NJFDC is Powered by Volunteers!

If you are a communications and marketing professional familiar experienced with supporting nonprofits and have a passion for food justice and local food, check out our open request for proposal.

We’re looking for a skilled policy writer and organizer to play a lead role in the NJ Equitable Food Purchasing Policy Project.

This is a part-time/consulting role for up to 40 hours per month, February 2025 - March 2026, with possibility of continuation.

Click here for the description of this role.

NJFDC maintains an up-to-date and accurate list of all NJ farmers markets accepting NJ SNAP. Each year, beginning in March, we begin to update the list from the prior calendar year, and make associated changs to the map. We ensure all information about how to use NJ SNAP at farmers’ makets, and how farmers and market managers can become authorized, is as accurate as possible.

Beginning in Janaury, we will be recruiting up to three volunteers or interns to complete this project. Familiarity with Google Docs and updating Google Maps, or willingness to learn quickly, is necessary.

Do you like to make fliers? Create social media content or develop attention-grabbing slide shows or other materials? We’d love for you to volunteer your time and talents for one or more workgroup projects. Please contact Jeanine at Jeanine@njfooddemocracy.org today!

Do you have a couple of hours per week to help us summarize and organize our meeting records? If you can use MS Word or Google Docs, and have some extra time to review and organize meeting notes or transcripts, we’d love your help this year. If interested, please email fooddemocracycollabnj@gmail.com.

NJFDC maintains two online resource directories, a Food System Resources Directory and a Farmer Resource Directory. We are looking for volunteers to help keep these directories up to date. This includes ensuring all current entries are still accurate and reaching out to the members of the FDC network (and beyond) to scan for additional resources that should be included. This can be done in one semester or spread throughout the year with a 1-2 hour/per week committment (roughly).

Are you in graduate school or a soon-to-be graduating senior undergraduate student who needs to complete an intenship, APE, or other similar requirement to graduate? Email us today to learn about various research needs in the food policy space in NJ. In particular, but not exclusively, we are looking for MPH students and Urban and Regional Planning students to support food policy audits and food policy council research. However, we are able to co-design a research project that meets your interests and needs as well as the needs of our programming.

Email fooddemocracycollabnj@gmail.com. Include a resume, a description of your program, where you matriculating, and your research interests.