Addressing Hunger During Crisis

Fresh Approach, a San Francisco Bay Area non-profit focused on healthy food access, faced the challenges that 2020 brought—the pandemic, soaring food insecurity, and thousands displaced by the historic California wildfires. They did what few companies would be able to do—they shifted from food access work to emergency food relief. Learn how Fresh Approach was able to invest $2 million into small-scale farmers, deliver 80,000 boxes of farm fresh produce to families affected by COVID-19, and share 10,000 locally sourced meals to those displaced by wildfires. Speaker: Ms. Ellen Olack, Food Access Program Manager, Fresh Approach. Part of the Environmental Justice & Sustainability Speaker Series, Middlebury Inst. of Intl. Studies. Free, open to public, no registration required. All details on the web--https://go.miis.edu/sustainability. For questions, contact Rachel C., Center for the Blue Economy, [email protected], (831) 647-4183 (pls. leave message).