Get InvolvedThere are plenty of ways for you or your organization to get involved with the Boston Collaborative for Food & Fitness. For more information, contact the BCFF Project Director:
Karen A. Spiller
Project Director
Boston Collaborative for Food and Fitness
Boston Public Health Commission
1010 Massachusetts Avenue, 2nd Floor
617-534-2672
kspiller@bphc.org
Want to Join a Committee? Contact our Committee chairs below for meeting schedules and other information.
Advocacy and Policy Committee
The Policy Committee of BCFF will support the vision and BCFF by reviewing, developing, and promoting policies that support BCFF's goals. These policies may be related to local, state, and federal government legislative and regulatory action or may be voluntary. Voluntary policies are those policies adopted by choice by organizations and institutions in the public and private sectors.
BCFF seeks to advance the concept of healthy living from a shared goal to a broad-scale movement. The Policy Committee can accelerate the development of this movement by linking policy activities across organizational, local, state, and federal boundaries. For example, the Policy Committee works closely with the BCFF-supported Massachusetts Food Policy Alliance to advance statewide initiatives. Currently the two primary focus of the Committee are advancing policies to enhance school food and Boston urban agriculture.
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Community Resource Committee:
The objectives of this committee are to:
-Increase community participation in the work of BCFF
-Build capacity of community members through BCFF-sponsored trainings
-Support and build capacity of BCFF’s Youth Advisory Board (Get Fresh Crew)
-Develop a system to engage community members in the work of BCFF. Build community engagement through existing coalitions and/or develop Food and Fitness coalitions in Boston neighborhoods.
-Ensure participation of youth, families, and individuals from diverse cultures in implementing the community action plan.
All are welcomed to join us, just email Julie Thayer: juliecthayer@gmail.com for ways that potential members and residents could get involved/receive more information.
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Evaluation Committee:
The primary purposes of the evaluation of the Boston Collaborative for Food and Fitness (BCFF) are 1) to improve the project’s success and 2) to provide data for Kellogg’s evaluation of the nine site Food and Fitness initiative. The BCFF evaluation is led by the independent consulting firm Navin Associates.
The BCFF Evaluation Sub-Committee is composed of representatives from BCFF Sub-Committees and community conveners, the BCFF staff, Navin Associates and other interested individuals. Members play an important role in developing and modifying the evaluation design. New members are always welcome. This Sub-Committee generally meets three to four times per year. The evaluation employs multiple qualitative and quantitative data gathering techniques.
Marian Milbauer and Chris Navin of Navin Associates co-chair the committee. Marian is the primary contact person: 617-524-7017 or milbauer@comcast.net |
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Fitness Committee:
The primary contact person David Watson- david@massbike.org |
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Food Committee:
Create healthy community food environments by increasing markets, for healthy food that is affordable, ensures equity of access and builds a sustainable local food infrastructure.
Goals/initiatives are to:
1.) Increase community partnerships to support making healthy fresh foods affordable.
2.) Increase access to more local farmers markets and ensure that they accept EBT and Bounty Bucks.
3.) Develop a marketing plan which educates the community about healthy eating and economic development of local foods.
Meeting Dates & Times: The committee meets every other month on the third Thursday of the month.
All are welcomed to join us; just email KCunningham@BPHC.org for ways that potential members and residents could get involved/receive more information. |
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Fund Development:
The primary contact person Betsy Johnson- betsy@bgjohnson.com |