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Healthy Food For All: How Co-ops Answer Food Insecurity (2021 NOFA Summer Conference)



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Healthy Food For All: How Co-ops Answer Food Security

With food insecurity and hunger on the rise intensified by the pandemic, how can we work together to ensure healthy, local food is accessible to our whole community? Join us to explore the Neighboring Food Co-op Association’s work with our 40-member food co-ops across New England and New York to address how we can make healthy, local food more available to all and better serve our communities, despite the current political, social, and economic divisions that exist today. We’ll share specific initiatives from our co-ops to broaden healthy food access and support local farmers and producers, and also empower people to build more inclusive, healthy, and just food systems.

Presenters:

Alexis Alexander supports peer collaboration efforts and provides technical assistance for the Neighboring Food Co-op Association (NFCA), a co-operative federation of more than 45 food co-ops and start-up initiatives with a combined membership of more than 150,000 people across New England and New York. Prior to joining the NFCA, she served as GreenStar Food Co-op’s Membership Manager for over 11 years, helping to increase member engagement through enhanced programming and events, and improved membership systems, tracking, and reporting processes. Alexis holds a BS in Nutritional Sciences from Cornell University and an MBA from Michigan State University.

Bonnie Hudspeth leads Co-operative Development for the Neighboring Food Co-op Association (NFCA), a co-operative federation of more than 45 food co-ops and startup initiatives with a combined membership of more than 150,000 people across New England and New York. NFCA supports the growth, innovation, and shared success among our member food co-ops in the Northeast United States. Prior to joining the NFCA, Bonnie served as Project Manager for the Monadnock Food Co-op, creating the founding organizational structure and overseeing pre-operational development and fundraising to create a co-operatively owned grocery store in Keene, NH that opened in April, 2013. She serves as Vice President of the Board of The Cooperative Fund of New England (CFNE), a community development loan fund that facilitates socially responsible investing in co-operatives, community-oriented nonprofits, and worker-owned businesses in New England and adjacent communities in New York. Bonnie holds a master’s degree in Sustainable Community Development through Antioch University New England.

This workshop recording comes from the 2021 NOFA Summer Conference. Visit nofasummerconference.org to learn more.
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