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This is an orientation guide for food bank staff who work directly with agency partners. It provides onboarding recommendations as well as guides to finding resources, Feeding America teams and peer networking opportunities to help you be successful in your role. This is a valuable guide for both new and tenured staff.

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This learning and workshopping session is for anyone (food bankers, community partners, neighbors) engaged or interested in work to address the root causes of food insecurity, working at the community level, and exploring the changing role of food banks. Much of the work to address the root causes of food insecurity and change systems and structures takes place at the community and local level. As food banks and their partners deal with the greater complexity, they are trying to understand their evolving role as partners in the community. In this session, we will ask the question – what shifts are required at the food bank level to create the space for community-based work? Food Banks have been exploring what it takes and will share their learning on topics like: being open to learning and vulnerability, building and repairing trust and relationships, and leadership through convening and listening to the community.

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Join us for an engaging and interactive leadership session, in this transformative workshop, we will guide you through the process of incorporating equitable decision making to serve our shared mission of ending hunger. Regardless of where you or your organization currently stands on its DEI journey, this session is tailored to elevate your understanding, foster alignment, and empower you with actionable strategies. By the end of this session, you will be empowered with practical steps to embed practices that challenge the root causes of hunger into the fabric of your organization. Together, we will move into spaces of impact that fit your food bank’s unique journey and process of eliminating hunger as an outcome in our communities.

Original date of presentation: 4/18/2024

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Recent changes in health policy at the federal level have opened doors for partnership between Feeding America and the healthcare sector. In this session we will explore the Healthcare Partnerships Project, a Feeding America initiative to create a roadmap for scaling partnerships and creating pathways for sustainable programming. We will provide updates of the network-led efforts to date, dive into potential strategies for partnership with the healthcare sector and layout the on-ramps for expanding this work across the network. This session will be particularly valuable for those who are currently involved or interested in becoming involved with Food As Medicine initiatives, providing case management/care navigation for non-food needs, working with a third-party referrals entity (i.e. UniteUS, United Way 211), etc.

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Join the team in this virtual demo room for a hands-on look at MealConnect, present and future. This session will be an interactive, open forum to ask your most pressing questions, learn more about our features, and connect with our experts to help you use MealConnect to manage your enabled agencies and source more food! 

 This is an open forum, so feel free to pop-in at anytime during the session as your schedule allows or check back in if the “room” gets too full!

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This orientation checklist for Finance Leaders/CFO’s provides guidance for the role.

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If you are a food sourcer, start here! This robust handbook is a great starting point highlighting all of the resources needed to be successful in your food sourcing career.

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This session is relevant to all finance professionals – at any level and regardless of tenure. Do you hire and supervise new employees? Do you work alongside a new food banker? Are you yourself new to food banking? In this session, we will discuss best practices and lessons learned in orienting new finance team members. We will also discuss “self-led” onboarding, for those instances where a new employee must direct their own orientation activities. Participants will take away actionable orientation steps and resources. Plan for a collaborative, comfortable session, where we share and learn from one another’s successes and setbacks.

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No matter how many development staff you have, planned giving should be included in your strategy. Why? It’s easier than you think and has a fantastic ROI. This interactive session will provide specific examples from network colleagues and Feeding America of steps you can take to launch, strengthen and perfect your planned giving program.

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This Kaiser Permanente training packet equips network staff to facilitate a mental health training to their organization with the goal of increasing awareness and reducing workplace stigma.