As a mission-driven company focused on connecting small-scale farmers and food makers directly to consumers, we make sure that anyone who wants to shop for fresh, locally produced food can do so at our farmers markets. That’s why we participate in a range of programs that make wholesome food more accessible to low-income members of the community. For both current participants and non-participants in these programs, here is a brief “refresher course” and background on them, as well as details about the issuance of 2023 Farmers Market Nutrition Program coupons which begins today Thursday, June 1st.
SNAP EBT
Here in the United States, more than 34 million people are food insecure, with 1 in 8 children experiencing hunger every day. To help address this massive nationwide issue, the Food Stamp Program was created in 1939 by the Roosevelt administration. Today, that program is known as SNAP. SNAP stands for Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program and has become the largest federal nutrition assistance program since its inception. SNAP serves every community in the U.S. and helps millions of Americans buy healthy food each year.
With the discontinuation of paper vouchers, SNAP benefits are now issued electronically via an Electronic Benefits Transfer (EBT) card. An EBT card functions much like a debit or ATM card that directly withdraws funds from the users SNAP account when they purchase food at participating establishments. SNAP EBT is accepted at all Down to Earth Farmers Markets. A purchaser simply brings their card to the manager’s tent to make their withdrawal, then is given $1 and $5 tokens to use for shopping. They will also be given bonus vouchers to be used at the farmers market to increase their buying power.
What can I purchase with SNAP EBT in Down to Earth Markets?
Breads and cereals
Fruits, vegetables and herbs
Meats, fish and poultry
Dairy products
Non-alcoholic drinks
Herbs, spices, condiments, oils and vinegars
Prepared food intended to be heated at home
You can also purchase seeds and plants, which produce food for your household to eat
What can’t I purchase with SNAP EBT in Down to Earth Markets?
Liquor or any alcoholic beverages
Soap and personal care products
Herbal or nutritional supplements, including CBD products
Food that will be eaten in the market or packed “to-go”
To learn more about eligibility and/or apply for SNAP benefits in New York State, please visit this link.
FMNP
The Farmers' Market Nutrition Program (FMNP) subsidizes fresh, unprepared, locally grown fruits and vegetables for select populations -- specifically those enrolled in WIC (Women, Infants and Children) and Seniors (aged 60+), who can get coupons via seniors’ centers. These booklets of five $25 vouchers are good in 2023 starting today, Thursday, June 1st for WIC participants and Saturday, July 1st for Seniors. They expire on November 30th.
The dual purpose of FMNP is to provide economic support to local farmers by expanding their sales at farmers' markets and farm stands, and to foster healthy communities through the consumption of locally grown fresh fruits and vegetables.
To apply for WIC assistance in New York State, please visit this link and to find a list of centers issuing FMNP for Seniors, click here.
To find a full list of New York State farmers markets and details on which food assistance programs they participate in, including FMNP, please visit this link. If you need more information on farmers market locations, call the WIC Hotline at 1-800-522-5006 or the Senior Hotline at 1-800-342-9871. New York City residents who have questions about the FMNP program can call 311.
Using Food Benefit Programs in Down to Earth Markets
Visit the Market Managers tent for more information about any of the benefit programs we accept and to use your SNAP EBT card to get tokens and bonus vouchers.
When you’re visiting one of our New York City farmers markets …
Our vendors can only accept tokens issued by our market managers, so make sure your tokens say “Down to Earth Markets.”
Matching Health Bucks are distributed to SNAP users to make your dollar go further. Health Bucks are $2 coupons that can be used to purchase fresh fruits and vegetables at all farmers markets in New York City.
Health Bucks are available year-round at all the Down to Earth NYC Farmers Markets. Withdraw $2 in SNAP, get $2 in Health Bucks, up to $10 in Health Bucks per day!
Participants should use their Health Bucks right away. Unlike wooden or plastic tokens, Health Bucks expire on December 31, 2023.
Our farms also accept Farmers Market Nutrition Program vouchers. They expire, so be sure to use yours before the end of November!
When you’re visiting one of our Westchester farmers markets …
Our vendors can only accept tokens issued by our market managers, so make sure your tokens say “Down to Earth Markets.”
Matching FreshConnect Checks are distributed to SNAP users to make your dollar go further. FreshConnect Checks are $2 coupons that can be used to purchase anything that you can purchase with SNAP.
FreshConnect Checks are available year-round at all the Down to Earth Westchester Farmers Markets. (Get $2 in FreshConnect Checks for every $2 in SNAP tokens.)
