News Releases
USDA’s Systems Change Opportunity
March 12, 2021
March 12, 2021 — The local food sector, along with just about everyone else, has learned some valuable lessons from the pandemic. One such learning came from USDA’s Farmers to Families Food Box Program.…
Co-Leadership Transition at the Wallace Center
January 13, 2021
January 13, 2021 — As is true for many of us working through the upheavals of the past weeks and months, the Wallace Center team has been deeply reflecting about how we can best…
The Power of Community-based Food Systems
December 3, 2020
Lessons in resilience, carrying on deep-rooted traditions, and building community power in the COVID-19 era 7 Waters Food Sovereignty Project, Wapato Island, Oregon December 3, 2020 — This new multimedia storytelling project is an…
Announcing the Midwest Grazing Exchange
November 16, 2020
New Midwest Grazing Exchange website aims to connect livestock farmers with landowners in six states across the region October 2020 — Finding ways to integrate livestock back on the landscape has the potential to…
Collaborating for Native Communities
October 7, 2020
Wallace Center supports water deliveries and supply chain efforts during COVID-19 October 2020 — By the time A-dae Briones joined a late March conference call with national funders and partners about the impact of…
Natilee McGruder – Reflections on Time with the Wallace Center
August 24, 2020
August 24, 2020 — At the end of July, we bid farewell to our dear friend and colleague, Natilee McGruder. Natilee joined Wallace in the summer of 2019 as our first Communications Officer. Given…
John Fisk – Reflections and Legacy at the Wallace Center
August 24, 2020
August 24, 2020 — After 15 years in leadership at the Wallace Center at Winrock International, our dear friend and esteemed colleague John Fisk decided to move on to a new chapter. His last…
Important Organizational Updates from the Wallace Center
August 3, 2020
August 2020 — I hope this letter finds you and your loved ones healthy and doing well, during what has been a difficult summer for many. The impacts of COVID-19 are still reverberating across…
Wallace Center Condemns Police Brutality
June 10, 2020
June 10, 2020 — The Wallace Center unequivocally denounces and condemns the brutal murder of George Floyd by several of the members of the Minneapolis Police Department and the trauma it has continuously inflicted…
A More Just Vision: Collaborating on the Future of Good Food
April 24, 2020
April, 24 2020 — If you have ever been part of designing and implementing a large event you will recognize the need to start well in advance. In our case we started planning the…
Wallace Center Launches FSLN COVID-19 Response Group
April 16, 2020
April 2020 The Wallace Center recently launched a new national listserv – the Food Systems Leadership Network COVID-19 Response Group. This listserv, unique among the many opportunities we as food systems leaders have to…
Call to Action on Food System Disruption by COVID-19
March 30, 2020
March 15, 2020 — This document was created during the Wallace Center’s National Good Food Network (NGFN) Conference, held March 10-13 in New Orleans. Approximately 50 attendees gathered during an emergency COVID-19 work session…