FAM 3 Grant Convening • Houston, TX

FAM3 Grant Convening at Houston Food Bank
March 3 • Houston, TX

Attendees: Clare Milburn Atkinson, Project Manager, Eric Calloway, Senior Research Scientist, Eliza Short, Research Scientist, Maryan Isack, Research Associate, Ashleigh Floyd Clark, Senior Project Manager, Chris Long, Principal Research Scientist

The FAM3 convening was an opportunity for the 21 food bank grantees of the Feeding America Food as Medicine 3.0 project to get together to learn from each other and from experts in the field about best practices, future directions of the work and discuss progress on the project so far.

Main takeaways: The CNHI team presented on evaluation progress and participant feedback from qualitative longitudinal interviews that were done throughout year 2 of the project. Chris also participated in a panel that discussion the future of FAM work, from a research, implementation and legal perspective. It was great to spend time in person with the grantees and hear about all of the exciting work they are doing!