In addition to the SNAP matching program, veterans are eligible to receive $20 in FreshConnect Checks each year through veterans’ services centers, and in 2023 the number of distribution sites has been expanded. There are no income restrictions, combat service requirements, or length of military service requirements for a Veteran, Servicemember, or eligible family member to receive an allotment of FreshConnect Checks. If you are a veteran, service member, or an immediate family member of a veteran or service member, please call the New York State Division of Veterans’ Services at (888) 838-7697 for more information on how to obtain FreshConnect Checks.
Participants should use their FreshConnect Checks right away. Unlike wooden or plastic tokens, FreshConnect Checks expire on December 31, 2023.
Our farms also accept Farmers Market Nutrition Program coupons. They expire, so be sure to use yours before the end of November!
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I’m working on this article from the comfort of my couch next to my chilling cat, wearing my favorite mended jeans and a tank top with a permanent olive oil stain - and I know for a fact a lot of people are doing exactly the same.
I am not staying at home under the stay-at-home mandate and as a person who is trying to adjust to the new normal. I am a freelancer. I communicate with people via various technologies, I do most of my shopping online and spend a fraction of my week outside without feeling like I'm missing out. Most importantly - all of my work happens online.
Not much has changed for me since the coronavirus outbreak, but for millions and millions of people, things are vastly different now.
Around us, local economies are stumbling and healthcare systems are tensed up. The pandemic is drastically changing everything, including the way organizations operate and how people work, with a lot of us confined to our homes because of the strict quarantine measures that are only now beginning to ease up.
At the same time, work must go on. So, how can we sustain productivity and pursue effective and hassle-free collaboration when there’s so much ambiguity all around us?
Remote work has been around for more than twenty years. With the increase in mobile use, distant jobs and projects with heavily integrated technology, digital tools and apps have grown conjunctively to maintain this way of working.
The problem is that the change is too extreme - something akin to an earthquake, with most people struggling because they are facing daunting challenges for which they were not fully prepared. It’s one thing to communicate with someone on Skype one-to-one, but when you have to discuss important issues with ten people connected virtually, it’s different, more complex.
For those who have the remote work experience, adaptation to the new requirements is happening much easier and faster. Others have to learn quickly, engage more and try to keep up with the front-liners of remote work. In such situations, the determining factor of success comes from choosing and leveraging the right digital solutions for:
Time tracking
Communication
Documentation management and files sharing
Project management
We have created a list of the most efficient collaboration tools that work particularly well for remote teams and employees who need to collaborate on common tasks.
Time tracking ⏳🖥
Time tracking apps help you learn how you and your team are spending their work-hours, and how productive your time management is. These apps are much more sophisticated than the clock app on your mobile phone and have become an indispensable part of managing a fully distributed team.
1.Time Doctor
This platform markets itself specifically for time tracking for remote teams, which means that it allows you to track time across your entire team. If you want to have more control over your employees, you can enable a function that allows you to automatically take screenshots to ensure that everyone is on task. Additionally, you can view website and app usage to see what the team members are spending their time on.
This tool offers integrations with other top project management software like Asana, Basecamp, Trello, and many more.
2.Toggl
This is an extremely convenient tool with a beautiful interface that lets you assign tasks to projects with ease. Toggl is great for recording data to generate timesheets, billable hours for invoicing and information for data analytics to identify areas where productivity needs to be increased, all the while measuring office and staff efficiency.
It’s perfect for someone who works remotely while being intuitive and very user-friendly, so that you can even track your personal time for improving personal habits.
Compared to other time-tracking software, most of which can be painful and tedious to use, Toggl is virtually invisible to the user and has everything you need for the time-tracking needs for a team of basically any size.
Communication ⌨️📲
Communication is one of the core areas of functionality for collaboration software. Communication features across collaboration tools commonly include:
Built-in messaging and options for live chat
Conference calling
Video chats with screen sharing
Project-based conversations
3.Slack
This powerful tool was developed by one of the fastest-growing startups today and it isn’t just a strapping messaging platform designed for remote teams. Its well-crafted API, effective integrations, various bots, and ability to build on top of it with the help of the Slack app toolkit lets users adapt the platform to specific needs and easily create sophisticated workflows. During the six years since the launch, the platform has evolved and quickly transformed into one of the most flexible communication tools on the market.
At its core, Slack operates in channels - flexible spaces for all the team members, tools, and files you need to get work done. Channels can be public and open to everyone on the team, or private for sensitive or confidential conversations. Shared channels allow two separate organizations to work together and collaborate in real time.
