The Advisory Board and Staff for Interfaith Sustainable Food Collaborative met in June for a strategic planning retreat, hosted at Green Gulch Farm Zen Center. Green Gulch, a Buddhist practice center in the Japanese Soto Zen tradition, offers training in Zen meditation and agricultural work. The Advisory Board, which includes both clergy and lay leaders, provides outreach support and relationship building crucial to the organization’s progress and provides guidance based on their expertise with the customs and calendars of different religions.
At the retreat, the Advisory Board spent time reviewing the Collaborative’s first two years as an organization and then began exploring strategic questions to move the organization ahead. Key questions included:
- Should the Interfaith Sustainable Food Collaborative…
Role emphasize facilitating development of congregational programming or actually operating programs?
Increase efforts to fund projects?
Reach a membership structure and evaluate whether to implement one?
Expand the geographic scope of our engagement?
Visit our Staff and Advisors page to learn more about our Advisory Board members, and let us know if you have thoughts or ideas to add to the above questions. If you are interested in serving on the Advisory Board or a committee, please contact Steve Schwartz.