FRESHFARM

Attention Virginia non profits serving food-insecure individuals and families!

#ICYMI 🍎 FRESHFARM FoodPrints, our nutrition education program, has been chosen by Newman's Own Foundation for one of their $50K Food Justice for Kids Prize grants! 🎬 Thank you at NBC4 Washington and Molette Green for spotlighting our work alongside that of another Washington, DC-based grantee, Urban School Food Alliance, that works to improve food security for students. 📚 FRESHFARM will use this generous funding to continue offering revolutionary food education for thousands of children in Washington, DC, through our joyful, hands-on FoodPrints program where kids grow, cook, eat, and learn through food. Thank you, Newsman's Own for your support and congratulations to all the recipients! 📺 Watch clip to learn more and please share: https://lnkd.in/gVYiVpZP

FRESHFARM was pleased to participate in last week's Resilient Food System Summit at American University, which brought together participants from over 50 organizations and featured our very own Renee Catacalos, FRESHFARM's Director of Strategic Investments, as the morning keynote speaker. Renee Catacalos spoke on regional food system resilience and the progress being made in local food systems to transform challenges and disruptions into opportunities for growth. She emphasized that local food systems are much more than a supply chain - they are a value chain, reflecting the values of the people who make it work. In light of recent challenges like the coronavirus pandemic, supply chain chaos, and global economic forces, she challenged audience members to think beyond "bouncing back to normal" and instead use these disruptions as an opportunity to "bounce forward" into a more resilient future. Thank you, American University, for convening this inspiring summit. We look forward to continuing the conversation with our local food system colleagues and peers! #FRESHFARM #resilientfoodsystem #localfoodsystem #goodfoodmovement #foodsystemleaders #americanuniversity

✨ We’re excited to share that our Executive Director Hugo Mogollon is one of the Greater Washington Community Foundation's 2024 David Bradt Nonprofit Leadership Award recipients! Thank you to the Greater Washington Community Foundation for this incredible honor, and congratulations to the other awardees Rachna (Singal) Krishnan (The Women's Center) and Tiffany Williams (Martha's Table). This award program aims to provide intensive executive training for exceptional nonprofit executives. Hugo will use it to attend Northwestern University - Kellogg School of Management's executive program on driving organizational change. Learn more: https://lnkd.in/eNy2qJ8w #FRESHFARM . . . #LeadershipAward #NonprofitLeadership #InspiringLeaders #NonprofitSupport #Nonprofit

October is #farmtoschool month, a reminder of how important it is to provide all students with positive experiences with farm-fresh (and garden-fresh) food. This ScienceDaily article highlights a study by George Washington University researchers that shows how FRESHFARM FoodPrints has had a positive, lasting impact on thousands of Washington, DC, public school students. https://lnkd.in/dEXHHumX FRESHFARM brings “farm” to our partner schools through our unique “grow-cook-eat-learn” model. Our students grow and harvest in their school gardens, cook with that produce in our kitchen classrooms, and engage in lessons tied to math, science, and social studies. This combination of experiences, along with our joyful, teamwork-based classes, is the basis for what creates the lasting impact documented by The George Washington University researchers. The FoodPrints program, which serves 8,000 students across 21 Washington, DC public schools this school year (2023-2024), aims to make positive changes in what children and their families eat through engaging, academically aligned, hands-on culinary and garden education. In recent years, we’ve deepened the farm-to-school connections, procuring more than 16,000 pounds of local produce from Mid-Atlantic farmers for cooking and eating in our classrooms and creating farm stands at two FoodPrints partner schools, where school families and neighbors can purchase affordable fresh produce grown by our network of farmers. #FoodPrints #nutritioneducation #growcookeatlearn #schoolgarden #cookingwithkids #outdooreducation  #classroomkitchen #experientialeducation #foodeducation

#ICYMI In August FRESHFARM and MedStar Georgetown University Hospital launched a new #FoodIsMedicine program which allows MedStar pediatric patients’ families to purchase fresh produce of their choice at over 50 participating farmers markets. Check out this recent article in The Hoya to learn more: https://lnkd.in/eVHp2b7b

