CSALeadership

Hazon CSA Tuv Ha’Aretz Leadership Training

Join Hazon CSA site coordinators and core group members from across North America for five days of leadership and development training. The Hazon CSA training begins at 3 pm on December 23, 2009.

• Share the successes and challenges from your season
• Learn new ways to improve the management of your site
• Exploring creative programming to bring back to your community
• Be an integral part of the international Jewish CSA community

 

The Tuv Ha’Aretz leadership track will offer you specialized Jewish CSA training, while providing ample time for participation in the Hazon Food Conference.The training begins December, 23 at 3 pm. Please contact brooke@hazon.org to find out more.

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The Food Conference and the Hazon CSA Leadership track was a wonderful learning experience for me. It was inspiring to be around so many folks that care about food and community in a Jewish context.  I believe the Tuv Ha'Aretz program has really added a deeper sense of community to our small Kavana community and has had ripples out beyond our CSA group already. -- Jane, Seattle

This year’s Leadership Training will likely include the following sessions, in addition to our basic training for new sites:

Incorporating Food Justice into your CSA: What is Food Justice? How can CSAs participate in making the connections within this growing movement? Where are the opportunities and what are the limitations? In this session, you will learn about programs your CSA can develop to support Food Justice issues, including tools for creating access for lower income members.

Effective Communication and Volunteer Management: This session will address developing strategies for effective communication between everyone involved in your CSA -- core groups, shareholders, site coordinators and anyone you might have regular communication with.We will provide information on how to get members to understand and value the volunteer requirement and logistics of volunteer management. Returning sites will have the opportunity to give advice to new sites about their own experiences.

Food Policy and Advocacy for your CSA: Learn how to start talking policy and utilizing your CSA as a community organizing tool! Hear expert Tracy Lerman from the Organic Farming Research Foundation speak about the most important issues facing the food movement today.Explore possibilities for ecouraging yourmembers to be involved with current food and farm issues.

Developing Programs for the Jewish Holidays: This session will help you develop ideas and skills to strengthen your program bank. Learn about how to connect your CSA programs with important Jewish Holidays. We will help you to come up with a tentative holiday programming calendar for your site.