Northeast Real Food Roadtrip!

After an exciting year of real food campaigns and an incredible round of summer trainings, between September 28 and October 28 we went on the road to bring an amazing leadership & campaign-planning training to 15 campuses through all of New England and New York on our first regional Real Food Road Trip!

During the Road Trip we gave a one-night presentation or several action-packed workshop sessions to boost student's existing campaigns, get a campaign started, and definitely to build the skills & interest in student organizing!

The workshops included:

• Corporate Food Service: Challenges and Opportunities for democracy in the dining hall
• Strategic Campaign Planning: how your campus food service can GET REAL!
• Real Food Calculator 101: everything you need to know to use the best tool for understanding your campus food.
• The Food Movement: A holistic understanding of the nation wide movement building today and the students that have triumphed in getting their campuses to commit to real food.
• ....and more! Let us know if there's something your student org needs that's not on this list!
  

We were able to visit all these campuses thanks to students succesfull fundraising!

We are very excited to have more schools on board in the fight for real food and look forward to another Road Trip in the spring!

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This August students from all across the Northeast gathered for a 4 day training in Stoughton, MA to build their student organizing skills and to learn about the ways they can change the food system by leveraging their student power and shift their institution's purchasing to REAL food!

Check out this clip from the Northeast Regional Summer Training this August! 

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Northeast Summer Training 2011!

_{This region includes New York, Maine, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Vermont, and New Hampshire.}

 Registration is now closed but if you didn't get a chance to participate in the training you can still bring the Real Food Challenge to your campus this fall!!

SUMMER TRAINING 2011!

What: Real Food Challenge’s Northeast leadership training! We will discuss how to plan an effective campaign, work with dining services, and engage your fellow students.

Where: Boston, MA. The event will be at the Packard Manse Ecumenical Retreat Center in Stoughton, MA (~30 minutes outside Boston and accessible via commuter rail).

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When: August 25-28 (Click Here for a Schedule Overview)

Who: You! All college students who want to start a real food campaign on their campus are welcome. We especially encourage folks to come with at least one other student from their school to help plan for the new school year. This training will be geared towards students who already understand the issues, and are ready to take action!

Why: Because with all that is going on around food issues today, as students we need to connect with each other and engage with organizing tools to effectively make change. This training will provide a unique opportunity for students to learn from one another and from experienced organizers working with RFC. This is also a great way for students to connect with the NE organizers who will be helping students in the NE organize campaigns throughout the school year.  

Cost: ONLY $25 for food, lodging, and programming.

 To PAY ONLINE (click the Paypal button below to pay) 

Want to get involved? Questions? Contact Stefy: Stefy@realfoodchallenge.org, Erin: erin@realfoodchallenge.org, or Kewe: kewe@realfoodchallenge.org.

PAST EVENTS

Northeast Food and Justice Summit 2011

• February 25-27; Northeastern University, Boston, MA
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• Vermont, Boston, and New York.
  February 12-14, February 19-21, February 26-28
  More details here
• Summer Training in Boston
  Here's what happened

Real Food Leadership Training 2010

• August 20-23, 2009, Boston, MA.
  More details here
  

2nd Annual Real Food Summit 2009

• February 21-22, 2009; UMASS Amherst
  More info here
  

Real Food Summit 2007

• Yale University, October 2007