IFEC, in partnership with Smucker Away From Home, is pleased to announce that nominations are open for the second annual Food for Good award, which honors non-profit organizations in IFEC’s conference cities whose work with food is making significant contributions to improving lives in the communities they serve. The award will be presented in Boulder during IFEC’s conference there, October 25th – 28th.
” IFEC’s core values have always emphasized what we, as editors and public relations professionals, can do to elevate the foodservice community, by networking together to share industry best practices, offer professional development to our respective audiences and provide scholarships to students interested in foodservice communications. The Food for Good Award is a natural extension of that passion and priority,” says IFEC President Patty Fitzgerald, who is Editor of School Nutrition magazine and Senior Director of Digital and Print Communications for the School Nutrition Association. “There are so many terrific non-profit organizations that, while not necessarily in the foodservice business, are finding ways to make lives better through programs that involve food. It is especially meaningful for IFEC, in partnership with our friends at Smucker Away From Home, to recognize such worthy organizations making a real difference in the host city of our annual conference.”
Recipients of the inaugural award in 2016
Three non-profit organizations in Minneapolis-St. Paul were honored with the inaugural award; they are are: Cookie Cart (www.cookiecart.org), which is a unique earn-as-you-learn program that offers teens from low-income communities of color the chance to gain employment experience, job-readiness skills, and proficiency certification, while earning a modest wage; Dream of Wild Health (www.dreamofwildhealth.org), whose mission is to help indigenous American populations reclaim physical, spiritual and mental health through programs that teach ancestral ways of growing food and living healthier lives; and The Minnesota Food Association (www.mnfoodassociation.org), which endeavors to provide immigrant and minority populations who have a desire to farm with the necessary resources, and in doing so, helps produce more organic, sustainable local foods for the Twin Cities community.
Nominations & Qualifications
Members and friends of IFEC are invited to nominate candidates for the 2017 Food for Good award using the official nominations form available here (open it as a Word Doc).