Tuesday, May 1st:
Janine Farber, RD, LD, Med, came to speak about her job at Meijer. Along with four other RDs, she is a part of the Meijer Healthy Living Program. It is their mission to create and communicate health solutions and product knowledge and thus increasing sales and customer loyalty. The funding for their programs comes from sponsorships. They plan numerous events in the community (cooking demos, presentations, health fairs), in-store (taste of Meijer) in addition to media segments and magazine publications. It is the role of the RD to facilitate these programs. I thought it was really smart of them to utilize Pinterest as a social media source. I started "following" Meijer on Pinterst and think it's a great source for fellow RDs to use.
Thursday, May 3rd:
Heidi Anderson, the education and special events coordinator at WellWorks came to speak today. She plans a wide range of programs throughout the year. A few she specficially spoke about were Winter gathering, Healthy Monday newsletters, health education for faculty, staff, and community memebers, Walk for your cause, and the Community Supported Agriculture project. Funding for these programs comes from WellWorks membership fees and from human resources. The monitoring/evaluation of the programs comes from participant feedback.
great job elizabeth
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