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First Voice Advisory Council

The First Voice Advisory Council (FVAC) was created in 2022 as a way for Feed Nova Scotia to gather invaluable feedback and advice for our work. This advisory committee has supported the grantee application assessments every year and provided input and feedback for the design of our community advocacy toolkit, which will be rolled out later in 2026.

FVAC consists of a wide and diverse group of individuals from across Nova Scotia who have previous or ongoing lived experiences with food insecurity who provide feedback on various aspects of our work. Members of FVAC are the experts on what works best for their communities, and we are lucky to have their invaluable insights guiding the work Feed Nova Scotia is doing

Be a Part of our First Voice Advisory Council

What will you do?

Your experiences, thoughts, and ideas can help shape the work Feed Nova Scotia does. At meetings, we’ll spend time looking at how food insecurity impacts you and your community, and how we can work together to create change.

What are the requirements?

  • New members will start in April 2026.
  • Members meet virtually 4-6 times a year, with each meeting lasting about 2 hours.
  • Each committee member will be given an honorarium of $50/hour per meeting.

Interested?

We’re accepting new applicants for FVAC until February 20th. Join our team today as we work towards a better, more food secure tomorrow.

Apply Today

Contact

If you have any questions about the First Voice Advisory Council, please contact 902-293-4985.

Feed Nova Scotia and the network of members are located in Mi’kma’ki, the ancestral and unceded territory of the Mi’kmaq Peoples, and we acknowledge them as past, present, and future caretakers of this land. This territory is covered by the “Treaties of Peace and Friendship” which Mi’kmaq, Wəlastəkwiyik (Maliseet), and Passamaquoddy Peoples first signed with the British Crown in 1725. We are all Treaty people.

We acknowledge that African Nova Scotians have existed and persisted on the traditional land of the Mi’kmaq for more than 400 hundred years and their significant presence has contributed to the existence of Nova Scotia.

We are grateful to live and work in Mi’kma’ki.