Based on the above acknowledgement Good Shepherd Food Bank of Maine will commit to:
- Humbly acknowledge the role the Food Bank has played, and may still play, in perpetuating the idea that well-meaning individual acts can end hunger.
- Realign our work with the root causes of hunger, centering racial, economic, and gender disparities at the core of our approach to ending hunger.
- Empower those on the front lines of hunger to lead, teach, and inform our efforts and decision-making in the fight to end hunger.
- Cultivate our workplace to reflect a breadth of life experiences, skills, and capabilities to transform internal systems, structures, policies, and practices to dismantle systemic injustices.
- Use our voice, brand, and relationships to build public understanding that hunger and food insecurity are rooted in poverty, and that poverty is created and perpetuated by systemic inequities and injustices that seek to dismiss, exclude, and oppress people based on race, socioeconomics, gender, and other identities.
- Place Mainers experiencing hunger at the center of our actions and decisions by deepening relationships, building trust, and lifting up their voices to increase awareness of how and where systemic inequities deepen the impacts of poverty and food insecurity.
- Build strong community partnerships and mobilize the public in a movement to ensure all Mainers have equitable access to nutritious and culturally appropriate food when and where they need it.
