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The Montefiore School Health program is hiring a Community Health Organizer to oversee the Community Supported Agriculture Plus (CSA+) project, help develop leadership among members, organize activities in the school vegetable garden and advocate for community health programs and policies in the school and surrounding community. For a full job description and how to apply see: http://www.idealist.org/if/i/en/av/Job/280976-24.
For more information or with questions, please contact McHale Newport-Berra, at mnewport@montefiore.org.
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Position Type: Part-time, 30 hours per week
Schedule: Mon-Thur and 2 Saturdays per month; weekdays require work until 8 pm
Compensation: $15 per hour (DOE), plus 50% benefits
Start Date: Available immediately (May 2007); open until filled
Alameda Point Collaborative (APC) provides formerly homeless residents with housing and services at the former Naval Air Station in the City of Alameda. Under the direction of the Children & Youth Services Manager and the Growing Youth Project Coordinator, the Program Specialist will implement services focused on improving healthy eating and addressing food insecurity in the APC community. For more information on the Growing Youth Project (GYP), please visit http://www.apcollaborative.org.
Duties:
• Supervise youth employees (ages 15-18) in implementing project-related activities with APC residents, including: facilitating cooking and nutrition education; community breakfast and family health nights; outreach & publicity; food/produce distribution; and community advocacy/food policy work and events.
• Coordinate and expand nutrition/wellness education and community kitchen-related programming.
• Using a strengths-based, culturally appropriate youth development approach, create programs where residents feel valued, physically/emotionally safe, involved in the community, and excited to participate.
• Provide services to families as part of a team; actively participate in all relevant staff meetings,trainings, clinical consultations, and community-building events.
• Maintain program supplies; document project activities and expenses, including grant reports.
• Maintain confidentiality and appropriate boundaries; comply with abuse reporting laws.
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On May 23, we celebrate a sweet victory for social justice. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT.) will join representatives of the Coalition for Immokalee Workers (CIW) and the Burger King Corporation at a press conference in the U.S. Capitol to announce that the corporation has agreed to work with CIW to improve wages and working conditions for the farm workers who harvest tomatoes for Burger King.
This victory is testament to the tenacity and discipline of the Coalition, a community-based worker organization, which has exposed a half-dozen slavery cases that helped trigger the freeing of more than 1000 workers. It has also advocated for better wages, living conditions, respect from the industry, and an end to indentured servitude. In this last year, CIW scored victories in negotiating a penny-per-pound surcharge — so workers would receive about 77 cents per 32-pound bucket — with McDonald’s and Yum! Brands (owner of Pizza Hut, Taco Bell, KFC). (The corporations also agreed to work with the Coalition to eliminate slavery from the fields.) And the corporations — not the tomato growers — agreed to pay the 40 percent salary increase.
Full story: http://www.alternet.org/story/86619/
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The Edible Schoolyard, a program of the Chez Panisse Foundation, is looking for a Garden Manager & Teacher to oversee all aspects of the one-acre, organic garden, design and conduct daily garden classes for 6th, 7th, and 8th grade students, facilitate lesson and garden planning, and guide the garden team in the development and maintenance of a productive, educational garden.
Check out the full job description.
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Application Deadline: June 25th
Start Date: July 14th (approximate)
The mission of the Center for Land-Based Learning is to engage youth in learning experiences on the land to foster respect for the critical interplay of agriculture, nature and society. We achieve this mission primarily through our year-long experiential education programs for high school students, the FARMS Leadership Program and SLEWS. The FARMS Leadership Program is focused on issues related to sustainable agriculture and natural resource management, while the Student and Landowner Education and Watershed Stewardship (SLEWS) Program engages students in habitat restoration projects that enhance classroom learning, develop leadership skills, and make a difference on the land.
Job Description:
CLBL is hiring a Regional Coordinator, based in the Stockton/Lodi area (position located with CLBL’s lead partner, the USDA/NRCS Plant Materials Center in Lockeford), with responsibility to continue to implement two highly successful CLBL Programs; the FARMS Leadership and SLEWS Programs. These programs reflect the needs and ambitions of the local communities and the coordinator must work closely with local farmers, teachers, natural resource professionals and community leaders.
The FARMS Leadership Program provides an opportunity for 30 high school students and their teachers to learn about the relationship between science, agriculture and natural resource conservation though hands-on, real life experiences by attending a field day once a month. Students are able to see and participate in innovative farming practices that are environmentally sensitive, conserve natural resources, and increase wildlife habitat. Through hands-on workshops, students learn by doing and are taught by University and natural resource agency mentors, farmers, Cooperative Extension Advisors and habitat restoration specialists. Each group of students at each high school commits to do a Community Action Project as well as participating in the program.
The SLEWS Program represents a unique opportunity to implement high quality restoration projects in a way that engages the local community, supports public education and enhances the lives of young people. These projects enhance classroom learning, develop leadership skills and result in real habitat restoration. Students participate in 3-5 field days learning and working on a habitat restoration project. Throughout the year the Program Coordinator works closely with participating SLEWS teachers to help them take advantage of their project site as a place to introduce or emphasize classroom concepts and better engage students in their learning. The overall SLEWS experience introduces and prepares students for possible careers in agriculture, education and natural resource conservation, while developing their skills as leaders and their connection to the natural world.
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You may notice that the blog looks a little different recently. It’s because we’re combining our eBLAST newsletter with the blog. It means you’ll get to see news, updates on events, and job opportunities with other great organizations across the country and ours right here on The Food Project’s blog.
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The Food Project, in conjunction with Brigham Nahas Research Associates, conducted an alumni-follow up study. This study was designed to understand the impacts the programs have on youth participants. Youth from our Summer Youth Program, Academic Year Program, and Internship Program were interviewed and the reflections on their experiences are presented in this report. What’s exciting to all of us here at The Food Project is to have evidence that the programs are working and that a difference is being made. Young people are being transformed as a direct result of their time with The Food Project. We hope this report will engage and inspire you.
Read the entire report here: The Food Project: A Follow-Up Study of Program Participants
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Help us raise funds! Jack Johnson is matching every dollar contributed to us at the show and online. Please make a contribution right now and your money will be doubled by Jack Johnson! DONATE NOW!
The Food Project is teaming up with Jack Johnson on his 2008 World Tour and All At Once, a new social action network connecting nonprofits with people who want to become active in their local and world community. All At Once comes to life online at www.AllAtOnce.org and at every Jack Johnson concert in the Village Green, a collection of interactive booths where you can get educated, get inspired, and connect face-to-face with us and other local, national, and international non-profits.
How you can take action!
1) Become a Member of All At Once! Visit www.AllAtOnce.org to check out what you can do before, during, and after the show to get involved. Get exclusive music downloads from Jack and friends.
2) Participate in our Pre-Concert Event Wednesday, August 6 is part of our Eat Local Week. Join The Food Project in downtown Boston, in Copley Square, to receive free, local carrots and to hear about eating local.
3) Visit us at the show! We will be at Jack Johnson’s concert in Boston on August 6, 2008 at the Tweeter Center in Mansfield, MA. Please come visit us in the Village Green, take environmental action, get your Village Green Passport stamped and enter to win a chance to view the concert from the stage!
4) Help us raise funds! Jack Johnson is matching every dollar contributed to us at the show and online. Please make a contribution right now and your money will be doubled by Jack Johnson’s new charity, the Johnson Ohana Charitable Foundation! (Up to $2500 per group).
Collectively, individual actions create global change. Your actions, your voice, and your choices, all have a huge impact. www.AllAtOnce.org





