BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Sustainable Agriculture & Food Systems Funders - ECPv6.16.1//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME:Sustainable Agriculture & Food Systems Funders X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://www.agandfoodfunders.org X-WR-CALDESC:Events for Sustainable Agriculture & Food Systems Funders REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Los_Angeles BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20200308T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20201101T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20210314T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20211107T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20220313T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20221106T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20230312T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20231105T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20240310T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20241103T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20250309T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20251102T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20260308T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20261101T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20270314T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20271107T090000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Phoenix BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:MST DTSTART:20240101T000000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:UTC BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:UTC DTSTART:20200101T000000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260616T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260616T133000 DTSTAMP:20260621T032549 CREATED:20260601T210218Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260601T210453Z UID:10000769-1781614800-1781616600@www.agandfoodfunders.org SUMMARY:SAFSF Forum Attendee Orientation DESCRIPTION:Are you joining us for the SAFSF Forum in June? Meet fellow attendees at a pre-Forum orientation call hosted by staff at Sustainable Agriculture and Food Systems Funders. Whether this is your first Forum or your 10th\, join us to learn about new offerings at the upcoming SAFSF Forum and how to best engage while in Savannah\, Georgia. \n\n\n\nThis call is especially helpful if you are a funder bringing new staff\, consultants\, Board or Advisory Committee members who are unfamiliar with SAFSF or the SAFSF Forum. \n\n\n\nJoin SAFSF staff for a deep dive into the SAFSF Forum including: \n\n\n\n\nWhy Savannah? \n\n\n\nWhat to Expect at the Forum\n\n\n\nForum Offerings and Mainstage Sessions\n\n\n\nHow to Engage in Whova\n\n\n\nBest Practices for Engagement \n\n\n\n\nThis energizing conversation will excite you for the Forum ahead. Learn the Forum processes and get engaged! This event is a free event closed to those who have registered for the 2026 SAFSF Forum. SAFSF members\, join us for Gather Round June 18th for a member-only Forum orientation. Interested in SAFSF membership? Email membership@safsf.org. \n\n\n\n\n \n \n Open Registration\n \n "*" indicates required fields \n \n FacebookThis field is for validation purposes and should be left unchanged.This field is hidden when viewing the formRegisterName*\n \n \n First\n \n \n \n \n Last\n \n \n \n Organization*Title*Email*\n \n Are you are funder?*\n \n Yes\, I am affiliated with a funding organization.\n \n \n No\, I am not affiliated with any funding organization.\n SAFSF defines funders as staff\, board members\, trustees\, donors\, program officers\, and other professionals from organizations using grantmaking or investments as a core strategy to fulfill their mission.\nThis field is hidden when viewing the formEvent Name\nIt may take longer than expected to process your submission\, please only click submit once. URL:https://www.agandfoodfunders.org/event/forum-orientation/ CATEGORIES:Forum Networking,Meetings,SAFSF Forum ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.agandfoodfunders.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/Jade-scaled.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251123T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251123T235959 DTSTAMP:20260621T032549 CREATED:20251001T150321Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251001T190812Z UID:10000713-1763856000-1763942399@www.agandfoodfunders.org SUMMARY:Deadline: 2026 SAFSF Forum Request For Proposals DESCRIPTION:We are seeking proposals for workshops\, learning dinners\, lightning talks\, and field days that align with SAFSF’s mission and goals for the conference. In addition to shaping the 2026 SAFSF Forum\, these submissions will contribute to ongoing program development within SAFSF\, helping us identify key areas for future events\, workshops\, and initiatives throughout the year.  \n\n\n\nTo help foster a diverse and representative Forum program that supports systems change in food and agriculture\, we invite funders\, frontline community and movement leaders\, and practitioners who are dedicated to advancing equity and sustainability in food and agriculture to propose a session through this RFP. \n\n\n\nPlease use this form to submit a session proposal by Sunday\, November 23\, at 11:59 PM PT. \n\n\n\nTo learn more about the RFP process\, including session formats\, themes\, timeline\, and more visit this page. \n\n\n\nSAFSF will be hosting an open house on Thursday\, October 23 at 12PM PT to answer questions about the RFP process. Please note we will not be able to provide feedback on individual session proposals at this time. This session will be recorded for those unable to attend live.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLEARN MORE \n\n\n\nSUBMIT A PROPOSAL\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout the 2026 SAFSF Forum\n\n\n\nThe SAFSF Forum is a unique conference for the full spectrum of funders—including philanthropy\, investors\, community finance\, and intermediaries—to foster collaboration among peers\, field leaders\, and practitioners across the country around a shared mission for equitable and sustainable food and agriculture. The conference focuses on different approaches to moving impact capital to transform food systems. While funder learning is a central goal\, nonprofit movement leaders and food system partners are integral to the event’s success\, bringing on-the-ground wisdom and solutions. As we face a moment of profound transformation across non-profit\, philanthropy\, and food systems\, the SAFSF Forum is a gathering place for sense-making\, solutions\, and solidarity.  \n\n\n\nThe 2026 SAFSF Forum will take place in Savannah\, Georgia—a place where Afro-Indigenous stewardship\, Gullah Geechee traditions\, and Southern agrarian and culinary innovation intersect with today’s climate crisis\, land loss\, and rural economic disinvestment. The U.S. South is a fulcrum of American food and agriculture: a production powerhouse; a hub for farmworker and H-2A dynamics that shape national food supply; a climate frontline facing extreme heat\, hurricanes\, and flooding; and a logistics hub where Gulf and Atlantic ports—Savannah among them—move goods globally. Equity\, divestment\, and ownership struggles are also acutely felt here\, from Black land stewardship and heirs’ property challenges to corporate land capture in rural communities forcing displacement of local food systems. Because issues of land justice\, climate change\, rural economic development\, and systems of racism and exclusion converge so intensely in the South\, investing in community-led solutions in food and agriculture in the region can offer solutions to the country and the world. Throughout the Forum\, we will trace the throughline of Black and Indigenous Agrarianism\, uplifting lineages of liberatory organizing\, cooperative economics\, and rural self-determination that lay the foundation for a climate-resilient\, healthy\, and equitable food future beyond corporate control. URL:https://www.agandfoodfunders.org/event/deadline-2026-safsf-forum-request-for-proposals/ CATEGORIES:Deadlines,SAFSF Forum ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.agandfoodfunders.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/2026-forum-slide-copy.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250909T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250909T123000 DTSTAMP:20260621T032549 CREATED:20250723T221733Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251022T190410Z UID:10000699-1757415600-1757421000@www.agandfoodfunders.org SUMMARY:Funding Communications and Journalism for Movement Building in Food Systems DESCRIPTION:The stories we tell—and who tells them—shape public perception\, policy\, and action in our food systems. While corporations spend billions to control narratives\, progressive voices advocating for sustainability\, equity\, and health are often underfunded and overshadowed. The result: misinformation\, polarization\, and an urgent need for systemic narrative change.This session\, first presented at the 2025 SAFSF Forum\, will explore the critical yet often overlooked role of communications and journalism play in food systems\, including: \n\n\n\n\nHow storytelling and independent journalism shape public opinion\, policy\, and movements.\n\n\n\nThe impact of corporate influence\, media consolidation\, and public distrust in traditional media.\n\n\n\nStrategies for funders to support authentic\, impactful storytelling that drives change.\n\n\n\n\nFeaturing insights from journalists\, funders\, and movement leaders\, this discussion will examine challenges facing progressive communicators and explore funding strategies to strengthen independent journalism\, amplify grassroots voices\, and build coalitions for narrative change.This webinar is open to all funders. Registrants will receive notes and key takeaways following the call. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSummary Notes & Key Takeaways\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeakers\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAna Bradley\, Executive Director\, Sentient Media (Moderator)\n\n\n\nAna Bradley is the Executive Director of Sentient\, the only non-profit\, nonpartisan news outlet solely focused on reporting on the effects of industrial agriculture on the environment\, public health\, animals\, rural communities and climate change. She has led Sentient since January 2020.Prior to Sentient\, she led an agency in London\, where she worked with global clients and corporations for over a decade to help build dedicated digital communities. She championed women in tech and community building in creative industries. Ana is an experienced leader\, digital content strategist and producer with over ten years of experience designing\, producing\, and distributing large-scale digital media campaigns. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAdam Hymans\, Managing Director\, Resource Media\n\n\n\nAdam is an award-winning communications leader at Resource Media\, bringing two decades of experience shaping culture\, shifting policy and strengthening organizations for lasting impact.Resource Media—a national 501(c)(3) creative change agency—delivers strategic communications\, creative campaigns and capacity building designed to both drive change and build durable narrative power within fellow nonprofits\, foundations\, governments and movement networks.Adam heads the food systems practice at RM and leads national and community-based initiatives at the intersection of climate\, healthcare and civic engagement. His approach is grounded in ancestral wisdom\, cutting-edge research\, and the collective imagination of clients and community partners. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nNeshani Jani\, Director of Communications\, HEAL Food Alliance\n\n\n\nNeshani is the Communications Director at HEAL Food Alliance\, leading media and communications strategy to amplify HEAL’s vision. She develops framing\, narrative\, messaging\, and branding that elevate HEAL’s members and their impact. With over a decade of experience in nonprofit communications and strategic development—both locally and globally—she blends storytelling and strategy to grow power and shift narratives. Based in Oakland\, CA\, on Ohlone land\, Neshani lives\, works\, and builds community with purpose. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEsperanza Pallana\, Executive Director\, Wildseeds Fund\n\n\n\nEsperanza Pallana is an executive leader with over 20 years of experience in nonprofit management\, specializing in philanthropy\, communications\, and policy advocacy. As Executive Director of Wildseeds Fund\, she provides strategic leadership to expand grantmaking capacity\, strengthen community-led decision-making\, and advance movement-led philanthropy. \n\n\n\nEsperanza has pioneered innovative community investment strategies such as community-controlled capital processes\, liberatory frameworks for impact investing\, reparative fee programs\, and collaborative fundraising. In a previous role\, Esperanza leveraged over $79.6 million to direct measurable impact in equitable food systems. She has served on nonprofit and government boards\, where she successfully navigated startup growth\, scale-up phases\, legacy transitions\, and strategic overhauls. Esperanza has also consulted on equity initiatives\, organizational development\, and civic engagement for foundations\, policy organizations\, and cultural institutions. She is a creative and dedicated driver of movement-led investments and strategic partnerships to advance community self-determination\, economic empowerment\, and leadership development. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJosh Wise\, Managing Director and Publisher\, Public News Service\n\n\n\nJosh Wise is the Managing Director and Publisher at Public News Service. Josh got his start working for social impact when his mom gave him baseball card money for helping with a fundraising mailing when he was 6. He still has an affinity for putting labels on envelopes. Since then Josh has held leadership positions in the nonprofit and social impact sectors for over a decade. Josh has a BA from Macalester College and Masters in Public and Nonprofit Administration from Metropolitan State University\, and a Special Engineer’s license from the state of Minnesota which means he can operate low-pressure commercial boilers. It’s a long story. He lives in St. Paul\, MN with his family of 5 and several animals. URL:https://www.agandfoodfunders.org/event/funding-communications-and-journalism-for-movement-building-in-food-systems/ CATEGORIES:SAFSF Forum,Webinars ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.agandfoodfunders.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/CommsJournalism-Replay.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Phoenix:20250609T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Phoenix:20250612T170000 DTSTAMP:20260621T032549 CREATED:20240503T160208Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250724T202408Z UID:10000623-1749481200-1749747600@www.agandfoodfunders.org SUMMARY:2025 SAFSF Forum DESCRIPTION:The SAFSF Forum is a unique conference for the full spectrum of funders—including philanthropy\, investors\, community finance\, and intermediaries—to engage with peers\, movement leaders\, and practitioners across the country around a shared mission for equitable and sustainable food and agriculture.   \n\n\n\nJoin us June 9 – 12 in New Mexico  \n\n\n\nThe 2025 Forum will bring SAFSF’s network to the Southwest for the first time in 20 years. We are gathering at Tamaya Resort\, which is located on sovereign Santa Ana Pueblo land. Join us for skill building\, networking\, and leadership development in food and agriculture systems change. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRecap\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nProgram\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSponsorship\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFAQs\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout Our Theme: Resilience\, Justice\, Democracy \n\n\n\nFor over 20 years\, SAFSF has united funders in investing in sustainable food and agriculture. This year’s Forum envisions systems change rooted in Resilience\, Justice\, and Democracy. Programs will explore ways to achieve climate resilient and environmentally sustainable agriculture\, justice and equitable outcomes for marginalized communities\, and democratic control of food systems. Conference attendees will explore how diverse capital partners can empower frontline communities and strengthen movements for lasting systems change through dynamic sessions on culture and narrative\, policy and advocacy\, tools and infrastructure\, and innovations in capital strategies. \n\n\n\nResilience: Creating food and agriculture systems that can withstand and adapt to challenges like climate change and social disruptions. This involves embracing climate stewardship\, agroecology and regenerative farming\, Indigenous traditional ecological knowledge\, and building strong\, adaptable communities. \n\n\n\nJustice: Transforming food systems to address historical and systemic inequities. This theme focuses on uplifting marginalized communities and ensuring equitable access to resources\, opportunities\, and decision-making power in food and agriculture. \n\n\n\nDemocracy: Empowering communities to have a say in shaping the policies and practices that affect their food systems. This theme emphasizes community-led governance and policy\, participatory decision-making\, movement building\, and civic engagement to create a more inclusive and representative food system. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRegistration Rates\n\n\n\nWe are offering a 5% discount on registration for groups of 3 or more when registered and paid in one transaction. The discount will not apply if each person registers and pays separately. \n\n\n\nFood System Partner registration is an SAFSF member benefit. Each SAFSF member organization is entitled to invite one representative of an organization that they are sponsoring to attend the Forum. Email membership@safsf.org for questions about this member benefit.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFunders who have been selected to organize Forum sessions are expected to cover travel and accommodations of their (non-funder) speakers\, as well as a meaningful honoraria for their time and expertise. Registration fees will be waived for non-funder speakers confirmed prior to April 15\, 2025. Funder speakers will receive a code for a discounted (member) registration rate. New this year\, SAFSF has a limited budget to support scholarships for up to 20 community-based leaders who are speaking in plenary and program sessions. Scholarships have been distributed and this information has been communicated to organizers. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMake An Impact—Become a Sponsor\n\n\n\nThe 2025 Forum includes cutting-edge content\, inspirational speakers\, field-based learning\, and new features such as live recorded podcasts and a wellness room! At this critical moment for philanthropy and investment\, your sponsorship will amplify the impact of this unique conference.   \n\n\n\nCheck out the sponsorship levels and benefits in this overview\, and contact our Executive Director\, Clare Fox to secure your sponsorship. