Thank you for taking time to complete the Food Systems Leadership Network's 2023 annual member survey! Your input will help strengthen and evolve the network’s support for its members, shape future offerings, and find new ways to center member leadership in the network’s structure and programs. Your responses will also help gauge progress towards the network's 2025 impact goal:  5,000 food systems leaders will have more resources, relationships, and power to realize equitable food systems that generate good food, health, and opportunity for all. After completing this survey you can enter a drawing for a signed copy of one of five food systems books! Books include: 
  • Progress You Can See: Measuring for Social Change by Shanna Ratner
  • Building Community Food Webs by Ken Meter
  • Big Hunger: The Unholy Alliance between Corporate America and Anti-Hunger Groups by Andy Fisher 
  • Reviewer-Focused Grant Writing by Barrett Vaughan
  • At the Table: The Chef's Guide to Advocacy by Katherine Miller
 
All responses are confidential unless specified otherwise. Please respond based on all involvement you have had with the FSLN since October of 2022

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* 1. What three words would you use to describe the Food Systems Leadership Network?

The following questions will help us track how FSLN activities are helping to support food systems leaders. 

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* 2. Which FSLN activities have you participated in? Check all that apply

For the purposes of this survey, we are defining relationships as someone you have met (in person or virtually) and have connected in a way that is meaningful to you after you met.

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* 3. Reflecting on all of the ways you have participated in the FSLN, to what extent do you agree with these statements?

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I learned something new that is meaningful to my work.
I sharpened skills relevant to my work.
I formed new relationships and/or strengthened existing relationships.
The relationships I built through this network enabled me to advance my work.
I have increased ability to make change.
I am more equipped to advance equity and antiracism in my work.
I am more confident in my capacity as a food systems leader

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* 4. Have you made changes to your work or taken action based on your participation in the FLSN and its activities?

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* 5. Check each activity you have done with connections made through the network. Check all that apply (Please describe below any activities you check yes for).

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* 6. If you had not participated in this network, how would your work be different today?

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