Non-Profit Ideas...
Oct. 8th, 2009 02:02 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ilex_cassineI've been trying to come up with non-profit sorts of ideas. I figure, okay, academia isn't providing me with a full time home, and neither is CRM, maybe I should think about starting something. I listened to a talk that the founder of the "Save the Highline" project in NYC gave, and I went, huh, maybe I could do something. But what? So I'm pondering.
One direction is using native plants for food gardens in the Piedmont. So designing food gardens for peoples yards and setting them up. I'm actually not that into this one, because I need to work on some things (experiments in my own yard, etc.) and concepts before I jump into it. But I've had a couple of people suggest that I should do this, so I figure its worth pondering. Its on the stove top.
And today, I was listening to The Story, which normally sucks but today Mr. Gordon had a Native American man who was working on changing his tribes diet by restore Native foodways and it was actually interesting. And there was an article in the NYT on Jamie Oliver working to change an obese town's diet. So I was thinking about this and I thought, hm, the a large barrier to success is these situations is that people don't actually know how to cook. And it shouldn't have to be Jamie Oliver telling people how, it should be people in each others kitchens. So what about setting up a mentor-ship program? Matching people who have confidence in their cooking skills with people who need or want to improve their diets but don't have skills. Perhaps providing a 50 buck food check for them to go grocery shopping and make 5 meals. And maybe some tutoring on nutrition to make sure the mentors actually have a sensible background.
Anyway, so those are a couple of things I'm pondering. I hope I'll add to that list. Simmer simmer... we'll see what cooks, if anything.
[Edited to switch out NGO for non-profit, which is really what I meant... oops]
One direction is using native plants for food gardens in the Piedmont. So designing food gardens for peoples yards and setting them up. I'm actually not that into this one, because I need to work on some things (experiments in my own yard, etc.) and concepts before I jump into it. But I've had a couple of people suggest that I should do this, so I figure its worth pondering. Its on the stove top.
And today, I was listening to The Story, which normally sucks but today Mr. Gordon had a Native American man who was working on changing his tribes diet by restore Native foodways and it was actually interesting. And there was an article in the NYT on Jamie Oliver working to change an obese town's diet. So I was thinking about this and I thought, hm, the a large barrier to success is these situations is that people don't actually know how to cook. And it shouldn't have to be Jamie Oliver telling people how, it should be people in each others kitchens. So what about setting up a mentor-ship program? Matching people who have confidence in their cooking skills with people who need or want to improve their diets but don't have skills. Perhaps providing a 50 buck food check for them to go grocery shopping and make 5 meals. And maybe some tutoring on nutrition to make sure the mentors actually have a sensible background.
Anyway, so those are a couple of things I'm pondering. I hope I'll add to that list. Simmer simmer... we'll see what cooks, if anything.
[Edited to switch out NGO for non-profit, which is really what I meant... oops]
