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May 2016
Creating Healthier Food Pantries Workshop and Lunch
What can congregations and emergency food providers do to ensure our food pantries and donations both feed and adequately nourish people who are experiencing food insecurity? Many food-pantry users are battling one or more chronic diseases and foods commonly given out at food pantries are high in salt and sugar and are lacking in important disease-fighting nutrients. Registered dietitians from the Partnership for Community Care will discuss their Healthy Food Pantry Program and encourage you to think “outside of the…
Find out more »February 2017
11th Annual Moral March on Raleigh and HKonJ People’s Assembly
The Moral March on Raleigh is part of a love and justice movement working on an intersectional agenda to support public education, economic sustainability, workers’ rights and livable wages, health care for all, Medicaid expansion, environmental justice, equal protection under the law without regard to race, immigration status, gender, gender identity or sexual orientation, voting rights for all, and criminal justice. Gather and rally at 8:30 a.m. across from Raleigh Memorial Auditorium. If you’d like to march with Council friends,…
Find out more »March 2017
Bread for the World North Carolina Annual Convention
The theme for this year's convention is "Raising Our Voices to End Hunger: Training Successful Advocates." Along with a keynote address from Gene Nichol, law professor with the UNC Center on Poverty, Work, and Opportunity, workshop include: Ending Hunger Through Congressional Lobbying Using Social Media to End Hunger Preparing your Congregation to be Successful Hunger Advocates Ending Hunger in Durham Sustainable Food Choices BFW's 2017 Hunger Report: Fragile Environments, Resilient Communities Register here.
Find out more »Come to the Table 2017
Registration is now open for Come to the Table 2017. We look forward to gathering with community members, faith leaders, farmers, gardeners, farm workers, hunger relief agencies, and many more groups for a variety of workshops, presentations, and strategy sessions on relieving hunger and strengthening local and sustainable agriculture. At the 2017 Conference, we will explore both the history and present state of our food system: how and why food is produced and distributed the way it is, and how…
Find out more »October 2017
Partners in Health and Wholeness Faith and Health Summit
North Carolinians of faith will come together to worship, promote health, share best practices, network with each other, and meet resource partners from across our state. Participants will learn what’s currently happening in the state related to health, how health relates to our faith, and will leave with a focus on how to create or move forward with their own health ministries for their congregations and community. Thursday, October 19 Registration is full for the permaculture garden tours on Thursday…
Find out more »February 2018
12th Annual Moral March on Raleigh and HKonJ People’s Assembly
The Moral March on Raleigh is part of a love and justice movement working on an intersectional agenda to support public education, economic sustainability, workers’ rights and livable wages, health care for all, Medicaid expansion, environmental justice, equal protection under the law without regard to race, immigration status, gender, gender identity or sexual orientation, voting rights for all, and criminal justice. Gather and rally at 8:30 a.m. across from Raleigh Memorial Auditorium. If you’d like to march with Council friends,…
Find out more »February 2019
13th Annual Moral March on Raleigh and HKonJ People’s Assembly
The Moral March on Raleigh is part of a love and justice movement working on an intersectional agenda to support public education, economic sustainability, workers’ rights and livable wages, health care for all, Medicaid expansion, environmental justice, equal protection under the law without regard to race, immigration status, gender, gender identity or sexual orientation, voting rights for all, and criminal justice. The movement is made up of more than 125 North Carolina NAACP branches, youth councils, and college chapters from…
Find out more »March 2019
Come to the Table Conference
We invite faith leaders and laypeople, hunger relief advocates, farmers, farm workers, community organizers, community gardeners, food council members, extension agents and others to join us next March to examine the root causes of hunger and collaborate to build a more just food system. At the 2019 Come to the Table Conference, we hope to energize attendees to go back to their communities with the knowledge to challenge the systemic nature of hunger and the skills and connections to grow…
Find out more »May 2019
Justice Gathering for Food and Faith Leaders
Do you live or work in Charlotte or a nearby county? Do you know someone doing food justice work who does? Following on the 2019 Come to the Table Conference at Friendship Missionary Baptist Church, we are pleased to open registration for a smaller two-day gathering for faith and community leaders in or near Charlotte who are engaged in food justice work. The Justice Gathering for Food & Faith Leaders will bring together 30-40 people Wednesday & Thursday, May 1-2…
Find out more »August 2019
Gathering for Rural Faith Leaders
Are you... seeking support as you navigate life as a rural pastor? desiring to be a community leader but struggling to relate in the rural context? a rural pastor who wants to learn how to have difficult conversations with church and community members? Click here to register and join us! The Gathering for Rural Faith Leaders will bring together rural faith leaders who are interested in deepening their understanding of rural contexts and building a supportive network of rural pastors and practitioners.…
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