Podcasts about dc greens

Sometimes numbers speak louder than words. In Washington DC, a single grocery store serves the 85,000 residents of Wards 7 and 8, the historically disenfranchised neighborhoods east of the Anacostia River. Zooming further out, 35% of people living in our nation's capital are designated as food insecure, lacking an adequate amount of food for a healthy life. Again, the data tells the story. The legacy of racism in public policymaking is borne by people of color, from food to housing and healthcare. In this episode of Power Station, Tiffany Fitzpatrick explains how DC Greens, the nonprofit she leads, created The Well at Oxen Run, an acre of land in Ward 8 dedicated to growing produce and providing communal green space for all Washingtonians. DC Greens also runs Produce Rx, a program that enables doctors to prescribe healthy food as a medical intervention and provides a food allowance to make access possible. All of DC Greens strategies, including their policy advocacy, is informed, and driven by the community. A truly entrepreneurial nonprofit, DC Greens is shifting these initiatives to DC government's ownership, ensuring their ongoing fiscal support. This is how change is made.          

Meet the dynamic couple behind Eat the Change Impact, the philanthropic partner of the planet-based snack company, Eat the Change. Their organization is awarding $1.25 million over three years to national and local nonprofits working to promote vegan foods. More than half a million dollars is being given away in 2021 alone. Vegan nutritionist and author Tracye McQuirter, who surpassed her goal of helping 10,000 Black women go vegan in 2020, was one of the first recipients! Now, 36 incredible groups are getting grant money, including: the Black Vegetarian Society of Maryland, led by Naijha Wright Brown, also a #JaneUnChained host. AfriThrive, Animal Protection of New Mexico, DC Greens, Eat Real, Green Bronx Machine, Harlem Grown, Keep Growing Detroit and PlantPure Communities are among the award winners! Eatthechange.org leaders Seth Goldman and Julie Farkas talk to JaneUnChained.com's Jane Velez-Mitchell about this extraordinary and generous campaign!

Meet the dynamic couple behind Eat the Change Impact, the philanthropic partner of the planet-based snack company, Eat the Change. Their organization is awarding $1.25 million over three years to national and local nonprofits working to promote vegan foods. More than half a million dollars is being given away in 2021 alone. Vegan nutritionist and author Tracye McQuirter, who surpassed her goal of helping 10,000 Black women go vegan in 2020, was one of the first recipients! Now, 36 incredible groups are getting grant money, including: the Black Vegetarian Society of Maryland, led by Naijha Wright Brown, also a #JaneUnChained host. AfriThrive, Animal Protection of New Mexico, DC Greens, Eat Real, Green Bronx Machine, Harlem Grown, Keep Growing Detroit and PlantPure Communities are among the award winners! Eatthechange.org leaders Seth Goldman and Julie Farkas talk to JaneUnChained.com's Jane Velez-Mitchell about this extraordinary and generous campaign!

Meet the dynamic couple behind Eat the Change Impact, the philanthropic partner of the planet-based snack company, Eat the Change. Their organization is awarding $1.25 million over three years to national and local nonprofits working to promote vegan foods. More than half a million dollars is being given away in 2021 alone. Vegan nutritionist and author Tracye McQuirter, who surpassed her goal of helping 10,000 Black women go vegan in 2020, was one of the first recipients! Now, 36 incredible groups are getting grant money, including: the Black Vegetarian Society of Maryland, led by Naijha Wright Brown, also a #JaneUnChained host. AfriThrive, Animal Protection of New Mexico, DC Greens, Eat Real, Green Bronx Machine, Harlem Grown, Keep Growing Detroit and PlantPure Communities are among the award winners! Eatthechange.org leaders Seth Goldman and Julie Farkas talk to JaneUnChained.com's Jane Velez-Mitchell about this extraordinary and generous campaign!

