CFSC Recommended Resources
The following
is a list of recommended resources that are relevant for community
food security work. Most are organizations that are national in
scope and offer information and support to non-profit and community-based
groups. Many provide extensive information through their websites.
If you would like to suggest a resource to add, please contact
Kai Siedenburg at kai@foodsecurity.org.
This list is organized into the following subject areas:
Anti-Hunger
Feeding America
35 E. Wacker Drive, Suite 2000, Chicago, IL 60601
800-771-2303
feedingamerica.org
Feeding America (formerly America's Second Harvest) is the nation's largest domestic hunger
relief organization. Through a network of over 200 food banks
and food-rescue programs, they distribute food to 26 million hungry
Americans each year, eight million of whom are children.
Food Research and Action Center
1875 Connecticut Ave., NW Suite 540, Washington, DC 20009
202-986-2200
www.frac.org
The Food Research and Action Center (FRAC) is a leading national
organization working to improve public policies to eradicate hunger
and under-nutrition in the United States. Founded in 1970 as a
public interest law firm, FRAC is a nonprofit and nonpartisan
research and public policy center that serves as the hub of an
anti-hunger network of thousands of individuals and agencies across
the country.
World Hunger Year, Inc.
505 Eighth Avenue, New York, NY 10018
212-629-8850
www.whyhunger.org
WHY is convinced that solutions to hunger and poverty can be found
at the grassroots level. WHY advances long-term solutions to hunger
and poverty by supporting community-based organizations that empower
individuals and build self-reliance, i.e., offering job training,
education and after school programs; increasing access to housing
and healthcare; providing micro-credit and entrepreneurial opportunities;
teaching people to grow their own food; and assisting small farmers.
WHY connects these organizations to funders, media and legislators.
WHY also manages the National Hunger Clearinghouse, the only centralized
national database of innovative organizations working on food,
nutrition and agriculture issues in the country.
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Coalition Building
AHEC/Community Partners
24 South Prospect Street, Amherst, MA 01002
413-253-4283
info@ahecpartners.org
www.ahecpartners.org
A Massachusetts based organization committed to developing, promoting
and sustaining community-based efforts. Organizational goals are
to increase collaboration within and between communities, to build
citizen participation, and to improve community quality of life.
Programs focus on expanding health care access and creating healthy
communities. Their website includes extensive information on coalition
building.
Midwest Academy
28 E. Jackson Street #605, Chicago, IL 60604
312-427-2304
mwacademy@aol.com
The Midwest Academy offers five-day training sessions for leaders
and staff of citizen and community groups. The Academy is one
of the nation's oldest and best known schools for community organizations,
citizen organizations and individuals committed to progressive
social change. The Academy also supports professional trainers
around the country who are available for coalition trainings.
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Community Building, Community Development
ABCD Institute for Policy Research
Northwestern University
2040 Sheridan Road, Evanston, IL 60208
Audrey Chambers, Publications Director
847-491-8712 Alice Chambers Publications Director for ABCD
ABCD Publications
ACTA, 4848 North Clark Street, Chicago, IL 60640
800-397-2282
The source for ABCD Publications.
www.northwestern.edu/IPR/abcd.html
The Asset-Based Community Development Institute (ABCD), established
in 1995 by the Community Development Program at Northwestern University's
Institute for Policy Research, is built upon three decades of
community development research by John Kretzmann and John L. McKnight.
The ABCD Institute spreads its findings on capacity-building community
development in two ways: (1) through extensive and substantial
interactions with community builders, and (2) by producing practical
resources and tools for community builders to identify, nurture,
and mobilize neighborhood assets.
