DARTMOUTH FOOD CONNECTION (DFC)

 

LEADERSHIP BOARD APPLICATION (due Monday, April 9th by midnight)

 

Are you passionate about issues around food and social justice?

 

Do you want to …

enable students to provide fresh produce to people in need in the Upper Valley?

facilitate interactions across Dartmouth and with the local community?

create a movement across universities in the US?

 

Then DFC wants to hear from you!

 

 

Who We Are And What We Do

            DFC is a new organization funded by the 2012 Milton Sims Kramer '54 Memorial Prize of the President's Office. Its mission is to connect the Dartmouth community to each other and to the local community using food as a medium. Realizing that food insecurity and hunger are major problems in the Upper Valley community, we have been working for the past two years in collaboration with the administration, Dartmouth Dining Services (DDS), and the Tucker Foundation to address this need through a series of hunger awareness and food donation events, which also sought to facilitate and enhance students’ engagement with the local community. Taking our work to the next level, DFC is a highly interdisciplinary initiative that realizes the ability of food as a powerful connector. It will allow Dartmouth community members to explore the importance of food to their culture, identity and social interactions at Dartmouth in order to promote communication and interaction across campus; and foster citizenship, giving students the opportunity to engage with the real world and to bring their academic knowledge to life through direct service. It organizes campus-wide hunger awareness dinners and food drives, and hosts student forums, potlucks, guest speakers and other events.

 

Here's the link to the application:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dEYwOER0UlJJc0dPZUtSQmJhbzhNV2c6MQ#gid=0

Available Positions

 

Treasurer

o   Manage finances and create financial report for the President’s office at the end of spring term

o   Follow up with DDS, Willing Hands, the Haven, and other organizations to keep track of the amount of money and food being donated

o   Seek out and prepare applications for other internal and external funding opportunities

 

Event coordinator

o   Coordinate logistics of events including reserving spaces, ordering supplies, speaker logistics, mobilizing volunteers for food drives, etc.

*Please note that the event coordinator will not be solely responsible for organizing the events but will be the point-person to keep everyone on track and make sure all of the reservations have been covered/completed.

o   Prepare short summary of each event.

Media/website coordinator 

o Help design a website that maps the amount and distribution of food donations made visually, includes informative links on food issues, and gives students the opportunity to share their personal experiences with food (family recipes, cross-cultural experiences related to food, hunger and food insecurity, sustainability, current events).

Questions? Blitz Sarah-Marie Hopf’13 or Kate Burns’13

* Dartmouth Food Connection is funded by the 2012 Milton Sims Kramer '54 Memorial Prize of the President's Office*