Assessing and reporting on equity-focused food coalitions using in-depth rippling

This session will focus on two separate case studies of food coalitions and the value of using in-depth storytelling to energize and emphasize the connections about their work within communities. This method is well suited to the work of coalitions as it highlights singular and plural actions amongst partners and provides a reflection point for assessing the impacts of their collective work. The challenges of assessing and reporting on collective action work are framed within the context of a conflicting set of priorities that arise between funders, governmental entities, and individual partners. The case studies demonstrate that reporting is limited by coding frameworks to capture and share the impact of equity and systems-level work internally and externally.