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nHotel Information\n\n\n\nThe 2025 SAFSF Forum will take place in Santa Ana Pueblo at the beautiful Tamaya Resort. We encourage you to arrive on Monday\, June 9 to take full advantage of evening networking. \n\n\n\nTAMAYA RESORT – SOLD OUT \n\n\n\nSAFSF has secured an overflow roomblock at Santa Ana Star Casino\, 2 miles down the road from Forum hotel\, for $169 plus taxes. Book your room online here (Group Code = BKG1128   /   Password = BKG1128) or call hotel reservations at 1-844-466-2378 and give them the group code. The last day to make reservations is May 25\, 2025.  \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nHost Committee & Local Advisor\n\n\n\nMeet the local funders and leaders shaping the 2025 Forum to reflect local culture\, context\, and community impact. To learn more about this incredible committee\, click here. URL:https://www.agandfoodfunders.org/event/2025-safsf-forum/ CATEGORIES:In Person Gathering,Meetings,SAFSF Forum ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://www.agandfoodfunders.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/Forum-Webpage.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250528T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250528T235959 DTSTAMP:20260621T032549 CREATED:20250430T184415Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250508T191543Z UID:10000688-1748390400-1748476799@www.agandfoodfunders.org SUMMARY:Last Chance to Register for the 2025 SAFSF Forum DESCRIPTION:The SAFSF Forum is a unique conference for the full spectrum of funders—including philanthropy\, investors\, community finance\, and intermediaries—to engage with peers\, movement leaders\, and practitioners across the country around a shared mission for equitable and sustainable food and agriculture.   \n\n\n\nWe are gathering at Tamaya Resort\, which is located on sovereign Santa Ana Pueblo land\, June 9-12. Join us for skill building\, networking\, and leadership development in food and agriculture systems change. \n\n\n\nRegistration Rates\n\n\n\nWe are offering a 5% discount on registration for groups of 3 or more when registered and paid in one transaction. The discount will not apply if each person registers and pays separately. \n\n\n\nFood System Partner registration is an SAFSF member benefit. Each SAFSF member organization is entitled to invite one representative of an organization that they are sponsoring to attend the Forum. Email membership@safsf.org for questions about this member benefit.  \n\n\n\nWe are offering a 5% discount on registration for groups of 3 or more when registered and paid in one transaction. The discount will not apply if each person registers and pays separately. \n\n\n\nFood System Partner (FSP) registration is an SAFSF member benefit. Each SAFSF member organization is entitled to invite one representative of an organization that they are sponsoring to attend the Forum. Please log in to the SAFSF Member Portal for the FSP registration code. If you have questions about this member benefit email membership@safsf.org.  \n\n\n\nEarly bird registration closed April 28\, 2025.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFunders who have been selected to organize Forum sessions are expected to cover travel and accommodations of their (non-funder) speakers\, as well as a meaningful honoraria for their time and expertise. Registration fees will be waived for non-funder speakers confirmed prior to April 15\, 2025. Funder speakers will receive a code for a discounted (member) registration rate. New this year\, SAFSF has a limited budget to support scholarships for up to 20 community-based leaders who are speaking in plenary and program sessions. Scholarships have been distributed and this information has been communicated to organizers. \n\n\n\n\nREGISTER\n\n\n\nMAIN FORUM PAGE\n\n\n\nFAQs URL:https://www.agandfoodfunders.org/event/2025-forum-registration-deadline/ CATEGORIES:Deadlines,Forum Networking,In Person Gathering,SAFSF Forum ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://www.agandfoodfunders.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/Forum-Webpage.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250112T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250112T235959 DTSTAMP:20260621T032549 CREATED:20241210T184151Z LAST-MODIFIED:20241210T185334Z UID:10000654-1736640000-1736726399@www.agandfoodfunders.org SUMMARY:Idea Submissions Due for 2025 SAFSF Forum DESCRIPTION:SAFSF is excited to announce the launch of our Request for Ideas (RFI). This initiative will gather ideas throughout the year for our general programming\, with a specific call for 2025 SAFSF Forum submissions by Sunday\, January 12. For this deadline\, we are particularly seeking ideas that can be developed into proposals to engage a diverse range of funders—including philanthropy\, community development finance institutions\, public agencies\, and impact investors—in strategies that drive systems change. These proposals can address elements of systems change  such as culture\, policy\, markets\, and tools\, all in support of building a more resilient\, just\, and democratic food and agriculture system. \n\n\n\nBeyond this deadline\, the RFI will remain open throughout the year to gather ongoing input and foster continuous dialogue with our network of collaborators. We aim to engage more broadly in partnership for the ongoing development of SAFSF’s programs\, both for the Forum and future program initiatives. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSUBMIT AN IDEA\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout the 2025 SAFSF Forum\n\n\n\nThe Sustainable Agriculture and Food Systems Funders (SAFSF) Forum is a unique gathering for the full capital spectrum of funders interested in education\, skill building\, and leadership development in food and agriculture. We will partner with the national ecosystem of funders\, frontline community and movement leaders\, and practitioners dedicated to advancing equity and sustainability in food and agriculture. The 2025 SAFSF Forum\, hosted at the Tamaya Resort\, in Santa Ana Pueblo\, New Mexico\, will focus on advancing solutions through a systems change approach\, grounded in the values of resilience\, justice\, and democracy.  \n\n\n\nWhat We’re Looking For\n\n\n\nWe invite high-level ideas for workshops\, structured networking\, learning dinners\, and field-based learning experiences that align with SAFSF’s vision for systems change in food and agriculture. This RFI is designed to be accessible and collaborative\, providing an opportunity for potential collaborators to share their initial thoughts and receive support in developing full proposals. By engaging a broad range of voices—from frontline communities and movement leaders to funders\, government leaders\, field-based practitioners\, and other stakeholders—we aim to create a program that is inclusive\, equitable\, and representative of diverse perspectives. \n\n\n\nMore information about the RFI Process\, including session type descriptions\, submission requirements\, timeline\, and more can be found here. For questions or more information about this RFI\, please contact the SAFSF Program Team at events@safsf.org. \n\n\n\nWe look forward to reading your ideas and working together to build a just and equitable food and agriculture system. URL:https://www.agandfoodfunders.org/event/deadline-2025-safsf-forum-ideas/ CATEGORIES:Deadlines,RFI,SAFSF Forum ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.agandfoodfunders.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/RFI.FeaturedWork-1.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230612T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230614T200000 DTSTAMP:20260621T032549 CREATED:20221019T154931Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230620T192643Z UID:10000537-1686556800-1686772800@www.agandfoodfunders.org SUMMARY:2023 SAFSF Forum DESCRIPTION:About the 2023 SAFSF Forum\n\n\n\nJoin 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! \n\n\n\nConnect in person with community and movement leaders\, policy activists and advocates\, federal legislators\, and other funders who share a vision of an equitable and sustainable food system for all. Dig in to promising solutions and strategies for agriculture and food systems that address the roots and consequences of racial inequities\, socio-economic and geographic divides\, and community disenfranchisement and disinvestment. \n\n\n\nWe’ll look at the connections—and disconnects—between the needs we hear from frontline leaders and funding from both federal and philanthropic sources. With two blocks of half-day site visits\, we’ll meet with lawmakers on Capitol Hill and get out to see how residents of the capital city are digging into this work on the ground. \n\n\n\n\n\n\nEvent Program\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker Directory\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nHealth and Safety Guidelines\n\n\n\nAs we continue to navigate the ongoing challenges of COVID-19\, SAFSF is committed to creating a safe and comfortable meeting environment for all participants.  Our commitment to maintaining reasonable COVID-19 protocols is deeply rooted in our values of racial equity and accessibility. The COVID-19 pandemic has targeted the most vulnerable among us\, leading to disproportionate deaths in Black and Indigenous communities as well as heightened vulnerability for members of our community with disabilities and/or chronic illness. \n\n\n\nPlease click below to read our guidelines thoroughly. \n\n\n\n\nHealth & Safety Guidelines\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nHotel Information\n\n\n\nThe 2023 SAFSF Forum will take place in Washington\, D.C. at the Capital Hilton. Please be sure to select the correct dates for your duration of stay. We encourage you to arrive on Sunday\, June 11 to take full advantage of pre-Forum networking and the Funder Peer Sessions that will start early on Monday\, June 12. The deadline for booking your hotel room has passed. If you still need a reservation\, try calling the hotel directly at (202) 393-1000 (request to be added to the SAFSF room block). \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSponsorship\n\n\n\nYour 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 connect\, commit\, and collaborate. \n\n\n\nContact Virginia Clarke\, Executive Director\, or Angie Boone\, Member and Development Associate to secure your spot as a Forum sponsor. \n\n\n\nThose funders organizing a session will have the first opportunity to sponsor their Workshop or Learning Dinner. Sponsorships may not be exclusive. \n\n\n\nAll sponsorships must be finalized by April 17\, 2023 – please reach out as soon as possible. \n\n\n\n\nLearn More + Sponsor\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThank You to Our 2023 SAFSF Forum Sponsors! \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPlenary Sponsor\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSite Visit Sponsor\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nNetworking Sponsors\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWorkshop Sponsor\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n To-Mi-Da Fund | Windward Fund\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFriends of the SAFSF Forum\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVirginia Clarke \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nGratitude to the following for ongoing general support URL:https://www.agandfoodfunders.org/event/2023-safsf-forum/ CATEGORIES:Forum Networking,Meetings,SAFSF Forum ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://www.agandfoodfunders.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/4.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230517T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230517T133000 DTSTAMP:20260621T032549 CREATED:20230324T154244Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230519T153131Z UID:10000560-1684324800-1684330200@www.agandfoodfunders.org SUMMARY:Investing in Change: Foundation Support for Lobbying and Engaging Policymakers DESCRIPTION: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 you achieve your goals\, the kinds of advocacy activities you can safely engage in\, and how to build effective relationships with policymakers. \n\n\n\nNot sure how to make the case for funding advocacy? Wondering whether your public or private foundation can speak out on a particular issue? This training will answer these questions and more. The workshop is designed for foundation staff and trustees. \n\n\n\nParticipants will learn: \n\n\n\n\n Why public and private foundation should support advocacy and build relationships with policymakers;\n\n\n\n An overview of activities that constitute advocacy and public policy work;\n\n\n\n Various advocacy roles for foundations;\n\n\n\n The tax code’s definitions of lobbying;\n\n\n\n Activities that are exceptions to the definitions of lobbying\, including those which private foundations can engage in;\n\n\n\n Rules for private and public foundation grants to nonprofits that lobby\, including general support\, specific project\, and multi-year grants; and\n\n\n\n\nPlease note this session is required for anyone who plans to participate in the Hill Day as part of the SAFSF Forum on June 13th. The session will be recorded and we highly encourage you to watch in advance of the SAFSF Forum if you are not able to attend this session live. \n\n\n\n\nRecording\n\n\n\nSlide Deck\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n05172023-SASFS-investing-in-Change-1Download URL:https://www.agandfoodfunders.org/event/investing-in-change-foundation-support-for-lobbying-and-engaging-policymakers/ CATEGORIES:SAFSF Forum ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://www.agandfoodfunders.