Center for Civic Partnerships
1851 Heritage Lane, Suite 250, Sacramento, CA 95815
916-646-8680
ccp@civicpartnerships.org
www.civicpartnerships.org
The Center for Civic Partnerships (Center) assists communities
and organizations in creating the physical, social, and economic
conditions in which people can be healthy by providing technical
assistance, educational programs, publications, funding resources
and opportunities, and consultation. Some of the Center's publications
include: From Organization Practices to Public Policies: Local
Strategies to Increase Healthy Eating and Physical Activity (2003);
Fresh Ideas for Community Nutrition and Physical Activity (2002);
and Sustainability Toolkit: 10 Steps to Maintaining Your Community
Improvements (2001).
National Community Building Network
1624 Franklin Street, Suite 1000, Oakland, CA 94612
510-663-6226
network@ncbn.org
www.ncbn.org
The NCBN is a national membership organization that serves as
a hub for brokering information and connections among community
builders. NCBN offers an annual conference on community building.
University of Kansas Community Tool Box
www.ctb.lsi.ukans.edu
The Community Tool Box aims to promote community health and development
by connecting people, ideas and resources. The web site is created
and maintained by the University of Kansas Work Group on Health
Promotion and Community Development in Lawrence, KS, and AHEC/Community
Partners in Amherst, Massachusetts. Currently, the core of the
Tool Box is the "how-to tools." These how-to sections use simple,
friendly language to explain how to do the different tasks necessary
for community health and development. For instance, there are
sections on leadership, strategic planning, community assessment,
advocacy, grant writing, and evaluation to give just a few examples.
Each section includes a description of the task, advantages of
doing it, step-by-step guidelines, examples, checklists of points
to review, and training materials.
Cultivating Community: Principles and Practices for Community
Gardening as a Community Building Tool by Karen Payne & Deborah
Fryman
American Community Gardening Association
1777 East Broad Street, Columbus, Ohio 43203-2040
www.communitygarden.org
This document showcases how community gardening programs can advance
community development, as well as empower local leadership and
nurture families, strengthen economic development, and improve
quality of life overall. Cultivating Community provides useful
tips on how approach community gardening as an organizing tool,
and highlights specific practices and activities that have proven
to work. It also features stories and case studies from community
gardens around the country.
Growing Communities Curriculum: Community Building and Organizational
Development through Community Gardening by Jeanette Abi-Nader,
Kendall Dunnigan, Kristen Markley and David Buckley
American Community Gardening Association
1777 East Broad Street, Columbus, Ohio 43203-2040
www.communitygarden.org
The Curriculum provides an in-depth exploration into the practices
and strategies community organizers can use to develop dynamic
leaders and to create strong programs using a participatory approach
to community building. This 300+ page curriculum builds on the
years of ACGA experiences and includes chapters and detailed workshop
outlines on Diversity, Asset-Based Community Development, Community
Organizing 101, Leadership Development, Meeting Facilitation,
Board Development, Grassroots Fundraising, Communications and
Outreach, Coalition Building and How to Lead a Workshop.
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Community Food Systems
Community Food Security 101
This lively, interactive educational tool enables participants
to walk through the food system and brainstorm about creative
community solutions. It includes materials and complete instructions
for a one to two hour session.
Download pdf file
Food and Nutrition Information Center, Community Food Systems
Site
www.nal.usda.gov/fnic/etext/000061.html
This site is loaded with information on food and nutrition and
how they relate to community food systems. It includes links to
a farmer's market state by state directory, profiles of successful
community food system projects, articles and links to sites on
food system related topics and organizations, dietary guidelines
and information and an A to Z information bank of food and nutrition
related topics.
University of California Sustainable Agriculture and Research
Program (SAREP)
University of California
One Shields Ave.
Davis, CA 95616
530-752-7556
sarep@ucdavis.edu
www.sarep.ucdavis.edu/cdpp/
SAREP funds sustainable agriculture and food systems projects
in California, sponsors conferences and workshops, and publishes
reports and a quarterly newsletter. The website includes an extensive
bibliography of Community Food System resources and descriptions
of currently funded SAREP projects.
