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Introducing FRAC’s Network Engagement Unit

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Food Research & Action Center

December 5, 2022

This past year, FRAC created a new Unit dedicated to providing leadership and direction for building out our network of national, state, and local nonprofit organizations, public agencies, corporations, schools, health-care providers, and labor organizations. FRAC’s Director of Network Engagement, Betsy Kerrigan, and FRAC’s Network and Events Coordinator Nomi Small, are spearheading this work. Betsy and Nomi will focus on managing FRAC-sponsored events and supporting the expansion of our network.

In the following video, they will share their role in supporting the network, ways for you to get involved as an advocate and partner, and how network engagement elevates the national strategy of ending hunger by 2030, introduced by the Biden administration at the White House Conference on Hunger, Nutrition and Health.

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