Workshop and Event Facilitation
Connect
Nutrition offers workshop and event planning services
to educate and enhance others'
skills in the areas of food and nutrition
science, public policy, and program
management.
Kelly
has extensive workshop planning,
facilitation, training, and public speaking
experience. Her interactive
speaking style is both educational and
motivational.
Drawing
on her dynamic background in
supervision and management, customer service, sales,
government, non-profit, and education she
creates programs tailored to meet her
audience's unique needs. Her
workshops are entertaining, practical, and
immediately useful.
Farm Bill 2007
Farm
Bill Education
Kelly organized and facilitated
Farm Bill Forums in the greater Seattle
area in late 2006 and continues to do so
through mid-2007
to raise awareness and educate hunger,
nutrition, and farm advocates about the
2007 Farm Bill.
These forums bring
together various hunger advocates,
small farmers, government officials,
non-profit organizations, foundations,
dietitians, students, and other
individuals to discuss the Farm
Bill and possibilities for change in legislation. Kelly
has presented this information to a variety
of audiences including Washington State
Food and Nutrition Council, Solid Ground
(formerly Fremont Public Association), 21
Acres, Community to Community, the Food
Lifeline Agency Conference, Washington State
University's annual
conference on Women and Agriculture, several District Dietetic Associations, sustainable
agriculturalists, family farmers, food bankers,
nutrition students, and others.
You are welcome to download the one of
the presentations and
handouts
used during these
2007 Farm Bill Forums.
Kelly also
spoke about the Farm Bill on KUOW's The
Conversation with Ross Reynolds.
Follow the link and forward through to the
last minutes of the segment titled,
"Should Seattle Annex White
Center?" to hear about the Farm Bill.
Farm
Bill Advocacy
Connect
Nutrition has participated in Farm Bill
advocacy including drafting letters to
Congress. We encourage you to write your own
letter to your legislators in support of a
stronger, healthier Farm Bill in 2007. You
can read the letter Kelly presented in
Washington,
DC
in February on behalf
of the Washington State Food and Nutrition
Council here.
You can also download a sample letter here.
Tips
for letter writing:
§
Address
the letter to your congressman/woman.
§
Add
information about your how the Farm Bill
affects your program, farm, participants,
etc.
§
Clearly
state your “ask” – tell them what you
want.
§
Carbon
copy (cc) the letter to committee chairmen
and other state representatives.
§
Send
it both by email to the national office and
by post to the Washington State Office -
email will get there much faster due to
anthrax procedures. However letters sent by
post to a local office will be shipped
overnight to the DC offices the next day.
Postal mail has greater impact than email
forms.