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Not All Knitters: Expanding perceptions of aging to address hunger

Anti-Hunger Policy Conference 2023:

When you think of older adults and hunger, who comes to mind? What characteristics do they have? What's their experience with food insecurity? In this engaging session, we'll expand perceptions of older adults and leave you more equipped to address older adult food insecurity in your community.

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November 2023 Government Relations Webinar

The monthly government relations webinar covers policy updates and priorities.

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Oasis Insight Tech User Group: Barcoding

The Oasis Insight Tech User Group discusses the use of barcoding in Oasis.

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Oasis Insight Tech User Group: March Madness

The Oasis Insight Tech User Group plans for its upcoming topics using a March Madness bracket.

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October 2023 All Network SNAP Outreach Webinar

This webinar centered on best practices for targeting populations with SNAP application assistance including how to utilize digital/social media advertising.

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October 2023 Government Relations Webinar

The monthly government relations webinar covers policy updates and priorities.

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On-ramps to Meeting Neighbor Food Needs: An Interactive Workshop Session for all

This two-part Workshop aims to engage attendees across the network who seek to better understand and meet neighbor food needs. On-ramps for this work are numerous - whether it be through self-assessments, community engagement, neighbor-responsive sourcing, donor commitments, HER nutrition ranking or by addressing policies, systems and environmental changes. Session speakers include network and external partners who will openly share through a Panel and Fireside Chat their challenges, incremental wins, and new resources available to help you move the needle forward in your organization. Attendees are then invited to join colleagues in discussions, hands-on demonstrations and action planning to help ensure the learnings and ah-has from the session make their way home and into the next steps of your work to address food insecurity and improve health - in partnership with your community.

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Annual Conference 2021: Opening General Session

Feeding America CEO Claire Babineaux-Fontenot will deliver welcome remarks to officially kick off the start of the Annual Conference.

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FNC 2020: Opening general session with Claire Babineaux-Fontenot

Kick off your FNC virtual conference with this Recorded conference general session featuring Claire Babineaux-Fontenot. She will share Feeding America’s priorities and perspective as the network continues to evolve its work in response to the current pandemic. 

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OrderAhead: Changing the Future of Online Ordering

OrderAhead, co-developed with food banks and informed by neighbors with lived experience of food insecurity, allows neighbors to order food from the privacy of their own phone and pick it up at a convenient location and time. By offering discretion, choice and convenience, OrderAhead reduces barriers and creates a more dignified experience for people seeking food assistance. This video features a summary of how the application works and the impact it is having in communities.

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OrderAhead: Giving Neighbors Choice and Convenience

OrderAhead is a free platform that allows food banks and agencies to offer a “click and collect” shopping experience for the people you serve. Learn how your network peers are using OrderAhead to increase choice and convenience for neighbors while reducing complexity in coordinating inventory, packing and delivery for their organization.

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OrderAhead: Transforming the Charitable Food Experience

OrderAhead is an online ordering platform that provides a neighbor experience based on convenience, privacy and efficiency. It gives food banks and agency partners a tool to meet neighbors where they are through a variety of distribution models. Join this panel discussion to hear from network colleagues how they are using OrderAhead to meet neighbors where they are and offer an alternative to the traditional pantry experience. Attendees will come away with a deeper understanding of how OrderAhead can be implemented to serve neighbors in their service area.

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OrderAhead: Using online click and collect models to improve access and health outcomes

Several Food Banks have adopted strategies to serve neighbors directly through click and collect ordering platforms. Learn about how they are being deployed at one Food Bank, the impact it is having today and the longer term potential health, access and equity implications of using click and collect ordering models. 

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Outcomes Measurement Framework: Deep Dive on Food Access

As part of the 2025 Strategy, Feeding America has set improved food security as our north star, or population-level indicator of progress towards our 2025 goal and vision of a hunger free America. To improve food security, we have identified four outcomes where Feeding America is uniquely positioned to make a difference in the lives of people we serve: increased access to nutritious food, improved diet quality, improved financial security, and increased public passion to end hunger. While we have identified measures for most pillars of our strategy, the national office is in the process of engaging with external experts and food banks to develop an access measure that is relevant to the role we have in providing reliable access to nutritious food in a manner that meets the unique needs of people in a given community. Please join this session for an overview of the outcomes measurement framework and to share your thoughts and feedback as we work to develop a food access measure.

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Part 1: Learn About Feeding America's Food Security Equity Impact Fund

As part of the Food Security Equity Impact Fund, nearly $10 million was awarded to 25 food banks, partnering with 60 different community-based organizations to address the root causes of hunger and food insecurity by developing and advocating for change and developing solutions to improve food insecurity and to create a more just food system. Learn more about Feeding America’s Food Security Equity Impact Fund by listening to our latest webinar.

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Part 2: Learn About Feeding America's Food Security Equity Impact Fund

The Food Security Equity Impact Fund was established in March 2021 and aims to drive investments to communities of color which are disproportionately impacted by food insecurity. Nearly $10 million has been awarded to 25 food banks who are in turn working with 60 different community-based partners, 90% of which are led by people of color. Now that the Fund is underway, we are excited about supporting community-led change that improves food security and addresses root causes, which is foundational to advancing our bold aspiration for our nation.

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Partner Network Services: Agency Recruitment & Selection Roundtable

In this roundtable hosted by Partner Network Services (formerly Access Services) three food banks share examples of their work in agency recruitment and selection. Topics include agency network mapping, identifying gaps with an equity lens, using community engagement to close gaps, pre-screening prospective new partners and organizing the agency relations team to maximize agency and community engagement.

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Partner Network Services: Rural Innovations Roundtable

Partner Network Services (formerly Access Services) provides an opportunity for five food banks to share programming ideas that have increased access to food in rural areas. The food banks’ innovations overcame common rural barriers such as distance from food sources, absence of partner agencies, lack of transportation and agency partner capacity challenges. Learn about a wide range of solutions such as “Mail-A-Meal,” utilizing shipping containers for storage and distribution, a creative mobile, rural pallet drops and transforming distribution hosts into partner agencies. Question and answer session also included.

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Partnerships: The Path to Food Sovereignty for Native Populations

No community better exemplifies the importance of Food Sovereignty as a social determinant of cultural and community health, than Tribal Communities.  As we explore deepening our ability to provide charitable food assistance in times of distress, we must equally focus on strategies that affirm the importance of cultural and food sovereignty for Native and Indigenous People in America. In this session we will explore the importance of partnerships in building network capacity to serve tribal communities and while supporting practices that affirm Native America Sovereignty in food and food systems.

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Path to 2030! Bold New Solutions: Fighting, Preventing and Tracking Hunger

A preview of Second Harvest Heartland's big, audacious hunger-fighting goal—and the frameworks, workstreams, and partnerships under construction to reach it—will be followed by a panel discussion with food bank leaders on bold, regional plans to end hunger. In the spirit of Feeding America’s inspiring new benchmarks, the session is likely to spark powerful questions on evolving the philosophies at the core of food banking and where our work to impact hunger begins and ends. Speakers will be candid regarding the early wins, failures and lessons learned from their new Minnesota hunger moonshot efforts.