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/BA-Logo-2@2x-700x125-1.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230417T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230417T235959 DTSTAMP:20260621T032549 CREATED:20230221T204827Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230329T193555Z UID:10000555-1681689600-1681775999@www.agandfoodfunders.org SUMMARY:Sponsor the 2023 SAFSF Forum DESCRIPTION: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 connect\, commit\, and collaborate. \n\n\n\nContact Virginia Clarke\, Executive Director\, or Angie Boone\, Member and Development Associate to secure your spot as a Forum sponsor. \n\n\n\nThose funders organizing a session will have the first opportunity to sponsor their Workshop or Learning Dinner. Sponsorships may not be exclusive. \n\n\n\nAll sponsorships must be finalized by April 17\, 2023 – please reach out as soon as possible. \n\n\n\nConvening Sponsor—$25\,000+\n\n\n\n\nLogo/name on Forum promotional and on-site materials as appropriate\n\n\n\nRecognition at all Forum activities\n\n\n\nAll participants from your organization recognized as “Sponsors” on Forum name badges\n\n\n\nFour (4) complimentary Forum registrations\n\n\n\n\nPlenary Sponsor—$15\,000+\n\n\n\n\nLogo/name on Forum promotional and on-site materials as appropriate\n\n\n\nRecognition at each of the Forum’s three Plenary sessions\n\n\n\nAll participants from your organization recognized as “Sponsors” on Forum name badges\n\n\n\nTwo (2) complimentary Forum registrations\n\n\n\n\nSite Visit Sponsor—$10\,000+\n\n\n\n\nLogo/name on Forum promotional and on-site materials as appropriate\n\n\n\nRecognition at each of the Networking Events\n\n\n\nAll participants from your organization recognized as “Sponsors” on Forum name badges\n\n\n\nOne (1) complimentary Forum registration\n\n\n\n\nNetworking Sponsor—$5\,000+\n\n\n\n\nLogo/name on Forum promotional and on-site materials as appropriate\n\n\n\nRecognition during the chosen Networking Event\n\n\n\nAll participants from your organization recognized as “Sponsors” on Forum name badges\n\n\n\n\nWorkshop—$2\,500+\n\n\n\n\nSponsor choice of Workshop\n\n\n\nLogo/name on Forum promotional and on-site materials as appropriate\n\n\n\nRecognition during the chosen Workshop\n\n\n\nAll participants from your organization recognized as “Sponsors” on Forum name badges\n\n\n\n\nFriend – $500+\n\n\n\n\nLogo/name on Forum promotional and on-site materials as appropriate\n\n\n\nAll participants from your organization recognized as “Sponsors” on Forum name badges\n\n\n\n\nSAFSF retains ownership and total control of all SAFSF events\, programs\, member services and communication vehicles. The policies\, programs\, and integrity of SAFSF must remain entirely unaffected by donations. URL:https://www.agandfoodfunders.org/event/sponsors-the-2023-safsf-forum/ CATEGORIES:Deadlines,SAFSF Forum ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://www.agandfoodfunders.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/20th-Annual-SAFSF-Forum-Sponsor-Icon-1.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220620T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220622T170000 DTSTAMP:20260621T032549 CREATED:20211013T155525Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230426T153105Z UID:10000495-1655712000-1655917200@www.agandfoodfunders.org SUMMARY:20th Annual SAFSF Forum: Commitment & Accountability DESCRIPTION:Registration closed on June 8\, 2022. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRecordings\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPhoto Album\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nProgram\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeakers\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nABOUT THE FORUM\n\n\n\nJoin us in Kansas City\, Missouri for the 20th Annual SAFSF Forum: Commitment and Accountability.  \n\n\n\nSAFSF 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 funders supporting just and sustainable food systems change. The Forum challenges participants to understand the need for grantmakers and investors to take on risks in order to co-create more resilient\, sustainable\, and equitable food systems—and at the same time\, provides space to cultivate connections with peers so that no one organization is going at it alone. \n\n\n\nThe past two years have exposed the injustices that impact our world’s systems in a new way. The pandemic has underlined the need for sustainable investment\, creative collaborations\, and fearless mobilization. It’s clear that we need bold and steadfast commitment to build equitable and sustainable farm\, food\, and fiber systems. We must also be accountable to ourselves\, our partners\, and each other. \n\n\n\nWe invite funders\, investors\, and food system partners to gather in community in Kansas City\, Missouri on June 20-22 for the 20th Annual SAFSF Forum: Commitment & Accountability. Join peers for three days of dynamic funder-led workshops\, strategic plenary sessions\, regional site visits\, and deep relationship-building. These extraordinary times require extraordinary action\, and sessions will mobilize new connections for global\, national\, and regional issues like climate change\, consolidation\, land access\, racial equity\, and more. Through shared learning and strategic alignment\, we hope to inspire you to commit to new goals\, recommit to visions of a better food system\, and cultivate accountability in your work. \n\n\n\nWe thank these sponsors whose support of the 2022 SAFSF Forum boosts our power to convene funders across the agriculture and food system spectrum at a critical moment for philanthropy \n\n\n\nConvening Sponsors\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPlenary and Site Visit Sponsors\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWorkshop Sponsors\n\n\n\n11th Hour Project – Agroecology Fund – Thousand Currents – Thread Fund – Woodcock Foundation\n\n\n\nNetworking Sponsor\n\n\n\nHRK Foundation\n\n\n\nFriends\n\n\n\nAvila Fund – Iowa State University – Lawson Valentine Foundation – The Lumpkin Family Foundation\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nHOTEL MEETING SPACES + BOOKING\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Forum will take place at the Kansas City Marriott downtown. Please be sure to select the correct dates for your duration of stay\, formal Forum programming will span 3 days starting Monday\, June 20 and concluding on Wednesday\, June 22. Most attendees will arrive sometime on Sunday\, June 19th. Registration will be open at 4 pm\, followed by an informal no-host reception at the hotel bar. \n\n\n\nAs you may know\, the May 20th deadline has passed to book your hotel stay through the discounted SAFSF room rate; however\, you can still book a room with the hotel directly. \n\n\n\n\nBOOK HOTEL ROOM\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nHEALTH & SAFETY POLICIES\n\n\n\nLike you\, we take seriously the ongoing and evolving risks of COVID-19 transmission and infection. Current public health guidance indicates that with proper protocols in place we can gather safely in person in June. To read the details about our mask requirement\, vaccination or negative PCR test requirement\, and more\, please click the button below. \n\n\n\n\nHEALTH & SAFETY\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n2022 FORUM ADVISORY COMMITTEE\nElizabeth Stewart Burger\, The Sunflower Foundation \n\n\n\nSkya Ducheneaux\, Akiptan CDFI \n\n\n\nJonathan Halperin\, The Marcus Foundation \n\n\n\nLauren Kohler\, Stray Dog Institute \n\n\n\nMark Muller (chair)\, Regenerative Agriculture Foundation \n\n\n\nDave Nezzie\, Thornburg Foundation \n\n\n\nEmily Parker\, Butterfly Equity Foundation \n\n\n\nMaggie Tauranac\, GRACE Communications Foundation \n\n\n\nGwen Wurst\, Greater Kansas City Community Foundation URL:https://www.agandfoodfunders.org/event/2022-safsf-forum-commitment-accountability/ CATEGORIES:Forum Networking,SAFSF Forum ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.agandfoodfunders.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/Kansas-City-Cityscape-cropped-scaled.jpeg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220608T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220608T235959 DTSTAMP:20260621T032549 CREATED:20220511T183355Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220519T194340Z UID:10000517-1654646400-1654732799@www.agandfoodfunders.org SUMMARY:Forum Registration Closes DESCRIPTION: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! \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLEARN MORE + REGISTER URL:https://www.agandfoodfunders.org/event/forum-registration-closes/ CATEGORIES:Deadlines,SAFSF Forum ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://www.agandfoodfunders.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/20th-Annual-SAFSF-Forum-3.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220525T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220525T131500 DTSTAMP:20260621T032549 CREATED:20220421T195608Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220713T211054Z UID:10000514-1653480000-1653484500@www.agandfoodfunders.org SUMMARY:Funders + Lawyers + Family Farmers = Success DESCRIPTION:View Recording\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nThe Farmers Lawyer story of saving 245\,000 Family Farms from Illegal Foreclosures in the 1980s and Why Funding Legal Strategies is Crucial \n\n\n\n\n\nThis 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 that protected 245\,000 farmers from illegal practices and unconstitutional foreclosure. She will use her new book\, The Farmer’s Lawyer\, to explain how a small $15\,000 grant from a funder allowed her to do this case. The second story is how Willie Nelson held the first Farm Aid concert and used some of the $7 million in proceeds to help start a non-profit law firm\, Farmers’ Legal Action Group\, to support farmers with their legal needs. The third story will be how Farm Aid and FLAG have continued this work from the 1980s and how vital this work is to today’s family farm system of agriculture. This session will feature Sarah Vogel\, attorney\, advocate and author of The Farmer’s Lawyer\, Carolyn Mugar\, Executive Director of Farm Aid since its inception\, Glenda Yoder\, Associate Director of Farm Aid\, and Stephen Carpenter\, Deputy Director and Senior Staff Attorney of Farmers Legal Action Group (FLAG).Session outcomes:  \n\n\n\nParticipants will learn from Sarah Vogel how a small $15\,000 grant was instrumental in saving thousands of farmers from unconstitutional foreclosure and starve outs in the Coleman v. Block case\, as told in The Farmer’s Lawyer book. All of the speakers will give additional examples of how philanthropic support was vital to grass roots activism in the 1980s\, and how important it remains today.   Participants will be encouraged to keep working on problems that seem insoluble or overwhelming. If the broke farmers in the 1980s could win against the mighty USDA\, other “little guys” may be able to win against equally overwhelming odds today.Participants will learn how since the 1980s legal support has been a valuable tool in the arsenal of advocacy — from commenting on proposed regulations\, to counselling farmers in crisis\, to helping minority farmers\, and to fashioning solutions to bring a brighter tomorrow. Finally\, participants will get a sense of optimism and energy about how timely legal support to family farmers and grass roots organizations can be a critical part of resolving problems on land access\, racial equity\, and solving climate challenges.  \n\n\n\nModerator: Carolyn Mugar \n\n\n\nSpeakers:Sarah VogelGlenda YoderStephen Carpenter \n\n\n\nThis is a FREE event open to all funders. Registration is required. URL:https://www.agandfoodfunders.org/event/funders-lawyers-family-farmers-success/ CATEGORIES:Event Slider,SAFSF Forum,Webinars ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://www.agandfoodfunders.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/cold-smooth-tasty.-10-copy.