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Emergency Foodshelf Network & The Minnesota Project

Innovative Approaches to Healthier Food Shelves. Presented By:. Emergency Foodshelf Network & The Minnesota Project. Presentation Overview. Increasing Healthy Foods in your Food Shelf Fruits of the City Program Garden Gleaning Project Garden to Table Program

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Emergency Foodshelf Network & The Minnesota Project

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  1. Innovative Approaches to Healthier Food Shelves Presented By: Emergency Foodshelf Network & The Minnesota Project

  2. Presentation Overview • Increasing Healthy Foods in your Food Shelf • Fruits of the City Program • Garden Gleaning Project • Garden to Table Program • Increasing Demand for Healthy Foods • Healthy Foods Policies & External Communication • Community Collaborations • Merchandising Strategies • Evaluation & Collective Impact

  3. Gleaning • Education • Community Orchards

  4. Yearly Impact

  5. Our Mission To facilitate the harvesting and distribution of fresh produce from gardens in the community to local food shelves.

  6. Garden Gleaning Project

  7. Garden Gleaning • Relationship Building – Neighborhood Crd. • Support Each Food Shelf with Donors • Community Gardens • Home Gardens • Farmers Markets & CSA’s • Congregations • Corporate Gardens • Support Donors • Resources to plant & donate more • Neighborhood Coordinators • Pick up and Deliveries

  8. Increasing Engagement

  9. “Zucchini is a gateway drug. Once you get growers hooked on how good donating feels, they will find other produce to share as well.” Iowa Food Gardening Social Marketing Initiative Assessment Executive Summary

  10. Let’s Make Donating Feel Good! “I would be happy to donate money to my food shelf, but I need confidence in them that they are effectively using my garden donations first.” - Donating Gardener

  11. Garden Gleaning Progress • 2011(volunteer based) • 2 Partner Food Shelves • 7,334 pounds • 2012 • 5 Partner Food Shelves • Over 22,000 pounds • 2013 • 7 Partner Food Shelves • Toolkit – Best Practices • Results & Process • Intentionally Diverse

  12. Toolkit • For Food Shelves • Building Relationships • Neighborhood Coordinator Model • Outreach & Communication Strategies • Handling & Storage • For Produce Growers • Why Donate? • How to Donate? • What to Donate? • Liability & Safety

  13. Little Kitchen Food Shelf

  14. CAPI Food Shelf

  15. Get Involved • Refer gardeners and fruit tree owners to MN Project • Recruit Local Volunteers • Fruits of the City • Engage folks in growing food for you! • Consider a food shelf garden • Plant fruit trees • Get to know your nearby gardeners • Review the Toolkit • Contribute to the next edition

  16. ERC’s Garden to Table

  17. Direct Nutrition Education

  18. EFN’s Nutrition Support Karena Johnson, MS, RD, LD| 763.450.4207 Nutrition Outreach Specialist | kjohnson@emergencyfoodshelf.org

  19. Policy, Systems, and Environment Creating Change Upstream Makes the Biggest Impact

  20. Policy Change Changing Laws, Policies, and Rules – Formal and Informal

  21. Policy Change at a Food Shelf Healthy Foods Policy What & Why

  22. Policy Change at a Food Shelf Create a Healthy Food Policy

  23. Policy Change at a Food Shelf Development Process for a Healthy Food Policy

  24. Policy Change at a Food Shelf Healthy Food Drive Communication After Before

  25. Systems Change Changing the Underlying Structures of a System – Values, Relationships, Policies, and Power Structures

  26. Systems Change: Local Foods Social Innovation Lab & Northside Fresh

  27. Environment Change Changing the Economic, Social, or Physical Environment

  28. Environment Change at a Food Shelf Merchandising

  29. Environment Change at a Food Shelf Merchandising Strategies: Facing After Before

  30. Environment Change at a Food Shelf Merchandising Strategies: Display After Before

  31. Environment Change at a Food Shelf Merchandising Strategies: Healthy Foods Signage

  32. Environment Change at a Food Shelf Merchandising Strategies: Cross Merchandising

  33. Evaluation How do we know if what we’re doing is working

  34. Evaluation: Nutrient Profiling & HEI What do these scores mean? • Score of 81-100 represents “good” • Score of 51-80 represents “needing improvement” • Score of less than 51 is “poor”

  35. Evaluation: Data Collection

  36. Collective Impact

  37. GRAND PRIZE DRAWING!

  38. Questions???

  39. Thank You Dave Glenn dglenn@mnproject.org Emily Eddy White eeddy@emergencyfoodshelf.org Jared Walhowe jwalhowe@mnproject.org Sophia Lenarz-Coy slenarzcoy@emergencyfoodshelf.org

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