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Opening Remarks of Michael Dimock, Session 1 Planning Fellows Retreat |
Opening Remarks of Michael Dimock
Session 1, Planning Fellows Retreat
May 15, 2007
It has been a long journey, four years actually since Roots of Change
was born, and this day marks the beginning of a new phase. We all know
the hardest challenges, the highest most rewarding climbs, take a long
time. I want to share my own and ROC's perspectives on this effort,
this experiment really, to actually knit a network of diverse leaders
with a network of diverse funders who share a passion and vision for
reforming a food system that has run its course based on principles and
practices framed and formed in an earlier era.
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Michael's Review of the Final Planning Fellows Session |
Below you will find a correspondence that Michael Dimock, Executive Director, sent to the ROC Stewardship Council immediately following the third and final Planning Fellows Session held July 10-12, 2007.
July 13, 2007
Dear Council:
I wanted to give you brief update on the final Planning Fellows Session. I am happy to report that we have succeeded in achieving our primary objectives. My assessment is based on both what the Fellows said and what I witnessed in the final three days.
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Michael's Review of the Second Planning Fellows Session |
Below you will find a correspondence that Michael Dimock, Executive
Director, sent to the ROC Stewardship Council immediately following the
second Planning Fellows Session.
June 25, 2007
Council Members,
I wanted to give you an overview of the second Planning Fellow’s
retreat including developments from Thursday, the final day. I am happy
to report that we have again achieved our goals: more trust, more
buy-in to both the process and to the work of the Vivid Picture
Project, and more collaboration. Plus, we began to integrate the
Council into the dialog: Rich Rominger, Larry
Yee, and Jim Cochran joined us with great effect.
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Historic Illinois Legislation |
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By Michael Dimock
On June 7th, the Illinois Legislature passed a history-making bill, HB
1300, entitled the Food, Farms and Jobs Act, which creates the Illinois
Local and Organic Food and Farm Task Force and empowers that body to
deliver by the fall of 2008 the Illinois Local and Organic Food and
Farm Plan.
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Michael's Review of the First Planning Fellows Session |
Below you will find a correspondence that Michael Dimock, Executive Director, sent to the ROC Stewardship Council immediately following the first Planning Fellows Session.
May 18, 2007
Council Members,
I wanted to give you a very brief, but fresh update on the results of
the first retreat session of the Planning Fellows, which ended
yesterday the 17th of May and began on Tuesday the 15th. We spent 21/2
days at the Center for Land Based Learning, which is 19 minutes west of
Davis on the boundary between Yolo and Solano counties.
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