Recipes for a Sustainable Food System in North Carolina
North Carolinians deserve a resilient, equitable food system.
Developing Structure
Aligning Values and Practices Toward a Better Food System: A Summer Vacation with PeoplesHub
This past summer, PeoplesHub — an online learning community for resourcing progressive action — invited Community Food Strategies to pilot a potentially new educational offering.
Calling all startup food co-op organizers!
Join FCI’s JQ Hannah on Wed, Aug 6 from 1–3:30pm ET for a deep dive into the Framework + Action Guide. Free, but space is limited—register now!
Food & Solidarity Economy
We wanted to give a shout-out to the WNC Food Systems Coalition, formerly the WNC Food Justice Planning Initiative.
N.C. Food Council Member Orientation 2024 Template
This orientation packet serves as a tool to ground you in the purpose and possibilities of food councils; as well as, in our food council’s specific work.
Baseline Assessment Toolkit
A series of meetings with best practices and example activities todevelop a cross-sector group organized to positively impact food systems change.
Principles for Taking Action on Racial Justice
Change is possible. Food is a way to bring people together to make it happen.
Food Council 101: Nuts & Bolts webinar
Are you interested in forming a food council or new to an existing council? Join this interactive webinar to learn about the purpose of food councils and the strategy behind forming one.
Facilitation Workshop: Active Agenda Building and Review of the Essentials
In the last session in this series, we will highlight our ‘Staff Picks’ for key, simple facilitation essentials and dive deeper into creating effective agendas, even on the fly. We hope you join us!
Facilitation Workshop #4: Decision Making through Open, Narrow, Close
In this Facilitating Virtually session, we’ll describe and practice a decision-making technique called Open, Narrow, Close. – a narrowing process to get to a few great ideas. We’ll also review the value of shared leadership and roles.