May 2020 Meeting Welcome!
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Resource Reminder Food Delivery Conversation Today’s AUA Garden Grant Agenda USDA Farmers to Families Food Box Program SNAP Delivery in Illinois Updates, Resources, Challenges, and Solutions
Resource Reminder Resources you and your community may find particularly helpful P-EBT Guide Apply ASAP! Legal Aid Chicago can help for free Popular (over 200 views) Food Delivery Guide Food Resource Guide GCFD Pop-Up Pantries Growing Home Job Training Any feedback/suggestions?
Food Delivery: North West Mutual Aid and NFPN 1) Food NFPN NFPN List NFPN (from NFPN Pantry Mutual Aid Pantry/Member Household Address List or Mutual Aid) 2) Household NFPN NFPN Pantry NFPN Pantry Mutual Aid (from Mutual Aid Food Pantry/Member Food or NFPN Lists) 3) NFPN Excess Food NFPN Mutual Aid List NFPN Mutual Aid Pantry/Member Household Excess Food Mutual Aid Food
Food Delivery: North West Mutual Aid and NFPN Also: Information Sharing Channels Resources (e.g. financial, housing, health, etc.) Connections (e.g. potential partnerships, contacts, etc.) Opportunities (e.g. grants, food recovery, etc.)
Coordination Questions Is a food delivery partnership plausible? What could it look like? Are there other ways we could partner? What capacities could we share with one another? Staff/Volunteers Time Transportation Food Storage Etc. How should our partnership be clarified? An MOU? A schedule? A Listserv? Etc. What decisions can we make now? What decisions have to wait, and when will we make those decisions?
Advocates for Urban Agriculture COVID-19 Grant for Community Gardens Advocates for Urban Agriculture is funding grants for community gardens in Chicago impacted by COVID-19. Community gardens: up to $1,000 Community gardens collaborating with community organizations (food pantries, community groups, etc.): up to $10,000 Funding must be related to the impact of COVID-19 Deadline: Next Friday, May 29 th Ryan happy to offer help with anyone’s grant application Any community gardens interested in putting together a collaboration grant application? For more information and to apply: https://auachicago.org/farmer-support-grant/ Informational Webinar at 1PM today: http://bit.ly/FarmerSupportGrantGuidance
USDA Farmers to Families Food Box Program Unfortunately, the food distributor the Chicago Food Policy Action Council was applying with did not win a grant However, Gourmet Gorilla did win $27,584,894 Looking to partner with Chicago-area organizations Limited boxes left now, but may receive more capacity later Current weekly capacity remaining: 155 protein boxes, 150 produce boxes, 150 milk boxes Fill out Gourmet Gorilla survey if you want to receive food boxes Ryan will keep sending opportunities to partner and other updates Gourmet Gorilla Partnership Survey: https://link.nfpnchicago.org/Gourmet-Gorilla-Survey
SNAP Online Ordering in Illinois Beginning June 2 nd , SNAP recipients in Illinois will be able to use their LINK card to purchase food from participating grocery retailers online! Downsides: SNAP recipients will only be able to do this at pre- approved retailers Only Walmart and Amazon are on that list currently Delivery costs not currently covered by the program Please consider sharing this news with your clients who receive SNAP Ryan will let everyone know when there are more details to share More Info from Governor Pritzker’s Office: https://www2.illinois.gov/dceo/Media/PressReleases/Pages/PR20200520.aspx
Reminder: The NFPN Blog Updates on various resources and policy changes Recent blog posts include… Get Your Stimulus Check Growing Home Paid Job Training Unemployment Benefits for Non- Traditional Workers Resources and updates posted on The NFPN Blog are usually added to the COVID-19 Hub Subscribe to emails! nfpnchicago.org/the-nfpn-blog/
Member Updates and Sharing Updates Requests Challenges Resources Ideas
Next Meeting Friday, June 26 th at 10AM 90% likelihood it will be on Zoom
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