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Indigenous Food Systems
Public Policy: Climate, Agriculture, Farm Bill
Sustainable Fibers and Textiles

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21-Day Racial Equity Challenge Reflections

April 29, 2021
NOTE: Participation in this call is limited to SAFSF members only. Share your post-challenge reflections, personal and professional next steps, and discuss how SAFSF can/should continue to…

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2021 SAFSF Forum

May 3, 2021
The SAFSF Forum will again be held online in 2021 to bring you the opportunities for real-life learning and peer connection that funders look forward to all…

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OPENING SESSION – Reckoning a Way Forward: Co-Creating Philanthropy’s Course toward a More Just and Sustainable Food System

May 3, 2021
This opening session will shine a light on how philanthropy’s practices examine how our practices have perpetuated the systems that have failed us, and amplify the voices…

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NETWORKING – Start Your Forum Experience Off Right: Newcomers Welcome

May 3, 2021
We invite you to join us for an informal welcome to the SAFSF network, and an opportunity to connect with peers and connect with friendly peer faces…

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21-Day Racial Equity Challenge Reflections
April 29, 2021
NOTE: Participation in this call is limited to SAFSF members only. Share your post-challenge reflections, personal and professional next steps, and discuss how SAFSF can/should continue to…

Learn More ›

2021 SAFSF Forum
May 3, 2021
The SAFSF Forum will again be held online in 2021 to bring you the opportunities for real-life learning and peer connection that funders look forward to all…

Learn More ›

OPENING SESSION – Reckoning a Way Forward: Co-Creating Philanthropy’s Course toward a More Just and Sustainable Food System
May 3, 2021
This opening session will shine a light on how philanthropy’s practices examine how our practices have perpetuated the systems that have failed us, and amplify the voices…

Learn More ›

NETWORKING – Start Your Forum Experience Off Right: Newcomers Welcome
May 3, 2021
We invite you to join us for an informal welcome to the SAFSF network, and an opportunity to connect with peers and connect with friendly peer faces…

Learn More ›

Recent News

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…

SAFSF Hosts Member 21-Day Racial Equity Challenge

The Food Solutions New England (FSNE) 21-Day Racial Equity Habit-Building Challenge runs from April 5-25, offering small daily email prompts delivered each morning that make it easy for you to participate in this transformative effort at your own pace. This self-guided learning journey examines the history and impacts of racism and inequities and how they are connected to our food system. This year, SAFSF will host member activities and conversations to help members taking the Challenge reflect collectively on what we learn through the 21 days and beyond. Here’s how you can participate! STEP 1 Visit the FSNE Challenge website to register with your email address. If you are not registering as…

Reckoning a Way Forward: 19th Annual SAFSF Forum

SAFSF’s 19th Annual Forum, Reckoning a Way Forward: Co-Creating Philanthropy’s Course Toward a More Just and Sustainable Food System, will help agriculture and food system funders and investors examine how our practices have perpetuated the systems that have failed us, especially in this last tumultuous year. The SAFSF Forum will come to you online over two weeks, May 3-14, 2021. Program offerings will amplify the voices of those who have kept their neighbors fed by growing their own food, supporting their local farms, changing their businesses on the fly, and advocating for authentic redress of entrenched food system injustices. These leaders are showing us the way toward a more just, equitable, and sustaining food system.…

Policy Serves Those Who Show Up

On our recent SAFSF member call, Who’s Who at the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), we discussed who is being appointed and hired to fill different positions within the Department. We came away from that call with the realization that we are seeing seismic shifts in the personnel filling key positions across the agency. One SAFSF member referred to the USDA team being put in place as her “dream team,” sort of like a fantasy sports team coming to reality.Even a highly skilled and experienced dream team relies on an array of input from coaches and other experts. The perspectives those experts bring can influence the way the dream team plays its…