FreshLink Ambassador 1 on 1 Technical Assistance Opportunity

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On behalf of the Swetland Center for Environmental Health, we are offering nutrition incentive practitioners, (with priority given to active GusNIP grantees) the opportunity to engage with representatives of our team who will provide a total of 10, 1-hour technical assistance calls for groups interested in implementing the FreshLink Ambassador (FLA) Approach. This call will be an opportunity to better understand the model, walk through considerations of its applicability to your context, and address questions you may have about components of the FLA Approach.

 What is the FreshLink Ambassador Approach? 

Watch our previous webinar about the FreshLink Ambassador Approach.

What can I expect to receive during this call?

• 1 on 1 advisement from the Swetland Center team on implementing the FLA Approach
• Participation of your choice of a former Ambassador/Market Manager
• More guidance on topics such as: Developing and maintaining relationships with market managers, recruiting, hiring, and training ambassadors, conducting effective outreach, developing a budget for your FLA program and how to evaluate your FLA program
• 1 hour of technical assistance designed to address your identified needs

How do I sign up?

There is an application process. Please complete our application if you are interested in receiving technical assistance. Priority will be given to active GusNIP recipients.

Strength in Numbers: Leveraging Data and Technology for Nutrition Incentive Programs

Find the webinar recording here.

July 14, 2020
12pm ET / 11am CT/ 10am MT / 9am PT / 8am AT

Do you want to use data to impress funders and show the impact of your region’s nutrition incentive program? Maybe you love the IDEA of data but don’t have an excess amount of time, effort, and money to pour into new data management systems. 

Collecting, storing, and analyzing quality data for nutrition incentive programs is a daunting initiative for many organizations, especially organizations that lack the time, money, and people power to do it well. Data doesn’t have to be intimidating! 

In this webinar, attendees will learn how one small nonprofit approaches data management using low-cost technology that simplifies collection and analysis of nutrition incentive program data. 

Wholesome Wave Georgia (WWG) is a small nonprofit that has been administering nutrition incentive programs in Georgia since 2009. In this webinar, WWG’s Program Manager, Alysa Moore will share how they’ve transitioned nutrition incentive data collection from cumbersome spreadsheets to an online, user-friendly database. Their use of new, low-cost software and tools has simplified program management and reporting for their small staff and the farmers markets, farms, and grocery outlets they work with. Learn how your organization can do the same. 

Attendees will learn why there is a need to move beyond spreadsheets, what tools and databases may be useful to program administrators and questions to ask when looking at data management solutions. Alysa will also walk through examples of how WWG uses Salesforce to manage data for several of their programs.

National Nutrition Incentive Hub Webinars

Reporting & Evaluation Office Hours (GusNIP & FINI Grantees)

An informal opportunity to: 1) Ask questions about reporting and evaluation related topics of the Nutrition Incentive Hub research and evaluation team. 2) Share challenges, strategies, and successes among other grantees and nutrition incentive practitioners. There will be separate time slots for SNAP Incentive and Produce Prescription grantees and practitioners, but both are open to all. The Hub will curate timely topics, such as reporting and evaluation considerations during COVID-19, as well as take topic suggestions from grantees and practitioners, and provide open discussion time. 

Last Tuesday of Each Month 

• SNAP Incentive (GusNIP Pilot Projects, GusNIP Projects, and GusNIP Large-Scale Projects) – 2 pm EDT /1pm CT/ 12pm MT /11am PT / 10am AT

• Produce Prescription Projects – 3 pm EDT /2pm CT/ 1pm MT /12pm PT / 11am AT

Register:

• For the SNAP Incentive office hours, register here. 

• For the Produce Prescription office hours, register here. 

Nutrition Incentive Practitioners Virtual Coffee House Chats [Webinar]

This is an open space for Nutrition Incentive Practitioners to share ideas, network, hear updates, and find common solutions.

Past Nutrition Incentive Hub Webinars can be found on the Hub website