Though the “Good, Clean, and Fair food, for all” values of Slow Food could arguably have been around for a long time, the Slow Food…

Course Description Facilitation is an essential skill for a food systems leader – learn concepts, tools, and practices to help you in your facilitation journey. …

Course Description Increasingly, funders expect organizations and programs to meet certain standards including having strategic plans and measurable outcomes. By sharpening your skills in this…

Course Description This course is meant to educate value chain coordination professionals on how the local food supply chain works. The goal is to help…

Four-part training, hosted in partnership with Dr. Barrett Vaughan, Ph.D., J.D. and Associate Professor in the College of Agriculture, Environment, and Nutrition Sciences at Tuskegee University, that will lead you through the process of refining and finetuning the idea for your proposed project.

Value Chain Coordination (VCC) is essential to building resilient and equitable local and regional food systems. VCC practitioners are shifting power to create food systems that foster interdependence, transparency, and community agency. Though the work of value chain coordination has been taking place in some shape or form for centuries, efforts to understand and build the diverse skills, strategies, and impacts of VCC are relatively recent. The Wallace Center has created this course to help the people doing the work of value chain coordination gain language, skills, tools, frameworks, and relationships that will help support their work.

Course Description Non-profits working in food systems are in a unique position of being able to appeal to and make the case for funding to…

Who says writing grants has to be boring?! Join Margaret Krome with the Michael Fields Agricultural Institute and co-trainer Una Van Duvall for an engaging…

Slow Food is very much an international movement in over 150 countries – so how do people like you and I fit in?

Produced by the Wallace Center's Food Systems Leadership in 2018, this series explores several innovative leadership strategies: training up leadership within an organization; collaborative leadership; and co-directorship.

Course Description Community empowerment happens when non-profits and funders step back and community-based projects thrive. This workshop will highlight examples from low-income, racially diverse, and…

Course Description This course is open to managers and staff alike, and will be designed to stretch the new managers, nourish those who’ve been in…

Recorded in 2019, FSLN member and trainer, Reverend Christina Garza, shares tips and strategies for making self-care a priority in your life, encouraging workplace changes that support self-care, and provides an open space for healing justice. A must watch for those looking to bring organizational (and personal) wellness and resiliency into your daily practices.   Christina is Founder and President of Garza Consulting, Inc and Senior Capacity Builder, Social Change Institute, Community Health Councils.

Political advocacy – at the city, state, and federal levels – is one of the most effective ways of achieving lasting systems change in our…

In this three-part webinar series, we explore the intersections between presence, relationship, and narrative transformation at the heart of cultivating equity-centered food systems. Participants will be introduced to tools, practices, and frameworks that can be used at personal and collective levels to increase overall well-being, foster effective collaboration across different contexts, analyze dominant food systems narratives, and become more grounded, effective changemakers. 

This series was curated by 2024 FSLN Activation Grant recipient, Elias Berbari, in partnership with Reggie Hubbard, Nicole Civita, and Michelle Auerbach.

Quality Management Systems are a powerful tool for businesses large and small and have application for a variety of food and farm businesses. But what are they, really? How do you actually implement one? What are they good for? In this course, we'll look at how a QMS can help increase efficiency, build resiliency, optimize resources, continually improve, and ultimately empower your organization to better serve your customers. This course is designed for food hubs, USDA GroupGAP groups, and other organizations/collaborations interested in the benefits a QMS can provide. This course builds on the content in the QMS Guide, and is designed to take you deeper into the practicalities of designing, implementing, and using a QMS. You can work through this course on your own, at your own pace, or go through it together with a cohort of your peers. As you do, make sure to join the Food Safety and Quality discussion group, where you can share what you're learning, ask questions, and find assistance to help you on your quality journey. We meet monthly, on the first Wednesday of the month. Register for those calls here.

Hooray! You’ve started a chapter. Now what? Here are a few administrative bits to get acquainted with to ensure you stay organized, informed, and connected!

As a movement, gathering in person is so central to what Slow Food values, but sometimes its hard to do that when the Network is…

In this two-part series, Rested Root facilitators amani and damaris will break down how the 501c(3) nonprofit structure was designed to infiltrate and undermine social movements, and what we can do to foster meaningful change.   We will examine how power, privilege and oppression manifest within nonprofits both through the micro-lens of our own intersectional experience as well as the macro-lens of capitalism and systemic racism. In order to get free from the powers that be, we also will be exploring creative strategies for transforming oppressive dynamics and deepening solidarity and accountability in our collaborations. 

Course Description A three-part course that explores three core skills systems change agents can cultivate and put to practice.  The COVID pandemic has shone an even brighter…