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Getting ready to start visiting donors again? Overwhelmed by the process?  Learn tips on how to prioritize your donors, create a Donor Stewardship plan to organize your visits, and ways to keep track of your activities. 

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How are vendors selected to be on the Grocery Purchase Portal? What items have the highest movement? How is the best price negotiated?  Learn this and more at this webinar featuring the Feeding America Purchase Program Team.

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Join the Food Sourcing and Access Services team along with food sourcing peers from the network​ to learn about best practices for retail, manufacturing and produce donor visits.

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In response to COVID-19, demand for home/client delivery options has dramatically increased. Home/client delivery is an important tool for equitable distribution to our vulnerable neighbors, but also presents challenges to execute. On April 22nd at 1 pm CT, we will host a convening for member leadership to share and discuss how food distribution operations have changed to safely meet the demands of the communities they serve.  Our goal is to create a space for dynamic discussion, the sharing of ideas, and for participants to walk away with more ideas that can support their work.  

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Join the FSAS team with special guest, Marion Landfear from Supply Chain for an interactive discussion on how to get the most "bang for your Choice-buck" when sourcing food through the platform.  Choice has been around since 2006 and millions of pounds move through the system each year.  Still a viable and equitable means of sourcing food in the food bank network. Learn about what you should be looking for when and how your food bank benefit from all that Choice has to offer.  ​

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This webinar introduces the Food Sourcing & Access Services team and highlight resources available. It provides an overview of the Feeding America National Organization, and how it supports food sourcing. It highlight the different channels of food, national trends, and best practices to sourcing food in each channel. Lastly, it introduces the importance and impact of intentional donor engagement.

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Donations from food manufacturers have historically been our primary source of nonperishable food donations which are the easiest to distribute, yet some of the hardest to access.  As food manufacturers continue to become more efficient with their inventory, we must work harder and smarter to secure these donations. Join us for a webinar focused on how to acquire new manufacturing donors, make effective donor visits, how to handle donations once they are offered to us, and ways to thank and steward a donor so they support us on a long-term basis.

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Food banks throughout the network hold varying opinions on whether shared maintenance fees should be a continued practice. In this conversation, we explore the benefits and drawbacks of this revenue stream, hear from leaders about how they have approached this practice, and consider implications for partner agency relationships.  

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This webinar looks at reports used by Greater Boston Food Bank, discusses how to use Information to increase retail donations, and looks at retail Information available from FANO.

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Produce, produce, and more produce! You hear about it; you know it’s a phenomenal food source. So many questions: How should it be sourced? Where can it be sourced? What handling is required for the best product possible?

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It is critical that we learn from neighbors about experiences accessing charitable food to improve the charitable food experience and increase equitable access to nutritious food. Understanding neighbors’ experiences accessing the charitable food system and leveraging co-design approaches to improving experience are key to keeping people facing hunger at the center of our work. This session highlights the Community Centered Design projects that Channel One Regional Food Bank carried out in the diverse Minnesota communities the food bank serves. Through engagement with neighbors with lived experience, cohorts of co-designers worked to determine how to better invest in communities, increase capacity, and developed a blueprint for partner agencies improve the charitable food experience for people facing hunger. Through this session, we will also we will learn about Feeding America’s neighbor engagement strategy as well as the Neighbor Experience Module of the Food Access Measurement Framework, which was developed by Feeding America, with input by the network and neighbors, and in collaboration with the Urban Institute. Session attendees will explore opportunities, challenges with, and lessons learned for growing neighbor engagement and co-design approaches within their own food banks and communities.

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Anti-Hunger Policy Conference 2023:

Many older adults face impossible choices between paying for food and household essentials like prescriptions. The White House Conference strategy envisioned the need for a multi-sector approach to address food insecurity (FI) including partnerships between the health care sector and anti-hunger advocates, as well as a whole government approach. This session brings that vision to life by featuring stakeholders working to address hunger among older adults across different sectors and by highlighting a range of nutrition programs, administered by different federal agencies that can be leveraged to address hunger among older adults.

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When you hear the word Evaluation, you may think about a specific survey to measure outcomes and show impact for a specific program. While this is one form of evaluation, the MEL (Measurement, Evaluation, and Learning) approach describes more ways to learn about neighbors and programs. Any time you are collecting insights and observations and using them to address problems and improve services, you are engaging in MEL activities.   

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Food security is a critical determinant of health rooted in inequities, and disproportionately impacts communities of color.

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Anti-Hunger Policy Conference 2023:

 This session will highlight the replicability of the Roundtable’s model, and share learnings for how frontline anti-hunger organizations in other communities might band together for similar goals. The Roundtable’s mission - to collaborate to bring more resources to communities, so none of our neighbors go hungry - is built on the conviction that collaboration is key to achieving the greatest impact in fighting hunger.

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This 90-minute webinar, hosted by members of the Food Sourcing Advisory Committee (FSAC) and other subject matter experts, will offer a deeper dive into how the Network can best leverage and activate against food and freight subsidies, sourcing and capacity building grants and other opportunities to access more food in the next six months. 

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The midyear call is based on Feeding America’s fiscal year (July-June) and is a chance to connect and share progress to date on key measures, including demand, food sourcing, fundraising, grantmaking and legislative priorities. This year's call also featured updates on the newly passed member contract, the National Council 2023 work plan and the network's shared process for developing a strategic framework.

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The Feeding America national organization’s Supply Chain and Food Sourcing teams, leadership from the National Council and colleagues from the Food Sourcing Advisory Committee previewed fiscal year 2024's food sourcing and sharing member grant and subsidy programs. They also discussed components of our capacity-building and food-sourcing strategy as well as sourcing targets for fiscal year 2024.

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Join us for a 2.5-hour workshop focused on supporting food banks new to or just getting started with Service Insights. Service Insights is a national initiative to electronically collect standard intake information from the people we serve, with the goal of developing local and national insights to better understand and serve our neighbors.  This interactive workshop will be oriented around best practices from the Service Insights Network Framework. Network members will lead discussions and present on the different phases and activities in the Network Framework, based on their first-hand experiences and lessons learned. The first half of the workshop will be dedicated to the Plan Phase, as it is most critical for the program's success. We will discuss best practices related to identifying project goals, engaging partner agencies and other stakeholders, designing your rollout strategy, and more. The second half will focus on key activities from the remaining phases of the Network Framework: identifying technology requirements from the Select Phase; integrating neighbor experience and trauma-informed principles from the Design Phase; designing a pilot from the Test Phase; and developing training materials and training users from the Train & Onboard Phase.

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Anti-Hunger Policy Conference 2023:

Join us to learn how you can use CACFP as a powerful tool to build resilience and good health for children in child care and afterschool programs. Award winning sponsors will share their success in planning and providing healthy meals and snacks that children enjoy and parents appreciate. The Veggies Early & Often initiative can help you close the veggies gap. This is central to meeting the White House Conference on Hunger, Nutrition, and Health goals. To help you make the case, an advocacy researcher will share the newest research which shows the value of CACFP in supporting food security and health for children from families with low incomes.