A Boston organizing campaign offers lessons in effective coalition building and highlights the often untapped potential for local government and agencies to use the power of the purse to shift practices throughout the food system.
412 Food Rescue recovers food about to be thrown away and delivers it directly to people experiencing food insecurity. With a goal to have chapters in 20 cities by the year 2020, this is not an organization that thinks small.
Philadelphia’s nonprofit Common Market, soon to celebrate its tenth anniversary and beginning to build satellite hubs in other cities, illustrates the maturation of the “food hub” movement, a movement that has often employed nonprofit intermediaries to help small-scale farmers better serve local food markets.
All CEOs, if they claim any interest in organizational sustainability and stewardship of mission, should spend a good part of their time developing a deep bench that will both challenge and support them.
Food banks and pantries are not always able to offer clients fresh produce. Creative partnerships with farms allow food that would otherwise be wasted to help those in need.
A reorganization of the food distribution system in Maine leaves it more centralized and, at least in some cases, the smallest programs paying and having to fundraise more.
Humanitarian groups are happy to have been able to feed some of those starving in the midst of Syria’s warzone, but they worry they may not be allowed back in time to prevent more deaths from lack of food.
Joan Cheever was ticketed by police in San Antonio, Texas, for feeding the homeless. Cheever is indignant and tough, and this will not be your typical food fight.
From the battering of our collective psyche to the impact on schools, municipalities, business, and infrastructure, the snowiest winter ever in Boston had a truly epic effect on nonprofits in the city and around the region.
