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Putting Nutrition on the Map
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| Megan Lent, 13th class Emerson fellow, presents her publication Mapping the World of Nutrition |
At the 2007 annual conference of the Association of Nutrition Services Agencies (ANSA) in Chicago, nutrition-focused organizations gathered to share innovations in resource development, program design, advocacy, leadership, and operations in order to benefit more than 375,000 chronically ill clients and their dependents served each year by ANSA member agencies. Megan Lent, a 13th class Bill Emerson national hunger fellow placed with ANSA, opened the conference on August 22nd by presenting her recent publication, Mapping the World of Nutrition.
Lent’s research for ANSA led her to produce a “map” that connects all the major sources of federal funding for nutrition programs with the population(s) served and the legislative committees and federal agencies charged with their oversight. It identifies the national, state, and local stakeholders for each funding stream and those communities who receive the services. Lent presented her findings at ANSA’s “Mapping the World of Nutrition” Pre-Conference Institute, where national nutrition experts, lobbyists, and participants from member agencies and funding organizations met to craft ANSA’s advocacy platform.
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