Assessment Reflections

This past week I have been finishing up my poster and working though finalizing my thoughts on assessment. I decided to break it up into three parts, what goals I accomplished, my assessment of the engagement and further research. First of all I feel that the goals I accomplished involved gaining a deeper understanding of...

Reassessing Stakeholders and Synthesis

This past week I have worked on editing my stakeholders map to reflect the new relationships and knowledge that I have gained on parts of my research. I also color coded the map to show who of the stakeholders (as shown below) I was able to talk to. Some of the things that I changed...

Fair Food Network – Interview

I spoke with Angela Hojnacki who is the Outreach and Engagement Manager for the Fair Food Network. The Fair Food Network has created the program of Double Up Food Bucks in Michigan, currently there are twenty states with similar programs. Angela stated that their program is not totally unique, but has a great model to...

Looking Into More Stakeholders

This week I have been going back and taking a look at my stakeholders map and thinking about more people who I can reach out to. I have been looking at the stakeholders who are supporting the grants and internal support aspects of the program such as the Oregon Food Bank and the organization that...

Continued Work on Engagement Project

In the past week the work that I have done on my project has not amounted to much substantive communication with stakeholders. I have been working on getting in contact with stakeholders, one of which is on vacation for the next few week and the other I am still trying to find a time to...

Farmers Market Fund – Interview

Last week I conducted an interview with Molly the program director for the Farmers Market Fund a non-profit that works with the Portland Farmers Market organization in fundraising and making the program of Double Up Food possible. It was great to be able to meet with her and discuss some of the logistics and broader...

Farmers Market Observations

In the past few weeks I have attended both of the neighborhood markets in Portland, Lents International and King. These are the two markets in Portland that is still running and provide the Double Up Food Bucks incentive. At the Lents International Market, I walked around making some observations, noticing the clientele, surroundings and vendors....

Engagement Proposal Presentation

Engagement Project Proposal

Who’s Will Is Being Served? Questioning Local Organic Food Incentives Beginning to understand the rhetoric and opinion based literature around local and organic produce has lead me to believe that organic food has increasingly become more and more elisitist, with food activists such as Alice Waters and Michael Pollan promoting healthy living and eating though...

The “HOW” of Environmental Engagement

Reading about the three models of environmental communication, it was clear by the article which one was favored the most by the author. The first model was the classical or deficit model, this model believes that public skepticism and lack of scientific support only comes from an inadequate understanding of the topic at hand. If...