Early bird registration ends October 13th!
Register now to benefit from a 10% discount.
The Institute features:
- Practical tools and concepts for building your social venture
- Hands-on workshops
- One-on-One coaching with experienced social entrepreneurs
- Inspiring and innovative speakers
- Compelling plenaries
You will enjoy peer support from a diverse group of over 100 people passionate about social change, and receive mentorship from experienced social entrepreneurs with ventures that are financially sound and have social impact.
Upon completion of the Institute, you will receive a Certificate of Completion from the Center for Transformative Action.
Full and partial scholarships are available. Apply
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Contact Anke Wessels for more information at
akw7@cornell.edu.
Nearly 1,000 Ithaca students are now served by the Fresh Snack Program!
Wood's Earth announced the expansion of the Fresh Snack Program to a third high-need school, Belle Sherman Elementary, on September 30. The program also serves BJM and Enfield Elementary school students from PreK through 5th grades.
The Fresh Snack Program provides students with nutritious classroom snacks made with fruits, vegetables and legumes, exposing students to a range of plant-based ingredients and food preparation styles in the intimate, encouraging environment of the classroom. These snacks also replace less nutritious "junk food" classroom snack options that are often the easiest and least expensive for parents and teachers to provide.
Fresh Snack ingredients are local whenever possible, and often purchased from Wood's Earth Farm or the Youth Farm Project, further supporting youth engagement with food access in the community.
CTA's Lyson Center Celebrates Dedication
Duncan Hilchey and Amy Christian
The Thomas A. Lyson Center for Civic Agriculture and Food Systems celebrated its renaming dedication on September 27 in Willard Straight Hall, with members of the Lyson family in attendance. Tom Lyson was the Liberty Hyde Bailey Professor of Development Sociology at Cornell, and one of the most influential rural sociologists of his generation before he passed away in 2006.
Lyson Center advisory board co-chairs Ardyth Gillespie and Heidi Mouillesseaux-Kunzman hosted the event, with Gil Gillespie providing a story of Lyson's scholarship and influence, including coining the term "civic agriculture." Lyson's wife, Loretta Carrillo, and his daughters Mercedes and Helena expressed their appreciation for the dedication, and project co-coordinator Duncan Hilchey described the organization's current and future programming, including the Lyson Civic Agriculture Index, which ranks all counties in the United States by the share of farms engaged in progressive practices such as conservation, organic and local food production, and female ownership.
Formerly known as the Food Systems Development Project, the Lyson Center is focused on nurturing transformative action in regional food systems by providing tools and resources to scholars and professionals in the field who are working on a range of issues from beginning farmers, sustainable agriculture, and alternative food supply chains, to food security and food sovereignty. Its key programs include publishing
the Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development and facilitating the new
North American Food Systems Network (NAFSN).
The Center for Transformative Action (CTA) helps to create communities that work for everyone. We do this by providing fiscal sponsorship to innovative social change agents in New York State, as well as financial, human resources, and grants management services. CTA is an educational non-profit organization affiliated with Cornell University.
