"There is no social-change fairy. There is only change made by the hands of individuals." –Winona LaDuke
Discussion at United Students for Fair Trade Convergence
"Honor the hands that harvest your crop." –Dolores Huerta
UC Berkeley students successfully replaced Panda Express with a student-run real food coop!
Students at the West Coast Training visit Live Oak Grange
"Kaula'I ka lima I ka lã, ole. Huli ka lima I lalo, ola." –Hawaiian saying meaning "Hands drying in the sun, nothing. Hands turned into the earth, life."
Students at UNC-Chapel Hill celebrate with farmworkers at North Carolina's 18th Annual Farmworker Festival
Students at Carleton College make bike-powered smoothies!
Midwest Training students unite
Students with SFA rally for farmworkers' rights in Denver
Brown University's Student Garden
"It's time to change the way we eat. It's time to change the way we live. It's time to change the way we treat each other." - Tupac
Launching the composting initiative at City University of New York - Brooklyn College
Activity at the NE Summer Training exploring our relationships to each other
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Spotlight

Real Food Challenge Co-Founders Awarded Echoing Green Fellowship
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The word is out.  Real Food Challenge co-founders David Schwartz and Anim Steel have been awarded a the highly competitive Echoing Green Fellowship--a seed fund for emerging social entrepreneurs.

This award is yet another testament to the growth of our movement and a wholesale endorsement of the RFC's innovative strategy--training the next generation of real food leaders while creating a major market shift in university food spending, $1 billion in 10 years.
 


With a background in economic development, Anim saw food and agriculture as a way to make a difference in both the US and Ghana, where he was born. David grew up in inner-city Boston where he witnessed great disparities in rates of diabetes, obesity, and access to healthy food. The pair met at The Food Project (also 1992 Echoing Green funded organization), a nationally recognized program that empowers youth through sustainable agriculture. Together with Tim Galarneau, Amie Frish, Rowan Dunlap, they brought together the team that created the Real Food Challenge.
 


Only with the incredible leadership of hundreds of student leaders across the country, and the generous support of our funding partners is this vision becoming a reality.  Together we are changing the food industry and building a truly healthy, fair and green food future.

Read more about this David, Anim and Echoing Green here.
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