09-13-19 Healthy Food System Weekly Update

View this email in your browser Happy Friday! As a late comer to Wendell Berry I'm always keen to learn more and just read this 9.19.19 piece in The Nation by Jed Purdy: A Shared Place Wendell Berry's lifelong dissent. It refers to a piece I missed - this 7.14.19 New Yorker Interview: Going Home with Wendell Berry. Sustainable and nutritious food for thought indeed.  News | Events & actions | Of Interest | Previous updates | Forward to a friend NEWS Legislation, etc. 9.12.19 PR Newswire: SHI, NSAC release report on the Impact of 2018 Farm Bill Provisions on Soil Health 9.11.19 EWG AgMag: Trump Campaign Advisors Receive Over $2 Million in Trade Bailout Payments 9.10.19 FERN'S AG Insider: In Nebraska, fight over Costco chicken farms escalates 9.10.19 Press Release: Sen. Durbin Introduces Bill To Boost Agricultural Research Funding 9.9.19 Dayton Daily News: Ohio HBCU Central State U to get $7.4M more in grants due to farm bill change 9.8.19 The Guardian op-ed: School cafeterias should be the as frontlines of policy change. "We need to invest in the National School Lunch Program (NSLP) and the hundreds of thousands of cafeteria workers who feed the nation's children by empowering them to make meals from scratch using nutritious, locally sourced ingredients." 9.7.19 Wash Post: USDA relocation to KC is ripping apart the lives of its employees.  9.5.19 Mathematica: New State of Obesity Research Analyzes State-Level Impact of USDA Proposal to End SNAP Broad-Based Categorical Eligibility Relevant Food & Sustainable Ag News 9.12.19 Successful Farming: Farm Credit System Reports Decline in Loan Quality 9.11.19 The Conversation: Why community-owned grocery stores like co-ops are the best recipe for revitalizing food deserts 9.11.19 UPI: New Study offers strategies for addressing hunger through sustainable agriculture. "Undernourishment is indeed not a problem of agricultural production capacity but of the current economic and political system. This means that there are no good excuses not to tackle it." 9.11.19 Medical Express: SDSU Professors examine what influences healthy, sustainable food choices. "We eat first with our eyes." 9.9.19 GoErie.com: Erie Downtown Development Corp gets federal HFFI grant for downtown Erie culinary district Funding Opportunities NEW National Farm to School Network compiled a list of Farm to School funding opportunities. Deadlines range Sep 30 - Nov 8.   USDA Food and Nutrition Services is requesting applications for the Participation Assistance for Farmers and Farmers' Markets Grants (increasing SNAP participation at markets). Deadline Sep 13 Walmart is requesting LOI for New and Emerging Solutions that Improve Access to Healthier Food. Deadline Sep 17 Robert Wood Johnson Foundation is seeking applications for Building Evidence on Nutrition Supports for Low-income Families with Young Children. Deadline Sep 24 EPA invites communities to apply to the Local Foods, Local Places technical assistance program. Deadline Sep 30 NEW Food and Farm Communications Fund launched their Capacity Mini-Grants program. Deadline Oct 9 USDA FSA Organic Certification Cost Share Program is accepting applications. Deadline Oct 31 The Conservation Fund is seeking applicants for the Grant Program for Transporting Healthy Foods.Deadline Nov 27 Back to top EVENTS & ACTIONS Action! New proposed rule would affect 3 million people with SNAP benefits. Broad-based categorical eligibility is a provision that enables qualifying Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) households to automatically qualify for SNAP. The new USDA proposal attempts to limit states' ability to decide the eligibility criteria for TANF. Read more here or check this article out for state-level impact. Submit a comment to USDA here. Congress is currently considering the Child Nutrition Act Reauthorization (CNR), which provides opportunity to open new markets for local food in schools. Two bipartisan bills supporting farm to school work have been introduced for the inclusion in the CNR: The Farm to School Act of 2019 and the Kids Eat Local Act. Learn more about how to support this work from the supporting organizations, The National Farm to School Network and the National Sustainable Ag Coalition.  Event highlight 9.26.19 (Webinar) Reclaiming Food Enterprises: Capital for Communities of Color Events 9.15 - 9.18.19 Prior Lake, MN Annual Conference on Native American Nutrition 9.16.19 (Webinar) Food Sovereignty and the Role of Extension: Partnerships at Work   9.17.19 (Webinar) How to unlearn capitalism  9.18.19 (Webinar) Driving Food and Health Equity with Innovative Technology and Creative Partnering 9.20.19 Raleigh, NC Farm to School Summit 9.21.19 East Troy, WI FarmAid 2019 9.23 - 9.26.19 Green Bay, WI Food Sovereignty Summit 9.26.19 (Webinar) Reclaiming Food Enterprises: Capital for Communities of Color 9.26 - 9.29.19 Traverse City, MI Farms, Food, and Health Conference 10.2 - 10.5.19 Albany, GA New Communities 50th Anniversary 10.6 - 10.7.19 Charlotte, NC Carolina Meat Conference 10.7 - 10.9.19 Richmond, VA 2019 National Direct Agricultural Marketing Summit  10.15.19 Charlotte, NC ReCONNECT to Economic Opportunity Forum 10.17.19 New York, NY Building Racial Equity: Foundations 10.22 - 10.24.19 Red Wing, MN National Farm Viability Conference Find more events on our national events calendar. If you have events you'd like added, please email Hannah.quigley@self-help.org.  Back to top OF INTEREST Job Opportunities Mandela Partners - Entrepreneurship Development Coordinator Apply by Sep. 30th USDA's National Institute of Food & Agriculture - Social Science Specialist Apply by Sep. 24th W.K. Kellogg Foundation - Director of Systems Change Johns Hopkins Center for a Livable Future - Senior Program Officer.  NEW Rural Advancement Foundation International - Project Coordinator, Farmers Market Incentive Program Center for Environmental Farming Systems - Interim Communications Manager and Small Farm Unit Manager National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition - Policy Director Minnesota Department of Agriculture - Regional Marketing Specialist Los Angeles Food Policy Council, 3 positions - Food Leaders Lab Program Manager / Healthy Neighborhood Market Network - Senior Project Manager &  Business Counselor/Program Associate Center for Agricultural Development and Entrepreneurship - Farm to School Supply Chain Development Program Manager Research and Resources  The State of Obesity, New research analyzes state-level impact of USDA proposal to end SNAP broad-based categorical eligibility Healthy Food Policy Project - local level food policy database, case studies and more!  Environmental Defense Fund, Innovative State-led Efforts to Finance Agricultural Finance JAFSCD, Where have all the direct-marketing farms gone? Patterns revealed from the 2017 Census of Agriculture Development Opportunities Community Food Systems Conference is accepting applications for scholarships. Apply by Sep 20 National Farm to School Network is accepting proposals for their 10th annual conference. Apply by October 4 That's All Folks! David Beck, Policy & Media Director Self-Help Credit Union & affiliates 301 W Main St Durham NC 27701 david.beck@self-help.org, 919-956-4495 Forward this email to a friend Copyright © 2019 Self-Help, All rights reserved. Our mailing address is: Self-Help 301 W Main St Durham, NC 27701 Add us to your address book Want to change how you receive these emails? You can update your preferences or unsubscribe from this list