What Will Work For Food Does

The Will Work For Food programs are educational webinars that are presented primarily by and for attorneys, mediators and arbitrators.

Each Thursday at 8am Pacific an amazing colleague joins us to give a webinar presentation about a timely topic.

These programs are free. We don’t ask you to pay for these invaluable webinars, instead, we hope that you’ll make a donation of any size to your local food bank.

Thank you in advance for your generosity.

  • The Best 60 Minutes You Will Spend on a Thursday---no matter your time zone! Will Work For Food, serves as one of my “preferred” development tools in my professional development toolbox. I discovered this resource as a member of the Maryland Program for Mediator Excellence (MPME), and I am so happy that their information was shared with me. In turn, when I share Will Work For Food’s information with colleagues and peers, I get excited because it is such a brilliant “boots-on-the-ground” way to connect, network, and be exposed to real-time content impacting the Alternative Dispute Resolution landscape. Will Work For Food provides (1) hour mediation training sessions on Thursdays that allows one to engage in professional development and maintain professional standards (continuing education units-CEU’s) for practically FREE! I say, “practically FREE,” because the way it works, you attend a session and the presenter in each session will ask that you donate to the Food Bank of their choice, in exchange for the training. You are not required to donate, and donating is strictly up to you. However, if you are in search of a virtual professional offering that leaves both you and the community at-large in a better place, why wouldn’t you spread peace and joy by donating and learning. Will Work For Food is the absolute best!

    Nicole Jackson-Young, M.Ed., MDE

Hunger Facts in the USA

 

  • 44 million people in the United States are food insecure

  • 13 million children in the United States are food insecure

  • 49 million people turned to food programs in 2022

  • 100% of U.S. counties have food insecurity

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— Nicole Jackson-Young, M.Ed., MDE
“We Can’t help everyone, but everyone can help someone.”
— President Ronald Reagan

The Origin Story of Will Work For Food

In April of 2020, just as COVID-19 was really taking root, I was like everyone else and endlessly watching various television news channels. The physical, emotional, mental, economic, and political tolls of coronavirus were devastating and just getting started. I watched and was stunned at the speed at which demands on food banks doubled, then tripled, then kept growing. It was heartbreaking.

My immediate response was to write a check. But I’m just one shorter-than-average woman with limited financial resources. I couldn’t do much all by myself. I was also feeling quite small (existentially that is, not a dig on being 61 inches).

To make myself feel better and to possibly do some good I called on my colleagues in the resolution industry to help. I created Will Work For Food to help raise awareness and donations for food banks worldwide as well as provide educational programs for the ADR industry. The programs offered are created by and for mediators, arbitrators, and attorneys.

Will Work For Food programs are free. The speakers are volunteers and are greatly appreciated. The moderators, Jeff Kichaven and Jean Lawler, and our Program Outreach director, David Shraga, donate their time, money, professionalism, love for the resolution industry, and passion for helping. They are one and all good humans. Thank you all.

I hope that you enjoy what you watch, feel moved to participate, will share the invitation to join us each Thursday with your colleagues, and are able to make a donation of any size to a food bank near you.

Natalie Armstrong-Motin

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