Our work
What students gain
A named role and real responsibility, from the first week.
Every member of The Neighbour’s Table holds a named role and is accountable for it. That is the whole proposition: real responsibility, given to students, from the first week.
A List Builder researches the farms in the chapter’s assigned area and keeps the list current. Pairs draft each email from the template, and the Outreach Editor reads every one before it is sent. A Follow-up Clerk sends the single follow-up on day 14 and closes the record. A Records and Hours Clerk keeps the farm record and the attendance and hours log. A Deputy Lead covers the session when the Chapter Lead is away, and a Chapter Lead runs the session.
What a student gets out of that is specific. You learn to research an industry you did not know, write one clear question to a busy business, keep a record other people depend on, and run a meeting.
Named roles, real accountability.
Our work
Everything a chapter does, in one place: farm lists, one question to each farm, introductions to food banks, and the advocacy for a food system that wastes less.
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The work
Ask, introduce, record. The three-part description of what a chapter actually does, and where each of the six roles fits into it through the week.
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Surplus produce
The material students are working with: sound food that will not reach a buyer because of a specification, an order or a size. Knowing why it exists makes the outreach easier.
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