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A Funder Toolkit on Climate, Health & Equity
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A Funder Toolkit on Climate, Health & Equity
Indigenous Food Systems
Public Policy: Climate, Agriculture, Farm Bill
Sustainable Fibers and Textiles

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Nomination Deadline - Board of Directors

August 6, 2021
SAFSF is accepting nominations for two positions on the Board of Directors for three-year terms beginning in October 2021. Self-nomination or nominations of other qualified candidates are welcome. Click here for full…

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Network Structure and Purpose - Building Effective Regional Food Funder Networks, Part 1

August 11, 2021
This five-part series on Building Effective Regional Food Funder Networks will will provide a venue for learning, sharing best practices, and discussing new resources that can help…

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Pathways for Engagement: A Deeper Look at Key Policy Strategies and Opportunities | Webinar 2

September 14, 2021
Funders for Regenerative Agriculture (FORA) and SAFSF present a 3-part funder policy series. Join the second webinar, Pathways for Engagement: A Deeper Look at Key Policy Strategies…

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Meaningful Meetings - Building Effective Regional Food Funder Networks: Part 2

September 22, 2021
SAFSF has helped convene or been an advisor to many regional food funder networks over the years and seen some prosper while others struggled to find their footing. This five-part series on Building Effective Regional Food Funder Networks will provide a venue for learning, sharing best practices, and discussing new resources that can help ensure…

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Nomination Deadline - Board of Directors
August 6, 2021
SAFSF is accepting nominations for two positions on the Board of Directors for three-year terms beginning in October 2021. Self-nomination or nominations of other qualified candidates are welcome. Click here for full…

Learn More ›

Network Structure and Purpose - Building Effective Regional Food Funder Networks, Part 1
August 11, 2021
This five-part series on Building Effective Regional Food Funder Networks will will provide a venue for learning, sharing best practices, and discussing new resources that can help…

Learn More ›

Pathways for Engagement: A Deeper Look at Key Policy Strategies and Opportunities | Webinar 2
September 14, 2021
Funders for Regenerative Agriculture (FORA) and SAFSF present a 3-part funder policy series. Join the second webinar, Pathways for Engagement: A Deeper Look at Key Policy Strategies…

Learn More ›

Meaningful Meetings - Building Effective Regional Food Funder Networks: Part 2
September 22, 2021
SAFSF has helped convene or been an advisor to many regional food funder networks over the years and seen some prosper while others struggled to find their footing. This five-part series on Building Effective Regional Food Funder Networks will provide a venue for learning, sharing best practices, and discussing new resources that can help ensure…

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Recent News

Call for Nominations for Directors

SAFSF is accepting nominations for two positions on the Board of Directors for three-year terms beginning in October 2021.  The Board seeks candidates who will help ensure a diversity of perspectives representing gender, geographic location, life experience, political ideology, professional skills, and race, culture, ethnicity, and organization size and type. We are also expressly seeking individuals with interests in financial management and development. One of the two open positions may be filled by nonmembers of SAFSF. See details of board responsibilities below. Qualified candidates must be: members of the board or staff of a grantmaking or investing organization active in sustainable agriculture and/or food systems philanthropy; andcommitted to uphold and lead with SAFSF’s core…

A New Online Hub to Help Funders Working at the Intersection of Health, Climate and Equity

Michael Kavate – Inside Philanthropy May 19, 2021 Extreme weather—from fires to floods, hurricanes to heat waves—has in recent years pushed funders across the country not only to mount rapid responses, but to prepare for what might be next.  To inform those efforts, a first-time alliance of eight philanthropy-serving organizations has created a new web portal that addresses the questions their members are increasingly asking about how to adjust to climate impacts, and how to prevent them from exacerbating existing inequities.  Titled “Investing at the Frontlines of Climate Change: A Funder Toolkit on Climate, Health and Equity,” the hub catalogs a wide range of existing resources and offers an overview…

Infrastructure Investment in Climate and Ag

The Biden Administration’s American Jobs Plan (AJP) is taking center stage in federal policy conversations. The overall plan calls for more than $2 trillion to be invested in rebuilding infrastructure. Talks between the Biden Administration and Senate Republicans continue but no agreements have been reached. In all likelihood, the AJP will pass through budget reconciliation just as the American Rescue Plan did. The AJP is ambitious and would make historic investments in our country’s infrastructure. However, it falls short and lacks specifics in addressing the role of agriculture in climate mitigation. The AJP calls for investing only $1 billion in climate and agriculture out of the more than $2 trillion package.  This legislation is…

10 Things To Know About Race/Racism & the Food System

The Food Solutions New England (FSNE) 21-Day Racial Equity Habit-Building Challenge starts today. This resource from FSNE provides a good grounding in the reasons why this Challenge is so important for agriculture and food systems. We offer these ten stories in the spirit of making the “invisible” visible. Thedominant narratives of how our food systems work often leave some things out in favor of including stories that fit better with the bigger story of who and what “we are” (or would like to see ourselves to be) as nations or communities. We hope these ten stories inspire you to keep asking “What don’t we know?” and “Who are we not…