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TBNEH Member News
January 8, 2020 |
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Good morning everyone,
Happy New Year! Our first meeting of the year will be tomorrow, Thursday, January 9th from 9:30am-11:00am at United Way Suncoast, 5201 W. Kennedy Blvd. Suite 600, Tampa, FL. We hope you will join us as we will be discussing some very important topics that will help shape our next year working together. You can add the meeting to your calendar by clicking the button below.
The agenda for tomorrow will begin with sharing the 2019 Sunshine Summit to End Hunger post survey results and summary, as well as beginning to discuss the 2020 SSEH (our 10th annual summit!). We will then review the existing Network's Work Teams mission, goals and members and welcome ideas for any new Work Teams you would like to create. We are excited to introduce our newest Work Team, that has been in development over the past few months, the Regenerative Community Food System Work Team. We hope you will come ready to share your ideas with us on how we can continue to best work together to create hunger free communities, where everyone has equal access to healthy food, throughout the Bay area. We will close the morning with some exciting news from your TBNEH leadership!
Thank you for joining us in our mission to create a tri-county area free from hunger. We look forward to being with yout tomorrow at the monthly members meeting!
Lauren Vance, MPH
Communications Manager
Tampa Bay Network to End Hunger |
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In this week's newsletter:
If you have anything you would like to include in the weekly newsletter, or if you would like to add someone to the distribution list, please email Lauren Vance, Communications Manager, at Lauren.Vance@NetworktoEndHunger.org.
Reminder: The next TBNEH members meeting will be tomorrow: Thursday, January 9th.
(1) Receive free food: Download Waste No Food app and register your non-profit now
(2) FREE WEBINAR: Summer Meals Matter on Expanding Access in Rural Areas- January 9
(3) USF/IFAS The Future of Food Forum FREE LIVESTREAM - January 15
(4) USF Stampede of Service - January 18 - 22
(5) Team Leads needed for the 2020 Point in Time Homeless Count and Survey - January 23
(6) FREE WEBINAR: Florida Food Forum on Food Politics - January 31
(7) Pasco County Housing Authority Senior Resource Fair - February 13
(8) Initiatives to Make SNAP Benefits More Adequate Significantly Improve Food Security, Nutrition, and Health
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(1) Receive free food: Download Waste No Food app and register your non-profit now |
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The Tampa Bay Network to End Hunger program "Creating a Regenerative Community Food System", in partnership with Foundation for a Healthy St. Petersburg, uses the Waste No Food app, to help local non-profit organizations gain access to additional food resources. The app is also used to divert food scraps from the trash to animal feed or compost. As many soup kitchens, food pantries and hot meal providers try to cope with less donations and more demand, it is very important for organizations to have access to excess food. In fact, if organizations had access to all excess food, everyone in our tri-county network area could be fed.
Food donors on the app include local restaurants, markets, farms and other vendors who have excess food that can be redistributed to people in need. The type and quantity of donated food varies. Sometimes, donations include canned goods, bread, sandwich platters or individually boxed meals leftover from a catered event.
Who can receive donations:
- Any charity that is a registered 501(c)3, or
- Any individual or business (ie. farms, community gardens) with a compost pile or animal that eats plant-based food scraps.
Benefits to recipients:
- Claim food, which might otherwise have been thrown out, and distribute it to your clients, who might otherwise have gone hungry, or use it for compost.
- The food, like the app, is free. Charities can use the money they might have otherwise spent on food for case management or other operational necessities.
How to Get Started
- Sign up as a Charity/Recipient on the Waste No Food app. If you are a charity that would like to accept donations for redistribution, you must be a registered 501(c)3. If you are accepting food scrap donations for compost, please enter 00-0000000 as the 501(c)3 number.
- Wait for your account to be approved.
- Once approved, monitor the Waste No Food app and start claiming donations. Only claim a donation if you are able to pick it up. Communication with the donor is easy through the app.
