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SUMMARY:Toxic Agriculture: Communities Fighting For Environmental and Food Justice
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nExplore the intersections of environmental justice and sustainable agriculture in an interactive in-person learning tour the day before the Health and Environmental Funders Network (HEFN) Annual Meeting in Durham\, North Carolina\, co-sponsored by the Sustainable Agriculture and Food Systems Funders Network (SAFSF). \n\n\n\nAttendees will travel to Sampson County\, North Carolina to learn about hog and poultry Confined Animal Feeding Operations (CAFO) and their impact on communities\, the environment\, and sustainable food systems. Topics will include corporate consolidation\, the issues with so-called renewable biogas\, and the possibility of non-toxic and humane animal agriculture. \n\n\n\nWhether you come from an environmental health\, environmental justice\, or food systems perspective\, we hope you’ll come away from this visit with a deeper understanding of this web of systems\, and how communities are working together towards resilience.  \n\n\n\nSpace is limited – register now to secure your spot!  We also encourage you to join HEFN’s Annual Meeting to learn more about their work creating healthy and just environments for all. SAFSF is proud to partner with HEFN on this learning tour\, and many other events throughout the year to unite environmental and food funders. \n\n\n\nInterested in learning more about the topics covered in this program? Check out these resources: \n\n\n\n\nAlign RNG breaks ground on North Carolina’s largest biogas project | Bioenergy International \n\n\n\nHog farming has a massive poop problem \n\n\n\n\nIf interest exceeds capacity\, there will be a waitlist. For any questions about this program\, or if you’ve already registered for HEFN’s Annual Meeting and would like to add this on to your registration\, please contact Kalila Booker-Cassano\, HEFN’s Director of Programs.
URL:https://www.agandfoodfunders.org/event/toxic-agriculture-communities-fighting-for-environmental-and-food-justice/
CATEGORIES:In Person Gathering,Tours / Site Visits
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SUMMARY:Building an Intersectional Philanthropic Approach: Climate Change\, Agriculture\, and Healthy Rural Communities
DESCRIPTION:Join Sustainable Agriculture and Food Systems Funders (SAFSF)\, Climate and Energy Funders Group (CEFG)\, Funders for Regenerative Agriculture (FORA)\, and Health and Environmental Funders Network (HEFN) for a dynamic two-day funder convening\, June 25-26\, in Minneapolis\, MN.  \n\n\n\nMeet in person with peer climate\, agriculture\, and environmental funders and learn about the significant opportunities to support a sustainable and just future through climate-smart agriculture. We’ll explore the connections\, opportunities\, and gaps between reducing emissions from working agricultural lands\, advancing carbon sequestration strategies through regenerative agriculture\, and supporting healthy rural communities. Through thoughtfully curated site visits\, we’ll also meet with leaders driving regenerative agriculture solutions and mobilizing communities in and around the Twin Cities.  \n\n\n\nThis event is currently sold out. Please join our waitlist below.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJOIN WAITLIST\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAGENDA\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nOUR PARTNERS\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nON THE GROUND\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThis gathering is organized with support from McKnight Foundation. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Climate-Agriculture Connection in Rural Communities\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEmissions reductions in the transportation or energy sectors alone will not stave off the worst impacts of the climate crisis. Agriculture is responsible for 11% of annual greenhouse gas emissions in the U.S.\, not including emissions from fertilizer\, animal farming\, and pesticide production. Nearly half of these total emissions come from the Midwest where rural and indigenous communities bear an unequal portion of the impacts. The longer industrial and extractive agriculture production methods dominate\, the higher these emissions will climb. \n\n\n\nThis is a key moment for agriculture\, climate\, and environmental funders. As the country seeks to address climate change\, and shift to a clean energy economy and sustainable agriculture practices\, rural places will be where the solar and wind farms are sited\, the minerals for batteries are mined and the batteries themselves produced\, and where agricultural practices evolve to reduce methane gases. Indeed\, rural places are implicated in many dimensions of the 21st-century economy\, from data processing to fabrication plants to cryptocurrency mining and online retail distribution. How these economies evolve\, who benefits\, and how well communities manage them—are clear and present policy issues that are receiving little attention\, leaving rural places historically under-resourced and without critical support and offering few guardrails to prevent a modern version of the extractive arrangements prevalent throughout history. \n\n\n\nTo build both critical political power in these regions and robust rural engagement in transition strategies\, it will be imperative that philanthropy work across the silos between climate\, agriculture\, and healthy rural economies to center the voices and strategies of rural communities and ensure equitable and just rural economic development and transition.
