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Community Engagement

We listen to & partner with people and communities to invest in and co-create programs unique to their assets & needs, which value, respect, and uplift their expertise, traditions, culture, and experiences.  We believe that neighbors with lived experience of hunger are best positioned to solve it

Community Engagement Key Strategies

Community Justice Alliance

The Community Justice Alliance is made up of community members who have lived experience and could be the most impacted by our work.   Their experiences and perspectives are powerful tools for building, disrupting, and clarifying a community’s understanding of its root causes and scope.

The invaluable expertise of these individuals adds strength and resiliency to poverty-reduction work and clarifies key priority issues to build an advocacy platform that engages policymakers to change the things that are the root causes of hunger and food insecurity.

Learn about our Community Justice Alliance

Food Access Specialists

Food Access Specialists are community-based staff located in counties identified as priority regions for Food Lifeline’s programs, who spend their time learning directly from those most disproportionately impacted by hunger and other systemic inequities. They build relationships and learn about food security needs, assets, community-desired programs, and opportunities for partnership. They provide community-informed recommendations for how Food Lifeline can improve or increase support for food justice and food sovereignty.

Meet Our Food Access Specialists!

Tabling With Intention

Being present at a community event, campaign, or college campus is an important part of building relationships with the community and receiving feedback on important issues. Tabling attracts more people and engages them in discussion, raises awareness, and creates engagement opportunities as we build a community effort to end hunger.  Tabling is a low-barrier and effective way to invite people to participate, access food assistance benefits and share their experience with hunger.