600 event attendees, 30+ sponsors, 6 hosted kitchens, Midwinter’s first-ever mascot race, and 3 Gold Mitt Awards. Were you there to celebrate the excitement in 2024? For Stir It Up! 2025, we will celebrate the 10th annual year of National Family Meals Month by embracing the theme: What's for Dinner? Dishing Up New Family Flavors, with a focus on your family's favorites and how cuisine can vary from region to region. Bring out your tried and true family favorites for this year’s culinary showcase! Contact Haley Pierce, FMI Foundation Manager, at hpierce@fmi.org for more information on highlighting your product or business at Stir It Up!

The FMI Foundation has been hard at work, hosting and facilitating conversations with DEI experts from McKinsey & Company, Jonathan Mayes Consulting, Hogan Lovells, The Walt Disney Studios/National Geographic, and Accenture. These conversations, a part of the DEI digital seminar series, explore a variety of DEI topics relevant to the food industry. Click "Learn More" to access these members-only on-demand recordings.

Food safety auditing, an integral piece of food safety system, is in need of well-trained food auditors entering the workforce. The FMI Foundation is there to address that, by awarding 15 undergraduate and graduate students in North America the chance to attend SQF Unites and scholarship money to go towards educational expenses. Depicted are 2023's scholarship recipients at SQF Unites 2024 raising their National Family Meals Month mitts to tie back to the Foundation's work on safe family meals. Interested in flagging an aspiring auditor for the 2024-2025 scholarship cycle?

5 companies won 2023's illustrious Gold Plate Awards, honoring September's National Family Meals Month™ programming and initiatives. Check out our five winners and four honorable mention award recipients at the link below!

At the 2023 Summit, Charlie Arnot, Center for Food Integrity, Jennifer Walker, Kinder Ground, Andy Harig, FMI, and David Fikes, FMI Foundation, discussed current animal welfare issues and the practices, policies, and take-away strategies to safeguard member companies' businesses. Click to Learn More and access the recording.

The FMI Foundation’s Unified Voice Protocol project is working to foster an environment of trust in the food and consumer goods industries. The FMI Foundation has facilitated a process that will help create a messaging environment that consumers can trust.