External Training

This course offers trauma-sensitive basics for the charitable food network. It is a 90-min self-paced training which includes videos, readings, and reflection activities.

 Participants will:
- Develop an understanding of how positive and adverse experiences affect individual and community relationships to food.  
- Explore implications for the charitable food system, especially for reaching families with children.

Participants may include staff or volunteers from your organization as well as staff or volunteers from agency and program partners within the space limitations listed.

Note to Agency & Programs Food Bank Staff: 

We are asking interested network members to identify one point of contact for registration for each organization. The point of contact should share the draft email below with relevant internal staff and/or agency and program partners.  Please collect contact information for interested participants and submit one registration for your organization on behalf of them. If your organization already participated, you may submit an additional registration for more colleagues to join. This training is available through June 2023.

Please direct any questions to Leah’s Pantry at FAN@leahspantry.org.

External Training

Culture, Equity, Diversity, and Race (CEDAR) is a self-paced course focusing on anti-oppression, anti-racism and cultural competency for nutrition professionals (though open to all). In this course, participants learn to develop a solid foundation to think critically and unpack how the food and health industries perpetuate the oppression of ethnically and racially diverse communities. By the end of the course, students will learn practical steps to provide more equitable and culturally appropriate care and support. 

External Training

Search Inside Yourself (SIY) Global and Search Inside Yourself Leadership Institute (SIYLI) offer science-based programs to develop social and emotional intelligence skills for individuals and teams, aiming to improve engagement and well-being at work. Search Inside Yourself programs provide individuals, teams and communities an essential toolkit for managing stress, anxiety, and promoting wellbeing, especially during times of uncertainty.

External Training

The Management Center helps leaders working for social change build and run more equitable, sustainable, and results-driven organizations. With a focus on management skills, it offers a wide range of resources, including virtual instructor-led training sessions in English and Spanish, facilitator guides, coaching, and tools.

External Training

PMI is the world’s leading project management organization. It is best known for its globally recognized certification programs, and it also offers online courses, Webinars, tools, templates, articles, guides and other resources.

External Training

TechSoup offers expert-led tech training designed for nonprofits in multiple languages. Courses are self-paced.

External Training

BoardSource offers educational programs to help strengthen and support board performance.  Materials are available on a wide range of topics, including board roles & responsibilities, recommended governance practices, executive transitions, assessing board performance, and fundraising.

External Training

This self-paced course will contribute to your knowledge and skills in advocating for, leading or participating in an effort to develop a food bank nutrition policy.

External Training

The Food Bank Health and Nutrition Assessment (FB-HANA) helps food banks and technical assistance providers gain new insights about health and nutrition strategies, and identify areas for growth in the organization. The assessment allows users to easily identify ways the food bank promotes health via policies and practices in order to meet the needs of diverse groups. Users complete the assessment in 60-90 minutes and can use the results for strategic planning and goal setting. Food banks can conduct a second FB-HANA (i.e. post-assessment) after implementing changes, comparing pre- and post- scores, to measure progress over time.