Community Advocate Christie Gardner talks about her life of advocacy, and the Community Grocery Cooperative for East of the River, and other initiatives. Christie Gardner is advocate for community justice and equity – racial, social, economic, and health. Born in Kinston, NC, her family moved to Washington, DC when she was an infant. She attended Aiton Elementary, Kelly Miller Junior High School, and HD Woodson Senior High School’s Art Program, where she specialized in sketching and sculpturing. This work led to a subsequent scholarship and matriculation at American University. She has worked as a Certified Nursing Assistant. Now a senior citizen with a disability, and domestic violence survivor, her investment in her neighbors and the rights of others is demonstrated in her endless commitment to advocacy. Recently, Christie was nominated for GOODProject’s Black Justice Fellowship out of 4,000 entries for her contributions to the community. Christie is a founding board member of the Douglass Community Land Trust; serves as secretary for the Client Advisory Council at Bread for the City; and also participates in advocacy via the Fair Budget Coalition, DC Greens, Grey Panthers, Empower DC, and ONE DC. Her latest endeavor is serving on the steering committee/engagement committee of the newly forming Community Grocery Cooperative for the East of the River communities. The Co-op plans to have organically grown produce, along with educational programming for their customers about how to eat and stay healthy. The Community Grocery Co-op is essential to addressing the present food dessert in these East of the River communities, which also have the highest rate of health issues, including diabetes, obesity, and kidney failure.

Winnie Huston, Policy Strategist at DC Greens, discusses the importance of relationship building in the work of food justice and shares her personal journey to the work. Through wisdom garnered being on the ground in DC, Winnie speaks to the power of connecting personally with community members in food spaces and bringing community members and policymakers together to collaborate in the fight against inequitable outcomes due to sugary drinks and other unhealthy foods. Centering the ways sugar sweetened beverages inequitably impact communities of color through targeted marketing and disparate resource access, Winnie affirms the need to direct SSB tax funds back to those most impacted for nutritional services and educational initiatives. She makes the case for innovative and grounded ways to communicate the negative health impacts of SSBs to these communities. This episode of In Praxis is a part of Season 2: Sugar Sweetened Beverage Taxes. The information, opinions, views, and conclusions proposed in this episode are those of our podcast guests.

What if produce was treated like medicine and doctors could prescribe healthy food? A growing body of Produce Rx programs allow individuals living with diet-related chronic illnesses to access vouchers for fruits and vegetables. This episode explores the implementation and funding of Produce Rx programs, using DC Greens as a case study. Then we take a look at the big picture questions these programs pose for future nutrition and public health policy, particularly in light of the COVID-19 pandemic. This episode is part of a three-episode mini-series created in collaboration with The Rockefeller Foundation. To learn more about the Foundation's Food Initiative and global commitments, visit rockefellerfoundation.org/commitment/food.Have a question you want answered? Email us at question@heritageradionetwork.orgThis project is funded in part by a Humanities New York CARES Grant with support from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the federal CARES Act. This program is also supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, in partnership with the City Council.The Big Food Question is powered by Simplecast.

Hosted by David and Nycci Nellis. On today’s show: • The Foodie and the Beast COVID Cocktail Hour, with Alan Grublauskas, GM and cocktail maven at Jose Andres’ China Chilcano, a RAMMY nominee for cocktail program of the year, joins us and we’re all gonna make a knockout cocktail right along with him. Get the recipe @NycciNellis on Twitter or Instagram; • DC Greens melds food education, food access and food policy to advance food justice in the nation’s capital. With so many people unable to access healthy food, and with diet-related chronic illnesses like diabetes and hypertension increasing mortality rates during the COVID crisis, DC Greens co-founder and executive director, Lauren Shweder Biel, joins us to talk about DC Greens’ exceptional response to addressing food insecurity, helping to feed the food-challenged here in D.C.; • Remember the Matt Damon movie “The Rainmaker,” in which an insurance company is stiffing policy holders even though they’ve paid their premiums? Well, it’s happening here in COVID World. Restaurants forced to close during the pandemic now have to sue insurance companies over unpaid claims. Both sides say it’s a life or death struggle. Our favorite celebrity baker, Tiffany MacIsaac of the Buttercream Bakeshop, and attorneys Mike Davis and Dave Feinberg from the Venable law firm join us for a look at how one insurer, Erie, is being taken to the woodshed for non-payment; • Everyone’s favorite fresh seafood chef, Jamie Leeds of Hank’s, has a cool new offering in concert with Maine’s War Shore Oyster Company. Chef Jamie joins Brad and Hannah Blymier of War Shore to talk about their new offering called the Current Catch.

