Webinar on Food Sharing Prohibitions

The National Law Center on Homelessness & Poverty and the National Coalition for the Homeless hosted a webinar on July 29, 2010 to discuss topics explored in the recently released report, A Place at the Table: Prohibitions on Food Sharing with Homeless People.

Access the Full Presentation Here.
(Windows Media Player required)

Webinar presenters included:

• Sarah Shubitowski from the Law Center and Donna Leuchten from NCH, co-authors of A Place at the Table. View their Slides.
• Sarah Owens, Chief Executive Officer of Community Cooperative Ministries, Inc., a group which advocated against city legislation that would have criminalized food sharing in Ft. Myers, FL.
• Jonathan Lee, founder of Swipes for the Homeless, a program that donates unused university student meals to homeless people. View his Slides.

The goal of the webinar was to provide local advocates with practical tips, advice, and support to work collaboratively with the city government to address food sharing concerns. Additionally, it gave participants a closer look at an innovative and replicable program that engages students in addressing hunger in their community.

Please email wgent@nlchp.org to express interest in attending a rescheduled webinar. Again, we apologize for any inconvenience the webinar's technical difficulties may have caused.