Illinois Farm to School
Survey
in partnership with
Northwestern University program on "Learning and Organizational
Change" (MSLOC)
A movement has started across the country…
A movement to fight childhood obesity
A movement to create local jobs and stimulate the local economy
A movement to connect farmers with consumers
A movement to serve fresh, locally-grown food to our children
Illinois cannot be left behind. The Illinois Food, Farms, and Jobs Act was passed in August 2009 to help schools and other institutions purchase more locally-grown food. But how do we reach the goal of sourcing 10% of the food served to our children from local sources by 2020?
To help reach this goal, F2S and Northwestern's M.S. of Learning and Organizational Change program are administering a survey to learn more about local food sourcing in schools across the state. Results from the survey will equip ILF2S to educate and promote the increase of local and organic foods in Illinois children's school diets.
We need your participation. Please consider taking the survey if you are:
1. An Illinois resident, and
2. Currently any one of the following:
- A K-12 teacher
- A K-12 principal
- An K-12 superintendent
- A K-12 school food director (or equivalent)
- A K-12 parent
- A farmer
To begin the survey, simply click here:
www.farmtoschool.org/IL/survey.htm
Your participation in
this survey is a critical first step to helping Illinois Farm to School
programs:
- Identify schools,
parents, and farmers that would like to change the way we feed our children
- Identify schools and
farmers that are already doing work in this area (share your expertise!)
- Identify barriers you
face to providing local, healthy foods to children
- Gather data to impact
food policy and to seek funding to help schools and farmers
Survey participants will be entered into a raffle to win one of 5 Visa gift cards, each valued at $100*.
*Win $100 Visa Gift
Card: You must submit your contact information at the end of the
survey in order to be eligible for the drawing to win one of 5 x $100 Visa Gift
Cards. These gift cards will be awarded randomly once the survey has
closed. Prizes will be mailed to winners, no later than June 1
2010; the winner’s names will be posted on the survey web site.
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READ FURTHER TO LEARN MORE...
Visit the Illinois Farm
to School webpage.
A message from Governor
Pat Quinn about the survey.
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HELP SPREAD THE
WORD
1. Forward this e-mail to everyone you know in Illinois and encourage
them to take the survey -- especially parents, teachers, farmers, school
administrators, and food service directors!
2. Facebook: Become a fan of IL Farm to School.
3. Facebook and
LinkedIn: Post the following
status:
IL parents, teachers,
farmers, school administrators…join me in helping to improve the food that our
children eat at school by taking the IL Farm to School survey by May 25th
at http://www.farmtoschool.org/IL/surveyinformation.htm -
win $100!!
4. Twitter: Post this to Twitter:
Take the IL Farm to
School survey by May 25 and win $100: www.farmtoschool.org/IL/surveyinformation.htm
5. Questions? If you have questions regarding the survey or Illinois
Farm to School’s work, please contact ilfarmtoschool@gmail.com.
