Food for Climate League

☑ Have you visited Alaska? Or do you know someone who has? ☑ Within the last 5 years? If so, we want to hear from you! 🗣 🌊 FCL is conducting a research study to understand how #Alaskavisitors perceive Alaskan kelp and oysters, what types of products and foods featuring kelp and oysters resonate, and the best way to talk about these ingredients. Your input will support FCL's narrative research and help the state's businesses boost interest in Alaskan food, culture, and travel. If an Alaska trip was in your recent travel itinerary 🛫, please complete our survey. Or if you know someone, please pass the link along 👉 https://lnkd.in/eVKMJwTP The first 250 people who complete the survey will receive a $10 gift card for their time (must be 18+ and a U.S. resident). #AlaskaTravel #ExploreAlaska #AlaskaFood #DiscoverAlaska

📢 We're #hiring a new Director of Operations in the Greater Chicago Area. Our ideal candidate is a strategic leader with nonprofit experience and expertise in finance, process improvement, legal compliance, and operational efficiency. If this describes you, or if you know just the candidate, we want to hear from you. Apply today or share this post with your network. 🌟 #NonprofitJobs #Hiring

With back-to-school season🎒just around the corner, we’re focused on the incredible impact students can have on the climate, just with the foods they eat.  With Better Food Foundation and Sodexo USA, we implemented plant-based defaults in three college dining halls, enabling a nearly 60% increase in plant-forward eating. 🥗 Now imagine if all U.S. campus dining halls offered plant-based dishes by default. ➡️ This is just one example of how FCL is tapping into the crucial role students play in food system transformation. Help us empower them by donating to scale up our defaults projects and other Gen Z-focused work: https://lnkd.in/emGJ6HA9. #backtoschool #defaults #college #students #cafeteria #dininghall #plantbased #plantforward #school #university #plantbasedbydefault #norm #nudge #foodforclimateleague #foodforclimate #food #climate

Did you miss Food for Climate League’s latest feature in FoodService Director Online: https://lnkd.in/eAV5FTnu? The article details FCL’s work with CulinArt Group to highlight sea vegetables on school menus. A few things that helped make the pilot a success: 1️⃣ Starting by adding furikake, wakame, and nori flakes as seasonings in the schools’ existing Find Your Flavor stations, allowing eaters to customize their meals with “salty,” “spicy,” or “umami” notes. 2️⃣ Displaying educational posters about the health and sustainability benefits of sea vegetables 3️⃣ Providing a study kit to help Culinart’s chefs and foodservice directors in their menu planning. CulinArt also expanded their impact beyond the classroom through a hospital-based cooking demo and additional materials showing students how to incorporate sea vegetable seasonings into their daily diets. #sustainablefood #culinart #sustainableaquaticfoods #seavegetables #seasoning #defaults

We're hopping into the feed this International Youth Day to shout out the power of young eaters to make climate-smart food choices that better the future. 🎉 FCL is all about using narrative and behavioral science research to motivate long-term food systems change, starting by giving institutions and influencers the tools to energize Millenials and Gen Z eaters. 🍽️ Here are some of our research-backed tips that can help inspire young diners to make a change, one meal at a time. 🌎 Find more in the reports and case studies on our website or donate (link in bio) to support our work. #internationalyouthday #Youth #genz #communication #foodforclimateleague #howtotalktogenz #narratives #foodsystems #foodandclimate

