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Community Food Systems Fellowship (United States)

Call for Applications: Transforming Mediterranean Food Systems to empower Consumers for Sustainable Diets

Deadline: 3-Nov-23

Applications are currently open for the 2024 Vital Village Networks Community Food Systems Fellowship.

The primary goal of the Community Food Systems Fellowship program is to help center community leadership and the agency of caregivers, parents and families in efforts to promote community ownership of local food systems. Fellows will lift up evidence of community powered food systems and the fellowship will expand leadership opportunities. Vital Village Networks at Boston Medical Center approaches achieving a culture of health by ensuring effective implementation of community-based strategies, uplifting strengths-based narratives, and fostering sustainable community engagement and leadership. The Community Food Systems Fellowship is made possible by a grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF).

They actively seek to spotlight community-powered food systems and inform and advance community leadership in local food systems. They are committed to supporting self-determination of communities of color and the advancement of diverse community leaders. They encourage prospective fellows committed to justice and equity and improving local food systems to promote child, family and community wellness to apply. They invite stakeholders representing diverse voices across the food system (e.g. agriculture, labor and food chain workers, food service, public health, environmental justice, economy and entrepreneurship, education, early care and education, immigration, and arts, culture), to apply.

First launched by Vital Village Networks (VVN) in 2021, the program pairs peer learning and capacity building with participatory co-design principles. The Fellowship was developed in strategic partnership with a National Advisory Board of 19 local and national food systems advocates, experts, and practitioners.

About the Fellowship
Funding Information
Community Fellowship Program Outcomes
Eligibility Criteria

For more information, visit Vital Village Networks.

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