Power Up Your Pantry Lunchbox Learning is a series of short, informative, on-line sessions that cover a variety of topics relevant to food pantry directors, staff and volunteers – all in the span of a lunch break! We’ve tried our best to gather interesting local experts from food pantries and related agencies to share their knowledge and skills.

Our recorded webinars are below.

Board and Organizational Sustainability Series (Materials and presentations provided by New Chapter Coaching, LLC)

• Cultivating a Healthier Workplace (Webinar recording, slides, short evaluation, self-care assessment, burnout assessment, webinar worksheet)
• Creating an Effective Fundraising Committee (Webinar recording, slides, short evaluation, brainstorming worksheet, sample committee description, sample fundraising committee agenda)
• Building the Board You Need to Get Big Results (Webinar recording, slides, short evaluation, board + executive director responsibilities, board of directors duties + roles, executive director performance review best practices, nine steps to the board building cycle, strategic planning best practices, board candidate rating form)

Communicating Smarter Series (Materials and presentations provided by the Health Communication Research Center at the Missouri School of Journalism).

• Communicating about Food Insecurity Using Client Surveys and Other Data: How to use client surveys and online data sources to help you to learn more about the people you serve. (Webinar recording, slides, client survey PDF, client survey MS Word file, Morgan County follow-up to client survey, short evaluation)
• Sharing your Pantry’s Story: How to create sharable content and take a proactive approach to media coverage about your food pantry. (Webinar recording, slides, short evaluation)

Fundraising Series (Materials and presentations provided by New Chapter Coaching, LLC)

• Fundraising 101: What Is It? Where Does the Money Come From and Where Does it Go? (Webinar recording, slides, handouts, worksheet, short evaluation)
• There Is a Method to the Madness: The Donor Cycle (Webinar recording, slides, handouts, short evaluation)
• Fighting the Fear: How to Ask and Make a Donor Visit (Webinar recording, slides, handouts, short evaluation)
• The Power of Words: Fund Raising and Thank You Letters (Webinar recording, slides, handouts, short evaluation)
• It Takes More than One Person: How to Engage Board and Other Volunteers in Fund Raising and How to Effectively Track Donors (March 13) (Webinar recording, slides, handouts, short evaluation)

Additional Webinars

• Community Gardening: Starting a garden and maintaining momentum (Webinar recording, slides, short evaluation)
• Client Choice: How-to get started and the benefits for pantries and clients (Webinar recording, slides, short evaluation)
• SNAP Outreach: How SNAP works and how your pantry can be involved (Webinar recording, slides, short evaluation)
• Meeting Broader Needs through Partnerships: The impact of hunger in Missouri and how pantries can partner to address broader needs (Webinar recording, slides, short evaluation.)
• Succession Planning and Feeding America Overview w/ Charles Dennis: (Webinar recording, slides, handouts, short evaluation)
• The Trauma-informed Pantry w/ Eric Maly: (Webinar recording, slides, short evaluation)
• Volunteer Engagement w/ Chase Wyckwood: (Webinar recording, slides, short evaluation)
• Nutrition Nudges: (presented by Harvesters Community Food Network): How Client Choice pantries can encourage the selection of more healthy foods (Webinar recording)

Funding for this project is provided in part by the Missouri Foundation for Health. The Missouri Foundation for Health is a philanthropic organization whose vision is to improve the health of the people in the communities it serves.