- Please be mindful that each establishment will have slightly different procedures for pick up. We suggest communicating with each new business you visit to learn their preferences.
- Once you receive your donation, please redistribute the excess food to those you serve or compost the food scraps so they can nourish community gardens!
Questions? Click below or contact Amanda Streets, Food Suplus Consultant for the Tampa Bay Network to End Hunger.
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(2) Summer Meals Matter WEBINAR: Expanding Access in Rural Areas- January 9
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January 9, 2020
— 1 p.m. Eastern
The summer nutrition programs play an incredibly important role in closing a hunger gap that exists for low-income children in rural communities every summer. Join the Food Research & Action Center in this 30-minute deep-dive webinar to learn about creative partnerships and opportunities to overcome transportation barriers in rural communities.
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(3) The Future of Food Forum LIVESTREAM-January 15
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Where: Rion Ballroom, Reitz Union, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL
If you are not able to attend the event in person, you can watch the livestream beginning at 9am est by clicking below.
The UF/IFAS Institute for Sustainable Food Systems hosts a day long forum to:
• Explore the frontier of global food innovation
• Highlight the potential for food innovations to improve human well-being
• Provide guidance to the scientific community on the most important areas to make better functioning food systems and to improve global nutrition security.
The Future of Food Forum will be an intensive and exciting one-day event at the University of Florida. It will bring together leading experts, entrepreneurs, researchers, and innovators to take a look at the future of food with an eye toward 2050.
The keynote speaker, Dr. Louise Fresco, President of Wageningen University in the Netherlands, will focus on responsible agriculture and food consumption as crucial to world stability.
At the forum you will hear some of the world’s changemakers give their perspective on the future of food systems and what we should be doing now to embrace the innovations and challenges of the future of food. There will be four high impact sessions:
- The Innovators – Hear from inventors and entrepreneurs who are shaping the future of food.
- Food from the Land – Panelists will discuss new technologies: what will be useful, who will use them, where will they be most useful, and what the impacts will be.
- Food from the Sea – Analysts will present the state of current seafood systems; predictions for future trends in aquaculture and fisheries.
- Food and Human Well-Being – One Health perspectives on health and food including antimicrobial resistance, foodborne disease, and nutrition.
This will be an insightful event for anyone who cares about the future of food – from producers to consumers; from researchers to innovators; and from business leaders to policymakers.
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(4) USF Stampede of Service - January 18-22 |
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Greetings USF Community Partners!
It is time to post your service projects for January SOS. SOS January will take place over MLK weekend (1/18/20) – (1/21/20). The Center for Leadership and Civic Engagement will host a SOS January Kickoff on January 17th to introduce students to the Active Citizenship Continuum and Sustainable Development Goals prior to attending service events. Students will be encouraged to sign up for service projects at the Kickoff. The CLCE will feature service projects held between January 18th – January 22nd.
Please send an email to Olivia Norton, Graduate Assistant for Civic Engagement at the USF Center for Leadership and Civic Engagement, nortono@usf.edu or call (813) 974-7595 with any questions.
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(5) Team Leads needed for the 2020 Point in Time Homeless Count and Survey - January 23 |
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The Pinellas Homeless Leadership Board is currently recruiting volunteers to assist with the Point-In-Time Count of the Homeless on Thursday, January 23, 2020. There is still a pressing need for “Team Leaders” to assist with the Point-in-Time Count. Team Lead Link: http://www.pinellashomeless.org/Point-in-Time-Count-Team-Lead-Application
Each year, the number of individuals in Emergency, Transitional, and Safe Haven Shelters in Pinellas County, as well as a count of Unsheltered homeless individuals is provided to the federal Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). These data, along with supplemental data collected through the Unsheltered street survey, Pinellas County Schools, and the Pinellas County Jail are reported to provide a broader understanding of the Pinellas County homeless population. A cadre of volunteers are necessary in order to complete the count and to reach all of the areas across Pinellas County. The volunteers will go to soup kitchens, bus stops, day labor sites, parks, libraries, shopping centers and other locations where homeless people are known to reside. The count is coordinated by the Pinellas County Homeless Leadership Board, and the data we collect is crucial in planning for programs and services that will help prevent homelessness, as well as assist individuals and families who are homeless obtain housing and self-sufficiency.
