Education & Seminars

Our Programs Include

God’s Love We Deliver

God’s Love We Deliver has outlined an ambitious multi-year program to provide nutritional counseling, education and service delivery to the people they serve – those who are too sick to shop or cook for themselves.  The Palette Fund is providing a three year grant to expand the Food as Medicine initiative, which will reach growing constituencies in underserved neighborhoods, conduct outreach, underwrite the hiring of a registered dietitian, conduct workshops and add new menu items including fresh fruits, whole grants and other healthy options.

Cancer Schmancer – Trash Cancer Campaign

This national campaign with Cancer Schmancer includes Tupperware-style parties across the country where people will learn about carcinogenic materials found in cleaning and grooming products, be encouraged to throw them away, and replace them with safe products. This campaign, which will launch in the fall, will also include cancer-fighting recipes for the hundreds of hosts to serve at each event.

Friends in Deed

Friends in Deed’s HIV/AIDS Continuum Support Program provides support to anyone affected by HIV/AIDS through all stages of the illness.  The organization provides a range of services – support groups, one-on-one crisis counseling, bodywork, treatment planning and nutritional counseling, yoga, meditation, home and hospital visits, workshops and seminars free of charge.  Palette’s grant supports the organizations nutritional counseling.

Food Solutions: A Whole Foods Approach to Wellness Workshops

The Urban Zen Center presents Food Solutions: A Whole Foods Approach to Wellness, two workshops in 2011 that give you the practical tools to make food lifestyle change.

Food Solutions is a groundbreaking culinary-nutrition event series that gives participants the practical tools to make food lifestyle changes that will open the gateway to healing and living. We invite you to join us for these inspirational and empowering experiences!

Next Seminar is scheduled for September of 2011 and will be on Food as Medicine for people living with cancer.  Check back soon for details!

Past Seminars:

May 11th, 2011: Diabesity: Changing The Palate of America’s Children
Integrative pediatrician, Stephen Cowan, M.D. and MaryBeth Augustine, R.D. lead a heartfelt presentation on one of the most talked about health issues—diabesity. Through creative hands on cooking and food learning experiences lead by Stefanie Sacks, M.S., participants discovered the many ways to address this growing concern among our children— it was an opportunity to literally learn how to change the palate of America’s youth.

Natural Gourmet Institute Scholarship

The Natural Gourmet Institute is dedicated to providing leadership in health-supportive culinary arts and theory. The school’s philosophy is based on the well-established belief that the food we eat has significant impact on our health.

The School’s Chef Training Program was created in response to the increasing demand for chefs who are skilled in the art of food preparation that is both health-supportive and pleasing to the eye and palate. The curriculum features whole, fresh, unprocessed foods with emphasis on plant-based cuisine.

The Palette Fund offers partial culinary scholarships to attend the Chef’s Training Program at the Natural Gourmet Institute for Health and Culinary Arts.

To learn more about the application requirements, please contact Merle Brown, Director of Admissions (.(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)).

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