Hosted by David and Nycci Nellis. On today's show: • The Foodie and the Beast COVID Cocktail Hour, with Alan Grublauskas, GM and cocktail maven at Jose Andres' China Chilcano, a RAMMY nominee for cocktail program of the year, joins us and we're all gonna make a knockout cocktail right along with him. Get the recipe @NycciNellis on Twitter or Instagram; • DC Greens melds food education, food access and food policy to advance food justice in the nation's capital. With so many people unable to access healthy food, and with diet-related chronic illnesses like diabetes and hypertension increasing mortality rates during the COVID crisis, DC Greens co-founder and executive director, Lauren Shweder Biel, joins us to talk about DC Greens' exceptional response to addressing food insecurity, helping to feed the food-challenged here in D.C.; • Remember the Matt Damon movie “The Rainmaker,” in which an insurance company is stiffing policy holders even though they've paid their premiums? Well, it's happening here in COVID World. Restaurants forced to close during the pandemic now have to sue insurance companies over unpaid claims. Both sides say it's a life or death struggle. Our favorite celebrity baker, Tiffany MacIsaac of the Buttercream Bakeshop, and attorneys Mike Davis and Dave Feinberg from the Venable law firm join us for a look at how one insurer, Erie, is being taken to the woodshed for non-payment; • Everyone's favorite fresh seafood chef, Jamie Leeds of Hank's, has a cool new offering in concert with Maine's War Shore Oyster Company. Chef Jamie joins Brad and Hannah Blymier of War Shore to talk about their new offering called the Current Catch.

Lauren Shweder Biel, Executive Director of DC Greens, and Jillian Griffith, Giant Food In-Store Nutritionist in Ward 8 DC, join in the discussion on how we can better understand food insecurity as it affects us as a nation and as a community. Hear how local organizations are changing health outcomes through education and access to healthier foods.   Show Notes: www.dcgreens.org www.capitalareafoodbank.org/ www.mdfoodbank.org www.feedingamerica.org/ Snap Challenge:  www.mdhungersolutions.org/snap-challenge/

The grocer plans to participate in a program called Produce RX to help give their customers in the Washington DC area access to healthy foods. The program is in partnership with DC Greens, a nonprofit that works to improve food education, increase food access and advocate for better food policy. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/ecommerceminute/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/ecommerceminute/support

Fifth graders from Mundo Verde Bilingual Public Charter School take the mic to interview Chef Dot Steck about their school's own from-scratch kitchen, and Lea Howe of DC Greens about work being done across DC to improve school food. These students have persevered for months to learn about podcasting, explore topics, identify expert guests, write and rewrite their script, and practice for their Full Service Radio debut!

This week on The Dolcezza Sherbert Experience, Robb & Violeta are joined by Lauren Shweder Biel, executive director of DC Greens, a nonprofit that uses the levers of food education, food access, and food policy to advance food justice in the nation's capital, to talk about access to healthy food, reforming the food system, food as medicine and grassroots activism.

This week on Industry Night with Foodie and the Beast, we’re going conversation with the top DC top non-profit food organizations engaged in creating fair food access for all. Our guests include Lauren Shweder Biel of DC Greens, which uses the levers of food education, food access, and food policy to advance food justice in the nation’s capital; Beverley Wheeler of DC Hunger Solutions, which seeks to create a hunger-free community and improve the nutrition, health, economic security and well being of low-income, DC residents, and Philip Sambol of Good Food Markets, a mission-driven grocery dedicated to developing retail solutions that work in, and for, food desert communities.

As women who love food, it’s important to look beyond our plates and fave restaurants and also learn how to feed our food system awareness and activism. Food Justice underpins all food issues, and so we must educate ourselves about food’s connection to our community’s health, prosperity and wellbeing. DC Greens writes on Food Justice: “To advance food justice is to recognize and address the structural inequalities in our food system. The work of creating a just food system shifts power and knowledge to community members so that they can exercise their right to grow, sell and eat healthy food at all times.” So on that, we chat with Chloe Marshall of the Capital Area Food Bank and Food Equity Council Communications Chair in Prince George’s County and Laine Cidlowski of the DC Food Policy council on how we as consumers, activists, citizens can create a more equitable food community- whether that’s by purchasing, voting, organizing, or creating.

The first Lunch Agenda series, Groceries for All, explores why, in our nation’s capital, good food still can’t be taken for granted. On Saturday October 14th, hundreds of DC residents walked to downtown Anacostia from the nearest grocery store– a Giant Foods over 2 miles away– ending at a rally calling for city investment in access to healthy food for every resident. In part 1 of the series, Kiko interviews Dominique Hazzard of DC Greens, who planned the march.