🌍 Happy World Conservation Day! 🌍 As the single strongest lever to optimize human health and environmental sustainability on Earth, food has a crucial role to play in conservation efforts. That’s why we’re working every day to rewrite the narrative to encourage food choices that preserve and protect the planet. 🍽️ Here’s how we’re equipping others to make a difference: 🥗 Serving up plants by default: With Better Food Foundation and Sodexo, we shifted the norm in all-you-care-to-eat dining halls by making plant-based meals the default option, resulting in a nearly 25% decrease in meal-related greenhouse gas emissions. Now we’re working to make it easy for more colleges to do the same. 🗣️ How to talk about food and climate training: Our interactive workshops help city leaders and organizations effectively communicate the appeal of sustainable food choices. 🦪 Aquatic foods communication toolkits: We crafted a series of research-based, actionable toolkits to promote sea vegetables, clams, oysters, scallops, and mussels and preserve our oceans. Our toolkits help professionals across foodservice, CPG, nutrition, and health to talk about these climate-smart foods in a way that inspires eaters to want to try them. Are you passionate about supporting conservation efforts? Consider donating now through this link: https://lnkd.in/emGJ6HA9. #WorldConservationDay #FoodForClimateLeague #SustainableEating #GreenPlanet #ConservationHeroes #Defaults #PlantBased #PlantRich #PlantForward #SustainableAquaticFoods #AquaticFoods #FoodAndClimate

Sea vegetables are not just delicious and nutritious; they're also incredibly versatile and sustainable. At Food for Climate League, we’re on a mission to incorporate them into more meal occasions. We recently teamed up with CulinArt Group, a division of Compass, to pilot a program introducing sea vegetables in three dining programs. The results were fantastic! Both staff and diners embraced the change, showing there’s genuine interest in adding these nutritious aquatic foods to menus. Check out our case study and the full report to get inspired and see how sea vegetables can make a difference! https://lnkd.in/eFFWxE9T #sustainablefood #kelp #climatefriendlyfood

NEW Case Study Podcast today featuring my client, Eve Turow-Paul (ED of Food for Climate League). Links are in the 1st comments. This is a don't miss episode! Here's why...    If you're: 🍒leading an organization without any past fundraising experience, 🥑funding an org that's too dependent on project-based dollars, or 🍋feeling like there's gotta be a better way to share your org's growth and financial need in a way that attracts funders who WANT to give gen-ops dollars….   ….this episode is for you. [minute 7:00] Eve's team members are absolute experts.   [minute 12:00] Eve is an incredible fundraiser - consistently securing 4-, 5-, and 6- gifts. But, she says, “I have zero fundraising background. I have zero nonprofit background."”   [minute 13:00] Early in Eve's nonprofit journey she felt dissatisfied with a lot of the traditional forms of fundraising and knew she wanted to do something different. She loves relationship building which is why she sought out a mentor and coach to help it feel natural.   [minute 16:00] Eve describes some of the framing and storytelling shifts she's made to scale her gen-ops dollars.   [minute 18:30] How donors are responding to her now that she can articulate her big growth plans…"Now people come to us and say 'what would you do with $1M?'….and now we have a plan". This has given the team something to rally around and it's built confidence in their funders.   [minute 23:00] How Eve responded recently when a donor asked, “Do you still need my money?” Her textbook response and tool she used to facilitate that conversation.    [minute 25:00] How Eve's approach to donor email and follow-up has changed and the results it's yielding.   [minute 30:00] Interested in Eve's work? Eve walks us through the work her team did with Google as they, like many companies, want to reduce scope three emissions and build an even healthier workplace. -- Give this incredible leader a 🙌 in the comments! Links to the podcast in the comments.

📢 Calling all kelp entrepreneurs! 📢 Join us for Sea to Sale on 7/16 at 2-3 pm ET where you’ll learn tips and strategies to market your kelp products. Marketing experts will share how to communicate with customers and tell kelp’s unique story. Hear from: – Kidest Fikremariam of Food for Climate League – Thao Trinh of BettaFish – Alyssa Pace of Sway Don’t miss this free session packed with research-backed insights and marketing techniques. Register here: https://lnkd.in/eYCz77fP #Sustainability #KelpImpact #GreenBusiness #SustainableFuture #CorporateSustainability #EcoInnovation #GreenFuture #BlueEconomy #SustainableSourcing #Regenerative #OceanFarming #Metrics #PlanetPositive #MarketingforGood #ConsciousMarketing #EcoBranding