🏛️Bill Tracker Update! 📣⁠ ⁠ Approximately 20 bills were added to our Bill Tracker this week, with the majority being in the “Food Businesses” category. Read all about it right here: rifoodcouncil.org/bill-tracker

🤩 What a day!! Our 2025 Network Retreat was so special 🥰 Witnessing such heartened, thoughtful, and enthusiastic interaction, reflection, and learning was tremendous. It's exactly the kind of experience we hoped for. Read all about it! rifoodcouncil.org/2025-network-r…

Our 2025 RI Food System Factbook is now available! Find the most up-to-date federal & local food systems data - including data you *may not be able to find* on federal websites. ⁠ ⁠ Reliable, equity-focused data has never been more important 🧡 rifoodcouncil.org/factbook

15 more bills were added to the Bill Tracker this week, spanning nearly all of our tracked categories! Catch up here: rifoodcouncil.org/bill-tracker/ 🌐

Welcome, Isaac Reid! They've taken on our new Program Associate role in our Food, Climate, & Environment Program. Learn more about them and their role here: rifoodcouncil.org/staff

See you at this month's Policy Cafe!? Join us Tue. 2/25 @ 12pm as we review what's happening with food systems legislation in RI and discuss opportunities to support the policies RIFPC is championing this session. ⁠ ⁠⁠ Register here: us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regist…

Join us for the 2025 RI Compost Conference & Trade Show - mailchi.mp/rifoodcouncil/…

Meet our 2025 RI Compost Conference keynote! NYC native, Green City Force, AmeriCorps alumnus & inaugural winner of the The David Prize, Domingo Morales is the founder and CEO of Compost Power NYC and serves as a compost consultant. Don't miss his remarks! ricompostconference.com

Last week, the General Assembly was on recess. As a result, only 10 bills – all on the Senate side – were added to the tracker this week Heads up - Committee hearings with food systems bills are officially kicking off this week! rifoodcouncil.org/bill-tracker/

😎 See you there!? Good Food Policy Day is our annual celebration of the power of advocacy! Make your voice heard right at the heart of where legislative change happens! ❤️ 🗓️Thursday, March 27 ⌚️2:30-4:30pm 📍RI State House, Bell Room, 82 Smith Street, Providence, RI

📢 Please share & encourage others to attend our discussion on the local impact of proposed federal cuts. Now is the time to sound the alarm. Cuts to SNAP, Medicaid, and more could have devastating effects on Rhode Islanders. 3/14 | 10AM | Register: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regist…

What a day!!

Glad you joined us on Tuesday, NBC 10 WJAR! Thanks for helping spread the word. turnto10.com/news/local/rho…

The RI Food Bank hosted a press conference to discuss the impact of cuts to SNAP. Thank you to Congressman Gabe Amo Farm Fresh RI RI DHS and RI Food Policy Council for your passionate remarks on an important topic.

Hunger cannot become a partisan issue — we have a moral duty to stand up and ensure that no Rhode Islander goes hungry. At RI Food Bank, I gathered with local food assistance organizations to discuss how Republican-proposed budget cuts would affect vulnerable neighbours who rely

The Food Systems Research Center team from University of Vermont wants feedback from Rhode Islanders! Join us Wednesday, April 23 at 12pm as they present critical emerging research themes gathered through their recent regional listening tour: uvm-edu.zoom.us/meeting/regist…

Great coverage of some of the effects recent federal funding decisions have had here in Rhode Island, in the Providence Eye, yesterday. pvdeye.org/local-food-sys…