This survey has been conducted for many years and they have never received a reported incidence of a volunteers’ safety being compromised. Volunteers are only being sent to public places that the homeless populations are known to congregate, and the volunteers will be assisted by a “team leader” which is someone like you or others who have participated with the PIT previously.
If you have any questions, please feel free to contact Susan Finlaw-Dusseault with the Pinellas Homeless Leadership Board, at (727) 582-7921 or sfdusseault@pinellashlb.org.
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(6) Florida Food Forum WEBINAR: "Food Politics: The Role of Policy in the Food System"- January 31 |
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Florida Food Forum - January's Topic:
Food Politics: The Role of Policy in the Food System
Join us from 12-1pm on Friday, January 31st, for the Florida Food Forum on "Food Politics: The Role of Policy in the Food System" with guest presenter Anthony Olivieri, Chair of the FLFPC Development Committee and founder of FHEED LLC. Following the presentation will be a discussion and Q&A session. The event is a free online forum that is open to the public.
Join us
Use the Microsoft teams the link below or dial-in by phone.
Join Microsoft Teams Meeting
+1 941-306-1146 United States, Sarasota (Toll); Conference ID: 642 110 014#
Note: For dial-in attendees, please press * (star) then 6 to mute and unmute while on the call.
Bio: Anthony Olivieri, Chair of the Development Committee at the Florida Food Policy Council, is the founder of FHEED LLC (Food for Health, the Environment, Economy & Democracy), has a Masters in Urban & Regional Planning from FAU (2011) with a focus on community food systems, and a certificate in Geographic Information Systems (GIS). His specialties are geographic assessments of food and health disparities, program design for healthy food access initiatives, and public speaking about health equity. In addition to his consultancy, Anthony was a full-time instructor with the School of Urban and Regional Planning at Florida Atlantic University, where he developed and taught the region’s first urban planning course on community food systems (2014-2016). A Fort Lauderdale resident since 1998, Anthony is originally from Cambridge, Massachusetts and has a B.A. in psycholinguistics from the University of Southern California (1994).
Forum Host: Dell deChant is the Associate Chair of the Religious Studies Department at the University of South Florida and a member of the Board of Directors at the Florida Food Policy Council.
Disclaimer: The views of the presenters do not represent the views of the Florida Food Policy Council. We are a forum for the offering and sharing of information and encourage diversity and communication within the food system.
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(7) Pasco County Housing Authority Senior Resource Fair - February 13
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Celebrating a Healthy and Happy Heart
Thursday, February 13, 2020 from 11:00am – 2:00pm
Event Location: Dade Oaks Elderly, 37347 Autumn Drive, Dade City 33523
Non-profit organizations, businesses, entertainment, health screenings, services and activities for our vendors and guests.
Interested in exhibiting? Contact Bev Doucet at BDoucet@pascocountyhousing.org for additional information.
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(8) Initiatives to Make SNAP Benefits More Adequate Significantly Improve Food Security, Nutrition, and Health
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Food Research & Action Center
The monthly benefits provided by SNAP enhance the food purchasing power of eligible low-income individuals and families. However, the greatest shortcoming of SNAP is that benefits for most households are not enough to get through the entire month without hunger or being forced to sacrifice nutrition quality. This limitation persists even in the face of overwhelming evidence on the gains from more adequate monthly SNAP benefits.
This paper analyzes why SNAP benefits are inadequate, reviews the body of research showing positive effects from more adequate SNAP benefits, and offers key policy solutions to improve benefit adequacy.
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If you have anything you would like to include in the weekly newsletter, or if you would like to add someone to the distribution list, please email Lauren Vance, Communications Manager, at Lauren.Vance@NetworktoEndHunger.org. |
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