Racial Equity Capacity Building Workshops Available to FSLN Members!

Racial Equity Capacity Building Workshops Available to FSLN Members!

The Wallace Center’s Food Systems Leadership Network is excited to partner with the Interaction Institute for Social Change’s Curtis Ogden and Aba Taylor to design and deliver two capacity building workshops and customized coaching for network members to operationalize racial equity and anti-racism in their organizations and their program work.

These trainings are part of the FSLN’s CORE Project to embed racial equity into its framework for systems change; learn more on the CORE webpage here.


Organizational Change for Racial Justice (OCRJ) Training
Applications Closed

The OCRJ Training is a virtual learning series for FSLN members to operationalize racial justice in day-to-day organizational life. It is designed for multiracial teams of two to three people who want to develop plans for advancing racial justice and racial equity within their organizations.

The ideal team will include members of a new or ongoing Race, Equity, and Inclusion Team. Your team will participate in the OCRJ training as part of a cohort of teams, learning alongside each other about resources to design an organizational change process that includes different kinds of learning and planning activities to further racial equity in your work and internally in your organization.

Training Dates:

  • Wednesday, June 16: 1pm – 5pm Eastern
  • Wednesday, June 30: 1pm – 5pm Eastern
  • Wednesday, July 14: 1pm – 5pm Eastern
  • Wednesday, July 28: 1pm – 5pm Eastern

This workshop is offered to FSLN members free of charge. Participants are expected to attend all four trainings and complete action items between sessions. Space is limited to 20 organizational teams. Learn more and apply here!


Facilitating for Racial Justice Work (FFRJW) Training
Applications closed.

The FFRJW Training is a four-part, virtual workshop for 12 food systems leaders who are actively engaged in facilitating discussions around racial equity that lead to impactful action.

Applications are due April 12 and participants will be notified by April 16. Space is limited to 12 FSLN members.

Training Dates:

  • Thursday, May 6: 2-5pm Eastern
  • Thursday, May 13: 2-5pm Eastern
  • Thursday, May 20: 2-5pm Eastern
  • Thursday, May 27: 2-5pm Eastern

Training Objectives:

  • To develop practical skills and tools for both a virtual and in-person environment for guiding others through productive conversations about race, racism, and racial justice that build understanding and agreement
  • To provide a forum for you to address your challenges and aspirations as a facilitator and in your racial justice work
  • To model well-facilitated conversations about racism and racial justice from which FSLN members can learn
  • To build relationship with FSLN network members and develop a community of practice of racial justice facilitators in the network

This workshop is focused primarily on discussions that lead to action, not open-ended dialogues or racial healing work. While larger organizational change or movement building strategies within which conversations about racial justice might be situated are important, those change strategies are not the focus of this workshop.

This workshop is offered to FSLN members free of charge. Participants are expected to attend all four trainings.

After completing the FFRJW training, participants will apply their learnings and experience by supporting the Interaction Institute for Social Change’s facilitators in the delivery of the four-part Organizational Change for Racial Justice (OCRJ) Training to network members (see below).

Participants will be compensated $1,500 for their support in this role.


About the CORE Project:

The FFRJW and OCRJ Trainings are being offered through the FSLN’s CORE Project– Cultivating and Operationalizing Racial Equity (CORE) in the Food Systems Leadership Network– made possible with generous funding from the Garfield and W.K. Kellogg Foundations. The CORE Project aims to embed racial equity and anti-racism into the Food Systems Leadership Network’s framework for food systems change and build the capacity of network members to operationalize racial equity and anti-racism in their organizations and their program work.

Learn more about the CORE Project, and ways to get, involved here.

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    1. Although I was not selected, I look forward to seeing the 16 members that were selected video presentations and subsequent work.

  1. Hi! I am very interested in the FFRJW training and am curious what the time expectation is for assisting with the OCRJ training. It’s a great idea- an opportunity to directly apply what was learned, I just need to be mindful of the time commitment. Side note – May/June is a very busy time for our organization as it is planting season for the schools we work with. If this was offered again, late fall and winter months are slower and might accommodate other seasonally-busy organizations. Thank you!