Events
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Just Food Conference 2012
Eat, Work, Grow the Movement
February 24-25, 2012
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Just Food presents their 2012 Conference: "Eat, Work, Grow the Movement", an event where local food lovers and advocates, CSA members, community gardeners, urban and rural farmers, food professionals and entrepreneurs can come together for two days of hands-on workshops, discussions, skills-building sessions, and good food. Learn about cooking and food preservation techniques, CSA trends, and the food justice movement in New York City and beyond, as well as ways you can mobilize to create good food projects in your own community.
WITS will be present at the Good Food Jobs Fair on Friday and will also be speaking at Saturday's panel event, How to Develop Successful Food Education Programs (2:00pm-3:15pm). To view the schedule, please visit justfood.org/events/schedule
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Wellness in the Schools, Annual Benefit
May 22, 2012
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Join WITS at our annual fundraiser to benefit Wellness in the Schools, a non-profit organization that inspires healthy eating, environmental awareness and fitness as a way of life for kids in public schools. Through meaningful public/private partnerships with school leadership, teachers, chefs, coaches, parents and kids, Wellness in the Schools creates hands-on programs such as Cook for Kids, Green for Kids and Coach for Kids. These programs provide healthy foods, healthy environments and opportunities for regular play to help kids learn and grow.
Past Events
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Eat for Kids, 2012
January 16th-January 29th
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Chef Bill Telepan and Wellness in the Schools are excited to announce the second annual Eat for Kids, a two-week partnership event with some of NYC's top chefs and restaurants including Bill Telepan of Telepan restaurant, Jonathan Waxman of Barbuto, Alex Guaranschelli of Butter, and Tom Collichio of Craft. Eat for Kids provides guests a simple means of improving our city's public school lunch program by donating to WITS at their favorite restaurants.
At participating restaurants from Monday, January 16 - Sunday, January 29, guests will be able to donate to WITS on top of their restaurant check. Look for the WITS donation card inside your checkbook to make a donation toward healthier NYC schools! Click here to donate now.
Many thanks to this year's Eat for Kids partners: