The New York City Coalition Against Hunger is spearheading a new long-term, nationwide initiative to redefine the way people think and act about how they volunteer to fight hunger in order to make such efforts more effective in both reducing hunger and building hunger organization capacity, long-term. To do so, we have created a toolkit (online and in hard copy), and are launching a national marketing campaign, sponsoring training conferences and media events, as well as providing sustained follow-up technical assistance, using a wide variety of national and grassroots partnerships with the public, private, and nonprofit sectors, to ensure that both organizations and volunteers have the tools they need to effectively utilize volunteer service.
As part of that effort, we will co-sponsor a conference in Dallas, TX, with the North Texas Food Bank, Texas Hunger Initiative and USDA Food and Nutrition Service, on Friday, March 22, 2013, in order to offer technical assistance and training to area nonprofits, businesses, civic groups, senior citizen groups, religious congregations, government agencies, student and youth groups, and concerned individuals on how to implement structured high impact volunteer activities to both build organizational capacity and better meet the long-term food needs of the low-income people they serve.
Workshops and panel discussions will highlight best practices and offer concrete strategies for organizations to recruit and manage volunteers as well as offer training in implementing structured projects to engage professional volunteers in effective work to reduce hunger. Volunteers will learn how to engage in a wide range of activities that reduce hunger, build hunger organization capacity and deepen their understanding of how high impact activities can make their volunteer hours more effective in addressing the long-term food needs of the low-income people they serve. Two plenary sessions will give volunteers and hunger organizations an opportunity to meet and network, as well as connect with national leaders in the field of hunger.
Who: The New York City Coalition Against Hunger, the North Texas Food Bank, USDA Food & Nutrition Service, and Texas Hunger Initiative
When: Friday, March 22, 2013 9am – 4pm. Lunch will be provided
Where: Wilshire Baptist Church, 4316 Abrams Rd, Dallas, TX 75214
To view or print the full conference agenda, including descriptions of the panel discussions, click here.
For more information, including how you can present at a workshop, panel or as plenary speaker, please contact Valerie Boucard, NYCCAH Strategic Volunteer Program Director, at vboucard@nyccah.org or (212) 825-0028, extension 210.
Also check out our new website: www.hunger.volunteer.org
