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Solidarity Funding: Supporting Racial Justice in Food and Agriculture Philanthropy

Join a funder peer follow-up to the special 2021 SAFSF Forum session Decolonizing Food Philanthropy. This follow-up conversation on Monday, November 1 is available only to funders who participated in the special Forum session. For other funders, note that we are exploring a repeat of the original conversation in spring 2022. This session has the

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Deadline for Session Proposals for 20th Annual SAFSF Forum

SAFSF is pleased to accept concurrent workshop and learning dinner proposals for the 20th Annual SAFSF Forum from all funders, even those who are not members of SAFSF. Proposals must be submitted online through the form by Monday, January 10, 2022, at 12 pm PT.  We strongly encourage you to read through our session idea guidelines for frequently asked questions, including details

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Structurally Rooted Systemic Inequality Requires Social Justice Solutions

Hosted by SAFSF and Duke University World Food Policy Center Structural inequality establishes and maintains dominating relationships, where certain groups of people are valued more than other groups of people. This plays out in every aspect of our society. Relational, robust, structurally rooted social justice informed equity is the way to deconstruct manifestations of structural

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Early-bird Registration Deadline

Early-bird registration for the 20th Annual SAFSF Forum: Commitment & Accountability is now open! Register before May 4th at Midnight PT to receive an early-bird discount. Additionally, site visits and learning dinners have a limited number of spots available and will be filled on a first-come, first-served basis. You can view our event program, registration rates, and speaker directory through the button below.

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Funders + Lawyers + Family Farmers = Success

The Farmers Lawyer story of saving 245,000 Family Farms from Illegal Foreclosures in the 1980s and Why Funding Legal Strategies is Crucial This session will tell three stories. The first story is how Sarah Vogel, then a solo practice lawyer in North Dakota, brought a lawsuit against USDA for nine broke farmers that grew into a case

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Forum Registration Closes

Registration for the 20th Annual SAFSF Forum: Commitment & Accountability is now open until June 8 at Midnight PT. Register today for a better chance at securing your first choice site visit and learning dinner!

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20th Annual SAFSF Forum: Commitment & Accountability

Registration closed on June 8, 2022. ABOUT THE FORUM Join us in Kansas City, Missouri for the 20th Annual SAFSF Forum: Commitment and Accountability.  SAFSF amplifies the impact of philanthropic and investment communities in support of just and sustainable food and agriculture systems, and the SAFSF Forum is the only national gathering for and by

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Sponsor the 2023 SAFSF Forum

Your sponsorship of the 2023 SAFSF Forum boosts our power to convene funders across the agriculture and food system spectrum at a critical moment for philanthropy. Your Forum sponsorship enables us to bring in new voices, research, and expertise to our convening, and helps create a supportive and interactive space for all Forum attendees to

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Investing in Change: Foundation Support for Lobbying and Engaging Policymakers

Private and public foundations can play an important role in influencing policy by engaging in advocacy and funding their grantees to advocate on their issues. Led by Bolder Advocacy Senior Counsel Tim Mooney, this workshop will provide your foundation with a clear understanding of why including policy advocacy as a deliberate organizational strategy can help

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2023 SAFSF Forum

About the 2023 SAFSF Forum Join us in Washington D.C. June 12-14, 2023 for an SAFSF Forum like no other, taking place in our nation’s capital for the first time! Connect in person with community and movement leaders, policy activists and advocates, federal legislators, and other funders who share a vision of an equitable and

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