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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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SAFSF Podcast Episode 1: The Funding Field
SAFSF Policy Principles and Member Challenge
Indigenous Food Systems Community of Practice
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Movement-Aligned Funding Learning Community - Spend-Down Strategies

July 30, 2026
In this quarter’s Movement Aligned Funding Learning Community call, we’ll explore how funder spend-down strategies can serve as an opportunity to redistribute wealth, shift assets and resources…

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SNAP Funder Working Group: Strategy Check In

August 19, 2026
Sustainable Agriculture and Food Systems Funders and Grantmakers In Health have formed a funder Working Group to coordinate a strategic response to the SNAP cuts in H.R.…

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Gather Round Monthly Membership Call

August 20, 2026
The Gather Round Monthly Membership Calls, held on the 3rd Thursday of every month at 1 pm PST / 4 pm EST, serve as a regular “drop…

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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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Movement-Aligned Funding Learning Community - Spend-Down Strategies
July 30, 2026
In this quarter’s Movement Aligned Funding Learning Community call, we’ll explore how funder spend-down strategies can serve as an opportunity to redistribute wealth, shift assets and resources…

Learn More ›

Grocery cart
SNAP Funder Working Group: Strategy Check In
August 19, 2026
Sustainable Agriculture and Food Systems Funders and Grantmakers In Health have formed a funder Working Group to coordinate a strategic response to the SNAP cuts in H.R.…

Learn More ›

Gather Round Monthly Membership Call
August 20, 2026
The Gather Round Monthly Membership Calls, held on the 3rd Thursday of every month at 1 pm PST / 4 pm EST, serve as a regular “drop…

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

Seeking: Consultant to Support National Funder Engagement Project on Institutional Food Procurement

Sustainable Agriculture and Food Systems Funders (SAFSF) is seeking an experienced consultant to lead a two-year national project at the intersection of philanthropic strategy and institutional food procurement. The goals of the project are to: (1) increase adoption of institutional procurement as a food systems strategy among funders, and (2) deepen strategy alignment and coordination among funders and field leaders around institutional procurement as a lever for food systems transformation.  The ideal candidate brings deep fluency in both the philanthropic funding landscape and the institutional procurement field — including familiarity with key funders, food system stakeholders, and the policy, infrastructure, and capital dynamics that shape procurement-led regional food system change.…

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…