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Building Diverse Community Based Coalitions
This guiding tool from the Praxis Project offers what is important to take into account in our efforts to building diverse community based coalitions. It provides background, question prompts, and…
Understanding your community and customers | Grassroots outreach | Operations and policy | Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility
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Report
Fresh ideas for CalFresh
Fresh Ideas for CalFresh is nearly three-year project (2019-2022) documenting the experiences of over 400 food-insecure Angelenos across the county navigating public benefit programs like CalFresh. In fact, there are…
Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility | Evaluation and Reporting | SNAP, EBT, and Nutrition Incentive Programs | Sharing your results | Operations and policy
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Voices of the Food Chain
Using this website, Voices of the Food Chain showcases stories and issues from the millions of food-systems workers in America. A great example of how to use digital media to…
Digital media | Operations and policy | Messaging, Marketing, and Engagement | Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility | Understanding your community and customers
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"Beyond Traditional": Farmers Markets Incubating Social Change
This toolkit created by Allinee "shiny" Flanary is offers a central case study and numerous tools based in shiny's work in creating and managing the Come Thru Market in Portland…
Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility | Trainings and tools | Operations and policy
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Report
Listening is First Step in Serving Native American Communities
This article from Food Bank News describes effective efforts to create farm direct food access programs to serve native communities, and offers an example of how to design community-centered programming.
Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility | Design and location | Operations and policy
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OFMA Trainings On Anti-Racism At Farmers Markets
Although these tools and trainings are created with Oregon Farmers Markets in mind, the trainings and resources listed on this page will be useful for any farm direct organization looking…
Trainings and tools | Operations and policy | Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility
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Measuring Racial Equity in the Food System: Established and Suggested Metrics
This tool offers an expansive list of metrics that U.S. food system practitioners and food movement organizations can use to hold ourselves accountable for progress towards a more equitable food…
Evaluation and Reporting | Data collection and evaluation | Operations and policy | What to measure and track | Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility
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Research
Delivering More Than Food: Understanding and Operationalizing Racial Equity in Food Hubs
Racism underlies the U.S. food system. To withstand, resist, and reshape the dominant food system, communities of color have created alternative food systems rooted in self-determination, ownership, and collective power.…
Operations and policy | Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility
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Research
What do farmers bring to market?: Exploring good types, number of vendors, and founding dates by SES and race/ethnicity
While previous studies have shown that farmers markets are choosing to locate in underserved areas, little research has examined how often this is occurring and what these markets offer to…
Operations and policy | Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility
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Podcast
8 Ways White Bias Can Misdirect Food System Work
This podcast from Duke University's World Food Policy Center discusses three common lenses white food systems actors often bring to food systems work, and discusses how they can undermine equity.
Operations and policy | Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility
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