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Inspiring connections and encouraging collective action.
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2019 NC Food Council Gathering
December 5 - 6, 2019
Rocky Mount Event Center
Local food council members, entrepreneurs, educators, farmers, local government and health professionals, and other advocates working to build community through food.
We're five weeks away, register now and save $50!
We're thrilled to have two amazing keynote speakers, 16 insightful workshop sessions many led by community members, and engaging activities to meet other conference attendees and to learn about the local area.
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Thursday, December 5th
9:30 am
Keynote Speaker:
Natalie S. Burke, CommonHealth ACTION
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A nationally-known speaker, strategist, master facilitator, and public health leader, Natalie is President and CEO of CommonHealth ACTION–whose mission is to develop people and organizations to produce health through equitable policies, programs, and practices.
She serves as co-director for the Robert Wood Johnson funded Culture of Health Leaders Program and directs Kaiser Permanente’s Institute for Equitable Leadership.
A graduate of the University of Maryland, Natalie has participated in the Emerging Leaders in Public Health Fellowship (University of North Carolina’s Schools of Business and Public Health) and New York University’s Robert F. Wagner School of Public Service Lead the Way Fellowship for entrepreneurial leaders in the nonprofit sector.
Natalie believes that to alter our collective health destiny, we must change our language; challenge deeply held beliefs about equity in our society and accept the role we each play in the production of the public’s health.
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Friday, December 6th
1:00 pm
Keynote Speaker:
Jessica Holmes,
Wake County Board of Commissioners
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Jessica N. Holmes is a workers’ rights advocate, policy expert, and fighter for fairness and social justice. In 2014, Jessica became the youngest commissioner ever elected in Wake County’s history.
Jessica was born and raised in eastern North Carolina. She earned her undergraduate degree in Political Science from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a Juris Doctor from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Law.
Jessica is currently serving her second term as chair of the Board of Commissioners; her colleagues elected her unanimously. She has been successful with these key initiatives that support workforce development: increasing access to early childhood development programs, advocating for increased education funding across North Carolina and development of career and technical programs in high schools, and leading a campaign to provide capital funding for our state’s largest community college system, Wake Technical Community College.
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Developing Partnerships through Data
Want a tool to spark conversation with a potential new partner or an elected official? Create a Community Food Snapshot for your community and find stories that add context and personal experience.
After many conversations with community members and food system experts, we created Community Food Snapshot templates using metrics in each Whole Measure of a Community Food System. We are excited to share these templates and hear how they can be used to further understanding and relationship building.
Create your own with the data spreadsheet template, links to data sources, and a graphics template through the resources in the full article here.
See examples:
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Next microgrants open in August 2020.
After multiple learning webinars and discussions with food council members, we decided to delay the 2020 micro-grant cycle to include more funds per award and integrate a shared gifting process to distribute the funds by the six regions of food councils in North Carolina. Stay tuned for details!
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The North Carolina Local Food Council (NCLFC) has worked with its 20+ member organizations across the food system to identify Local Food Champions across the state. These inspiring people are working in a diversity of ways to promote local foods and advance the principles of food councils here in North Carolina.
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ADDITIONAL RESOURCES & LEARNING
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The Conservation Fund’s Grants Program for Transporting Healthy Food provides $2500 - $7500 grants to improve infrastructure that supports distributing fresh food to markets in vulnerable and underserved populations. Application deadline - Nov 27th.
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation’s Voices for Economic Opportunity grant seeks to elevate new and diverse voices that can help broaden the conversation about the issues underlying economic mobility in the US. Initial grants are for $100,000, and applications are only two pages. The application deadline is November 13, 2019, 11:30 am.
USDA/1890 National Scholarship Program is now open until Jan 31, 2020. The Program offers full scholarships to rising freshman to increase the number of non-white students studying agriculture, food, and natural resources.
Regional Implications: Scaling from Local to Regional Food Systems in Northeastern North Carolina, Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development, Local Motivations. An article from local partners, Working Landscapes.
Equitable Food Oriented Development (EFOD) White Paper - “an innovative approach to marrying food systems and economic development models, with an explicit aim of building community power.”
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PARTNER EVENTS
Oct 31 - Nov 1, Durham, NC - Lead Locally: Taking on Sustainable Ag Advocacy Roles in Your Community, a 2-Day Leadership intensive at CFSA’s SAC. Learn how the political community is structured, engage with elected leaders, acquire skills to advocate for policies and budget allocations, identify your leadership style, and participate in skills-building sessions with experts.
Nov 1-3, Durham, NC - CFSA Sustainable Agriculture Conference
Dec 9-11, Savannah, GA - Community Food Systems Conference
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Community Food Strategies works to empower local food councils and networks to create community-led collaboration and equitable policy change at the local, state and national level. This multi-organizational initiative focuses on building alliances and providing tools, trainings, and statewide structure to a growing network of local food councils across North Carolina.
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