URL:https://www.agandfoodfunders.org/event/building-an-intersectional-philanthropic-approach-climate-change-agriculture-and-healthy-rural-communities/
CATEGORIES:In Person Gathering,Meetings
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SUMMARY:SAFSF On The Road: Networking Luncheon in New York City
DESCRIPTION:“SAFSF On the Road” is headed to New York City! \n\n\n\nJoin Sustainable Agriculture and Food Systems Funders (SAFSF) for a networking luncheon with funder colleagues and friends. Come mingle and meet funders\, investors\, innovators and advocates to discuss emerging topics in food and agriculture. This event will be held at Brooklyn Grange Farm Navy Yard in Brooklyn\, New York\, and will feature a farm tour and farm-to-table bites. Space is limited! \n\n\n\nTickets are $50 and complementary to current SAFSF members. \n\n\n\nThis event is at Brooklyn Grange Farm Navy Yard location on Flushing Ave. + Clinton Ave\, Brooklyn\, NY\, 11205\, Brooklyn Navy Yard\, Building 3. Attendees will receive detailed parking\, driving\, and walking instructions prior to the event date. \n\n\n\n\nRegister today!\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDriving Instructions\n\n\n\nWalking Instructions\n\n\n\nMore about Brooklyn Grange Farm\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeakers\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAnastasia Cole Plakias (she/her)\n\n\n\nCo-Founder & Chief Impact Officer\, Brooklyn Grange\n\n\n\nAnastasia Cole Plakias is co-founder and Chief Impact Officer of Brooklyn Grange Rooftop Farm. An accomplished public speaker\, award-winning writer\, and published photographer\, Anastasia is a passionate and outspoken crusader for fresh\, healthy foods and greener\, more sustainable cities. She works to leverage Brooklyn Grange as a platform for positive conversations about food and farming\, and a resource for community building and education. \n\n\n\nHer love of food began early\, cooking up elaborate meals in the tiny galley kitchen of her family’s NYC apartment. After working as a freelance writer for magazines\, Anastasia spent several years in the corporate offices of an Italian restaurant group and wine brand\, eating her way through the menus at some of New York City’s best restaurants and food carts. As a founding partner of Brooklyn Grange\, she has run the business’ produce sales\, managed its CSA program\, created its Events department\, and manages communications and external affairs. Her focus on details has been crucial to the smooth operations of the business as it has grown from year to year. \n\n\n\nA Co-founder of the non-profit\, City Growers\, on whose board she spent nine years as a member\, she presented alongside the organization’s Founding Director at TedX Long Island City. In 2014 and 2015\, she was an instructor of Natural Gourmet Institute’s Sustainable Farming Certificate Course\, and regularly teaches a workshop aimed at entrepreneurs interested in launching their own urban farming business. An energetic and inspiring speaker\, she has presented to audiences at a variety of conferences and convenings. In 2016\, Anastasia published a book about the business\, The Farm on the Roof: What Brooklyn Grange Taught us About Entrepreneurship\, Community\, and Growing a Sustainable Business; she also narrated the audio book. In 2017\, Anastasia was named as one of the NYC Food Policy Center’s “40 Under 40” individuals working to transform the food system. \n\n\n\nWhen Anastasia isn’t zipping from farm to farm on her bicycle or leading a tour for a visiting delegation of city planners\, she loves to tinker with kitchen projects in her Ditmas Park apartment\, or hike a high peak in the Catskills. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSteph Wiley (he/him)\n\n\n\nCo-Founder of Brooklyn Packers\n\n\n\nSteph Wiley is New York City born and raised. He has over 20 years of entrepreneurial experience and has been a member of Just Food’s board\, the New York City Network of Worker Cooperatives (NYC NoWC) Advocacy Council\, and the NYC NoWC Training Collective. Steph co-founded Brooklyn Packers with Shawn Santana in 2016. \n\n\n\nSteph is dedicated to ensuring that every New Yorker can access healthy food through his worker-owned food distribution cooperative\, Brooklyn Packers. His focus is on creating neighborhood food hubs that connect BIPOC farms and aggregators with communities in need. These hubs improve health and economic outcomes while promoting better nutrition. By envisioning worker-owned hubs encompassing wholesale\, retail\, and agriculture businesses\, he creates abundant job opportunities and ensures year-round access to fresh\, local\, affordable\, and culturally relevant food for all New Yorkers. By addressing basic needs and fostering community connections\, Steph believes these hubs can foster more resilient neighborhoods that thrive. \n\n\n\nAlong with his work at Brooklyn Packers\, Steph is helping to develop a network of cooperative homesteads. He believes that aligned movements working together in solidarity is the best way to seek justice for all in our lifetimes.
URL:https://www.agandfoodfunders.org/event/safsf-on-the-road-networking-luncheon-in-new-york-city-2/
CATEGORIES:In Person Gathering,Meetings
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SUMMARY:SAFSF On The Road @ MIE in Los Angeles
DESCRIPTION:SAFSF is On The Road Again and bringing the network together in Los Angeles. \n\n\n\nIf you are in town for Mission Investors Exchange (MIE) National Conference (or local to Southern California)\, join SAFSF for a networking reception for funders\, innovators and advocates working at the nexus of food and agriculture. \n\n\n\nThis will be hosted in Downtown LA near the conference location at Hotel Figueroa at Bar Alta. \n\n\n\nDrinks and light bites will be provided.  \n\n\n\n\nRegister today!
URL:https://www.agandfoodfunders.org/event/nexus-of-food-and-agriculture-reception-in-downtown-los-angeles/
CATEGORIES:In Person Gathering,Meetings
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SUMMARY:Digging In Screening
DESCRIPTION:In San Francisco\, California — \n\n\n\nFollowing our in-person gathering Opportunities & Challenges in Funding Regenerative Agriculture\, SAFSF is hosting a film screening of Digging In\, our documentary focused on land access\, consolidation and climate change\, and their impact on American agriculture\, especially BIPOC farmers and ranchers. It’s taking place at the Landmark Opera Plaza Theatre in San Francisco on March 19 at 7 pm. \n\n\n\nThis is open to all who are interested! Please extend the invite to your partners and friends in the field. Come one\, come all for this great discussion about Digging In\, featuring our film narrator\, Masika Henson. Reach out to Holly know if you have any questions about the film or want to host a screening of your own.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIf you are attending our San Francisco Opportunities & Challenges in Regenerative Agriculture gathering\, please register to attend this screening via your event registration. Questions? Reach out to Holly at holly@safsf.org.
URL:https://www.agandfoodfunders.org/event/digging-in-screening/
CATEGORIES:Digging In Film,In Person Gathering,Meetings
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