How Harvest Against Hunger uses Ripple Effect Mapping to build impactful programs
MEETING FOR THE WEEK OF Oct 28, 2024
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Program: How Harvest Against Hunger uses Ripple Effect Mapping to build impactful programs
Speaker: David Bobanick
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PROGRAM: How Harvest Against Hunger uses Ripple Effect Mapping to build impactful programs
SPEAKER: David Bobanick
We bring you a new program every week on innovation, entrepreneurship, and education and how they contribute to service to others.
Ripple Effect Mapping (REM) is an appreciative inquiry model that helps reveal the long-term impacts of programs and community investments. Harvest Against Hunger, a program of Rotary District 5030, uses REM sessions to learn how to effectively leverage its programs and resources (Harvest VISTA, Farm to Community, Capacity-building grants, WA Gleaning Network, and other collaborations) to create sustainable models to reduce hunger and food waste, while strengthening food systems across Washington state and beyond.
Our speaker, David Bobanick, is the Executive Director of Harvest Against Hunger (HAH) and a Rotary Club of Seattle member. Since David joined HAH in 2001, the organization has continued to expand its impact at the local, national, and international levels, delivering more than half a billion healthy servings of produce for those in need.
David has led the creation and development of the national Harvest VISTA program and innovative and award-winning programs focusing on shortening the connections from farm to community. In addition, David and the HAH team continue to build and scale nationally recognized programs with partners like AmeriCorps, USDA, WSDA, Washington State University, the University of Washington, and other partners to enhance food systems in communities across the United States.
David has a degree in communications from Penn State University. He has studied at the Non-Profit Executive Leadership Institute at the University of Washington's Evans School of Public Policy and Governance and the Non-Profit Management Institute at Stanford University. David was also recently named a "Food Waste Innovator" by ReFED, served on the Rotary Zone 26/27 leadership team, and currently serves on the King County Regional Food Policy Advisory Council and as a board officer for four local, statewide, and regional non-profit organizations.
Members and guests, please welcome David Bobanick!
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