Contact: Lindy Wood, Education and Outreach Coordinator, at lindy.wood@acfb.org or (404) 892-3333 Ext. 1228.
All of our outreach efforts are free of charge. What we ask is this: if you participate in any of our workshops and/or presentations, we request that you initiate a minimum of one action step to support our work in community. Action steps could include volunteering, organizing a food drive, educating others about hunger, or responding to an anti-hunger advocacy alert, by contacting your legislators.
There are a number of creative ways to become involved and learn more:
Hunger 101
A project of the Atlanta Community Food Bank, Hunger 101 is an intro to hunger and poverty issues in the United States and Georgia. The Hunger 101 project includes online curricula materials that you can download for free and use within your very own community to do hunger education. It also includes workshops that we can lead for you, either here at the Food Bank, or at your school, or organization.
Workshops - All of our workshops are interactive, and designed to further our mission of fighting hunger by engaging, educating and empowering our community. Workshops are modified to fit within a variety of time slots and age groups. We have created and incorporated a wide range of appropriate educational tools, activities, and discussion into each of our workshops.
Curricula - These materials are free for you to use and adapt to your community. They include information about the Food Bank and our work, activities to raise awareness, discussion ideas, glossary, facts and figures, suggested reading, etc. They can be used from beginning to end in a classroom series, or you can pick and choose different activities from each of the curricula to combine into a presentation, or workshop. Feel free to contact us with any questions, or to get other ideas.
Hunger 201
This PowerPoint presentation is perfect for corporate or organizational meetings, conferences, and/or the university classroom. This presentation highlights facts about hunger/poverty in Georgia and the United States but goes on to explore both community based and government responses to hunger and poverty. The PowerPoint is used as a tool to launch discussion about the issue and identify a variety of ways to get involved.
Youth Leadership Initiative
Youth Summit - Each year our Initiative hosts a Summit on hunger and poverty for 13 metro-Atlanta high school students, who will gain in-depth knowledge about hunger and poverty issues. Students will participate in field trips, service projects, and learn the different community and governmental responses to hunger and poverty. The Summit empowers them to take action, helping them to identify, plan and initiate an action step against hunger within their own community. Applications for Youth Summit 2008 will be posted online by February 15, 2008. For more information on how to apply email: lindy.wood@acfb.org
Quarterly Seminar Series - Starting September 2008- Spearheaded by Summit graduates- this seminar series will be open to any high school students interested in hunger and poverty issues and seeking the tools to get involved. These workshops will be held at the Atlanta Community Food Bank on a quarterly basis - September, November, January, and March. Information will be posted on our website one month prior.
Community Food GameThis interactive role play experience is a powerful way to explore food insecurity and hunger in the United States. Appropriate for groups of 20-50, participants take on the roles of consumers, or run community based organizations, markets, or social service agencies. This activity needs a 1.5 hour minimum time frame to include activity and discussion.
|
