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Summit Program & Intention

The FSFJE Final Summit is focused on systems transformation, moving beyond emergency responses to building permanent, rights-based solutions.

Our focus is a critical shift: From Charity to Rights. The day will frame what we learned from the project and identify what must change to tackle food insecurity, waste, and systemic gaps in Edmonton.

Key Summit Highlights

• Launch & Activate the Edmonton Food Resource Map: Learn about this valuable community resource through a live demonstration and share your input on where the Map should be embedded for visibility and integration into frontline services.
  

• Hear from Community Leadership: Featuring a panel of mutual aid leaders, project team voices, and community members, we will highlight lived experience, resilience, innovative solutions, and systemic barriers present in the current food ecosystem.
  
  

• Mobilize Action: Shape strategies on key areas of focus around food advocacy:

  • Food Rescue & Waste Reform: Identify pilot pathways and next steps for policy changes and climate alignment.

  • Shared Kitchens & Infrastructure Access: Help map underused community kitchens and design a pilot model for a shared-use space for grassroots and mutual aid organizations.

  • Mobilizing the Grow Plan: Make a plan to influence local policies, especially at the city level, and create pathways to put the developed Grow Strategy into action.
    
    

• Building Momentum Forward: The day concludes with a "Collective Harvest" of concrete next steps, leads, and timelines to carry the ideas and strategies of the day into action.

This project and day of reflection, learning, mobilization and celebration is thanks to funding from the City of Edmonton's Community Safety & Well-Being Grant.