Getting your Pod Involved Around the Community
With the whole food, plant-based (WFPB) lifestyle as your foundation, consider taking on one of these projects or activities to create a positive, lasting impact in your community.
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With the whole food, plant-based (WFPB) lifestyle as your foundation, consider taking on one of these projects or activities to create a positive, lasting impact in your community.
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Select a local restaurant with plant-based options. Call in advance and ask for a WFPB meal for your group. Eat out at that restaurant, which might encourage them to offer healthier plant-based meals. Choose that same or another restaurant and repeat.
Participate in our Restaurant Campaign to increase the number of plant-based, oil free food options available in your town. Consider creating a committee that is responsible for reaching out to restaurants.
Start a gardening project as a group at a local community garden.
Volunteer at a local vegan animal sanctuary.
Open a whole food, plant-based food bank for low-income people who want to eat a plant-based diet.
Show various at senior centers and then have a discussion group (see if a dietitian supporting plant-based eating, Plant-Based Nutrition Course Graduate, or Food for Life Instructor would help facilitate the discussion).
Work through the public school system to get them to offer one WFPB meal option on the school menu (and ideally, have it be included in the reduced-cost/free menu options).
Work with local farmers to provide a farmers’ market in low-income neighborhoods, and then help to publicize and create traffic so that the market will continue to be offered.
Organize a local health fair or veg fest.
Offer to teach cooking classes to groups with whom Pod members already have a relationship, such as a local church, school, cancer support groups, YMCA, etc.
Offer to facilitate Jumpstarts in your local church or at your work, and then have your Pod provide additional cooking and shopping training. Learn more here.
Don’t forget to reach out to local media to let them know about any of your Pod’s community events so they can take pictures/video and publish a story!
