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Co-op Grocery Stores: More than Food | Building a Self-Determined Food Community in Detroit’s North End

Co-op Grocery Stores: More than Food |Building a Self- Determined Food Community in Detroit’s North End detailed the necessity of community owned business as an alternative to Detroit’s gentrification and current land grabs. The report also focused on the historical role … Read more

Collective Impact: Improving Collaborations to End Child Hunger in King County, WA

Collective Impact: Improving Collaborations to End Child Hunger in King County, WA introduces and contextualizes the Collective Impact model for anti-hunger partners’ work in King County. The report functions as a foundation which anti-hunger partners can use to begin to … Read more

Hunger and Health: An assessment of social service models integrating CalFresh and Medi-Cal in community based organizations in San Diego, California

Hunger and Health: An Assessment of Social Service Models Integrating CalFresh and Medi-Cal in Community Based Organizations discusses the opportunities for integrating outreach and application assistance for CalFresh and Medi-Cal created by the Affordable Care Act. The report highlights several … Read more

The Politics of Community Engagement: How to Involve Community in Needed Food Policy Reform

The Politics of Community Engagement: How to Involve Community in Needed Food Policy Reform focuses on the best practices of food policy councils and their ability to keep community members involved in the policy-making process. The report also provides recommendations … Read more

2014 Sponsorship Verification Form

On Tuesday, June 24, 2014, CHC will host the 2014 Congressional Awards Ceremony where we will celebrate accomplishments, honor exemplary leaders, and recognize our partners in the fight to end hunger. We invite you to join us in the movement to ensure … Read more

2014 Awards Ceremony Sponsorship Packet

Rosana Carranza

Originally from Long Beach, California, Rosana graduated from the University of California, Berkeley in 2013 with degrees in anthropology and Latin American literature. Through the University of California Washington Center, she interned at Farmworker Justice, a national advocacy organization for farmworkers. At Farmworker Justice she developed curricula for pesticide safety … Read more

Sydney Fang

Originally from the San Francisco Bay Area, Sydney graduated in 2012 from the University of California, Berkeley with a degree in public health and a minor in public policy. Sydney was an active leader in multicultural coalitions on campus where she focused on improving recruitment and retention efforts for underrepresented … Read more

Brock Grosso

Brock grew up in Battle Creek, Michigan and graduated from the University of Michigan in 2013 with a degree in public policy. As an undergraduate, Brock co-founded Students Organizing Against Prisons, a student-led organization focused on creating a world without prisons. As a student organizer with the Detroit Action Commonwealth, … Read more

H Kapp-Klote

H is from Lawrence, Kansas and graduated from Grinnell College with a degree in sociology. At Grinnell, they founded the Anti-Oppression Peer Education Network, a social justice peer education and leadership development organization. H has facilitated tutoring sessions for incarcerated youth, interned with Representative Tammy Baldwin, and worked at the … Read more

Julianna Lord

Julianna is from Yarmouth, Maine and graduated from Mount Holyoke College with a degree in economics and a minor in development studies. She was a Community Based Learning Fellow at Gardening the Community, a grassroots food justice organization, and worked on the implementation and evaluation of their community supported agriculture … Read more

Tyler Mac Innis

Tyler Mac Innis is from West Newbury, Massachusetts and earned a graduate degree in development policy and practice from the University of New Hampshire and an undergraduate degree in political science from Salem State University. He worked for the University of New Hampshire Cooperative Extension as a part of a … Read more