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Example of Community Food Connections program RFP development
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First Deputy Commissioner Jill Berry provides an example of successful collaboration in developing a new RFP for the Community Food Connections program, which delivers food to food pantries.
- The Department of Social Services (DSS) worked closely with the Mayor's Office of Food Policy to change the food delivery model for food pantries.
- This collaboration resulted in the development of a new model and the writing of a new RFP to implement it.
- The example demonstrates the potential for inter-agency cooperation in improving food-related programs and contracts.
Jill Berry
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I was just gonna give an example in the food space that's not directly related to DHS, but where where we at DSS worked in very close partnership with MOFP, for example, to change the way we deliver food to to our food pantries through the Community Food Connections program.
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And that that's an example where we we, in partnership, worked very closely.
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We developed a new model and wrote a new RFP that would embrace that model and bring that new model to
Gale A. Brewer
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