Become an FSLN Network Weaver — Deadline extended!
Build connections, create community, and advance the movement for equitable food systems
The window to apply to become a 2021 FSLN Network Weaver has been extended through March 17!
As a Network Weaver, you’ll partner with the Food Systems Leadership Network’s backbone team of Wallace Center staff to support the network’s development, deepen connection amongst members, and activate its potential for systems change.
FSLN Network Weavers will commit approximately 5-10 hours per month to this role from April 5 – September 30, 2020. In exchange for your time, effort, and contributions to the network, we’re able to offer Network Weavers $2,500.
Please review the Network Weaver Scope in its entirety and apply by Wednesday, March 17 at midnight Eastern. Reach out to Annalina with any questions: [email protected]
The FSLN is committed to advancing racial equity and we encourage BIPOC identified applicants to consider applying.
About Network Weavers
Weavers are focused on enhancing the network’s impact and vibrancy by connecting with members from across the network, discerning needs, interests, and trends, and creating opportunities for peer learning, knowledge exchange, and collective impact.
The FSLN Network Weavers will be a cohort of five members who will partner with the FSLN backbone team (Wallace staff) to create an inviting space for members to ask questions, share knowledge, and collaborate together. Weavers will bring ideas, creativity, and resources to share with the network, along with a passion for connecting food system leaders with one another, a deep commitment to racial and social equity, and an interest in developing collaborative networks for systems change.
Network Weavers will reflect the diversity of the network, including a wide array of perspectives and lived experiences as well as a range of roles and expertise across food value chains.
This might include having knowledge of and/or experience in one or more of the following capacities:
My time as a Network Weaver was a great opportunity to meet and connect with other network members (especially my fellow network weavers, who I am now so grateful to count as colleague-friends), practice online facilitation skills (more relevant now than ever!), and to work closely with the FSLN backbone team and see more clearly the work, intention, and strategy that goes into facilitating the network. I highly recommend applying to be a Network Weaver if you are interested in experiencing more connection and inspiration in your food systems work. – 2021 Network Weaver
Network Weavers will closely engage with each other and with the FSLN backbone team to:
By the end of the six months, Weavers will have:
Network Weaver Responsibilities
As a cohort of Network Weavers there is great opportunity to develop new working relationships; weavers may work together to create and deliver activities throughout this opportunity. Below is a breakdown of the Network Weaver’s core functions. The Scope of Work contains examples of associated activities that past cohorts of Network Weavers participated in that may inspire creativity for how you might approach this role and activate the network.
Core functions:
Background Information
About the FSLN: The Wallace Center’s Food Systems Leadership Network is a national peer learning community that connects current and emerging leaders, strengthens individual and collective leadership capacity, and fosters collaboration across communities. The FSLN aims to accelerate the realization of a just, equitable, and sustainable food system that generates good food, health, and opportunity for all. Visit the Food Systems Leadership Network website and online platform to learn more.
New online platform + merged resources: In the fall of 2020, we launched the FSLN’s new website and migrated all resources and expertise housed within the Wallace Center’s National Good Food Network (NGFN.org) to this new location and resource hub. This move combines the NGFN’s expertise in technical skills like value chain coordination, food safety, food hub development, and financial management with the FSLN’s work on systems leadership, nonprofit capacity building, collaboration, and racial equity – and puts everything in one easy to access location. By bringing together these distinct yet increasingly overlapping networks of food systems practitioners, we aim to create a stronger community that can learn and collaborate together.
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