Fair Food in Fairfield County Schools
Advocates for a sustainable school food environment
CHEF DANIEL LANZILOTTA'S LUNCH & LAUNCH OF FAIR FOODS
Chef Daniel Lanzilotta made a scrumptious lunch - delicious and nutritious -and shared his belief that the food we eat has a direct effect on our well-being.
Amy Kalafa, the film maker of Two Angry Moms (www.angrymoms.org), spoke about her vision of a better food culture in America. She believes we need to start with children, work with the schools to provide a more wholesome food environment, and fan out to families and whole communities, and eventually go national. She founded Fair Foods Fairfield County Schools as a non-profit to educate people about the benefits of eating whole and healthy foods. One of the first educational events is a screening of her film, Two Angry Moms, which usually energizes parents to make changes in their own schools and districts.
The next steps for the core steering committee is to raise the money to match the challenge grant from Betsy Fink of Millstone Farms, so Betsy will release the $7500 designated for planning and we’ll have a total of $15,000 this coming year. The same for the following year, raising another $15,000, making our budget $30,000 total over 2 years. We will begin to use that money to plan educational events, and to grow by planning more fundraising and hiring grant writers to write a very extensive grant for the National Institute of Health, which is encouraging Amy to apply. The grant could be in the millions of dollars and requires extensive and scholarly measurements, documentation and reporting. Amy has scholars at Yale University interested in working on this.
Nina Stout brought her 10 year old son Dawson, who spoke about why he likes to eat healthy. Nina will do chocolate making workshops in December as a fundraiser. She and I are planning to do a healthy meal event in Unitarian Universalist churches in the new year – Danbury and Westport. We can tie in with the churches’ efforts with global issues of environment, health, hunger. We’ll look into showing Amy’s film there, as well as having singers and other entertainment.
Other religious and spiritual organizations -and civic or educational, and private organizations -can also do fundraising meals. We’ll write up the steps to the process.
I’ll be inviting friends to a fundraisiing dinner at my home, maybe in February. And I will be writing grants for educational programs, a good portion going to Fair Foods. I’m also talking to Robbin Zella, director of the Housatonic Museum, who proposed an art exhibit on Food, possibly with an Italian performance artist preparing and sharing food right in the gallery! There would be accompanying educational art workshops and cooking classes for schools and the community. We can possibly get funding from the National Endowment for the Arts and other local and state sources.
Daniel suggested doing a formal, invitation only dinner and charging a high price, perhaps $150/couple.
Amie Hall, knows of 2 free places we can hold dinner fundraising events in the Norwalk and Westport area. Amie has experience with fundraising through the Scouts, and will also do a private dinner. Amie suggested if we do big events, the Fair Food Network steering committee team up to help put it on.
Anyone who wants to help can contribute something. For example, if 15 people did one small or simple thing that raised $500 each, we’d make the goal of $7500. What better way to promote healthy food than preparing & sharing healthy food for friends?! Offer a meal (breakfast, lunch, or dinner). Ten guests at @50 each would raise the $500 per event. Or do something that raises $100 – offer a workshop, cooking demos, a tea, or a party. It will all add up and no contribution is too small. (You can donate of course by simply writing a check!)
At Daniel’s luncheon, we raised $75. That’s 1% of the $7500 we need to match the $7500 challenge grant. A symbolic start to our fundraising efforts.
We’ll keep our network going by posting our profiles, photos, resources, ideas on this site.
Be well, eat hearty!
Janet
P.S. – I filmed some of the conversation at Daniel’s lunch, and clips will be circulated soon, eventually some will go on my public access TV show, Nourish and Flourish (Tues, 6:30 pm, channels 77 or 78, Orange to Greenwich, CT)
Amy Kalafa, the film maker of Two Angry Moms (www.angrymoms.org), spoke about her vision of a better food culture in America. She believes we need to start with children, work with the schools to provide a more wholesome food environment, and fan out to families and whole communities, and eventually go national. She founded Fair Foods Fairfield County Schools as a non-profit to educate people about the benefits of eating whole and healthy foods. One of the first educational events is a screening of her film, Two Angry Moms, which usually energizes parents to make changes in their own schools and districts.
The next steps for the core steering committee is to raise the money to match the challenge grant from Betsy Fink of Millstone Farms, so Betsy will release the $7500 designated for planning and we’ll have a total of $15,000 this coming year. The same for the following year, raising another $15,000, making our budget $30,000 total over 2 years. We will begin to use that money to plan educational events, and to grow by planning more fundraising and hiring grant writers to write a very extensive grant for the National Institute of Health, which is encouraging Amy to apply. The grant could be in the millions of dollars and requires extensive and scholarly measurements, documentation and reporting. Amy has scholars at Yale University interested in working on this.
Nina Stout brought her 10 year old son Dawson, who spoke about why he likes to eat healthy. Nina will do chocolate making workshops in December as a fundraiser. She and I are planning to do a healthy meal event in Unitarian Universalist churches in the new year – Danbury and Westport. We can tie in with the churches’ efforts with global issues of environment, health, hunger. We’ll look into showing Amy’s film there, as well as having singers and other entertainment.
Other religious and spiritual organizations -and civic or educational, and private organizations -can also do fundraising meals. We’ll write up the steps to the process.
I’ll be inviting friends to a fundraisiing dinner at my home, maybe in February. And I will be writing grants for educational programs, a good portion going to Fair Foods. I’m also talking to Robbin Zella, director of the Housatonic Museum, who proposed an art exhibit on Food, possibly with an Italian performance artist preparing and sharing food right in the gallery! There would be accompanying educational art workshops and cooking classes for schools and the community. We can possibly get funding from the National Endowment for the Arts and other local and state sources.
Daniel suggested doing a formal, invitation only dinner and charging a high price, perhaps $150/couple.
Amie Hall, knows of 2 free places we can hold dinner fundraising events in the Norwalk and Westport area. Amie has experience with fundraising through the Scouts, and will also do a private dinner. Amie suggested if we do big events, the Fair Food Network steering committee team up to help put it on.
Anyone who wants to help can contribute something. For example, if 15 people did one small or simple thing that raised $500 each, we’d make the goal of $7500. What better way to promote healthy food than preparing & sharing healthy food for friends?! Offer a meal (breakfast, lunch, or dinner). Ten guests at @50 each would raise the $500 per event. Or do something that raises $100 – offer a workshop, cooking demos, a tea, or a party. It will all add up and no contribution is too small. (You can donate of course by simply writing a check!)
At Daniel’s luncheon, we raised $75. That’s 1% of the $7500 we need to match the $7500 challenge grant. A symbolic start to our fundraising efforts.
We’ll keep our network going by posting our profiles, photos, resources, ideas on this site.
Be well, eat hearty!
Janet
P.S. – I filmed some of the conversation at Daniel’s lunch, and clips will be circulated soon, eventually some will go on my public access TV show, Nourish and Flourish (Tues, 6:30 pm, channels 77 or 78, Orange to Greenwich, CT)
Comment
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Comment by Margaret West on January 19, 2009 at 6:18pm -
Hi Janet and Nina,
I saw each of you at a distance this week end I am so excited to have started IIN! Nice job, Nina! You were great! Please keep me in the loop on this Fair Food iniative.
Best,'
Margaret
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Comment by Nina Stout on November 21, 2008 at 11:17am - great job, Janet!
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