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Training Details <br />Title:Community-Rooted Practices for Community Development (and Food Systems) <br />Date and Time: Friday April 8th from 11am - 2pm <br />This is a 3 hour training that includes content delivery plus engaged activities and discussion <br />Description: <br />In this training, we will explore practices for engaging and partnering with organizations that are <br />accountable to impacted community members. Partnerships between large organizations or <br />institutions and community organizations can be effective tools for creating lasting social change <br />and promoting racial equity. But such partnerships must be created with careful attention to <br />power structures and accountability. This session will focus on the challenges encountered by <br />impacted communities in such partnerships, concepts of community-rooted practices, and the <br />recommendations for incorporating these principles as a partnering organization. <br />Takeaways: <br />●Develop skills for identifying and analyzing inequitable power structures that harm <br />communities of color and low-income communities <br />●Learn to assess community organizational structures to identify those most accountable <br />to impacted communities <br />●Explore innovative partnership models for creating more equitable partnerships <br />Knowledge Domains: Leadership, Professionalism, Management,Outreach <br />Target Audience : Elected officials, staff, and food council partners who engage directly in the <br />management, planning, and outreach to impacted communities (particularly communities of <br />color and low-income communities). <br />Speakers: <br />Camryn Smith, Communities in Partnership <br />Danielle Spurlock, PhD, UNC-CH Dept of City & Regional Planning <br />Kay Jowers, PhD, Duke Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions <br />Jen Zuckerman, Duke World Food Policy Center <br />DocuSign Envelope ID: 7525CF0A-88BF-4E59-A00F-B0EDD3E5B151