Managing Editor’s Column: December 2018/January 2019
Like all Northside Planning Council programs, the Northside News has its home in the shared offices of FEED Kitchens. Despite the variety of work accomplished by these projects — from food recovery...
View ArticleLetters to the Editor
Letter to the editor: I receive the Northside News and find it an informative and useful publication. However, I have several concerns about the most recent health column by Dr. Ross Royster: (1)...
View ArticleCounty donates new cargo van to local food recovery project
By Chris BrockelHealthy Food For All Healthy Food for All (HFFA) has a new van. The cargo van was donated by the Dane County Board of Supervisors to provide HFFA with a reliable vehicle to transport...
View ArticleNPC Executive Director’s Column: December 2018/January 2019
The wisdom of the circle One of the unexpected gifts of the Northside Planning Council’s partnerships in the last two years — with the Northside Early Childhood Zone and the Northside Safe &...
View ArticleHigh school students head down the street to learn with FEED Bakery
By Martee MikalsonFEED Bakery Training Program FEED Bakery will welcome Malcolm Shabazz high school students into the Bakery Training Program in December. Students that complete training have...
View ArticleFEED celebrates 5 years
A typical morning at FEED Kitchens: three or four food carts in the deli kitchen prepping for their lunch rush. Healthy Food For All repackaging soup in the vegetable kitchen for distribution to food...
View ArticleManaging Editor’s Column: February/March 2019
I often mark the return of spring by its feeling of abundance in contrast to the sparse cold of winter. Even the damp, the muck, the wet chill, signal the presence of something new and growing. Amid...
View ArticleLetter to the Editor
To the Editor: We are lucky to have an amazing community resource in the WPCRC on the Northside. But more than once or even twice, I’ve been struck by the difficulty in accessing the center as a...
View ArticleNPC Executive Director’s Column: February/March 2019
Welcome to 2019! When we put together the calendar insert for this issue, I was struck by the number of substantive things going on around the Northside, especially for this time of year. The...
View ArticleFamily Engagement Specialist
Now hiring to support the Northside Early Childhood Zone: Family Engagement Specialist Please complete and submit the following application to the Northside Planning Council, 1219 N. Sherman Ave.,...
View ArticleFEED makes meals To Go for residents in need
FEED makes meals To Go for residents in need Thursday, March 19 — With schools and workplaces closing to reduce community spread of the COVID-19 coronavirus, many families have been left scrambling to...
View ArticleCOVID-19 Resources
General Resources List of resources: bit.ly/MadisonCOVID-Edit 2-1-1: Multilingual resource referral. 211, unitedwaydanecounty.org/get-help/2-1-1 Dane County Community Defense: Request food, health,...
View ArticleCommunity support grows FEED To Go
Friday, April 3 — Press Release Every afternoon for the last two weeks, a line of cars queue at the side door of FEED Kitchens. Volunteer drivers pop their trunks as kitchen staff wearing gloves and...
View ArticleFEED To Go helps keep residents Safer At Home
Monday, April 27 — Press Release More than 8,000 meals have been cooked, cooled, packaged, labeled and delivered to local community centers to distribute since March 19. Thanks to $20,000 from Madison...
View ArticleSign up for online editions of the Northside News
This week the Northside News published its first online edition. It went out via email to subscribers and you can now read the full edition in an online booklet at northsidenews.org. Sign up to...
View ArticleFEED Bakery announces new class and volunteer opportunities
May 26 via the Northside News FEED Bakery and Catering Training Program provides vocational training to underemployed and unemployed adults during a three month program several days a week. Graduates...
View ArticleCaregivers connect at Parent Cafés
By Charisse Johnson, Northside Early Childhood ZoneMay 26 via the Northside News Like the tangled patterns of our fingerprints, our stories are uniquely ours. Sometimes, especially as parents, we fail...
View ArticleNew collaboration delivers food and supports small, diverse businesses
By Ian Aley, MarketReady ProgramMay 26 via the Northside News It all started with potato chips and baseball. Christine Ameigh, owner of Slide Gourmet Potato Chips and Christine’s Kitchens, had a...
View ArticleFEED Kitchens remains open with new policies
FEED Kitchens is open to member businesses but recently released new protocols for operating safely during the COVID-19 pandemic. Among other changes, all entry doors will remain locked to the public....
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