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  Ensure that all residents of Norfolk are able to have proximate, affordable, and available food

  Engage with residents representing all areas of need

 Gather feedback from the community, with a focus on Norfolk’s most at-risk communities, to determine needs as well as desires for solutions

  Make food system resources, funding, educational, and support opportunities known and available to broader community

 Strengthen and connect existing efforts

 Create communication channels that allow grassroot, action-oriented, community organizations, businesses, and the City of Norfolk staff to improve their efforts

 Serve as a platform for citizens of Norfolk to voice concerns, needs, and priorities around topics of food, as well as voice desires for solutions

     Work to address the food needs identified by citizens and those working in areas of the food system

  Facilitate community engaged research

Identify policy opportunities around food, and recommend to the City of Norfolk

   Foster open dialogue and feedback from citizens through community events, social media outlets, and relationship building