Annual Meeting
10/29/25
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Presentation

Food Policy Forum 2025
3/14/25

Resources

Presentation

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Annual Meeting 2024
10/29/24

Additionally, Sherry Hamel from the U.S Department of Agriculture shared programs of the Farm Service Agency (FSA). You can see her presentation, some informative documents, and contact information in this folder.

View Presentation

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Annual Meeting 2023
11/2/23

Presentation

We hosted our 2023 Food Policy Forum on April 12th, 3:30-5:30 via Zoom. Access the recording here.  Password: W^b5B#?e

Speakers:

• Dana Eidsness, Senior Anti-Hunger Policy Advisor in the Governor's Office of Policy Innovation and the Future
• Brian Colleran, Senior Policy Advisor, Speaker's Office
• Anna Korsen, Advocacy and Implementation Director, Full Plates Full Potential

Agenda:

• Targeted Universalism for Equitable Policy Development
• Implementing Maine’s Right to Food
• How Maine is Ending Hunger by 2030
• Evolving the Local Foods Fund
• Other Pending Legislation of Note

​Resources:
Targeted Universalism - video
​Article: The brewing war over who goes hungry in America — and how to feed them
​Article: America Is in a Disgraced Class of Its Own

Right to Food:
People's Implementation Manual on the Right to Food in Maine Survey
Right to Food Information
Implementing the RTF in America
Maine becomes the first US state to recognize the Right to Food in a Constitutional amendment 

Local Food Fund:
​Full Plates Full Potential - Local Food Fund
Full Plates Full Potential - The Critical Importance of Implementation

Community Eligibility Provision - Comment Submission

Bill links:
LD 1274: An Act to Increase Land Access for Historically Disadvantaged Populations
​LD 568: An Act to Provide Funding for the Fund to Address Food Insecurity and Provide Nutrition Incentives
LD 636 (enacted in 130th Legislature): An Act to Encourage the Purchase of Local Foods for Public Schools
LR 702: An Act to Implement the Recommendations of the DACF’s Working Group on Custom Slaughterhouses
Maine Equal Justice Priorities: LR 1320: An Act to Reduce the Number of Child Living in Deep Poverty, LD 945: An Act to Allow Maine Families to Increase Their Savings (Asset Limit Bill)
LD 199: An Act to Improve the Health of Maine Residents by Removing Exclusions to the MaineCare Program, PPS article on LD 199
LD 1612:  An Act to Address Food Insecurity and Support Local Agriculture

• CCFSC's Testimony in Support of LD 1612

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Annual Meeting 2022
10/27/22
CCFSC Presentation 

Council Meeting: Evolving from Food Security to Nutrition Security
8/30/22
Speakers: Khadija Ahmed (Good Shepherd Food Bank, Food for All Mobile Market), Jim Hanna (CCFSC)
​Recording
Access Passcode: #hF4Snv6
Resources from meeting:

• USDA Nutrition Security Definition
• USDA Household Food Security Report
• Impacted Community Recommendations & Review on the Interim Report for Ending Hunger in Maine by 2030
• CCFSC Presentation

Racial Wealth Gap Learning Simulation
8/17/2022

Council Meeting: Closing the Hunger Gap with Local Food
6/23/22
Speakers: Genna Cherichello (Maine Senior FarmShare), Nancy Perry (Mainers Feeding Mainers), Crystal Cron (Presente! Maine)
Recording
Access Passcode: NhIGYi5

Council Meeting: Spring Network Updates
4/27/22
Speakers: Joe Conroy (Preble Street),  Margaret Patkus (Maine Foodscapes), Liz Blackwell-Moore (Cumberland County Public Health), Nick D'Amore and Eileen Murphy (The Resilience Hub)
Resources from the meeting:

• Cumberland County Public Health Presentation
• Maine Foodscapes Presentation
• Meeting Notes

Council Meeting: Access to Culturally Preferred Food
1/19/22
Speakers: Mary Zwolinski (Wayside Food Programs) and Meg Taft (Good Shepherd Food Bank)
Recording on Youtube
Resources from meeting:

• Good Shepherd Food Bank Presentation
• Wayside Food Programs Report
• CEI Report

Food Policy Forums (2017, 2019, 2021)

​Growing Food Connections (2016)

​Feeding the 5000 (2016)