November 10th Workgroup Meeting Agenda & Homework

Our next Food Security Workgroup will be held on November 10th, 9:30 - 12 at MAHEC in Blue Ridge B.  Please click here to RSVP.  Feel free to share this with others you think should be part of this process.  I will also be reaching out to individuals/organizations we discussed an an earlier session.

Our agenda for the meeting includes:

• A report on several local strategies that are in various stages of development
• A brief scorecard overview
• A work session on moving strategies forward

As I mentioned in an earlier email, please take a few minutes to visit the scorecard before our next meeting.  I would like your feedback on what is missing or needs to be changed. In particular, please look at the discussion of activities that are currently underway.  This was completed some time ago with much of it constructed by our summer intern with input from me.  I am confident information is missing and perhaps incorrect but this probably best comes from you.

The following link is to the main Buncombe County Scorecard that includes all of our priority work.  A brief video tutorial is provided to help you learn how to navigate the scorecard.  Scroll down the page and click on our Food Security Result where all our work to-date has been captured. Once redirected, to fully view all the content, click on the + by each of the community indicators (noted by a yellow C).  Under each indicator click on each of the oval buttons below labeled "Data Description", "Story Behind the Curve", "What Works", and "Action Plan".  My request above for special attention requires to the "What Works" section and the current work discussion.  Just email me your edits. Please remember that this is your scorecard and we want it to be correct!

If you have difficulty accessing it online or just prefer reading on paper, you can click here for a pdf version of our scorecard.

October: November Meeting

Since our work group last met in June, we have completed the first iteration of our Food Security scorecard 

as well as conducted research into data and strategies. Many of you participated in Mission's Community Investment grant process, developed some new working partners and are moving forward with new program plans.

It's time to reconvene and get concrete on exactly which strategies we collectively want to work on. Some type of communication strategy seems to be a given based on our work sessions. However, exactly what messages we want to communicate and for what audience still needs to be discussed. There are also some policy and built/social environmental strategies that are gaining traction that could possibly benefit from collective support.

I'm also beginning to have conversations with some of you about how your work and your performance measures can begin to be reflected on the scorecard. And that seems to be a conversations that needs to be had with the whole working group especially as we talking about how to align our work around some common strategies. If 10 workgroup members are interested we can schedule our own training with WNC Healthy Impact on how to use RBA. Let me know if you are interested and we will talk more at our November meeting.

I've identified 3 potential meeting times and ask that you visit this doodle poll and select which of these you are available for.  Between now and our meeting, I also ask that you visit the scorecard and provide feedback on what is missing or needs to be changed. The following link is to the main Buncombe County Scorecard that includes all of our priority work. A brief video tutorial is provided to help you learn how to navigate the scorecard. Scroll down the page to find our Food Security Result where all our work to-date has been captured. If you have difficulty accessing it online or just prefer reading on paper, you can click here for a pdf version of our specific scorecard.The scorecard also includes information on some best practices that you could possible use here. And in particular (if you don't have enough to read), I very much encourage you read the Appalachian Foodshed Project report about Community Food security in WNC.