Community Food Security: A Guide to Concept, Design, and Implementation
Editor: Hugh Joseph
Community Food Security Coalition
3830 SE Division St
Portland, OR 97202
503-954-2970
Go to order form
This guidebook details such issues as the concept of CFS, community
food planning, needs assessments, building collaborations and
coalitions, project implementation, entrepreneurship, funding,
program sustainability, case studies, and multiple attachments
Community Food Security Resource Kit: How to Find Money, Technical
Assistance, and Other Help to Fight Hunger and Strengthen Local
Food Systems
USDA Community Food Security Initiative
Room 536-A, 14th & Independence, SW
Washington, DC 20250
202-720-5746
http://www.csrees.usda.gov/ProgView.cfm?prnum=1687
Growing a Community Food System by Steven Garrett and Gail
Feenstra
Bulletins Office, Washington State University
Cooper Publications Building
P.O. Box 645912
Pullman, WA 99164-5912
http://cru.cahe.wsu.edu/CEPublications/wrep0135/wrep0135abstract.htm
This 20-page publication presents practical steps and processes
for communities interested in building a community food system.
It describes how to establish strong coalitions and plan strategically.
The authors outline key components of the process including: visioning,
community food system assessment, development of project concepts,
and evaluation planning. Western Regional Extension publication
number WREP0135, available for, $2.50.
The Hartford Food System by Dawn Biehler and Melissa Sepos
509 Wethersfield Avenue, Hartford, CT 06114
860-296-9325
www.hartfordfood.org
This manual can act as a blueprint for organizations seeking to
adopt the core principles, concepts and philosophies of the Hartford
Food System in their work towards creating a new working model
sustainable food system.
Local Food Project: A How-to Manual by Gary L. Valen
The Humane Society of the United States
2100 L St, NW
Washington, DC 20037
202-452-1100
www.hsus.org
This readable 43-page guidebook provides practical advice on various
aspects of planning and implementing a local food project. It
includes a nationwide annotated resource list of organizations.
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Community Gardening/Urban Agriculture
American Community Gardening Association
1777 East Broad Street, Columbus, Ohio 43203-2040
www.communitygarden.org
The American Community Gardening Association (ACGA) is a national
nonprofit membership organization of professionals, volunteers
and supporters of community greening in urban and rural communities.
ACGA offers an annual conference and publications centered on
community building and greening.
City Farmer, Canada's Office of Urban Agriculture
Vancouver, BC, Canada
cityfarm@interchange.ubc.ca
www.cityfarmer.org/urbagnotes1.html#notes
This site includes an array of resources (organizations, website
links, books, etc.) on urban agriculture and community gardening.
Entrepreneurial Community Gardens: Growing Food, Skills, Jobs
and Communities by Gail Feenstra, Sharyl McGrew and David
Campbell
University of California
Division of Agriculture and Natural Resources, Publications
6701 San Pablo Avenue, 2nd Floor
Oakland, CA 94608-1239
800-994-8849
danrcs.ucdavis.edu
This document is the result of a two-year study evaluating the
success and failures of 27 community building organizations working
with entrepreneurial urban agricultural projects. The document
covers -how they were started, what it takes to make them work,
how successful they have been in contributing to economic development
and what lessons might be learned for potential new projects.
Growing Communities Curriculum: Community Building and Organizational
Development through Community Gardening
by Jeanette Abi-Nader, Kendall Dunnigan, Kristen Markley and David Buckley
American Community Gardening Association
1777 East Broad Street, Columbus, Ohio 43203-2040
www.communitygarden.org
The Curriculum provides an in-depth exploration into the practices
and strategies community organizers can use to develop dynamic
leaders and to create strong programs using a participatory approach
to community building. This 300+ page curriculum builds on the
years of ACGA experiences and includes chapters and detailed workshop
outlines on Diversity, Asset-Based Community Development, Community
Organizing 101, Leadership Development, Meeting Facilitation,
Board Development, Grassroots Fundraising, Communications and
Outreach, Coalition Building and How to Lead a Workshop.
