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Choice System: Shares Information

This training covers sharing information in the Choice System.

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Choice System: Transportation Functionality

This training covers transportation functionality in the Choice System.

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Client Choice in a Digital World: Providing Nutrition and a Dignified Experience through Online Shopping with Grocery Home Delivery

Anti-Hunger Policy Conference 2023:

 Loaves & Fishes/Friendship Trays begun delivering groceries to neighbors in April 2020 and has delivered to over 48,000 individuals, almost half of which are children and seniors, across Charlotte-Mecklenburg that are unable to pick up from a pantry due to health or transportation barriers.  Loaves & Fishes/Friendship Trays launched a new online grocery ordering platform in 2022 in partnership with Instacart. Through this new grocery ordering website, families and individuals who face food insecurity in Charlotte-Mecklenburg are able to choose the nutritious foods their families love and have them delivered directly to their door.  This session will highlight this program.

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College Student Catch-22: SNAP Eligibility Restrictions + Employment & Training Requirements

 This webinar covers the unique rules and eligibility guidelines for students to enroll in SNAP

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Combating Military Hunger: Learning from Military and Veteran Family Experiences to Find Scalable Solutions

Anti-Hunger Policy Conference 2023:

The Military Family Advisory Network (MFAN) envisions a world where all military-connected families are empowered to thrive. MFAN’s mission is to understand and amplify the needs of military-connected families and inspire data-informed change. This panel will present key findings related to food insecurity of military and veteran families throughout the pandemic, engage in a discussion around the causal factors of food insecurity for military and veteran families and provide an overview of proven programmatic responses to food insecurity throughout the military-connected community.

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Community-Based Approaches for Increasing Racial Equity

Join us for a general session to discuss the impacts of the built environment on diet-related health outcomes and mental wellness, why racial equity matters for food justice and health, and how organizations (in our case food banks) can employ community-based approaches to improve equity in their programs and operations.

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Community-Centric Fundraising

Relationship Based Fundraising 2023 General Session:

Join us for an exciting session on Community-Centric Fundraising, where you'll learn how to create adaptive, systems-changing campaigns that advance social justice. From tactical actions to big-picture strategies, this session will equip you with the tools you need to create meaningful change in your community.

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Community-Centric Institutional Partnerships

This session highlights development leaders who have taken a stand on root cause issues through their partnerships with corporations and foundations. The conversation will include how development teams have looked at funding opportunities alongside their organizational values and held hard conversations internally and externally on the alignment of their values against funding requirements. In breakout rooms, you'll have the opportunity to connect with peers and discuss your ideas for advancing a community-centric approach to institutional partnerships at your organization. Presenters will include network members and a leader at Community-Centric Fundraising.

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Compassion Lab: Building the Habit of Compassion

This workshop is designed to complement the keynote to support participants build a daily habit of compassion. Participants will learn the scientific benefits of compassion, and its different building blocks, specifically empathy, joy, and altruism. They will discern the difference between these building blocks using words and felt sense experiences in their own bodies and minds. They will be led in several rounds of loving-kindness and joy exercises that actively support building the muscle of compassion. Participants will have the opportunity to reflect, practice, discuss, and ask questions about compassion alongside real-time experiences of their effect. They will also walk away specific ways they can incorporate the practice of compassion into their daily lives.

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Compassion: A Gift to Yourself and the World

“A one-word solution for almost all the problems the world is facing today is 'compassion.'" —Amma  You are a compassionate person. Helping to ensure our neighbors have the food they need requires compassion.  How might you increasingly use this compassion to improve your well-being and that of your community?  Join us for this interactive workshop to develop:  Practices to continually refuel your internal engine   Ways to prevent or recover from burnout  Strategies for committing to ongoing self-care  A deeper understanding of wise and compassionate customer service  Tools for using self-compassion to increase equity and liberation  Please join us! Together we can help solve some of the problems the world is facing.

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Connected Together: How the Pandemic has impacted the way the Board and CEO work together

Since early 2020, food bank leaders and their boards have had to continually innovate to ensure they stay connected.

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Connecting our Network with Communities: Food & Technology

Hear from leaders across the network as they reflect on the New Partner Food Bank Agreement and how technology and data resources are helping increase food access in our communities. Learn how the New Partner Food Bank Agreement, Partner State Association and Regional Co-op Agreements ask the network to begin working differently as it relates to sourcing and technology.

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Contract Task Force Session

Watch the Contract Task Force (CTF) discuss the final Network Contract, including how the CTF managed the feedback and editing process to make responsive changes to the document and laying out the path ahead for a vote. 

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Contract Task Force Webinar Series-Session 7: FANO and Food Bank Organizational Matters

The Contract Task Force launched a webinar series May 12 to provide engagement opportunities focused on specific contract content. Our seventh webinar focused on FANO and Food Bank Organizational Matters. Access the meeting series and use the "+" sign to add it to your calendar. View a list of all upcoming dates and topics on the CTF HungerNet page.

Target Audience

All Network Members

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Creating a Strategic Protein Sourcing Plan

This webinar gives an overview of the Agri Sourcing Partnerships Team. It provides a description of The Protein Gap & identifies the challenges that exist. Lastly there is a presentation on an innovative Protein Box Program by Jeff McDonald, the Senior Director of the Fresh Connect Central Co-op in Indianapolis Indiana.

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Creative Ways to Address Anti-Hunger Work: Explaining the Barriers and Positive Impacts Of SNAP

Anti-Hunger Policy Conference 2023:

In this session, we explore creative forms of advocacy to end hunger in the United States to create narratives that are both compelling and personal that explores the impact of SNAP, both challenges and successes. Attendees will hear from communications experts, creatives, and anti-hunger advocates and learn ideas to elevate anti-hunger issues in their communication.

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Creative Ways to Control Rising Costs Without Sacrificing Results

No doubt you’ve experienced it. The cost to raise a dollar in nonprofit direct response has been on the rise in epic proportions for the past three years - with seemingly no end in sight. Inflation, workforce wage increases, material shortages and associated expense increases, postal rate hikes-It’s not pretty. And yet somehow, despite all of this working against us, we are under pressure from our directors, clients, boards, and CFOs to keep expenses flat AND grow revenue! It’s a seemingly impossible goal, especially for small to mid-sized nonprofits. Come to this session, where you’ll learn how to use what you have at your disposal to control rising costs without sacrificing results.

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Cybersecurity - Protecting Your Food Bank from Attack

In this webinar, Loree Jones from Philabundance and Mike Niro from Greater Cleveland Food Bank speak about their harrowing cyberattack experiences and FANO’s Technology team walks through the fundamental safeguards to begin mitigating cybersecurity threats.

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Cybersecurity Risks & Solutions

Security remains one of the top issues of most business professionals today – and for a good reason! Unfortunately, given the ever-increasing volume of sensitive data our organizations store and manage, we have become prime targets for cybersecurity attacks. Fortunately, we can take steps to reduce our risks significantly. This session will teach you which measures will benefit you and your organization the most. In this session, you will learn about security risks and solutions from the breadth and depth of experience of the K2 Enterprises team. A vital aspect of this session is the opportunity to ask questions of your presenter. Major Topics • Today’s major cybersecurity threats • Examples of data breach issues that should be concerning • Practical solutions that you should consider implementing to reduce risk Learning Objectives • Identify leading cybersecurity risks that businesses face today • List examples of critical solutions you should consider implementing • Differentiate between risk and solution profiles, depending on the size of a business.

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Data & Technology Roadmap Update

This will be an in depth update of the data and techonology roadmap