617 Courses
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Food Industry Partnerships: Supply Chain and FIP Account Updates, November 2022
This month’s Food Industry Partnerships webinar welcomed the Feeding America HungerNet team, who walked us through the newly updated platform, and its navigation, including how to request access to the Grocery Purchasing Program, Choice, and MealConnect / Produce Matching. We also shared information about the Round 2 Retail Agency Capacity Grant applications, as well as Grocery Purchasing Program subsidy information.
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Food Insecurity: Past, Present and Future
In this session, we will share insights about food insecurity before and since Covid-19, with a focus on racial disparities at different geographic levels. As the recovery from the Covid-19 pandemic continues, we will explore how food insecurity levels may change going forward, highlight approaches that could significantly reduce food insecurity, and explore the role that food banks can play.
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Food is Medicine Project Video
This video highlights the “Food is Medicine” project, a two-year initiative supporting food banks and their health care partners to identify and address food insecurity at health care sites.
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Food over Fear: Strategies to Bring Equitable Access to Nutrition Programs for All Immigrants
Anti-Hunger Policy Conference 2023:
This session will address barriers to nutrition benefits for mixed status immigrant families and how to address them through a multi-level approach at the federal, state, and local levels.
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Food Purchasing for Programs Staff 201: For the DIY-er
This session focused on small-quantity food sourcing and food purchasing for programs and/or food banks and affiliate food banks operating on a smaller scale
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Food Purchasing for Programs Staff 202: Network Examples of Collaboration
Programs staff members are often at the forefront of gathering neighbor feedback. To act on that feedback, Programs Staff may need to work closely with food sourcing or food purchasing staff to learn about what is possible to meet neighbor needs. This webinar will highlight network members currently collaborating in the Programs, Food Sourcing, and Food Purchasing spaces. Invite your colleagues working in these spaces to start the discussion on how your collaboration could improve the neighbor experience at Program Sites.
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Food Purchasing Strategy Across Teams
As you look to implement purchasing strategy within your food bank, let’s look at ways to work more collaboratively across teams through lively tabletop discussion. Whether you are new to purchasing or a more seasoned buyer, this session will provide an opportunity run through potential scenarios in order to think more holistically, learn what questions to ask, who to go to, and ultimately walk away with tools you can start using right away.
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Food Rescue Organization Landscape Assessment: So What?, Now What?
Annual Conference 2023 Breakout Session:
Feeding America partnered with Supply Chain Department faculty at North Carolina State University and North Carolina A&T University to develop a comprehensive landscape assessment of other for- and non-profit food rescue organizations. Come learn more about the assessment and the 56 organizations studied. Join an interactive exercise on how we should learn from and/or possibly partner with other food rescue organizations.
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Food Safety: AIB Audit Ready
AIB International presents a training on being audit ready.
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Food Safety: AIB During COVID-19
Learn what updates you may need to make in your food safety programs because of COVID-19. You will also learn about innovations that the food industry has seen in 3rd party food safety audits.
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Food Safety: Best Practices
This webinar presented by Retail Business Services looks at the next generation of grocery retail.
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Food Safety: Hot Topics & Policy Trends in Food Waste Law
This webinar looks at hot topics and policy trends in food waste law.
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Food Sourcing - Federal Commodities and Diversifying Sources
Provides food bank leadership with information impacting the availability of food and guidance on how to collaboratively source food in an evolving market.
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Food Sourcing and Access Services: Working With You to Source and Distribute More Food To The People We Serve
Learn how this newly created team can support all aspects of your internal supply chain, from food sourcing through distribution to the people we serve. It is based of the successful model of the Network Fundraising Services team and customized with product sourcing information gathered from over 100 interviews with Feeding America network members. We will review key elements of this new approach which include an assessment of the current status of your food bank, recommendations and support for enhancements, and updated tools to help grow the capacity of your food bank to source and distribute more food.
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Food Sourcing for Non-Food Sourcing Colleagues
Hear from Tony Mans, Director of Food Sourcing Services who will give an overview of network sources of food, including retail, manufacturing, and federal commodities. Hear current challenges and opportunities for growth within food sourcing and how data work relates.
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Food Sourcing Strategic Plan Roadmap
What is your food bank’s vision, and how will product sourcing help achieve those goals? There is not a one-size-fits-all approach to building a food sourcing strategic plan; instead, this session will provide you with the framework, the tools, and the space to begin to think about your food bank’s goals and how achieve them. A food sourcing strategic plan is critical to help your food bank assess challenges, operationalize goals, and measure the impact of the changes you implement. In this session, you will learn the methodology of how to build a strategic plan, including goal setting, data analysis, assigning responsibility, and how to implement your goals. This session will culminate in a product sourcing strategic plan template that can be adapted for your food bank.
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Food Sourcing: Agency Enabled Programs - Learn the Basics
Learn about the benefits of Agency Enabled Program. Empowering your partner agencies to pick up directly from retail grocery stores and other donors shortens the time before the beneficiary receives items. It also improves efficiencies for the food bank and the partner agency.
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Food Sourcing: Best Practices in Donor Recognition
Learn more about the importance of donor recognition and to hear several network members talk about how they recognize and steward donors. Examples of annual recognition as well as ongoing stewardship of retail partners, and other unique ways to thank our donors will all be reviewed. Guest presenters include Carter Crain from the Food Bank of Central & Eastern North Carolina and Jim Macphearson from the Tarrant Area Food Bank.
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Food Sourcing: Best Practices of Retail Program Management
This webinar covers: Keys to success, the donor's perspective, peer experience and resources.
