Work Group Meetings
OFPC Work Groups
The OFPC has three content-focused, or "primary", work groups and three operational, or "supporting" work groups. Select a link from the list below for more detail and archives of agendas and minutes for each work group.
Primary Work Groups
Economic Security & Development This group works on initiatives that that impact income equity through food business ownership and job readiness.
Food Access This group works on initiatives that that impact locations and strategies of access to healthy afforable and sustainably grown food.
Local Food Sourcing & Procurement Policy This group works on initiatives that that impact institutional purchase of food. e.g. schools, city of Oakland, restaurants, etc.
Urban Agriculture This group works on initiatives that that impactthe growing and also the selling of edibles within Oakland.
Former Primary Workgroups were: Neighborhood Innovations; City Innovations; Regional and State Partnerships
Supporting Work Groups
This group is responsible for ensuring consistency in both the appearance and the content of OFPC messaging. It will communicate internal policy and processes as well as external outreach and engagement efforts. It conveys policy issues and requests from external organizations to the appropriate OFPC work group for response and ensures that the response keeps within the framework of OFPC communications guidelines.
Fundraising
This group will identify and pursue funding sourcing for the operation of the OFPC, and will also study funding and financing options to support the implementation of our policy proposals.
Policy Advocacy
The role of the policy advocacy group will be to consolidate recommendations from primary workgroups into the OFPC advocacy plan; keep full council updated as to the landscape of policy ad scope of impact OFPC advocacy has on policy landscape. At least one member from each primary will sit on the Policy Advocacy workgroup.
A former Supporting Workgroups was Data & Research Management.
