Announcements

Feb 14: Bringing Policy to the Table: New Food Strategies for a Healthier Society

Date: Thursday, February 14, 2013

Time: 8:00 AM to 12:00 PM

Location:
Teachers College, Columbia University
Joyce Berger Cowin Conference Center
Horace Mann Building, Lobby Level
Entrance on Broadway between 120th and 121st Streets

RSVP required

Internship Opportunity: Healthy Schools - Brooklyn

Request for Interns Winter/Spring 2013
New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, Brooklyn District Public Health Office

Americorps Opportunity: Nutrition Educator at Children's Aid Society

The Children’s Aid Society’s Go!Healthy program is seeking dynamic
instructors to lead after-school cooking and nutrition education programs for
elementary, middle and high school students in the South Bronx and Harlem.
Hours range from 5-20 hours per week.

Nutrition Education Volunteers Needed

Bubble Foundation delivers nutrition (EATS) and fitness (MOVES) programming to burgeoning charter schools serving at risk children in underserved communities. Bubble works with these schools to target and address the needs of the children it serves, customizing programs, free of charge, in order to support specific goals for 1–2 years.

Job Opportunity: Director of Advocacy & Policy at Community Food Advocates

Job Opening:  Director of Advocacy and Policy

CFA is a three-year old nonprofit advocacy organization whose mission is to promote the full utilization of federally funded food programs to ensure the health and well-being of low-income New York families.

FSNYC's Year End Membership Drive: Join Today!

 

Do you want to learn more about how our food system works?

Do you want to have an impact on how the food system can provide healthier food and be more ecologically sustainable?

Have you been thinking about joining one of the city’s most vibrant food system networks comprised of food system professionals and community food advocates?

 

If you said yes to any of those questions now is the time to act. Become a member today!

New Resources for Farmers Available from Just Food

Farming for NYC Toolkit Now Available in English and Spanish

NESAWG It Takes a Region Conference Rescheduled!

Due to Hurricane Sandy, the "It Takes a Region Conference" of the Northeast Sustainable Agriculture Working Group (NESAWG) has been rescheduled.

APA releases report: Planning for Food Access and Community-Based Food Systems

The American Planning Association published a new report that outlines the results of a three-year, multi-phased research study that identified and evaluated the food access and food system components of local government plans in the U.S.

Planning for Food Access and Community-Based Food Systems: A National Scan and Evaluation of Local Comprehensive and Sustainability Plans is a free, 175-page report that is divided into four main sections and provides detailed results and analyses for each phase of the study (see below):

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