1. California Library Association & California Summer Meal CoalitionLU
Developing Partnerships to Help Support and Enhance your Meal Service Tracie Randolph, Riverside County Library System
California Library Association &
California Summer Meal Coalition

2. Developing Partnerships-Initial Steps
Review your library’s strategic plan, mission statement or vision statement
Know your existing stakeholders in your library jurisdiction
Government Agencies
Schools
Local Businesses
Civic Organizations
Analyze your strategic plan and look
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3. Developing Partnerships- Investigate Resources
Financial (Friends groups, Grants, Chamber of Commerce, Service Groups)
Co Locations (Library, School Site, Park, Community Center)
Established Collaboratives
Volunteers (Teens, Seniors, Starbucks/Kohls employees)
Investigate resources that will enhance your lunch program early in your planning process. Utilize and exhaust all resources.
Space may be an issue depending on your library. If this is an issue, and a school or park is offering a lunch program, take your program off site.
Volunteers- Teens (Community Service Hours/Paid Internships via Youth Opportunity Centers, Seniors, Starbucks and Kohls employees who volunteer
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4. Developing Partnerships-Examples of Partnerships
Riverside Community Health Foundation
Jurupa Community Health Collaborative
Friends of the Jurupa Libraries
Jurupa Unified School District
Riverside County Social Services Department
Healthy Jurupa Valley
Reach Out
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5. Developing Partnerships- New Partnerships 2016
Operation Lifesaver
Train Safety
Safe Routes to School
Safe Pedestrian interactive Presentation
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6. CONTACT Tracie Randolph: tracie.randolph@rivlib.net
Lunch at the Library is funded by the David and Lucile Packard Foundation. It is a project of the California Library Association and California Summer Meal Coalition, supported by the U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act, administered in California by the State Librarian. The Summer Food Service Program is a program of the United States Department of Agriculture, administered in California by the California Department of Education.
Lunch at the Library
February 2nd, 2017