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The Service Insights on MealConnect Technology User Group is a learning and problem-solving group open to all food banks currently using Service Insights on MealConnect for their Service Insights program implementation. The October meeting highlighted a conversation about agency facing reservations.

Webinar Training

The Service Insights on MealConnect Technology User Group is a learning and problem-solving group open to all food banks currently using Service Insights on MealConnect for their Service Insights program implementation. The September meeting highlighted a conversation about reporting.

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The Adequacy of Service subcommittee hosted a network webinar to gather feedback for the proposed Amendment no. 1 to the Partner Food Bank Agreement, on the topic of Service Requirements.

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Learn about food insecurity in immigrant communities and programs working to address it around the network.  Hosted by Latinos Unidos and Ohana, Feeding America Employee Resource Groups. 

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This session is intended to be a hands-on experience. Participants will think through how to determine a pay philosophy, market comparisons and creating a grade structure with benchmarking positions.

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Back by popular demand, the folks from Oregon Food Bank are ready to share a little more about how they have been decentering money and centering love and equity in their fundraising approach, and the role that methodology has played in their donor prospecting. Hear from three OFB team members about the process and the results from this year of love.

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This training session will focus on Equity, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) analysis of SNAP policy opportunities. 

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This training will focus on threats to SNAP eligibility, accessibility, and equity from the Foundation for Government Accountability (FGA) and similar anti-public benefits groups active in state capitals around the country.

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This training is designed to provide a practical roadmap for state-level SNAP advocates who are newer to administrative advocacy and/or work in states where SNAP administrators aren’t regularly meeting with community stakeholders to discuss SNAP program access. Two veteran administrative advocates operating in red states (Laura Lester of Alabama and Rachel Cahill of Ohio) will present the “SNAP Workgroup” concept as one strategy to build long-term relationships with SNAP administrators that can lead to tangible policy and process improvements. 

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 This webinar provides a basic overview of the most common demonstration projects and waivers available to states that are interested in streamlining the SNAP enrollment and/or renewal process for these populations. Presenters will also share examples of successful administrative and legislative advocacy campaigns to encourage states to take up these helpful options.

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SNAP policy advocacy is most effective when it starts from foundational knowledge of the barriers - or “pain points” - that individuals seeking food assistance experience when trying to access SNAP benefits. The goal of this training is to leverage the breadth and depth of SNAP policy and application assistance expertise that exists across the Feeding America Network to provide a baseline understanding of some of the SNAP enrollment and renewal pain points that are common across many states.

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Discover how organizations are applying an equity lens to increase awareness and access to SNAP benefits on multiple levels, including the cultivation of strategic partnerships, data analysis, and neighbor engagement. Through breakout sessions, we will workshop ways to advance equity in SNAP enrollment support, policy and advocacy, and improving perceptions.

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Center on Budget and Policy Priorities presented on the Child Tax Credit. The 2021 Child Tax Credit (CTC) expansion provides a historic opportunity to reduce child poverty in the United States by more than 40 percent! Non-filer families can submit their info to the IRS through November 15. Your efforts to help people get advance CTC payments are essential.

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Center on Budget and Policy Priorities presented on the Earned Income Tax Credit and shared their completed, online toolkits that are targeted to help organizations and nonprofits navigate assisting neighbors with claiming these credits.  

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Emerging and best practices of SNAP Application Assistance. 

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This webinar (formerly known as the GSNAP Quarterly Webinar) focused on data sharing – FY21 Walmart SNAP Capacity Institute Grant data and Survey Data from the GSNAP members. We also shared some basic information on hosting social media ads and heard from Second Harvest Heartland on how they partner with their Communications team to advertise SNAP on their social media channels.

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This webinar centered on effectively communicating  SNAP changes with neighbors, particularly around SNAP Emergency Allotments and using texting.

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Speakers Alicia Sidebottom, Food Bank of Alaska and Lytrenda Moore, Houston Food Bank discuss emerging and best practices for SNAP and other benefits outreach. 

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Panelist Vivien Trinch, Oregon Food Bank and Nicole Snider, Greater Cleveland Food Bank, identify ways to reach underserved populations in SNAP and other benefits through a Racial Equity lens; includes elimination of policies, practices, attitudes, and cultural messages that reinforce differential outcomes by race or that fail to eliminate them.

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Emerging and best practices of SNAP Application Assistance.