Food Club Network is a membership-based network group serving organizations that operate food club programs. Food clubs are member-based grocery stores seeking to address food insecurity through consumer choice, member participation, and access to healthy foods.
Our members are nonprofits operating food club programs. The Food Club Network provides a platform for mutual learning, leverage, and advocacy for established food club operators and an accelerator for new food club programs.
VALUES
Collaboration and Transparency: We value working together as organizations operating food club programs to leverage our collective strength and shared knowledge.
Action and Impact Orientation: We are motivated by making a positive difference in each of
our organizations and communities by addressing food insecurity.
Informed Innovation: We value ongoing evaluation and research-based decision-making in empowering organizations operating food clubs to innovate in developing ever-more-impactful and efficient approaches to high-dignity access to nutritious food.
Honor for Local Contexts: Our inclusive, diverse network honors our independent member organizations and their local communities and contexts.
OUTCOMES
Food Club Network members agree that the primary intended participant outcomes of the operation of their and any food club model operation are to increase:
- Food security as measured by member households that report less frequently skipping
a meal or lacking adequate food to feed the household. - Healthy eating as measured by member households that report improved diet because
of their utilization of the food club. - Personal and/or financial stability as measured by member households who report improvement in their ability to meet their basic needs due to participation in the
food club.
Food Club Network members further share the goal of continual improvement around the food club model for the greatest benefit of any adopting community.
Meet our team and learn more about the values of the food clubs themselves.