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The Food Trust

The Food Trust's mission is to ensure that everyone has access to affordable, nutritious food and information to make healthy decisions. Working with neighborhoods, schools, grocers, farmers and policymakers, we've developed a comprehensive approach to improved food access that combines nutrition education and greater availability of affordable, healthy food.

Locally Delicious

Locally Delicious is an incorporated, 501(c)(3) non-profit organization that supports the "re-localization" of the California North Coast food system and advocates for re-localization of food nationwide.

Let's Move Pittsburgh

Let's Move Pittsburgh—modeled after First Lady Michelle Obama's Let's Move! national campaign to raise awareness about the benefits of healthy foods, increased exercise and decreased screen time for children—is a collaborative effort of organizations in Southwestern Pennsylvania committed to addressing childhood obesity in our region.

Holistic Moms Network

At the Holistic Moms Network, our mission is to generate national awareness, education, and support for holistic parenting and green living by providing nurturing, open-minded, and respectful local community networks that encourage families to share these ideals and learn from each other.

We represent and advocate on behalf of parents nationwide who are working to build a healthier and more sustainable future. By joining our voices, we create a powerful force for change.

Hazon

Overview

The word hazon means vision. We work to create a healthier and more sustainable Jewish community, and a healthier and more sustainable world for all.

Family, Career and Community Leaders of America

Family, Career and Community Leaders of America is a nonprofit national career and technical student organization for young men and women in Family and Consumer Sciences education in public and private school through grade 12. Everyone is part of a family, and FCCLA is the only national Career and Technical Student Organization with the family as its central focus. Since 1945, FCCLA members have been making a difference in their families, careers, and communities by addressing important personal, work, and societal issues through Family and Consumer Sciences education.

Brain Child Press

 Brain Child Press was founded to respond to the growing childhood obesity epidemic and the dual crises of poor health and low literacy in the U.S.  We saw the expanding need for attractive, easy-to-read educational materials that address topics essential to the healthy development of children. Since 2005 our materials have been used around the nation by agencies, programs, and individuals working toward healthier  families and communities.

American Association of Family and Consumer Sciences, University of Akron Campus Chapter

Family and Consumer Sciences fundamentals

The University of Akron prepares students to take positions as generalists and specialists in these areas of family and consumer sciences.

  • Child Development,
  • Family Development
  • Fashion Merchandising
  • Interior Design
  • Family and Consumer Sciences Teacher Education

Each program includes a core of courses intended to connect the various specialties into a cohesive foundation for future life experience

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