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Sustainable Food Center offers Healthy Cooking Classes in Austin

Submitted by Rob on Fri, 07/02/2010 - 5:13am

FREE Cooking Class Series

The Happy Kitchen presents:

Learn to prepare delicious, healthy and inexpensive meals. Be informed of good nutrition for you and your family. Learn how to get the most food for your money.

Classes meet once a week for 1.5 hours for a period of 6 weeks. After each class, you will receive a free bag of groceries to prepare the recipe taught in class at home.

***Registration priority for Greater Mt. Zion parishioners***
***Childcare available***
***Must register for entire class series***
Contact Adriana Prioleau: 512.236.0074 x 115 or adriana@sustainablefoodcenter.org

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Texas Food Policy Roundtable Kick-off, January 20th at the Capitol

Submitted by Rob on Mon, 01/11/2010 - 2:06pm

Help us launch the Texas Food Policy Roundtable on January 20th at the Texas Capitol. Like many emerging groups around the country, the Roundtable will address issues of childhood wellness, environment, hunger and community food security. The Texas Food Policy Roundtable is a broadly based group of Texas leaders who will develop, coordinate and improve the implementation of food policy to address hunger and promote equitable, sustainable, and healthy food in Texas. Please contact Rob Borowski for more infomation.  Details and location are on the attached invitation.

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Children in Nature Grants Available for Congregations, Communities, Non-Profits

Submitted by Rob on Fri, 01/08/2010 - 10:27am

The Texas Parks and Wildlife Department CO-OP grant helps to introduce under-served populations to the services, programs, and sites of Texas Parks & Wildlife Department. This is not a land acquisition or construction grant; this is only for programs. Grants are awarded to non-profit organizations, schools, municipalities, counties, cities, and other tax-exempt groups. Minimum grant requests are $5,000 and maximum grant requests are $50,000. The application deadline is February 1st and October 1st with awards on April 15th and December 15th.

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