Our Hopes for 2025
How our event priorities are shaping our commitments, relationships and the work ahead.
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At the end of 2024 staff and Network Partners took a step back to reflect on our mission and vision. Since establishing the Maine Food Convergence Project in 2019, a lot has shifted and we felt it was time to have our words match more with how we move as an organization.
Vision: A coordinated and collaborative local food system that fosters the well-being of people, planet, and communities.
Mission: MFCP creates spaces where people working on food, land, and climate issues explore collaborative solutions to complex problems. We work to grow community and deepen relationships so that our collective actions are more impactful.
Our Continued Values:
Equity and Collective Power: Healthy food is a human right that unleashes human potential. Systemic racism and corporate consolidation limit equitable access to farmland, fishing, and food. Sharing power and honoring all voices through collective decision-making leads to community-centered solutions.
Networking Differently: To create systemic change, we need to expand and diversify participation in food systems organizing. Convening and engaging diverse stakeholders across Maine’s entire food system, we leverage the power of networks to act collectively toward a shared vision.
Systems Thinking: Maine’s food system is vast, complex, and interconnected. Trusting relationships, synergy, and transparency within the system supports the parts for a stronger whole.
2025 Convergence
As we gear up for our 2025 Convergence, we’ve reached out to the broader Convergence Community* for what priorities we should focus on for the event and the year ahead.
If you haven’t yet heard, Registration is OPEN! And, we are STILL accepting (until the end of the day on February 4th) session proposals!
If you want to dig in deeper for more event details SEE HERE!
By supporting our work you help us to continue developing work groups, make our biennial Convergence Event accessible and bring all people together to work on creating a more connected Maine food system.
*Convergence Community: People from across Maine, across sectors, across generations, and from various backgrounds who have interest in learning from and sharing varying perspectives to co-create a just and resilient food system in Maine. This includes those who are impacted by systemic inequities such as BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, People of Color), LGBTQIA+ community, people living in urban and rural areas with limited access to resources & transportation, people receiving food stamps and other benefits, disabled individuals and those with chronic illness, impacted farmers, fishermen and small businesses.
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