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Direct Marketing
USDA Agricultural Marketing Service
www.ams.usda.gov
The extensive USDA Agricultural Marketing Service site includes
links to various agricultural marketing topics including farmer's
markets, direct marketing, the National Organic Program and fruit
and vegetable information. Two links on this site of special interest
are www.ams.usda.gov/farmersmarkets
which includes a National Directory of Farmer's Markets (also
available by print at 202-720-8317) and www.ams.usda.gov/directmarketing
which includes news, announcements, publications and resources
on direct marketing topics including farm to school, farmer's
markets, wholesale and alternative marketing.
Guide to Educational Resources on Direct Marketing
by David Chaney, Gail Feenstra, Karen Levy
Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education Program (SAREP)
University of California
One Shields Ave. Davis, CA 95616
530-752-7556
sarep@ucdavis.edu
www.sarep.ucdavis.edu/cdpp/
Annotated list of recommended resources related to farmers markets,
CSAs, roadside stands, coops, and other direct marketing approaches.
Web version will be available later.
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Environmental Justice
Community Coalition for Environmental Justice
105-14th Av Suite 3-C, Seattle, WA 98122
206-720-0285
www.ccej.org
CCEJ works on social, economic and environmental health issues
that disproportionately impact people of color, refugee, immigrant,
and low income communities. CCEJ successfully organized communities
to fight polluters such as the VA Hospital's medical waste incinerator
in Beacon Hill, and industry in South Park. Trainers are offered
on building community coalitions, which identifies and eliminates
environmental injustice, and advocates for and creates environmental
justice.
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Food System Assessment
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Sustainable Food Center
1106 Clayton Lane, Suite 480W, Austin, TX 78723
512-236-0074
www.sustainablefoodcenter.org/SFC_reports.html
This study describes a neighborhood food system, shows
how it fails to meet community needs, and makes suggestions for actions
to improve the situation.
Seeds of Change: Strategies for Food Security for the Inner City by Linda Ashman, et. al.
UCLA Urban Planning Department & CFSC
Available for download from www.foodsecurity.org
The product of a year's work for six researchers, Seeds of Change
is perhaps the most thorough documentation of an urban community's
food system. There are sections on hunger, nutrition, food industry,
supermarket industry, community case study, farmers' markets,
urban agriculture, joint ventures, and food policy councils.
What's Cooking in Your Food System? A Guide to Community Food Assessmentby Hannah Burton, et. al.
Community Food Security Coalition
3830 SE Division, Portland, OR 97202
503-954-2970
Available for download from www.foodsecurity.org
Learn about Community Food Assessments, a creative way to highlight
food-related resources and needs, promote collaboration and community
participation, and create lasting change. This Guide includes case
studies of nine Community Food Assessments (see PDF file); tips for
planning and organizing an assessment; guidance on research methods and
strategies for promoting community participation; and ideas for
translating an assessment into action for change.
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Fundraising
The Foundation Center
79 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10003
212-620-4230
www.fdncenter.org
The Foundation Center's mission is to support and improve institutional
philanthropy by promoting public understanding of the field and
helping grantseekers succeed. Founded in 1956, the Center is the
nation's leading authority on institutional philanthropy and is
dedicated to serving grantseekers, grantmakers, researchers, policymakers,
the media, and the general public.
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Local Food Policy
Getting Food on the Table: An Action Guide to Local Food Policy
by Dawn Biehler, Andy Fisher, Kai Siedenburg, Mark Winne and
Jill Zachary
Community Food Security Coalition
3830 SE Division, Portland, OR 97202
503-954-2970
Available for download from www.foodsecurity.org
This guide includes a department by department inventory of local
programs, policies and functions that provide opportunities for
supporting community food security. The guide also includes case
studies, advice from experienced food policy advocates, a resource
guide and federat funding sources.