To start the new year, we are revisiting one our most important episodes of Add Passion and Stir when we spoke with sociologist, poverty expert and author Kathy Edin ($2 a Day: Living on Almost Nothing in America) and Washington, DC area social entrepreneur Tom McDougall of 4P Foods have a powerful and timely discussion with Share Our Strength founders Billy and Debbie Shore about poverty in America. Kathy and Tom illustrate how our current systems - political, social, economic, geographic - keep poor people from succeeding. They argue for more equity in our social programs and a more dignified way of serving the poor. Kathy shares stunning statistics and touching anecdotes of the impoverished families with whom she has worked. When she asked one young girl what it was like to be hungry, her response was, "It feels like you want to be dead, because it’s peaceful when you’re dead." Tom believes, "We can't talk about fixing the food system unless we talk about money and politics... subsidies... institutional racism... the history of farming. … If we move the needle just a tad on food equity, it means we're moving a lot of other needles along the way." In Kathy’s work, she found that, "When it comes down to it, what people seem to want more than anything else is dignity. ... but a lot of our social policies deny people that.” Hear their recommendations on what we can do as individuals and as a nation to improve these dire circumstances for the poor in America.

Equal Employment Opportunity trainer Elaine Herskowitz on what constitutes sexual harassment at work. Univ of Virginia's Brandon Garrett explains the decline in death-penalty sentences. Dominique Hazzard of DC Greens raises awareness of the grocery gap. UConn's Kenneth Foote explains how powerful memorials can be. Rod Gustafson of Parent Previews reviews movies. Froedtert and the Medical College of Wisconsin's David Sabsevitz describes a brain-mapping app.

Why do we so often treat the symptoms of a problem and not the root cause? The gamechangers on this episode of Add Passion and Stir go straight to the cause. Barbara Petee, Executive Director of The Root Cause Coalition, and Lauren Shweder Biel, Executive Director of DC Greens, speak with Share Our Strength founder and CEO Billy Shore about solutions to deep-rooted social problems like hunger and poor health outcomes. Petee explains how the health care industry could be doing more to keep people healthy, which led to the creation of the Root Cause Coalition. “We need to engage the health care industry in addressing hunger as a health issue because the cost to health care is about $130.5 billion annually,” she says. “Should we not be investing more at the front end as opposed to paying at the back end?” Shweder Biel describes how DC Greens is doing that locally, working across sectors to discover systems-level solutions to food education, food access, and food policy. “Food is not a luxury,” she says. The Root Cause Coalition – an Add Passion and Stir sponsor – works to address hunger and other interrelated social determinants of health. Petee is inspired by the progress so far. “[Our member organizations] are not organizations that are just thinking about delving into these areas, these are organizations that understand why they must and how they are working on solutions.” DC Greens is also looking at practical solutions. For example, Shweder Biel talks about their Fruit and Vegetable Prescription program where DC Greens also works to ensure that people living in low income neighborhoods have access to stores where they can fill those prescriptions. “The advances in root causes and embedding them into clinical settings is such an important first step, but there needs to be a solution that goes along with that,” she stresses. Be inspired by these real life solutions that are changing people’s health and life outcomes.

Jezra Thompson is the Program Supervisor of the Berkeley Public School Gardening & Cooking Program, where she leads a team of garden educators and works with schools and community organizations to provide hands-on, place-based education to all students. She is a food system planner who focuses on community development, land use planning, and education. Jezra has worked on healthy food access and education at DC Greens, the California Farmers Market Association, and the USDA’s Food and Nutrition Service, and she writes for Civil Eats. In this episode, Delicious Revolution intern Rebecca Murillo talks with Jezra about the ways school gardens and kitchens provide a unique learning environment and an opportunity for students to be their own leaders in the world. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

In this episode of Add Passion and Stir, sociologist, poverty expert and author Kathy Edin ($2 a Day: Living on Almost Nothing in America) and Washington, DC area social entrepreneur Tom McDougall of 4P Foods have a powerful and timely discussion with Share Our Strength founders Billy and Debbie Shore about poverty in America. Kathy and Tom illustrate how our current systems - political, social, economic, geographic - keep poor people from succeeding. They argue for more equity in our social programs and a more dignified way of serving the poor. Kathy shares stunning statistics and touching anecdotes of the impoverished families with whom she has worked. When she asked one young girl what it was like to be hungry, her response was, "It feels like you want to be dead, because it’s peaceful when you’re dead." Tom believes, "We can't talk about fixing the food system unless we talk about money and politics... subsidies... institutional racism... the history of farming. … If we move the needle just a tad on food equity, it means we're moving a lot of other needles along the way." In Kathy’s work, she found that, "When it comes down to it, what people seem to want more than anything else is dignity. ... but a lot of our social policies deny people that.” Hear their recommendations on what we can do as individuals and as a nation to improve these dire circumstances for the poor in America.