Webinars
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Webinar - Delivering More Than Food: Understanding and Operationalizing Racial Equity in Food Hubs
Published on August 25, 2020
This webinar shares results from a qualitative study led by a racially diverse group of food system practitioners as to how U.S. based food hubs understand and operationalize engagement in racial equity work. -
Food Systems Resilience During the Coronavirus Pandemic: CACFP Programs, Food Hub Responses, and the Michigan Good Food Charter 2.0
Published on August 20, 2020
How do COVID-19 and food systems resilience, advancing equity and justice, and values-based purchasing apply to the Michigan Farm to Institution Network as we work to chart our course beyond 2020? -
Food Systems in the Coronavirus Pandemic, Part 2: Farmworker Living and Working Conditions and State Agency Responses
Published on June 24, 2020
This MFIN virtual network meeting focuses on Michigan’s food and agriculture sector and conditions for farmworkers during the COVID-19 pandemic. -
Food Systems in the Coronavirus Pandemic, Part 1: School Food and Supply Chain Responses
Published on April 29, 2020
At this meeting, speakers discuss different aspects of the Michigan food system as the coronavirus pandemic takes hold. -
Webinar - Racial Equity in the Food System: Perceptions, Reality, and the Road Ahead
Published on April 16, 2020
In this webinar, members of the Racial Equity in the Food System workgroup share findings from a national survey of REFS webinar registrants and discuss how organizations are reaching their equity goals. -
Webinar Series: Food and Farm Business Sales Channel Deep Dives
Published on April 10, 2020
Learn about selling through CSAs, farmers markets, and retail grocery. These webinars provide food and farm businesses with insight into industry adjustments to novel coronavirus and considerations for selling through that venue. -
Webinars: Sustaining Your Food Business During the Novel Coronavirus Outbreak
Published on March 30, 2020
These webinars from the Michigan Good Food Fund overview strategies and tips for sustaining your food business and assessing your cash flow in this rapidly changing environment. -
Celebrate Michigan Cherries and a Cultivate Michigan Data Brief: Michigan Farm to Institution Network Virtual Network Meeting
Published on February 27, 2020
In this recording we learn about Michigan’s cherry industry from an industry expert and recap the 2020 Michigan Cherry Slurp event. -
Webinar Series: Michigan's 2019 Local and Regional Food System Workforce Assessment
Published on December 12, 2019
What does Michigan need in order to develop, train and maintain a workforce that can supply and sustain the market for local and regional food? Watch these webinars to find out. -
Webinar - Building Partnerships to Support Food Sovereignty in African American Communities
Published on December 5, 2019
Learn about how and why African American communities are working together to enhance their food sovereignty. -
Webinar - Food Sovereignty and the Role of Extension: Partnerships that Work
Published on September 19, 2019
Learn how partnerships between First Nations communities and Extension can advance food sovereignty. -
Webinar - Measuring Racial Equity in the Food System: Established and Suggested Metrics
Published on July 22, 2019
Learn how metrics can help you make progress towards racial equity in food systems and beyond. -
Fund Development Webinars for Michigan Local Food Councils
Published on June 18, 2019
This webinar series covers the basics and requirements for successful fund development to build your food council. -
MFIN Research Update: Local Food Purchasing in Michigan Public Universities
Published on June 10, 2019
Preliminary insights from research about food service operations at publicly-funded universities in Michigan are shared in this webinar. -
Special Presentation: National Farm to School Network's Racial and Social Equity Assessment Tool for Farm to School Programs and Policy
Published on June 6, 2019
Learn more about a tool to assess and advance equity in farm to school programs and policies. -
National Farm to Institution Metrics Collaborative Webinar Series
Published on May 7, 2019
Each 30-minute webinar in this series features a different Collaborative member and a tool or program they have used to measure farm to institution efforts. -
Webinar - Land-Grant Institutions and Food Systems: Acknowledging historical disparities and exploring present-day equity initiatives
Published on April 23, 2019
What are organizations and administrators working with land-grant institutions doing to address inequities present since the inception of these institutions? -
Anchor Institutions in Action Webinar
Published on February 28, 2019
In this special presentation, the Michigan Farm to Institution Network shares information about hospitals as anchor institutions and some of their strategies for workforce development, place-based investing, and local food purchasing. -
Webinar - Building Racial Equity Within Cooperative Extension: Tools, Takeaways, and National Strategies
Published on December 17, 2018
A webinar highlighting tools, strategies, and takeaways to help professionals understand racial equity issues within their own organizations and include racial equity into programs they conduct within communities. -
Local Food Purchasing at Michigan Colleges and Universities: Michigan Farm to Institution Network Virtual Network Meeting
Published on September 20, 2018
This meeting features a breakdown of results from a MFIN research project that studied local food purchasing efforts at public universities in Michigan.