Nashville Food Project Inc

“The by-laws related to the terms and term limits of board members were updated during the year. The terms of board members are now limited to two three year terms.”

“Finance committee reviews the draft before it is filed, discusses anything that is unclear or incorrect, and then shares it with the full board.”

“A conflict of interest policy is signed by each director annually. Any concerns are disclosed.”

“The executive committee completed a thorough compensation review by comparing ceo salary with other ceo salary ranges in our sector for our region of the country.”

“The ceo in conjunction with the board during our annual budgeting process compares salary and wage ranges of the organizations payroll against data available from other regional nonprofits of a similar scope and budget.”

“Available upon request to grantors, and posted to nonprofit directories such as givingmatters.com.”

“Our community meals program cooks and shares thousands of made-from-scratch, nutritious meals and snacks each week in collaboration with anti-poverty and community building organizations in our city. By aligning food support with these vital programs and services -- such as job training, after school programs, esl classes, senior services, domestic violence shelter, and ged prep, among others -- we are able to enhance the impact of partners work while simultaneously providing access to the basic need of nutritious food. Our meals program is significantly supported by tnfps food recovery efforts, through which we collect excess produce and other perishable foods from local farms, grocery stores, and restaurants. We work directly with local food vendors to recover the excess foods they cannot sell, providing hundreds of pounds of fresh ingredients for our meals, while greatly reducing the amount of food wasted in our community.our urban agriculture program includes vibrant production, community and market garden programming. In production gardens, volunteers support all aspects of growing organic produce for our kitchens, including turning the ground, planting seeds, weeding and harvesting fresh produce. In three community gardens, we provide a space for participants to grow food for themselves and their families, sharing resources of lands, tools, and garden training. And through an innovative market garden program, growing together, we support new americans from farming backgrounds in growing produce to sell for personal income and building community food security along the way. Beyond the value of their earnings, farmers are able to reconnect with the practice of growing food, equipping participants with additional tools to imrpove their well-being through meaningful work.”