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Development, Marketing & Communications: August Recess Toolkit, Recent Research Releases and More

The Development, Marketing and Communications (DMC) webinar provides timely development, marketing and communications information from Feeding America all at one time. The DMC webinar is held the third Tuesday of every month. The May 2023 agenda included updates on the August Recess Toolkit, Recent Research Releases, and more.

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Development, Marketing & Communications: Holiday toolkits, storytelling updates and More

The Development, Marketing and Communications (DMC) webinar provides timely development, marketing and communications information from Feeding America all at one time.  This month’s agenda included updates on: Holiday toolkits, storytelling updates, potential government shutdown and more. 

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Development, Marketing & Communications: Hunger Action Month, Storytelling and More

This month’s agenda included updates on: Hunger Action Month, New Feeding America Brand Book and more.

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Development, Marketing & Communications: Network Share Segment, Potential Government Shutdown, Elevating Voices: Insights Report and More

The Development, Marketing and Communications (DMC) webinar provides timely development, marketing and communications information from Feeding America all at one time. The DMC webinar is held the third Tuesday of every month. This month’s agenda included updates on: Elevating Voices, Network Share Segment, Potential Government Shutdown and more.

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Development, Marketing & Communications: Recent Research Releases, the New PSA Campaign and More

The June 2023 Development, Marketing and Communications (DMC) webinar provided timely development, marketing and communications information from Feeding America all at one time. The DMC webinar is held the third Tuesday of every month. This month’s agenda included updates on: recent research releases, the new PSA campaign and more.

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Development, Marketing & Communications: Storytelling Updates, Hunger Action Month Campaign Preview and More

The July 2023 Development, Marketing and Communications (DMC) webinar provides timely development, marketing and communications information from Feeding America all at one time. The DMC webinar is held the third Tuesday of every month. This month’s agenda included updates on: storytelling, Hunger Action Month and more. 

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Development, Marketing & Communications: Storytelling Updates, Spring Recess Toolkit, and more

The Development, Marketing and Communications (DMC) webinar provides timely development, marketing and communications information from Feeding America all at one time. The DMC webinar is held the third Tuesday of every month. The March 2023 agenda included updates on: storytelling , the Spring Recess Toolkit, and more.

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Direct Mail is Not Dying, It’s Evolving. What to Do About it Right Now.

Donors don’t reach a certain age and suddenly decide to start writing checks. In fact, more and more donors are shifting their giving behavior online. Does that mean direct mail is becoming less relevant? Not at all. But it is evolving. While primarily a direct response vehicle with some online influence today. over time it will likely drive more online giving than postal returns. Come and explore with us some current trends with direct mail as it continues to drive an increase in giving online particularly among younger supporters.

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Disaster Response Planning and Preparedness Pre and Post COVID19

During this session, panelists will discuss examples of how food banks have been able to build upon and adapt their existing disaster plans and procedures for use during the current pandemic response. In some instances, food banks have been able use “muscle” developed during previous natural disasters whereas other food banks have been able to develop new capabilities that will serve them well for future non-COVID disasters. The panel will also discuss how efforts to serve communities using an equity, diversity and inclusion focus will continue to influence how we administer disaster relief in the future.  

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Discussion of Food Security in the Context of Race

Hear from Norbert Wilson of Duke Divinty School discuss food security in the context of race. 

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Diversity Dialogues: Just Sustainabilites in Policy, Planning and Practice

Hear from Professor Julian Agyeman on Just Sustainabilities in Policy, Planning and Practice in this Diversity Dialogue. 

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Diversity Dialogues: Presents Knowing Tribal Communities and Native American Food Systems

Hear from Joshua Arce and Mark Ford from Native Partnerships in this Diversity Dialogue.

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Donor Motivations

Not every donor is the same. Reasons for giving vary greatly from one person to the next. When we understand donor motivations it is easier to make real connections and grow giving. During this webinar, we discuss how to discern what motivates donors to give, how to use motivations to deepen connections, and how to leverage common motivations to identify new prospects.

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Emotional Intelligence for Fundraisers

Relationship Based Fundraising 2023 Breakout Session:

Taking care of yourself is as important as bringing in big gifts—it’s what makes this work sustainable long-term. In this session, you'll learn practical strategies for avoiding burnout and optimizing your well-being. From mindfulness to self-reflection, you'll discover how to bring agency to your present moment actions, decisions, and behaviors, empowering you to be a successful and fulfilled fundraising leader.

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Enabling food pantries on Native American Reservations to receive surplus garden harvests from gardeners in the community on a sustained basis.

Anti-Hunger Policy Conference 2023:

 This session will explore how AmpleHarvest.org, an award winning nationwide food waste/hunger nonprofit, pivoted its model and technology to educate and enable Native American's nationwide who engage in gardening, to be able to start donating their surplus harvests to local food pantries and other food programs

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EndCampusHunger.edu - Strategies for Ending Hunger at Colleges & Universities

Anti-Hunger Policy Conference 2023:

Campus anti-hunger advocates across the country are working to highlight student food insecurity through student outreach, campaign building, and centering students with lived experience. During this session, attendees will learn more about hunger at colleges and universities and how advocates are pushing for visibility and policy reform to end hunger among students. Speakers will discuss the impact of expanded eligibility during the PHE, best practices to reduce barriers to enrollment, and state and federal policy priorities and strategies. Attendees will also hear from individuals with lived expertise on how they can center student voices in their advocacy.

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Ending Hunger Community of Practice: Community Engagement

This webinar is a conversation with network members on community engagement. We sought to deepen our understanding of community engagement and it’s benefits to strengthen our work.

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Ending Hunger Community of Practice: Newcomers to Ending Hunger Activity

Food bank and FANO colleagues will discuss foundational insights about food bank strategies that promote financial wellbeing and long-term food security. We shared ideas about where to start, as well as key implementation issues. 

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Engaging Food Pantry Client and Manager Voices to Drive Policy and Culture Change

Anti-Hunger Policy Conference 2023:

Minnesota’s innovative approach to centering food pantry/shelf client voice in anti-hunger work has focused on implementing a statewide client survey every two to three years. Learn more about this process to implement the survey across 286 food shelves using paper and electronic surveys in six different languages, as well as continued efforts to improve the collaborative data collection process. Dig into key insights from unique food shelf client and food shelf manager profiles, highlighting similarities and differences in the data by region of the state, client demographics and food shelf size. As data roll-outs begin in Spring 2023, the focus will shift to support food shelves and the broader sector to inform policy, programmatic and culture change. 

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Engaging Our Neighbors: COVID and Beyond

As food banks move to adapt their interventions and distribution strategies to more holistically respond to the needs of our neighbors, it is essential to ensure that approaches represent and fully respond to the community voice. Grounded in research, best practice, and food bank experience, this session will address why engaging our neighbors during COVID-19 and beyond is more critical than ever before to effectively address food insecurity across the nation, especially with historically underserved populations. We will discuss food bank status, readiness, and potential paths forward to meaningfully engage our neighbors as stakeholders during COVID and beyond.