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2015 Report to the community
Good Food for All
Outreach aims to
combat food insecurity
By Tom Emling
MSU North Community Partners
MSU North Community Partners’
ongoing “Good Food for All” outreach to those families and residents
who are most vulnerable and food
insecure in northwest Michigan is
made possible with the help, resources, commitment, and leadership provided by the members and supporters of the Northwest Michigan Food
& Farming Network and the FFN
Health & Youth Working Group.
“Good Food for All” helps to link
and advance the FFN’s “Objective
4: 100% of northwest Michigan
residents will have
access to an ample,
high-quality, healthy,
and culturally diverse diet, 20% of
which comes from
the region,” through
a combination of
MSU North regional
food access, security,
and health partnerships and memberships, including:
Traverse Bay Poverty Reduction
Initiative (PRI), Bay Area Senior
Advocates (BASA), Traverse Bay
Great Start Collaborative (TBGSC),
Grand Traverse Pavilions Foundation Board of Directors, Traverse
City Area Chamber of Commerce,
Goodwlll Northern Michigan –
Northwest Michigan Food Rescue
Advisory Board & Northwest Food
Coalition, MSU + Northwestern
Michigan College Applied Plant Science Certificate & Associate Degree
Program, MSU Extension Improving
Health and Nutrition
Institute: Northwest
Michigan – District 3
& 14 MSUE educators; MSU College
of Human Medicine
+ Munson Medical Family Practice
Center, and Benzie
Sunrise Rotary Club
2014 Food Security
Study.
As a guiding principle and complementary benchmark for the Northwest Michigan Food & Farming
Network’s Objective 4, together with
MSU North’s “Good Food for All”
community partner affiliations and
outreach, are the Michigan Good
Food Charter’s 2020 vision that
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“80% of Michigan residents will
have easy access to affordable, fresh,
healthy food, 20% of which is from
Michigan sources,” and the Fair Food
Network’s work in Michigan offering a national solution that upholds
“the fundamental right to healthy,
fresh, and sustainably grown food by
improving healthy food access.”
MSU North Community Partners’ “Good Food for All” work is
conducted as a university service of
Michigan State, in affiliation with
the MSU Center for Regional Food
Systems (CRFS) and the Department of Community Sustainability,
on the East Lansing campus. Tom
Emling, MSU North Community
Partners’ regional director, is on-assignment from Traverse City. Should
you need additional information or
have questions of any kind, please
contact Tom by phone at 231-2189947 or email: [email protected].
www.foodsystems.msu.edu