The Hartford Food System
by Dawn Biehler and Melissa Sepos
509 Wethersfield Avenue, Hartford, CT 06114
860-296-9325
This manual can act as a blueprint for organizations seeking to
adopt the core principles, concepts and philosophies of the Hartford
Food System in their work towards creating a new working model
sustainable food system.
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Nutrition and Nutrition Education
Food and Nutrition Information Center, Community Food Systems
Site
www.nal.usda.gov/fnic/etext/000061.html
This site is loaded with information on food and nutrition and
how they relate to community food systems. It includes links to
a farmer's market state by state directory, profiles of successful
community food system projects, articles and links to sites on
food system related topics and organizations, dietary guidelines
and information and an A to Z information bank of food and nutrition
related topics.
Food & Health Communications, Inc.
P.O. Box 266498, Weston, FL 33326
800-462-2352 or 954-385-5328
www.foodandhealth.com/handout.shtml
This site offers several food and nutrition educational handouts
that can be downloaded and used for trainings. Topics include
diet and weight loss, fruits and vegetables, heart disease and
nutrition and wellness.
Tufts University Nutrition Navigator
navigator.tufts.edu
The Tufts University Nutrition Navigator is the first online rating
and review guide that solves the two major problems Web users
have when seeking nutrition information: how to quickly find information
best suited to their needs and whether to trust the information
they find there. The Tufts University Nutrition Navigator is designed
to help you sort through the large volume of nutrition information
on the Internet and find accurate, useful nutrition information
you can trust.
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School and College Food
CFSC's Farm to College Program website; an excellent
information clearinghouse for both new and existing farm to college
projects, with practical tools and resources, profiles of 140 projects,
and updates on trends in the movement. If your college or university
purchases products from local farmers, please make sure your program is
listed on the site and the information is up to date.
National Farm to School Network
www.farmtoschool.org
Offers training and technical assistance, information
services, networking, and support in policy and media and marketing
activities.
Healthy Farms, Healthy Kids: Evaluating the Barriers and Opportunities
for Farm-to-School Programsby Andrea Azuma and Andy Fisher
Community Food Security Coalition
3830 SE Division St, Portland, OR 97202
503-954-2970
Available for download at www.foodsecurity.org
This report documents the barriers and opportunities for school
food services to purchase food directly from local farmers. Case
studies and policy recommendations are included.
Fast Food Nation: The dark side of the all American Meal
by Eric Schlosser
As one reviewer put it, Fast Food Nation is "a stomach-churning
critique of the health and labor practices of the burger business,
which argues that Americans should change their dietary habits."
Schlosser's book is convincing, detailed and well-informed.
Action Alliance for Children
1201 Martin Luther King Jr. Way, Oakland, CA 94612
510-444-7136
www.4children.org/news/599food.htm
Includes an article, "What are we feeding our kids?" which originally
appeared in the Action Alliance for Children's March-April 1999
Children's Advocate newsmagazine. The site also includes information
on other Children advocacy issues.
University of Wisconsin
Center for Integrated Agricultural Systems
1450 Linden Drive, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI 53706
608-262-5200
phaza@facstaff.wisc.edu
www.cias.wisc.edu
Learn about colleges
and universities around Wisconsin who are connecting with local
farmer's for their campus food service needs.
Local Food Project: A How-to Manualby Gary L. Valen
The Humane Society of the United States
2100 L St, NW, Washington, DC 20037
202-452-1100
www.hsus.org
This readable 43-page guidebook provides practical advice on various
aspects of planning and implementing a local food project. It
includes a nationwide annotated resource list of organizations.
Northern Iowa Food & Farm Partnership
Center for Energy and Environmental Education, University of Northern Iowa
http://www.uni.edu/ceee/foodproject
Community Food Systems Project of Practical Farmers of Iowa
http://www.pfi.iastate.edu/Local_Food_Syst/Field_to_family.htm
Innovative Marketing Opportunities for Small Farmers: Local
Schools as Customers
February 2000. USDA.
