Conrad Schmidt teaches unBox about urban gardening and agroecology

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JOIN TOMORROW'S UNBOX TEAM CALL! and explore our BI-WEEKLY NEWSLETTER Hope you've been enjoying those super sweet summer fruits and veggies as they come into season!Tomorrow we'll meet for our unBox team call at 9 am PST/12 pm EST. Click this link to add the bi-weekly invitation to your calendar or join directly using this Zoom link (PW: 278840). Tomorrow's Call Agenda:  FEATURED PRESENTATION: Join for agroecology and food system activist and unBox Advisor Conrad Schmidt's presentation about his ongoing Stanford University Teaching Gardens workshop series, in which he uses food as a nexus for exploring topics such as urban sustainable gardening and farming, the cultural importance of food historically, the evolution of modern agricultural principles and practices and what the future of agriculture might look like, and how to best address food insecurity and seek food justice at the community level. Advisor updates SAVE THE DATE: The next unBox Team Call on Friday July 30 will feature a presentation from Anne Moertel - Outreach and Communications Manager at the Center for Ecoliteracy and former Design and Communication Strategist for San Francisco Unified School District Student Nutrition Services - on the implementation of and advocacy for transformative school meal programs in California! unBox In the News   unBox has been selected for SOCAP’s 2021 Social Entrepreneurship scholarship! It is a tremendous honor to be among this cohort of social innovators from around the world. We are so humbled by this opportunity and look forward to learning from the program's resources, mentors, and other awardees! unBox is also grateful and excited to have been selected to participate in the Food Systems Game Changers Lab, organized by EAT, OpenIDEO, Thought For Food, The Rockefeller Foundation, and Forum for the Future, bringing together individuals, organizations, and people passionate about envisioning a better global food system, with a series of collaborative workshops and programs leading up to the 2021 UN Food Systems Summit this fall! Stay plugged in: Good News + Great Reads: California Healthline: California Takes a Nibble at Offering Food Stamps to Undocumented Immigrants Civil Eats: Op-ed: Transforming School Food Requires More than Universal Access and A Farmer-Owned Local Food App Stands Out from the Venture Capital-Backed Crowd FoodCorps: FoodCorps Applauds Reps. Plaskett, Hayes, and Adams For Introducing Legislation to Expand School Nutrition Education NYC Food Policy: 40 Under 40: The Rising Stars in NYC Food Policy (Class of 2021) New Research: FRAC: Recovery Legislation Could Help End Summer Childhood Hunger Institute for Research on Poverty: Options to improve the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) The MassInc Polling Group: Survey: P-EBT helped thousands of families access food, but as food insecurity remains high, other assistance programs are underutilized School Nutrition Association Survey: Extensive Challenges Persist into SY 2021/22   Public Health Reports: SNAP Participants and High Levels of Food Insecurity in the Early Stages of the COVID-19 Pandemic Journal of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics: Feasibility and Acceptability of a “Click & Collect” WIC Online Ordering Pilot Events: July 15, 3:30 EST: "Ending Hunger in America: Local Innovations to Inform a National Strategy." A House Rules Committee roundtable examining local innovations to help combat the hunger crisis, the fifth in a series of committee events highlighting the reality of food insecurity in America and examining the steps that Congress and the Biden administration could take to equitably combat it: will stream live here.  September 19 - 21: The Build & Broaden Indigenous Agriculture Food Sovereignty Symposium, hosted by the Keweenaw Bay Indian Community & Northern Michigan University. September 24: NorCal Symposium on Climate, Health, Equity Job opportunities: Joint Venture Silicon Valley: Associate Director, Silicon Valley Food Recovery. Joint Venture is seeking an impassioned food recovery Associate Director to support the administration of a county wide food recovery program, to support nonprofits working in the field and local jurisdictions as they enact the new SB 1383 legislation.  National Indian Health Board: Multiple positions available in Washington DC and Portland, Oregon Gretchen Swanson Center for Nutrition: Research Associate, Project Manager, and Research Scientist Civil Eats: Director of Development and Associate Editor CSPI: Public Interest Internship Program and other positions   As always, we invite you to join tomorrow's Bi-weekly Friday Team Call, from 9 - 10 AM PT/ 12 - 1 PM ET. 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