Center for Regional Food Systems

Webinars

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  Tribal Producer Information Session – December 5, 2024

  Published on December 18, 2024
  Through this information session hosted by the Great Lakes Intertribal Food Coalition and the Great Lakes Midwest Regional Food Business Center, viewers can learn about resources to support Tribal food producers.

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  Equitable Community Food Assessments webinars

  Published on December 17, 2024
  MSU Center for Regional Food Systems, Food Communities Network – Réseau Communautés Nourricières, and the Johns Hopkins Center for a Livable Future’s Food Policy Networks project co-hosted a webinar series on community food assessments in 2024. 

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  What you Need to Know: Telling a Compelling Story Webinar

  Published on December 6, 2024
  Through this webinar from the Great Lakes Midwest Regional Food Business Center, viewers can learn how to share their business story to funders in a succinct and impactful way.

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  What you Need to Know: Grants 101 Webinar

  Published on August 30, 2024
  Through this webinar from the Great Lakes Midwest Regional Food Business Center, viewers can learn about preparing for grant applications, including considerations and tips for writing grants that get funded.

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  What You Need to Know: Get a jump on grant applications across the Great Lakes Midwest Webinar

  Published on June 21, 2024
  This webinar presents information about how to obtain a Unique Entity Identifier for federal grant applications as well as information on upcoming assistance and funding opportunities.

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  A Call to Redistribute Resources and Power: Race Equity Dialogue in the Agrifood Business Space Webinar

  Published on May 2, 2024
  A REFS webinar which focuses on race equity-centered dialogue on the agrifood business space and discusses recommendations put forth by the USDA Equity Commission.

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  MFIN Virtual Network Meeting: Sustainable Procurement at the Institutional Level

  Published on April 9, 2024
  A recording of the MFIN Virtual Network Meeting focused on how institutions can leverage their purchasing power to help advance sustainability in food service.

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  School Food Basics Webinar Series for the Michigan Local Food Council Network

  Published on January 5, 2024
  Learn from the Farm to Programs Consultants at the Michigan Department of Education and the Michigan Farm to School team about the basics of school food service and meal programs in this series through the Michigan Local Food Council Network.

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  Envisioning Farmer-Focused Local Food Purchasing Incentive Programs

  Published on October 16, 2023
  State-level local food purchasing incentives typically provide funding to schools to purchase local foods—but what if we flipped the narrative?

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  Local Food Incentive Programs - State Program Flash Talks

  Published on August 24, 2023
  The MSU Center for Regional Food Systems and National Farm to School Network hosted a two-part webinar series that explored ten different local food purchasing incentives (LFPIs) across the nation on August 9 and 14.

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  Using Michigan MarketMaker to Make Farm to Institution Connections

  Published on July 26, 2023
  These Michigan Farm to Institution Network resources will help buyers and suppliers to connect via MarketMaker.

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  MFIN Virtual Network Meeting: Michigan MarketMaker Cultivate Michigan Affiliation

  Published on July 17, 2023
  Michigan MarketMaker can be a useful tool for farm to institution connections.

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  Farmer Workshop: Bringing the Farm to Early Care and Education

  Published on April 21, 2023
  This training offers practical tools and relevant information to farmers and process to help plan and sell to nearby early care and education centers by providing information about ECE nutrition programs, requirements, and recommended action steps.

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  10 Cents Evaluation Report Mini-Webinar Series

  Published on February 2, 2023
  Learn about how the 10 Cents a Meal program works and its impacts through this webinar series! This series of five mini webinars will highlight key findings from evaluation of the 10 Cents a Meal program for the 2020-2021 year.

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  Building More Equitable SNAP-Ed Collaborations Among Land-grant Universities and State & Community Partners, Part 3

  Published on January 31, 2023
  Learn how land grant universities and state and community partners can operate SNAP-Ed with equity approaches and structures and innovative models of collaboration in this national webinar.

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  Local Sourcing: It is Easier Than You Think

  Published on July 1, 2022
  Learn strategies to source more locally produced foods in your business.

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  Looking Back and to the Future: Michigan Farm to Institution Network Virtual Network Meeting

  Published on March 8, 2022
  In this meeting, we learn about the history of the Michigan Farm to Institution Network and how we changed the culture of local food procurement in Michigan.

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  Supplier Diversity Programs for Institutions: Michigan Farm to Institution Network Virtual Network Meeting

  Published on February 8, 2022
  This first MFIN Virtual Network Meeting of 2022 focuses on supplier diversity programs for institutional food procurement.

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  Webinar - Networks and systems that support success for educators, students, and researchers at Native American, Historically Black, and Hispanic-Serving Higher Education Institutions

  Published on November 19, 2021
  Learn how Native American, Historically Black, and Hispanic-Serving higher education Institutions support success for their educators, students, and researchers.

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  Michigan Farm to School Track: School Nutrition Association of Michigan 2020 Virtual Conference

  Published on November 15, 2021
  The Michigan Farm to Institution Network management team compiled a farm to school track for the 2020 School Nutrition Association of Michigan Annual Conference. Here we offer that set of short how-to and reporting sessions from the virtual conference.