SPEC 14
Food Justice and Nonprofit Management for Social Entrepreneurship Winter 2022

This is not the current course catalog

C Central Kitchen CEO, Mike Curtin ’86, will lead students in examination of the successes, challenges, and opportunities to food insecurity through holistic initiatives such as those of the DC Central Kitchen. He and his guest speakers (national and local) will share their philosophies of nonprofit management and strategic approaches in both pre- and post-COVID contexts. Students will have the opportunity to critique existing initiatives and brainstorm new ones. The course will explore issues of food access, food justice, innovation, and social entrepreneurship, among others. Guest speakers will include DC Central Kitchen founder Robert Egger, DC Central Kitchen Chief Development Officer, Alex Moore, Former Deputy Secretary of Agriculture (under President Obama) Kathleen Merrigan ’96. U.S Representative Jim McGovern, (D-MA), Chef, Philanthropist and Founder of World Central Kitchen Jose Andres, and Mark Rondeau, President of the North Berkshire Friendship Center Food Pantry. Readings will include excerpts from Begging For Change by Robert Egger, The Food Fighters by Alexander Moore and We Fed an Island by Jose Andres as well as sample grant proposals and related documents.