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SAFSF Policy Principles and Member Challenge
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SAFSF Podcast Episode 1: The Funding Field
SAFSF Policy Principles and Member Challenge
Indigenous Food Systems Community of Practice
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2026 SAFSF Forum: Ancestral Futures

June 22, 2026
The SAFSF Forum is a unique conference for the full spectrum of funders—including philanthropy, investors, community finance, and intermediaries—to foster collaboration among peers, field leaders, and practitioners…

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Indigenous Food Systems Community of Practice – Registration Deadline

July 15, 2026
Sustainable Agriculture and Food Systems Funders (SAFSF) and First Nations Development Institute (FNDI) are offering the Indigenous Food System Community of Practice for diverse capital partners seeking to deepen their…

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Movement-Aligned Funding Learning Community

July 30, 2026
Systems change requires a deliberate shift in power. In a landscape where the industrial, consolidated, and corporate food system is well-funded, deeply entrenched, and politically coordinated, community-led…

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Maximize Your Membership

August 25, 2026
Maximize Your Membership is an orientation webinar for SAFSF members, new and veteran! If you are new staff at a new or long-time SAFSF member organization, have not…

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2026 SAFSF Forum: Ancestral Futures
June 22, 2026
The SAFSF Forum is a unique conference for the full spectrum of funders—including philanthropy, investors, community finance, and intermediaries—to foster collaboration among peers, field leaders, and practitioners…

Learn More ›

Indigenous Food Systems Community of Practice – Registration Deadline
July 15, 2026
Sustainable Agriculture and Food Systems Funders (SAFSF) and First Nations Development Institute (FNDI) are offering the Indigenous Food System Community of Practice for diverse capital partners seeking to deepen their…

Learn More ›

Movement-Aligned Funding Learning Community
July 30, 2026
Systems change requires a deliberate shift in power. In a landscape where the industrial, consolidated, and corporate food system is well-funded, deeply entrenched, and politically coordinated, community-led…

Learn More ›

Maximize Your Membership
August 25, 2026
Maximize Your Membership is an orientation webinar for SAFSF members, new and veteran! If you are new staff at a new or long-time SAFSF member organization, have not…

Learn More ›

Recent News

Moving With Intention: Before We Arrive to the South

The SAFSF Forum travels to places that conferences and philanthropy often overlook and underfund. SAFSF has not hosted a Forum in the South for over 10 years. In 2024, we collaborated with the USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) to better coordinate philanthropic and federal resources for underserved producers and communities — a project that unexpectedly led us to a pilot in southwest Georgia. Though the winds shifted swiftly at USDA later that year and the pilot never launched, we couldn’t forget the power and resilience of the leaders we met there, or their vision for the future of food and agriculture. We knew it was time to gather in…

Earth Day Reflections on SAFSF Forum: Ancestral Futures

This year, Earth Day sparks reflection on the existential and urgent need to radically reduce our reliance on the fossil fuel and war economy and invest in nature based solutions, Indigenous land stewardship, food equity and regenerative farming. At the SAFSF Forum this summer, we are reflecting on the conference theme “Ancestral Futures.” How do we act now to be good ancestors to future generations? How do we take action for regeneration over extraction, relationship over exploitation, and abundance over scarcity? We are reminded that the future is not something distant or abstract. It is already present — in the land, in the water, in the relationships we hold, and in the communities leading change.This…

2026 Policy Funding Challenge

A Challenge to SAFSF Members: Invest Boldly in Policy Advocacy and Movement Building The challenges facing our food system—spanning corporate consolidation, land loss, climate change, racial inequity, labor exploitation, access to adequate nutrition, and beyond—make clear that long-term change depends on shifting the policies, systems, and power structures that shape people’s daily lives. Building a truly resilient, just, and democratic food system requires sustained investment in policy advocacy and movement building.  Policy change unfolds over years, legislative sessions, and election cycles. Achieving durable policy successes at the Tribal, federal, state, and local levels requires patient, flexible, and sustained investment in a broad spectrum of offensive and defensive strategies. These include…

February Mycelium View

SAFSF Mycelium View SAFSF’s Mycelium View goes deeper—tracking emerging field developments, policy shifts, and systems change efforts from philanthropy and beyond. Read in browser   Forward to funder colleague   // February 24, 2026 Introducing SAFSF Mycelium View, our new bi-monthly newsletter for funders and movement leaders who want to stay close to the trends, policies, and system change efforts shaping the food and agriculture landscape. Like the mycelium networks that quietly connect and sustain our entire ecosystems underground, this newsletter surfaces important signals for those working toward a more just and equitable food system. While our bi-monthly ‘Network Pulse’ newsletter covers the funding ecosystem through member moves and philanthropy news, Mycelium…