Other Emerging MFJN Action Teams:
- Community Food Distribution
- Food and Farm Entrepreneurs
- Urban Agriculture & Land Access
- Government Collaborative on Wasted Food Prevention
- Small Foodshelves
- Faith Communities
- [insert your action team here!]
What’s an Action Team?
A group of people who collaboratively identify shared values, goals, and a workplan to increase racial equity in the food system.
Each Action team is represented at monthly MFJN Leadership Team meetings to share updates, collaborate, and help shape the network.
Who can be part of an Action Team? Who can lead one?
You can! Action Teams are co-led by people who have first-hand experience, knowledge, and connections with inequities in our food system. Some people participate as community members and others as representatives of organizations.
Why Action Teams?
Many collective efforts to improve our Twin Cities Metro Area food system have been successful in the past, and more work is needed to make lasting, transformational change. Through the 2020 MFJN Network Strategic Vision network process, multi-stakeholder Action Teams emerged as a way to increase action-centered collaboration that directly addresses racial equity in our food system through grassroots strategies.
How do Action Teams work?
MFJN is based on a shared leadership model with multiple backbone organizations who are holding space for collective action, community-based leadership, less duplication and more impactful change. Following the Social Gastronomy Movement’s Collective Impact Model of shifting social contexts in how we collaborate towards our collective goals, we know that the WAY we partner in our efforts to change local, statewide, national and even global food systems is JUST as important as the WORK we do together.
Each Action Team identifies its own values, goals, and workplans based on what they see are priorities in their area of the food system. MFJN Network Weavers, Backbone Organizations, and Leadership Team members, and the connected networks of those in the Action Teams support the work in different ways – from sharing time, space, and ideas to building capacity through collaborative fundraising.
Got it! How can I get involved?
Fill out the Interest Form and tell us who you’d like to connect with. If you’ve already done this but want to re-engage or ask questions, email info@mfjn.org.
In addition to the Action Teams below, we also have opportunities to support network building through the MFJN Sustainability and Engagement teams.