Opportunities & Events

Opportunities

The Harvard Law School Food Law and Policy Clinic (FLPC), with support from

the Laura and John Arnold Foundation, is launching a new initiative to

identify locally-supported policies that will reduce sugar consumption and

build capacity for policy change. Excess consumption of sugar is linked to

obesity, diabetes, and other diet-related chronic diseases that have

tremendous social and economic costs. Reducing population-level consumption of

sugar is one of the most promising strategies for addressing these pressing

public health concerns. FLPC is offering pro bono technical assistance (TA) to

community organizations, food policy councils, and local and state government

entities across the United States interested in implementing innovative sugar-

reduction policies. The request for proposals (RFP) application will remain

open until July 31, 2018. FLPC anticipates making two TA awards as a result of

this RFP. TA grantees will be notified by August 31, 2018. Please contact

flpc@law.harvard.edu with any questions.

The application is available here:

https://www.chlpi.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/FLPC-Request-for-Technical-Assistance-Proposals-Sugar-Reduction-5.24.18.pdf

NAAEE Awards for Excellence: Call for Nominations

Review Draft Environmental Education Guidelines

Keep America Beautiful Youth Advisory Council Applications

Free City Summer Sports Programs

Governor’s Island Teaching Garden Field Trips

Want to Start an Educational Sports Program?

Group working with underserved youth aged 6-13 that wants to start a new soccer program for 80-100 children. Groups should have access to indoor space for soccer.Your group is not required to have an existing sports program, but it should be ready to use soccer as a tool for achieving objectives for the youth with whom you work. Our partner is helping to give sports back its original social role, including as a vehicle to developing responsible and civically engaged citizens.  Your group would be provided technical training clinics for local educators, jerseys and shorts for each participant, and coach training. To learn more, contact Lori:  llichtman@citizensnyc.org  or  212.822.9592

Participate in a Butterfly Count

Are you part of a school group, community garden, friends of park group, or have a passion for collecting data on pollinators? Join Citizens Committee and Butterfly Project NYC in butterfly counts. With your help, we are working on providing long-term data on butterfly populations. In order to participate in a count, please take part in a two-hour workshop on data collection and butterfly identification. June. Workshop date and time TBD. To RSVP, contact Katie Grassle at butterflycountNYC@gmail.com

Good Food Studies Essays

A quick reminder for anyone with undergraduate or graduate students (or if you are one of those) who might be writing essays about food and nutrition. The Society for the Anthropology of Food and Nutrition has two awards that will bring you fame and fortune. The Christine Wilson Award (really, there are two – one for undergrads, the other for grads) will be presented to outstanding undergraduate and graduate student research papers that examine topics within the perspectives in nutrition, food studies and anthropology. The Thomas Marchione Award will be granted to a student whose work addresses food as a human right, including a focus on food justice, food security and access, food sovereignty and other areas where social justice and food intersect. The deadline for both is July 27, 2018. https://foodanthro.com/2018/05/07/got-food-studies-essays/

Events

NYC DOE Think-Achieve-Move Conference