BIPOC Leaders in Food as Medicine
Supported by The Corbin Hill Food Project, DAISA Enterprises, and Upstream Impact Consulting
We have long understood that food is medicine and community food projects have a great power to cultivate real, holistic community health. The FED Collective was created to unite BIPOC-led, grassroots organizations in the Food as Medicine field in order to strengthen our efforts. Support each other. And remind the field that our lived experiences and the communities we steward are vital to its growth.
FED: Fidelity, Equity, and Dignity
The development of FED happened in parallel with new collaborative research conducted in 2021-2022 by DAISA and Wholesome Wave to better understand the experiences of Black, Indigenous, and other People of Color (BIPOC) produce prescription operators.This research demonstrated the need for a FaM equity framework, actionable resources to support BIPOC programs, increased accessible funding, and a mechanism to uplift and organize BIPOC leaders to enable true power shifting and systems change
Fidelity
The belief and commitment that meeting communities where they are, mans building solutions that serve them. Programs should serve communities and not the other way around
Equity
We work tirelessly to ensure that our efforts increase access to nutritional foods for our most vulnerable community members, and we should always interrogate our policies and practices to ensure that we are achieving that goal.
Dignity
Human beings have inherent worth regardless of their station in life, which is why we are all deserving of health and wellbeing. nutritious food is the vehicle by which we affirm and celebrate human dignity.
