to a defining moment in the fight against hunger. We need bold new solutions, stronger connections, and a way to clearly measure our progress so we can understand what’s working. It’s time to get to work. With the help of the whole community including our corporate partners Cargill and Target, we’ll reduce hunger today by increasing access to emergency food, prevent hunger tomorrow with policy, partnerships and one-on-one services, and track progress to ensure we’re effective and accountable.

The Legislative Session is upon us and we must continue the dialogue about the necessity of advocating for policy changes. In short: food assistance alone cannot end hunger in our communities. We have to take action to prevent hunger from happening in the first place, requiring a systemic approach. Learn more about our 2024 anti-hunger policy priorities and take action at https://lnkd.in/g52WseqE ⤵️

WSCAH CEO Greg Silverman recently authored a chapter in the Handbook of Food Insecurity and Society, titled Emergency Feeding in America: Making Words and Deeds Actually Matter. The chapter offers insights into the emergency feeding sector, sharing a look at how we are moving toward more holistic, community-driven models. Here's the link to download the chapter - it is chapter 23: https://lnkd.in/efhv6BG2

Oregonians- even though it's a short legislative session this year, important anti-hunger opportunities are eat stake Please consider following the link to ask your representative to fund Summer EBT (here's why: https://lnkd.in/gpeRZfuq)