Across Ontario people are doing great work to connect children and youth with healthy food systems. The Ontario Edible Education Network, an initiative of Sustain Ontario, has been established to bring these groups together to:
To enable individuals and groups to learn from one another and share their learnings widely the Ontario Edible Education Network is piloting a mentorship program.
The program will provide a small amount of financial support for individuals to travel, meet and learn from others who can help inform their ongoing work. We ask that, in return, participants document what they have learned so that we can share these lessons across our Network.
We strongly encourage a diversity of applicants to apply as our hope is to help expand our movement and bring the full range of ideas and experiences to the table to support healthy food systems for children and youth.
In addition to offering travel support we also hope to connect individuals and/or groups of individuals together who may be interested in developing a mentorship relationship over the phone. If you are interested in this option please visit our Phone Mentorship Program page.
1. Food in the Curriculum
2. Food Education Outside of the Classroom
3. School and Community Food Gardens Engaging Children
4. Food Skills and Cooking Programs
5. Local / Sustainable Food in Schools
6. Student Nutrition Programs
In particular we would like to support one or more projects that address:
Up to $750 for one or more individuals to travel and learn from other individuals or organizations. Funding may go to support:
* We will reimburse mileage at a rate of $0.40/km in Southern Ontario or $0.41/km in Northern Ontario (in line with the Ontario Ministry of Government Services’ guidelines)
Other requested expenses will be approved at the discretion of the selection committee.
We ask that program recipients:
Please fill out and submit our Application Form by the application deadline (see timeline below).
The learning submission must meet the following guidelines:
For the purposes of evaluating our program we ask that, when you provide us with your final learning submission, you provide a brief report / email describing the following:
Round 1: | |
Applications due | April 11, 2014 |
Applications approved | April 28, 2014 |
Projects initiated | May 5, 2014 |
Reporting back | August 1, 2014 |
Round 2: | |
Applications due | June 13, 2014 |
Applications approved | June 30, 2014 |
Projects initiated | July 7, 2014 |
Reporting back | October 1, 2014 |
Please get in touch with Carolyn Webb, Coordinator, Ontario Edible Education Network at cwebb@sustainontario.ca
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