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May 2020 Meeting

Welcome!

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Today’s Agenda

Resource Reminder Food Delivery Conversation AUA Garden Grant USDA Farmers to Families Food Box Program SNAP Delivery in Illinois Updates, Resources, Challenges, and Solutions

Resource Reminder

 P-EBT Guide

 Apply ASAP!  Legal Aid Chicago can help for free  Popular (over 200 views)

 Food Delivery Guide  Food Resource Guide  GCFD Pop-Up Pantries  Growing Home Job Training

Resources you and your community may find particularly helpful Any feedback/suggestions?

Food Delivery: North West Mutual Aid and NFPN

Household (from Mutual Aid

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NFPN Excess Food NFPN Pantry Food

Mutual Aid Food NFPN Excess Food

NFPN Pantry Food

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NFPN Pantry/Member Mutual Aid List Household NFPN Pantry/Member Mutual Aid Mutual Aid NFPN Address List NFPN List Household Food (from NFPN Pantry

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Mutual Aid NFPN Pantry/Member

Food Delivery: North West Mutual Aid and NFPN

Also: Information Sharing Channels

 Resources (e.g. financial, housing, health, etc.)  Connections (e.g. potential partnerships, contacts, etc.)  Opportunities (e.g. grants, food recovery, etc.)

Coordination Questions

 Is a food delivery partnership plausible? What could

it look like?

 Are there other ways we could partner?  What capacities could we share with one another?

 Staff/Volunteers  Time  Transportation  Food  Storage  Etc.

 How should our partnership be clarified?

 An MOU? A schedule? A Listserv? Etc.

 What decisions can we make now?  What decisions have to wait, and when will we

make those decisions?

Advocates for Urban Agriculture COVID-19 Grant for Community Gardens

 Advocates for Urban Agriculture is funding grants for community

gardens in Chicago impacted by COVID-19.

 Community gardens: up to $1,000  Community gardens collaborating with community organizations (food

pantries, community groups, etc.): up to $10,000

 Funding must be related to the impact of COVID-19  Deadline: Next Friday, May 29th

 Ryan happy to offer help with anyone’s grant application  Any community gardens interested in putting together a

collaboration grant application? For more information and to apply: https://auachicago.org/farmer-support-grant/ Informational Webinar at 1PM today: http://bit.ly/FarmerSupportGrantGuidance

USDA Farmers to Families Food Box Program

 Unfortunately, the food distributor the Chicago Food Policy Action

Council was applying with did not win a grant

 However, Gourmet Gorilla did win $27,584,894

 Looking to partner with Chicago-area organizations  Limited boxes left now, but may receive more capacity later

 Current weekly capacity remaining: 155 protein boxes, 150 produce

boxes, 150 milk boxes  Fill out Gourmet Gorilla survey if you want to receive food boxes  Ryan will keep sending opportunities to partner and other

updates Gourmet Gorilla Partnership Survey: https://link.nfpnchicago.org/Gourmet-Gorilla-Survey

SNAP Online Ordering in Illinois

 Beginning June 2nd, SNAP recipients in Illinois will be

able to use their LINK card to purchase food from participating grocery retailers online!

 Downsides:

 SNAP recipients will only be able to do this at pre-

approved retailers

 Only Walmart and Amazon are on that list currently

 Delivery costs not currently covered by the program

 Please consider sharing this news with your clients

who receive SNAP

 Ryan will let everyone know when there are more

details to share

More Info from Governor Pritzker’s Office:

https://www2.illinois.gov/dceo/Media/PressReleases/Pages/PR20200520.aspx

Reminder: The NFPN Blog

 Updates on various resources and

policy changes

 Recent blog posts include…

 Get Your Stimulus Check  Growing Home Paid Job Training  Unemployment Benefits for Non-

Traditional Workers

 Resources and updates posted on

The NFPN Blog are usually added to the COVID-19 Hub

Subscribe to emails! nfpnchicago.org/the-nfpn-blog/

Member Updates and Sharing

Updates Requests Challenges Resources Ideas

Next Meeting

Friday, June 26th at 10AM 90% likelihood it will be

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