SOCAP strives to offer diverse content across the spectrum of business and capital innovation advancing social and environmental impact. SOCAP Open is a public submission platform that helps us source suggestions directly from our community. As in past years, SOCAP16 will include interactive sessions, panel discussions, workshops, and storytelling opportunities. By proposing a session idea and/or voting, we invite you to add your unique voice to the conversation.
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Revolution Lunch: Why What Our Kids Eat in School is a Social Justice Issue
Kathleen Paylor, FoodCorps
A discussion of the millions of kids in our country's 100,000 public schools who eat half of their calories in schools but don't have access to healthy, nutritious food. One in three of our kids are on track to develop diabetes in their lifetime. For kids of color, it’s one in two. By 2030, when the current generation of kids reaches adulthood, diet-related diseases will cost our nation more than $1 trillion a year: $550 billion in medical costs, and another $500 billion in lost productivity. FoodCorps and other organizations are using the lever of schools to address this problem and change what our nation's children eat. What more is needed on this path to scale?
access, agriculture, children, education, environment, equity, food, Impact, kids, leadership, leverage, meaning, philanthropy, school justice. scaling, Sustainable
Keynote
Not Applicable
Curt Ellis: Founder and CEO FoodCorps
Kat Taylor: http://www.insidephilanthropy.com/home/2016/2/2/well-nourished-and-ready-to-learn-a-service-program-in-schoo.html
TEDx NYC Talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2NcetHNXaxU
King Corn: http://www.kingcorn.net/the-filmmakers/curt-ellis/
Battery Powered Dossier: https://www.thebatterysf.com/batterypowered/givingproject/foodcorps
Important 2016 Dates
- JUNE 3
Final day to submit an idea. - JUNE 4-15
Commenting and voting period. All sessions open for voting. - JUNE 16-28
Judging panel and final selection by SOCAP16 Content Team. - JUNE 29
Winning sessions announced to session organizers.
