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CFSC shutters itself? Or not?
The Community Food Security coalition, a national leader in food policy work and shepherd of the Community Food Projects USDA grant stream appears to have shut itself down last week:
http://foodsecurity.org/important-message-from-cfsc/
Although as you can see from the comment, this move is not without dissent from long-time coalition founders and members, and discussion of whatever is going on rages on COMFOOD: https://elist.tufts.edu/wws/arc/comfood
Some of this dissent was on display at the organization's annual gathering in Oakland last November. The political details of what's going on are far too inside baseball for me to understand, but if CFSC is ending, I would mourn the loss of what has, in my experience of the last couple years, been a smart and effective advocacy organizations.
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Permalink Reply by Maggi Adamek on -
I attended their long range planning breakout session at last fall's event, as I was wondering how they intended to position their work over the next five years. My particular interest was how they viewed the long-term movement building needs and organizing strategies. The conversation was intriguing, given the unfolding of recent events.
The board chair and interim ED fielded lots of questions for quite awhile on the ED search - there were several folks in the room who wanted to apply for the job.
Finally, they moved the discussion toward the substance of the plan and posed questions that they asked small groups to address. At no time did they indicate that an organizational 'sunset' within months of their national, signature conference was a prospect. They talked about all of the plans in a 5 year timeframe. They also did not at all suggest that money was an issue. At all.
Several board members attended the session.
Very curious. And a problem - CFSC is the lifeblood of the grassroots US food movement. I wish they would reveal more of what happened....
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Permalink Reply by Erin Meier on -
I agree with you both! But don't have anything else "inside" to add. I met the new-and-soon-to-be-last ED at this yr's Food & Community gathering. She didn't indicate anything. Others??
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Permalink Reply by Maggi Adamek on
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I'm wondering if we could loop LaDonna Redmond into this conversation and explore how the Food + Justice = Democracy conference (and related attending stakeholders and conference follow-up) might be a national pathway for sustaining the work...
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Permalink Reply by Terry VanDerPol on -
I think that's a great idea.
Maggi Adamek said:I'm wondering if we could loop LaDonna Redmond into this conversation and explore how the Food + Justice = Democracy conference (and related attending stakeholders and conference follow-up) might be a national pathway for sustaining the work...
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