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Seeding Power: Food Justice Leadership & Movement Building
March 14, 2025 @ 9:00 am – 11:00 am PDT
Hosted by Community Food Funders
Co-sponsored by Philanthropy New York and SAFSF
Location: North Star Fund, 520 8th Ave, Rm 1800, NYC
(streaming on Zoom also available)
Community Food Funders is gearing up to launch the next cohort of our Seeding Power Fellowship! Following a comprehensive redesign and successful pilot of the new program last year, they are building on lessons learned to make this next experience even better and more tailored to the needs of our movement leaders.
Please join for a funder-only luncheon (also available online) to hear from recent alumni and program staff about the impacts of this unique program, and what they have planned for the next cohort. They have designed a fellowship experience where funders and nonprofit leaders come together to learn, build relationships, and envision the collaborations needed to create a more equitable food system for all.
This is a funder-only event.
Applications for the new cohort go live the day after this event takes place.
As food and climate leaders prepare for attacks on their work and all justice work, now more than ever movements and organizations need spaces that allow leaders to show up as their whole selves. They need reservoirs of resilience to tap into and spaces where joy and connection are at the root of rebuilding systems rooted in justice and liberation.
A powerful leader is one with the skills and the community to cultivate an ever renewing sense of purpose, with the support and care that builds true stamina that social change demands.
Seeding Power, and other fellowship programs like the Castanea Fellowship, are designed to build the muscle of reflection, to reduce isolation, to practice communication and collaboration, and to deepen relationships. As such, they provide not just leadership development, but critical movement infrastructure that centers relationship and resilience. They hold the space of care, rest, joy, and camaraderie that is so desperately needed.
Learn about:
- Outcomes and lessons from the last cohort
- Curriculum and design elements of the fellowship program
- A one-of-a-kind approach bringing philanthropic partners together with movement leaders in the same cohort
- A timeline and deadlines to help spread the word to your grantees
The Seeding Power Fellowship is a nine-month cohort-based food justice fellowship program for experienced leaders working across sectors to build equitable food systems. The program is designed for movement leaders and philanthropic partners in New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut.
Seeding Power is unique in both the region it serves and the focus on effective collaborations and equitable relationships, while including fellows from philanthropy and government. Racial equity, social justice, active communication, and collaboration form the core of a tested yet tailored curriculum designed by Emerging Equity.
By creating a community of practice that develops a shared analysis of the issues plaguing our food system, the Seeding Power cohort will graduate with strengthened cross-sector relationships and skills, and the opportunity to develop projects together.
Each fellow will receive at least three hours of individualized coaching. Movement fellows will receive a $5,000 stipend, and philanthropic fellows will be asked to make a financial contribution.