Slack has shared some great tips on how to work remotely, stay connected, and get things done.
4.Cisco Webex Teams & Cisco Webex Meetings
Two other great platforms that deliver complete collaboration experience for enterprises and have already proven themselves as highly productive and reliable solutions for working remotely during the COVID-19 outbreak are Webex Teams and Webex Meetings by Cisco. Video calls, faster messaging, easy file sharing, and real-time white boarding allow teams to solve business challenges and keep work moving forward.
Since the Webex Meetings app has a deep level of integration with Slack, you don’t have to leave your Slack channel to have a great meeting experience. When you have both platforms in your arsenal, anything is possible, from extensive brainstorming to creating true team-work masterpieces.
5.Freshconnect
Collaborating should not difficult, especially when there are so many great tools out there. With this particular platform, there is no more going back and forth between different apps trying to follow what’s going on and participating in conversations by copying and pasting the information from one page to another. Freshconnect allows you to have everyone on the same page, and with a record of all the interactions, everyone can understand the issue in full context, or chat to get more information.
6.GoToMeeting
Designed specifically for holding online meetings with co-workers and customers, GoToMeeting has everything you need to manage video, audio or web meetings from your desk or a remote location via cross-platform devices.
GoToMeeting offers some cool features for intelligent online collaboration like voice commands or Cloud recording, so you can start your next online meeting or audio conferencing just by asking Siri. There is also no need to take notes while you are gathering ideas with your co-workers with meeting recording and transcription. This platform is both convenient and feature-rich.
7.Milanote
Collaborative work often calls for generating creative ideas and solutions, so we are happy to add to our list the ultimate brainstorming tool known as Milanote. This is an excellent software designed for creative professionals to support design collaboration and enhance remote working with a strong element of creativity.
Milanote will help you combine planning, ideas, and inspiration in a beautiful, enjoyable, and effective way. The platform’s flexible drag and drop interface will let you arrange items in the way that makes most sense for your project. You will be able to add videos, PDFs and design files for impressive briefs, or create amazing moodboards with your personal interactive notes. Built-in commenting, sharing and notifications will allow you to collaborate seamlessly with your team and clients wherever they are.
8.Zoho Connect
From keeping your workplace communication organized to handling the resources your team needs, Zoho Connect will provide you with everything you need for faster data exchange and better collaboration. This smart platform offers a whole set of advanced and comprehensive tools for the ultimate collaboration experience. If you give it a try right now, you will probably decide to continue staying with Zoho after things get back to normal.
Documentation management & file sharing 🗂💻
Document Management Software is defined as a system that allows you to track, manage, and store all kinds of documents. We love these systems because they are convenient, secure, and help us to save paper and make our contribution to a paper-free environment.
Some of these platforms are designed for data collection, some for sales and marketing presentations, some for proposal creation and contract signing, and some provide teams with the ability to collaborate on certain documents.
Since we are talking about collaboration tools that can help remote teams to stay productive during the COVID-19 crisis, we will talk about software that falls into this particular category.
However, assuming that everyone already knows about Dropbox and Google Docs, we decided to bring to your attention to other platforms that can perfectly suit your team's needs.
9. Zoho WorkDrive
Another great solution developed by Zoho - online file management software with an intuitive interface that makes distant working efficient and keeps your team productive. With this wonderful app, you can say good-bye to annoying e-mail exchange and forget about dealing with long attachments. No more crew members juggling multiple copies of the same document.
Just add the documents you need to share to Team Folder after you have finished drafting your ideas in Zoho Office Suite and make them available to your team for viewing, editing, or commenting.
10. HighTail
HighTail offers something unique - the platform has been helping thousands of creative professionals to share large video, design, artwork, photography, and presentation files for more than a decade. We are talking about really LARGE files - HighTail allows you to send and track files up to 100 GB. This is great not only for storing and sharing files, but for managing projects as well. HighTail has the potential to become your favorite collaboration tool ever.
11. Samepage
Having to work on the same project together with a remote team can be challenging, but with this platform, every exchange, brainstorming session, or file-sharing can be done effectively and smoothly. Samepage is an extremely intuitive software that comes with efficient collaboration features and supports multiple ways to work on group projects and easily cooperate with colleagues.
This highly recommended platform successfully serves both small and large teams and provides its users with instant messaging, video calls, group task management, file sharing and real-time document editing. Samepage also allows you to have multiple teams running a different project at the same time without any problems. Every team's tasks, goals and progress are separate and you can arrange everything just the way you like it.
