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Dear food council friends and colleagues -
Thank you for all the work you are doing in support of your communities, your families, and your people during these unsure times. In the face of the coronavirus, please know that our team is thinking of you all.
Now is a time when the real need of our every day work as food systems changemakers is glaringly evident. We’re noticing that good leadership and collective action looks like focusing on taking care of the folks that are most vulnerable, knowing that those actions are also what’s best for all of us to stay well. Working in these ways feels new and scary in some ways, but it also reflects the core of what we all work together to do every day. We are a group of people that take care of each other through food, and we are creating a system that does that too. This time of crisis is elevating the skills we need for this new system to emerge. This is a time when your work can be a model for others.
Our team is continuing to support your important work in communities across North Carolina, and we wanted to share a few tools that might be of use over the coming weeks. We hope that you will use what is helpful. Let’s practice sharing generously in these next few weeks - whether it’s good ideas that are working in your community, or food for folks who are isolated, or dollars if we have them for folks who are out of work, or your thoughts and connections to each other.
We hope some of these tools are useful to you. Please let us know if there are other ways we can support.
In solidarity -
The Community Food Strategies Team
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