Food Action Plan for the County of Santa Barbara with the Foodbank
ORGANIZATION: Foodbank of Santa Barbara County
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There are a number of projects that you could get involved with, related to food systems reform, advocacy, food security and access etc. Most of these would initially be research based in terms of identifying who is doing what, best practices and then you can also be involved in a second phase of implementing new approaches locally. (Two three month periods).
We have been in conversations with other nonprofit organizations and local stakeholders concerning the development of a Food Action Plan, such as is common in other communities like Oakland and Seattle. We want to bring these issues into focus and build partnerships around four basic goals of healthy food, healthy local economy, healthy environment, and healthy choices
We need interns to work on this project over the coming 18 months, and would be ideal for those with an interest in local food systems.
. Time Period: Option of one or two 3 month periods
Number of Hours per Week : 4-6 hrs
Possible appropriate study area : Nutrition, Environ Sciences, Public health, anthropology, global studies, biopsychology, economics, sociology
If you are interested in finding out more, contact:
Erik Talkin (etalkin@foodbanksbc.org)
More opportunities with Foodbank of Santa Barbara County
No additional volunteer opportunities at this time.
About Foodbank of Santa Barbara County
Location:
4554 Hollister Ave., Santa Barbara, CA 93110, US
Mission Statement
The Foodbank of Santa Barbara County’s mission is to end hunger and transform the health of Santa Barbara County through good nutrition.
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OUR APPROACH
The Foodbank of Santa Barbara County is committed to taking a negative thing - hunger - and through our combined community efforts transforming it into a positive thing - health. This leap forward in health is achieved with three ingredients: food, education and empowerment. The challenges of Hunger, Nutrition and Obesity used to be separate areas dealt with by different approaches and by different agencies and groups. The Foodbank is now tackling all three of these problems at once - through a nationally recognized continuum of programs that provide cradle to graduation intervention in children’s lives.
This builds what we call their food literacy: their ability to look after themselves with food - to budget, shop cook and use food responsibly. If we can transform their relationship to food to being one of using it as a scarce and valuable resource to power their personal health, then that is going to create that tipping point that makes a huge transformation in the health of Santa Barbara County.
By supporting the Foodbank, you are also supporting the good work of
300 agencies and programs countywide.
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FoodBank of Santa Barbara4554 Hollister Ave.Santa Barbara, CA 93110
DATE POSTED
November 28, 2014
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