Since project management is something that Samepage does exceptionally, with an extensive list of functionalities that improve any project that it's a part of, we can proceed towards the Project Management tools.
As you can tell, Hightail, Samepage and Zoho are so powerful and multifunctional, that we cannot really draw a distinction between them and the software in the last category. Anyway, let’s see what is the next on the list.
Project management 📝💻
Now we are going to introduce you to the platforms that help teams coordinate and manage their work. They are designed to improve efficiency by making sure everyone knows the team’s plan, processes, and responsibilities.
12. Trello
Trello is a remarkable visual collaboration software that creates a shared perspective for your team on all your projects in a fun and gratifying way. Since it's customizable, you can adjust it easily to fit your project’s needs. With over 100+ integrations with other essential tools like Slack, Google Drive, Jira, and more, Trello brings a unique and fascinating experience of cross-team collaboration.
Since Trello is all about organizing sticky notes on a wall, there’s no unwieldy onboarding process to get started, so getting everyone on board is easy. Log in, join your team and see progress across all of the team’s tasks and projects right away.
13. Basecamp
Basecamp has everything you need for developing projects from scratch. It helps with handling all project-related tasks and enables team members to communicate in a very effective way through a community chat that is incredibly beneficial for brainstorming and exchanging ideas.
It is worth mentioning that this tool provides a lot of diversity with respect to the templates, and this diversity of templates is unsurpassed by any other platform. These templates come with a genuinely advanced design that manages to establish continuous improvement while keeping everything organized.
The interface can seem a bit overwhelming initially, but once you get your bearings, you will realize how intuitive it is. It allows you to be completely aware of everything that relates to the project you are working on by showing you the tasks that have been completed and the tasks that are currently pending. With live desktop notifications, you won't miss a beat.
Additionally, Basecamp allows you to add your client so they can have a peek at the development phase of the project, while you are in control what the client sees. You can also manage your previous projects by pulling up the earlier versions of your work. Overall, it’s a convenient and reliable tool that can easily handle remote teamwork during the coronavirus outbreak and beyond.
14. Gladys
Gladys is a great project management software that combines quite a few advanced features for collaboration and innovation. It provides comprehensive tools for efficient project management, exploiting the potential to the maximum for achieving the best results. You can even create inspiration boards and use advanced project templates to save time.
This modern and well-designed platform has a beautiful and intuitive interface and it is a good choice for any remote team that is looking for an all-in-one solution.
15. Miro
The last software on our list is Miro - an awesome platform with an aesthetically pleasing interface for creative minds and visual thinkers. It allows teams to collaborate on projects in real time and see what the other users are doing on the screen at the same time as you.
Miro offers beautiful templates of diagrams, mind maps and workflow boards that can help you to structure your thoughts, insights, designs, mockups and the entire project design process.
With Miro, you can do anything from brainstorming with digital sticky notes to planning and managing workflows. And due to deep integrations with Google, Trello, Microsoft Ecosystem, Atlassian Ecosystem, Slack, Box, DropBox, Sketch and more, your team's collaborative methods will be even more productive.
We think that Miro is one of the greatest apps for remote teams out there, and with Miro+Zoom integration that is arriving soon, you will probably get the best solution for your “adaptation to the new requirements” issues.
The past couple of months have been extremely challenging for most of us in all kinds ways.
For those who are working remotely, there are still a lot of questions coming up:
How to bring teams together effectively and ensure that their productivity will not hit the bottom during the novel coronavirus outbreak?
How to make sure people who have been so accustomed to working among their co-workers do not feel left behind during the isolation?
How to hold virtual meetings? How to run virtual workshops, and brainstorming sessions?... and so on
So we’ve tried to collect the best collaboration tools to help you and your team to stay productive and adjust to remote work easily and successfully. We use some of them every day to keep our own team as coordinated and efficient as possible – and we hope they become beneficial for you as well.
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شاحنة جديدة تساعد أحياء بوسطن على توصيل وجبات صحية
آخر أخبار التغذية ، وصفات الطعام
الخميس 24 أكتوبر 2019 (أخبار جمعية القلب الأمريكية) – تتجول ثلاث حافلات مدرسية محولة عبر 18 من أحياء بوسطن ذات الدخل المنخفض. إنهم يحملون الشحنة التي كانت نادرة لفترة طويلة: طعام طازج وصحي.
