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Using the power of procurement and values-based purchasing to create a transparent, equitable food system prioritizing the health and wellbeing of people, animals, and the environment |📍 Berkeley, CA, with staff & #goodfood partners across the US
Announcement for Q&A session for Center for Good Food Purchasing Data & Internal Workflow Solutions RFP on Tuesday, September 30
📢 Live Q&A session for Data & Internal Workflow Solutions RFP
🗓️ Tuesday, 9/30
🕚 2-3pm ET / 11am-noon PT
➡️ Register: us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
❓Submit Q's by 9/24 to be answered live: forms.gle/Xptou5oSTQxQ...
🍊 More info: goodfoodpurchasing.org/rfp-data-and-internal-workflow-solutions
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📢 The Center for Good Food Purchasing seeks a consultant to conduct an organizational review & needs assessment, & recommend an integrated course of action that will improve org efficiency.
Applicants by Oct. 10 will receive priority consideration: goodfoodpurchasing.org/rfp-data-and...
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📢 #jobalert
🍊 The Center for Good Food Purchasing is seeking a FT Contracts Manager to manage the lifecycle of all restricted funding and direct revenue contracts.
📍Location: Remote within the US (option to work from our office in Berkeley, CA)
🌾 Apply by 8/7/25: bit.ly/cgfp-contracts-manager
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📢 #jobalert
🍊 The Center for Good Food Purchasing is seeking a FT Contracts Manager to manage the lifecycle of all restricted funding and direct revenue contracts.
📍Location: Remote within the US (option to work from our office in Berkeley, CA)
🌾 Apply by 7/7/25: bit.ly/cgfp-contracts-manager
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📍 Save the Date: Tuesday, April 29, 2025, 12PM ET
Registration: us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
Learn how current administrative actions are undermining bipartisan, congressionally authorized programs and destabilizing rural economies.
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#dontfailourfarms
📢 Protect the federal workers who keep our food system running! Nearly 30% of USDA staff are at risk of being fired, threatening critical farm & food programs. Tell Congress: stop the cuts, rehire staff & #KeepFarmersFarming #dontfailourfarms
secure.everyaction.com/xUgaSWL8uUO0...
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Farmers❗ USDA needs to hear from small, diversified, direct-to-consumer, and non-insured farms who need access to streamlined natural disaster relief: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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#dontfailourfarms #keepfarmersfarming #fundfarmersnow #saveourfarms #farmeraction
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The termination of Local Food Purchase Assistance and the Local Food for Schools and Child Care Programs funding is devastating to farmers, food banks, and schools.
To email your legislators in support of permanent funding ➡️ secure.everyaction.com/OQip4txA9U-H...
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#SchoolMealsforAll is an investment in the future of every CA student 🍏 Nutritious food leads to better learning, health & living. We’re proud to be 1 of 100+ orgs urging #CALeg to support full funding proposed by @cagovernornewsom.bsky.social in the #CABudget! Read here: tinyurl.com/SMFA25-26
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🍊Tuesday, March 18: Good Food Operators Learning Sessions will kick off for 2025 with a dive into Good Food Purchasing Program assessments.
Invites have been emailed to Good Food Operators in the Good Food Purchasing Program network.
❓'s: Jon Polley, Impact Manager at the Center
Our 2025 State of the Nonprofit Sector Survey is officially live at learn-nff.org/2025survey!
Be sure to take the #NFFSurvey before it closes on March 7 and be part of the movement for change in the #nonprofit sector.
For anyone interested in food and agriculture policy, please follow Civil Eats' Food Policy Tracker
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📢 Request for Proposals: Salesforce Design and Implementation Support Consultant
Proposals due by Feb. 7. Anticipated work period: March 3 – May 30, 2025.
For more info, please see goodfoodpurchasing.org/rfp-salesforce-consultant
2024 Year-end newsletter cover art showing a photograph of blackberries, the Center for Good Food Purchasing's logo, and text reading "year-end newsletter 2024" and "photo by Colleen McKinney"
🌟 2024 Year-End Newsletter: Reflecting with gratitude at a time of transition ➡️ goodfoodpurchasing.org/2024-eoy-newsletter
🍊 Reflections at a Full-Circle Moment
🍊 2024 Snapshot of Our Reach
🍊 Good Food Purchasing CA Collaborative
🍊 Farewells & Welcomes
🍊 Looking Forward: The Next 10 Years
Brazil, Finland and South Korea have figured out how to pay for nutritious meals for students. The US can, too.
#Nutrition #FoodPolicy #Education
ChangeLab Solutions' new resource, "Justice on the Menu: Legal & Policy Strategies to Address Structural Discrimination in the US Food System," will aid changemakers in advancing racial justice through research, policy & action.
More: www.changelabsolutions.org/product/just...
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