The Food Policy Council meets Bi-weekly and designs clear agenda goals before each meeting gathering. the goal of the council are to create local food policies that will help secure food access in Pittsburgh. The group is currently working on writing charters on how this may happen, but motivation has been arising to start making the group more active in Pittsburgh politics. The group is also brainstorming ideas for a Healthy Corner Store Initiative, to help small bodega's in low income communities at risk of becoming "food deserts" have access to fresh wholesome food and whatever resources and store improvements they may need to make this possible.
I'm currently working on a collaboration of food policies that have passed in other cities and states to create a manual of references on how these policies can translate to Pittsburgh. In my search I continuously stumble upon The Food Trust in Philadelphia and would like to collaborate on possibly doing a case study of this organization, I feel they have already got the ball rolling in Philly around food security and being from the same state there are a lot of geographical strengths in collaborating with them.
Like many Food Policy groups motivation, attendance and organization can be a challenge, along with group diversity. This groups is well aware of the pre-dominant social locations present in the room and is coming up with solutions, like rotating meeting space and times as well as outreach to communities and organizations in closer relation with the target food insecure communities.
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