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School Food Reform

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For participants interested in focusing on school food reform and the Child Nutrition Act reauthorization.

Location: Issue
Organizers: 50
Latest Activity: 15 hours ago

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Next meeting: Wednesday, March 24, 7:00 388 Atlantic

March 1 Meeting Minutes
13 organizers attended

1. New organizing materials were presented and are now available on our website: What You Can Do, National School Food Program, List of Programs, Roadmap for School Food Outreach.
2. Kristen Schoonover led a discussion about how you can help light the fire of change and democracy in your school: meet with the PTA, parents, teachers, administrators, get partnership meetings going, and make sure parents connect with each other. Be especially careful to treat cafeteria staff with respect!
3. Caroline Angle is organizing tabling at events and petitioning at greenmarkets to get CNA letters signed. To volunteer, contact volunteerforschoolfoodbfc@gmail.com.
4. How do we engage neighborhood groups? Kristen will be meeting with neighborhood groups to get people going. We could also encourage people to volunteer at local school gardens.
5. Planning an event: we decided to plan for a fall event, pay special attention to PS 10's Healthy Steps Expo and use their event as a template.
6. We elected Kristen Schoonover as our delegate. Benjamin Solotaire is the alternate.
7. Announcements:
Upcoming tabling opportunities: Climate Awareness Day March 7, PS 10 Heath Steps Expo March 16, Brad Lander event also at PS 10, March 18.
School Food Benefit March 6--buy tickets today!
Please join our network and encourage others to join.
We need help doing food policy research.
8. Next meeting date March 24; we will alternate days of week and locations.

Minutes: Brooklyn Food Coalition School Food Committee
February 1 meeting minutes BFCSchoolFoodMtg2_1_10.pdf

January 7 meeting minutes SchoolFoodMins1-7-10.pdf

December 8 meeting minutes SchoolFood128.pdf

Nov 16 meeting minutes 11_16_09_School_Food_Reform_Minutes.pdf

Oct 20 meeting minutesBFCSchoolFood1020-1.pdf

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Bake-In protest against Chancellor's new rules for competitive foods in schools 2 Replies

Hi everyone--please see this calendared event and the attachment.bake-in.pdf BAKE-IN RALLY AT CITY HALL THURSDAY, MARCH 18th FROM 4-6PM This rally is to protest the new Chancellor Regulation…

Tagged: school food

Started by Adriana Velez. Last reply by Rebecca Winters 15 hours ago.

Another way to pester Congress about CNR

Chef Ann is running a campaign as well. Check out her amazing website, TheLunchbox.org--she'll continue to roll out more resources over the next few months.

Tagged: school lunch, CNR

Started by Adriana Velez Mar 5.

Will the Park Slope Food Coop Join the NYC Alliance for CNR?

Find out at this month's GM on Tuesday, March 23rd at 7:00 p.m. at Garfield Temple. Below is the agenda item. If you or your organization belongs to the Alliance and you want to speak, please let m…

Started by Adam Rabiner Mar 5.

Tabling

I have also been organizing tabling and petitioning for school food reform in front of the Coop every day this month, ending on March 31st. Anyone belonging to the Coop would receive FTOP credit. I…

Started by Adam Rabiner Mar 3.

School Lunch Found Guilty! A blog by students

Beef Patty

Naimah and Noran say:The beef patty is guilty. We are muslim and we cant eat meat so thats not fair we cant eat beef. We were starving and Noran is allergic to peanut butter, carrots and apples. So she couldnt eat anything. On the other hand Naimah ate peanut butter.It was soggy in front. So [...]

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Comment by Lisa Draho on March 6, 2010 at 7:18pm: Does anyone know the address for the event tonight?

Comment by Adriana Velez on March 6, 2010 at 11:52am: Kids are not extra for the benefit--your ticket covers them. Cheers--Adriana

Comment by Lisa Draho on March 6, 2010 at 11:40am: For the fundraiser tonight, I need to bring my kids. Are the tickets $25 for children too?

Comment by Adriana Velez on March 5, 2010 at 6:31pm: Check out this great promotion for Chefs Day of Action! It’s on the website of What’s on Your Plate? Project, a film by Catherine Gund about food access in NYC.

Comment by Adriana Velez on February 28, 2010 at 10:35pm: I am bringing chocolate coconut cake to the school food meeting tomorrow. Just in case you were on the fence about attending.

Comment by Nancy Romer on February 1, 2010 at 5:59pm: Perfect timing! Come to a School Food Reform Committee meeting today. We are unveiling our "Roadmap" for school food change and will need your help in planning next steps. Meeting is tonight (Monday), Feb. 1, 7 pm, 44 Butler Place, apt. 5K, between Plaza St. and Sterling Place. Welcome! If you can't make the meeting join the site.

Comment by Greg Smithsimon on February 1, 2010 at 5:52pm: Parents at PS 39 (6th Av and 8th st) have been having a lively online discussion about how to improve lunch at our school. Someone posted a link to your page. How can we get involved?
Greg Smithsimon

Comment by Adriana Velez on January 19, 2010 at 10:39am: Hey, Civil Eats published my article on school gardens!

Comment by Joe Matunis on January 18, 2010 at 3:35pm: Hi, I'm new here, but want to get involved/offer my services. I run a group out of El Puente Academy for Peace and Justice in Williamsburg, called El Colectivo de Arte y Habichuelas. We've been working on food justice issues, particularly farm and garden to school lunch, for several years now. We'd love to hook up with what ever initiatives on under way.