Recordings from Monthly Meetings
Regional Gleaning Network in Washington State
The recordings from the regular monthly meetings are laid out below, month by month. They can also be accessed on the WASGN YouTube playlist.
Washington State Gleaning Network Kickoff Meeting
Feburary 22, 2023
Today, we introduced ourselves and discussed the USDA grant that makes this gleaning network project possible. We also reviewed Washington state's current goals for food waste reduction and discussed what we hope to achieve in future meetings.
Food Waste Reduction Act, Use Food Well Washington
Washington State Gleaning Network March Meeting
March 16, 2023
In this month's meeting we discussed some important networking principles, including the concept of trust, and we did a little activity where we were able to meet with folks one on one and dig into not only our goals but our struggles within our organizations and lives.
Regional Network Training 1:
Network Training Jane Wei Skillern
AGO’s 2023 International Gleaning Symposium, May 3-5, 2023, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
Washington State Gleaning Network April Meeting
April 13, 2023
In this month's meeting we met Theresa Snow from Salvation Farms who represents the Vermont Gleaning Collective--a working gleaning network within Vermont. She took a deep look at the ins and outs of their state-wide gleaning network.
Some links from our discussion today:
Click here for a PDF of the presentation slides
AGO’s 2023 International Gleaning Symposium, May 3-5, 2023, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
AGO's Coffee Chat: Grant Writing & Fundraising for Gleaning Organizations with Morgan Curry the Executive Director of Skagit Gleaners (part 1, part 2).
Washington State Gleaning Network May Meeting
May 11, 2023
In this month's meeting we met with Nicki Ross at Table 2 Table in Iowa, representing their state-wide network. She took a deep look at the struggles and wins of building their state-wide gleaning network with lessons learned in growing a gleaning network from the ground up.
Some links from our discussion today:
Click here for Google Slides from her presentation
Shared Resource Google Drive including resources Nicki discussed today
AGO’s Coffee Chats
If video displays "video unavailable", click here to view it in YouTube.
Washington State Gleaning Network June Meeting
June 08, 2023
In June's meeting we met with network professional, Jane Wei-Skillern, who gave us a chance to consider networks on a deeper, ethical level. She talked about network principles and the concept of Constellations, Not Stars. We took a deeper look at how the strength of the network we build is only as strong as the relationships built.
Some links from our discussion today:
Click here for the presentation slides
AGO's Coffee Chat: The Farm Bill
Washington State Gleaning Network July Meeting
July 13th, 2023
In this month's meeting we discussed our Why, with an understanding that our Why is integral to not only inspire loyalty and engagement but also be a guide to direct every decision that we make, moving forward. As a group, we also got a chance to think through some ways we can begin to collaborate. Finally, we took a poll on what discussion topic to address at our next meeting.
Some links from our discussion today:
AGO's next Coffee Chat: Volunteer Management
Washington State Gleaning Network October Meeting
October 12th, 2023
We began this month’s meeting by sharing five initial findings that we think are key to think on while we begin brainstorming the structure of this network. We then considered the general barriers and strengths that our organizations face and realized that some some of our barriers are others’ strengths. In many ways we are more than the sum of our parts when we come together.
Washington State Gleaning Network November Meeting
November 9th, 2023
In this meeting we began to consider how our Why's could become How's. We discussed the 3 Whys: Organizational Sustainability, Bridging the Divide and telling our Shared Story and begin to brainstorm solutions.
Washington State Gleaning Network January Meeting
January 11, 2024
This month, we had a great chat with the folks from Boston Area Gleaners about their incredibly efficient food distribution infrastructure.
Washington State Gleaning Network February Meeting
February 8th, 2024
This month’s meeting focused on sharing results from the Task Groups that have been in place for the last few months. Each of these groups was tasked with coming up with a variety of plans that would help to bridge the geographic and resource divide, provide sustainability to organizations and help create a vision for this network, going forward.
See Slides & Media for more details.
Washington State Gleaning Network March Meeting
March 14, 2024
In this meeting we reviewed changes to the vision statement, gave recap of details from the Network Vision & Structure Task Group and discussed tangible content for engagement.
Washington State Gleaning Network April Meeting
April 11, 2024
This meeting was full of productive discussion on how an advisory committee might look and function and beginning to consider how meetings will transition to providing content to support gleaners, as we move forward. We shared a recap of the work the Network Vision & Structure Task Group has been doing. And we also introduced the Good Food Forum platform and announced our upcoming Q&A meeting with their organization.