توفر متاجر البقالة المتنقلة هذه ، التي تسمى Fresh Truck ، حوالي 30 إ��ى 40 نوعًا من الخ��روات والفواكه بأسعار معقولة إلى المنازل الأكثر احتياجًا. وقال جوش تراوتوين ، الذي يدير المشروع الاجتماعي "About Fresh" مع المؤسس المشارك أنيكا مورغان ، إن الهدف هو تحسين الصحة.
تراوتوين ، البالغ من العمر 32 عامًا ، تذوق انعدام الأمن الغذائي في أول وظيفة له خارج الكلية ، في مركز صحي يقوم بتنسيق برنامج التغذية للأسر ذات الدخل المنخفض. عندما أغلق متجر البقالة الوحيد مؤقتًا (وأعيد فتحه لاحقًا كمتجر لسلسلة باهظة الثمن) ، بدأ يفهم كيف تؤثر الصحارى الغذائية على قدرة الناس على تناول نظام غذائي صحي.
يساعد Fresh Truck على سد الحاجة – للطعام الجيد والتعليم.
لا يشحن هوامش البقالة النموذجية. هناك الكثير من التنوع في أحياء بوسطن ، لذلك فهو يحمل المواد الغذائية الأساسية مثل اليوكا والمانجو والموز. تخطي Trautwein وفريقه المحاضرات حول الأطعمة السيئة ، بدلاً من التركيز على المشاركة مع الأطفال في كيفية "الغذاء الصحي يجعلك في أفضل حالاتك" في المدرسة والرياضة والطاقة والطاقة والمزاج.
وقال تراوتوين: "نحاول خلق فرص للأطفال كي يقعوا في حب الطعام الصحي".
تتعاون Fresh Truck أيضًا مع مقدمي الخدمات الطبية المحليين والمنظمات غير الربحية لاستضافة الأسواق المنبثقة حيث يبيعون الأطعمة الصحية. يقدم شركاء المجتمع كل شيء بدءًا من اختبار ضغط الدم إلى دروس الطهي المناسبة ثقافياً.
لكن تراوتوين في طريقه إلى بذل المزيد من الجهد. في العام الماضي ، أنشأ مؤسسته غير الربحية FreshConnect ، وهي منصة رقمية تتيح لمقدمي الرعاية الصحية والمؤسسات الأخرى وصف الطعام كدواء – الطعام الذي يمكن للناس شراؤه على Fresh Truck من خلال نظام بطاقات الهدايا. في المقابل ، يحصل مقدمو الخدمة على معلومات عن عادات الأكل لدى مرضاهم لتحليل التأثير الصحي.
وقال تراوتوين "الغذاء هو أحد الدوافع الرئيسية للأمراض المزمنة واستخدام الرعاية الصحية". "الكثير من الناس يمرضون لأنهم لا يملكون المال من أجل الغذاء الصحي أو أنه غير قريب في مجتمعهم."
يعيش ما يقرب من 40 مليون أميركي في منازل لا تحتوي دائمًا على ما يكفي من الغذاء لكل أفراد الأسرة ، وفقًا لـ Feeding America. في ثلاثة من أفقر المناطق في بوسطن الكبرى – روكسبري ، دورشيستر وماتابان – هناك عدد أكبر من مطاعم الوجبات السريعة للفرد الواحد مقارنة بجميع الأحياء الأخرى مجتمعة ، وتواجه تلك الأحياء أسوأ النتائج الصحية في المدينة ، على حد قول تراوتوين.
لإحداث التغيير ، فإن الأدلة مهمة.
سوف يساعد استثمار حديث من صندوق التأثير ا��اجتماعي التابع لجمعية القلب الأمريكية FreshConnect في الوصول إلى المزيد من المرضى. يهدف إلى الوصول إلى مقياس كاف لإثبات الفوائد الصحية للمرضى وتوفير التكاليف لمنظمات الرعاية الصحية عندما يدعمون شراء الأطعمة الصحية.
وقال تراوتوين "سنكون قادرين على تقديم المزيد من الحالات المستندة إلى البيانات من أجل التأثير".
أخبار جمعية القلب الأمريكية تغطي صحة القلب والدماغ. ليست كل الآراء المعبر عنها في هذه القصة تعكس الموقف الرسمي لجمعية القلب الأمريكية. حقوق الطبع والنشر مملوكة أو محفوظة لشركة American Heart Association، Inc. ، وجميع الحقوق محفوظة. إذا كان لديك أسئلة أو تعليقات حول هذه القصة ، يرجى إرسال بريد إلكتروني [email protected]
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