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Compass Group believes in partnering with third party organizations that specialize in health and wellness issues in order to offer our customers and clients better choices for a healthy lifestyle.
Action For Healthy Kids (AFHK)
Chartwells has a unique partnership with Action for Healthy Kids (AFHK). AFHK is a national nonprofit organization with a grassroots network of state team volunteers addressing the childhood obesity epidemic by focusing on improving nutrition and physical activity in schools. http://www.actionforhealthykids.org/
Chartwells is committed to sustaining membership, support and collaboration with the following organizations:
• National Association of State Boards of Education
• National Parent Teachers Association
• School Nutrition Association
• American Association of School Business Officials
• American Association of School Administrators
• Society for Nutrition Education
Educational Foundation of the National Restaurant Association
In partnership with the Educational Foundation of the National Restaurant Association, all Compass Group units participate in a company-wide training effort known as ServSafe. This internationally acclaimed process deals with serving food safely and providing a safe workplace. www.nraef.org
Environmental Defense and Smithfield Foods
Compass Group North America partnered with Environmental Defense and Smithfield Foods, Inc. to develop a first-of-its-kind purchasing policy to curb antibiotic use in pork production. Environmental Defense, a leading national nonprofit organization, represents more than 400,000 members. Since 1967, Environmental Defense has linked science, economics, law and innovative private-sector partnerships to create breakthrough solutions to the most serious environmental problems. www.environmentaldefense.org
Framingham State College
Framingham State College, a leader in Web-based nutrition education, created Compass Group's Balanced Choices 10-hour Web-based nutrition-training program. www.framingham.edu
Healthy Monday/Meatless Monday
This is an organization that promotes a healthier, more contemplative lifestyle by promoting Mondays as a day to evaluate you own state of wellness.
www.healthymonday.org
www.meatlessmonday.org
International Food Information Council (IFIC)
IFIC's mission is to communicate science-based information on food safety and nutrition to health and nutrition professionals, educators, journalists, government officials and others providing information to consumers. IFIC is supported primarily by the broad-based food, beverage and agricultural industries.
IFIC's purpose is to bridge the gap between science and communications by collecting and disseminating scientific information on food safety, nutrition and health and by working with an extensive roster of scientific experts and through partnerships to help translate research into understandable and useful information for opinion leaders and ultimately, consumers. These groups find the IFIC reservoir of science and health data a valuable and easily accessed resource.
Based in Washington, DC, the IFIC Foundation and IFIC focus primarily on U.S. issues. It also participates in an informal network of independent food information organizations in Europe, Asia, Australia, Canada, Japan and Latin America. http://www.ific.org/
Johnson and Wales University
Compass Group teamed with Johnson & Wales University (the only school that offers a culinary nutrition degree program in the US), to create a special course for chefs with multi-sector responsibility. This daylong training emphasizes hands-on production, using grains, vegetarian and vegan alternatives, and reduced carbohydrates, calories, fats, sugars and sodium. www.jwu.edu
Monterey Bay Aquarium-Seafood Watch
The implementation of the Compass Group sustainable seafood program is managed by the Packard Foundation-funded Making Waves Project, a non-profit partnership between the Monterey Bay Aquarium's Seafood Watch Program and the Bon Appetit Management Company Foundation.The Monterey Bay Aquarium's Seafood Watch program empowers seafood consumers and businesses to make choices for healthy oceans. www.seafoodwatch.org
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