Re: Food Systems Coalition (Non-Profit) Organizational Structure

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Hi, Lisa!

>The community of Grand Rapids Michigan has taken the initiative to develop
a Food Systems Coalition.  The organization is still in its formative stages
and was wondering if anyone has had experience structuring a
multi-disciplinary / professional organization of this sort before.  Are
there any models that could be suggested as a guide (No need for us to
reinvent the wheel here)?  Your help is much appreciated!
>

If you don't belong to the Community Food Security Coalition,
http://www.foodsecurity.org/, you probably should. They have all sorts of
folks who have done this type of thing before.  They also have their own
listserv, which you can sign up for on the website.  There are folks from CT
and MI on this list (I'm not mentioning Tom Kerr since he DIDN'T bring me
figs at the CFSC conference last week! ;-)) who are actively involved in
this type of thing and can probably give you a lot of pointers, but the CFSC
listserv probably more to the point. . .

Me, I'm in the midst of frost-salvage -- fried green tomatoes for everyone
tonight!

Dorene

Dorene Pasekoff, Coordinator
St. John's United Church of Christ Organic Community Garden

A mission of 
St. John's United Church of Christ, 315 Gay Street, Phoenixville, PA  19460

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