Pow Wow Nutrition Subsidy Toolkit encourages healthy food options at pow wows – Anishinabek News
April 25, 2025
CHIPPEWAS OF THE THAMES — Chippewas of the Thames’ Chippewa Health Centre has partnered with the Anishinabek Nation to share her community’s Pow Wow Nutrition Subsidy Toolkit to encourage healthy food options at pow wows. The Chippewa Health Centre had previously created a pow wow nutrition subsidy of up to $100 off the food vendors fee for vendors who were selling fruit or vegetables at the Chippewas of the Thames Pow Wow in 2023 and 2024.
“The Anishinabek Nation has partnered with me to put together a toolkit so that other communities can also do this without having to recreate everything, but have the basic template for the vendor fee form,” says Marley Fisher, community dietitian and certified diabetes educator at the Chippewa Health Centre. “So that’s just easier for more communities to participate if they wish to do so and hopefully that will create more awareness.”
Fisher says she had shared her community’s success with their pow wow nutrition subsidy at the Anishinabek Nation’s Annual Diabetes Conference in March.