📢 We’re thrilled to share the good news! FRESHFARM has been chosen by Newman’s Own Foundation for one of their $50K Food Justice for Kids Prize grants! 🏆 The Food Justice for Kids Prize is one of the many ways that Newman’s Own Foundation helps support organizations that are nourishing and transforming the lives of children who face adversity. 📚 FRESHFARM will use this generous funding to continue offering revolutionary food education for thousands of children in Washington, DC, through our joyful, hands-on FoodPrints program where kids grow, cook, eat, and learn through food. 🎥 Close to 500 nonprofits and tribes across the country applied, and we are honored to be one of the 12 nonprofits awarded this grant. Finalists in the grantmaking process all submitted short videos about their work. Thanks to all the FoodPrint students, teachers, and partner school principals who worked with us to quickly pull this video together. https://lnkd.in/eESuVnmE 🙏🏽Thanks again, Newman's Own Foundation for your support, and congratulations to the other organizations awarded this grant. We are humbled to be part of such amazing grantee cohort. #FRESHFARM #FoodPrints . . . . #FoodJustice #NewmansOwnFoundation #FoodEducation #WashingtonDC #KidsNutrition #HandsOnLearning #NonprofitSupport #growcookeatlearn #nutritioneducation #FoodEducation

FRESHFARM is proud to be a grantee of the A. James & Alice B. Clark Foundation since 2019. The Foundation's bold, strategic investments in FRESHFARM have helped catalyze our expansion and positioned us to deepen our work, reach more communities in the Washington, DC area that have not traditionally benefited from healthy local food, and support regional farmers with a robust local food economy. We’re excited to share this powerful video highlighting The Clark Foundation's philanthropic approach and the incredible work they make possible in the Washington, DC, region. FRESHFARM extends a heartfelt thanks to The Clark Foundation for its unwavering support and for believing in our vision. Together, we're building an equitable local food system that nourishes children, families, and communities. #FRESHFARM #ClarkFoundation #ProudGrantee #Sustainability #Philanthropy #Impact

Congratulations to FRESHFARM's own Nick Stavely, for his recent appointment to the DC Food Policy Council! 🎉 In his position as co-chair of the Food Access and Equity working group, Nick will lend his experience as FRESHFARM's Director of Incentive Programs towards the group's priorities that include enabling affordable food access in every neighborhood of Washington, DC. "I look forward to contributing to the Council's impactful work increasing food access across the city, integrating meaningful community engagement into existing benefits programs, and developing new initiatives with the other Food Policy Council members," Nick shared. Nick joins other new appointees Angela Chester-Johnson, Jason Kellogg Mya O. Price, Ph.D., and Carrie Vaughn. 📸: Mya Price, Nick Stavely, Caroline Howe, Carrie Vaughn, Jason Kellogg, and Beverley Wheeler, Ed.D..

🗳 Vote for us so we can receive a $10,000+ grant from the Newman's Own Foundation’s Community Choice Awards! 🚨 Newman’s Own Foundation is asking YOU to vote and help them award two $10,000+ grants to support food justice for kids. We’re one of the 20 finalists, but we need your help—it’s free to join and vote today! 📚 Help us revolutionize food education for thousands of children in Washington, DC, through our joyful, hands-on FoodPrints program where kids grow, cook, eat, and learn through food! 🤞🏽Thank you, Newman's Own Foundation for this opportunity and best of luck to all the finalists! HOW TO VOTE: 1. Visit this link and click the button "Join this Grapevine." https://lnkd.in/eaumHNNF 2. Set up your Grapevine account by following the prompts. 3. If you would like to bookmark FRESHFARM as a favorite nonprofit, search for FRESHFARM when you reach the page "bookmark nonprofits." 4. Once you complete your account setup, you will land on a donation page for Newman's Own Community Fund, where you can make a donation OR simply click the "Newman's Own Community Fund" link at the top of the page to return to voting. 5. Scroll down to the post "Community Choice Awards: Nutrition Education and School Food." Under this post is a menu of nonprofit where you can vote for FRESHFARM! #FRESHFARM #FoodPrintsDC . . . . #communitychoice #growcookeatlearn #nutritioneducation #nonprofit #newsmansownfoundation #schoolgarden #outdooreducation #foodjustice #foodequity #foodaccess #MidAtlanticFoodSystem