Minutes
Alaska Food Coalition
Executive Committee Meeting
November 6, 2002
Present: Wendell and Dorrie Ottness, Sam Castle-Kirstein,
Gail Ballow, Susannah Moore, Trevor Jones, Sara Jackson and
Ellen Maling
Trevor update: Apparently Tuck Donley with Seashare
is not excited about letting us use his salvage program application
as a template for ours, but he encouraged the project and
offered his support. Trevor is confused about this and disappointed
because it is overwhelming to create this document with no
guidelines.
Permit must be issued to a 501C3. It was agreed to use Kodiak
Baptist Mission for legal purposes. This is best because they
are a local presence.
Would it be helpful for Susannah to contact Tuck? Maybe Ken
Hanson should contact him. Ken was very helpful to Tuck. Tuck
should be assured that our interest will not compete with
his.
Ellen Maling of Alaska Funding Exchange spoke to us about
funding opportunities.
1. Lay of the land has changed over the past 6 months due
to stock market situation. More competition for funding from
private foundations and foundations are more hesitant to fund
new programs. Points in our favor are that we are a collaborative
with statewide impact and that we serve a very basic and identifiable
need.
Sam noted that our first need is to sustain ourselves. We
need a glitzy project. Grants can take 6 mo to 1 ½
yrs to obtain. We have 9 months.
Ellen says the good news is that we have low overhead. We
need to idenify possible corporate support such as Fred Meyer,
Carrs-Safeway, Lagona (Spenard Building Supply)
We need a sustainable revenue stream
Bottom line - $10,000???
Ellen loves the fish project. Perfect niche. Meets a need.
Small investment that could have substantial impact. Developing
resources. Expanding use of wasted product.
Sam talked to Murkowski/Young and they were excited about
the project.
Will that sustain the food coalition?
Ellen suggests a 4-6 page mini-proposal. Coalition history
- talking paper for fish project.
Ellen suggested to Trevor that we try to sell the idea to
Seashore in a complimentary way... that we want to borrow
their successful model and we will credit them for their helpfulness.
How can we help Trevor? Sell it to the Legislators. Raise
public awareness.
Everyone agreed Face to Face needs to be in Juneau this year.
We will pick a date at the teleconference on the 13th.
Ellen will prepare a letter of agreement by then.
Sara will check out advocacy training possibilities.
Susannah reported that the Denali Commission is interested
in supporting us in capacity building - looking at the possibility
of adding food pantries to the domestic violence shelters
they are building throughout the state in those areas that
do not have an existing program.
Heard back from Molly. If we are not interested in doing
a statewide food drive through the schools for hunger relief
in areas affected by fish disaster she will not pursue at
this time.
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