How Local Farmers and School Food Service Buyers are Building Alliances
May 2000. USDA.
Order these two publications from Dan Schofer, 202-690-1170,
dan.schofer@usda.gov
Oxfam America's Change Initiative Toolkit For students interested
in developing farm to college projects.
http://www.oxfamamerica.org/youth/art1767.html
FoodRoutes Network
To locate farmers and farm groups in your area and for information
on developing educational campaigns, contact the FoodRoutes Network.
http://www.foodroutes.org
National Campaign for Sustainable Agriculture
For information on policy issues that support your local farmers
and the environment, contact Becky Ceartas with the National Campaign
for Sustainable Agriculture.
becky@sustainableagriculture.net,
845-744-8448
http://www.sustainableagriculture.net
Public Citizen - Irradiated Food Campaign
For information on the campaign to keep irradiated food off campuses
or to receive an activist packet, contact Monique Mikhail at Public
Citizen 202-546-4996 or mmikhail@citizen.org
or check out www.citizen.org/cmep/foodsafety.
Real Food Challenge
realfoodchallenge.org
Unites students for a more just and sustainable food
system. Organizing both locally and nationally, the Challenge is
building a student movement strong enough to transform our food economy.
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Sustainable Agriculture and Family Farming
ATTRA-Appropriate Technology Transfer for Rural Areas
P.O. Box 3657, Fayetteville, AR 72702
800-346-9140
www.attra.org
Appropriate Technology Transfer for Rural Areas-is the national
sustainable farming information center operated by the private
nonprofit National Center for Appropriate Technology (NCAT). ATTRA
provides technical assistance to farmers, Extension agents, market
gardeners, agricultural researchers, and other ag professionals
in all 50 states. Topics addressed by ATTRA can be categorized
into three broad areas: sustainable farming production practices,
alternative crop and livestock enterprises and innovative marketing.
Technical assistance, publications, and resources are provided
free of charge to appropriate users. ATTRA is funded through a
cooperative agreement with the USDA Rural Business--Cooperative
Service agency.
National Campaign for Sustainable Agriculture
P.O. Box 396, Pine Bush, New York 12566
845-744-8448
www.sustainableagriculture.net
The National Campaign For Sustainable Agriculture, Inc. is dedicated
to educating the public on the importance of a sustainable food
and agriculture system that is economically viable, environmentally
sound, socially just, and humane.
Sustainable Agriculture Working Groups (SAWGs)
Five regional Sustainable Agriculture Working Groups (SAWGs) coordinate
educational and advocacy efforts to advance sustainable agriculture
in their regions. Their contact information is available on the
National Campaign website.
Robyn Van En Center for CSA Resources
Wilson College Fulton Center for Sustainable Living
1015 Philadelphia Ave, Chambersburg PA 17201
717-264-4141 ext. 3352 contact person Jayne Shord
info@csacenter.org
www.csacenter.org
Wilson College is a small, women-centered liberal arts college
in southern Pennsylvania founded in 1869. The Fulton Center for
Sustainable Living was created in 1994 to integrate sustainability
issues into the curriculum and to utilize the school's 100-acre
farm as a living laboratory. The Community Supported Agriculture
Project was created in 1997 to promote and support CSA in Pennsylvania
and beyond. This site includes extensive information on CSA's
and provides a state-by-state directory of CSA's.
Sustainable Communities Network, Agriculture and Food Systems
Site
www.sustainable.org/economy/agriculture.html
Provides a detailed resource list of organizations utilizing whole
systems approaches to sustainable agriculture. Includes an extensive
reading list. Presents seven successful sustainable agriculture
and community development case studies. Links to similar resources
in areas of related interest including forestry, economic development,
manufacturing, urban/rural ties, technology and fisheries.
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