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220504T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220504T235959 DTSTAMP:20260621T032549 CREATED:20220421T152325Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220421T152327Z UID:10000513-1651622400-1651708799@www.agandfoodfunders.org SUMMARY:Early-bird Registration Deadline DESCRIPTION:Early-bird registration for the 20th Annual SAFSF Forum: Commitment & Accountability is now open! \n\n\n\nRegister 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. \n\n\n\n\nLEARN MORE + REGISTER URL:https://www.agandfoodfunders.org/event/early-bird-registration-deadline/ CATEGORIES:Deadlines,SAFSF Forum END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220426T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220426T111500 DTSTAMP:20260621T032549 CREATED:20220404T174226Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220429T144915Z UID:10000510-1650967200-1650971700@www.agandfoodfunders.org SUMMARY:Structurally Rooted Systemic Inequality Requires Social Justice Solutions DESCRIPTION:View Recording\n\n\n\n\n\n\nHosted by SAFSF and Duke University World Food Policy Center \n\n\n\nStructural 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 inequality. This session will define Structurally Rooted Systemic Inequality\, identify the mechanisms that uphold it\, detail how that plays out in communities\, and open a conversation around philanthropy’s role in both upholding and dismantling it. This session will start the conversation of philanthropy’s role in upholding and unwinding these systems\, and set the stage for deeper dives into equity at the 20th Annual SAFSF Forum: Commitment & Accountability. \n\n\n\nThis is a free\, funder-only event\, please register below. \n\n\n\nSession Goals: \n\n\n\nDefine structural inequality and what upholds it.Describe the human impact of structural inequality.Discuss the various ways in which philanthropy perpetuates structural inequality and how we are working to dismantle it.\n\n\n\nModerator:Jen Zuckerman\, director of strategic initiatives\, Duke University World Food Policy Center \n\n\n\nSpeakers:Jay Pearson\, associate professor of public policy\, Duke University Sanford School of Public PolicyCamryn Smith\, executive director\, Communities in Partnership \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nREGISTRATION URL:https://www.agandfoodfunders.org/event/structurally-rooted-systemic-inequality-requires-social-justice-solutions/ CATEGORIES:SAFSF Forum,Webinars ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://www.agandfoodfunders.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/2022-Policy-Convening-Slides-3.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220110T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220110T120000 DTSTAMP:20260621T032549 CREATED:20220104T165726Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220104T165729Z UID:10000498-1641816000-1641816000@www.agandfoodfunders.org SUMMARY:Deadline for Session Proposals for 20th Annual SAFSF Forum DESCRIPTION: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.  \n\n\n\nWe strongly encourage you to read through our session idea guidelines for frequently asked questions\, including details about what we are looking for in this year’s session proposals.  \n\n\n\nThe three-day Forum offers many opportunities for peer learning\, networking\, and collaboration. Plenary and workshop sessions and learning dinners allow funders to learn from each other as well as leaders in the field. Day-long and half-day site visits encourage participants to learn from work happening in the region and identify themes that might inform their own work once they return home. \n\n\n\nThe Forum theme and agenda are developed by and for funders who are working on a variety of issues\, approaches\, and geographies\, attendees will leave with inspiration\, strategies\, and connections for impactful engagement related to their own work within the food system. \n\n\n\n\nLEARN MORE + SUBMIT URL:https://www.agandfoodfunders.org/event/deadline-for-session-proposals-for-20th-annual-safsf-forum/ CATEGORIES:Deadlines,SAFSF Forum END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211101T123000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211101T140000 DTSTAMP:20260621T032549 CREATED:20210924T173946Z LAST-MODIFIED:20211026T224511Z UID:10000493-1635769800-1635775200@www.agandfoodfunders.org SUMMARY:Solidarity Funding: Supporting Racial Justice in Food and Agriculture Philanthropy DESCRIPTION: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. \n\n\n\nThis session has the following goals: \n\n\n\nReflect: Hear from participants about their experience at the May workshop. Are there any learnings or new relationships that influenced your thinking or brought up questions in your work?\n\n\n\nCheck in: Discuss what has happened since the workshop – did you stay in touch with your accountability partner? How have your goals advanced? What new challenges have you faced\, and what have you moved forward?\n\n\n\nLook forward: What do you see as your “next right step\,” as Navina Khanna put it during the Forum session? What challenges are you facing?\n\n\n\nConnect: Are there specific ways SAFSF – or other members – might be able to help\, or new ways you’re interested in working together?\n\n\n\nThe session will be a facilitated conversation with breakout sessions. Participants must complete a self-reflection survey before the session. As with the Decolonizing workshop\, the session will not be recorded\, but we will be looking to share high-level takeaway and insights with our broader membership (without attribution\, and/or with permission). \n\n\n\nAbout the session nameYou’ve likely noticed that we renamed this follow-up Solidarity Philanthropy\, rather than Decolonizing Philanthropy\, the name of the original forum session. \n\n\n\nWe made the change because we seek to use language that is clear\, respectful\, and not appropriative\, especially as non-Indigenous People and in particular\, as white women. Together\, we are learning from the article “Decolonizing is Not A Metaphor\,” especially Tuck and Yang’s opening comment\, “Decolonization brings about the repatriation of Indigenous land and life; it is not a metaphor for other things we want to do to improve our societies and schools.”  \n\n\n\nWe are also learning from the powerful guidance brought forward by Native American philanthropist Edgar VillaNueva (Decolonizing Wealth and Liberated Capital)\, which includes a powerful critique of many forms of institutional philanthropy and also offers steps for healing and getting things right: grieve\, apologize\, listen\, relate\, represent\, invest\, and repair. These are important aspirations for us all in this moment of deep interconnected crises\, and deep openings toward healing and repair. \n\n\n\nWe chose to focus on Solidarity because we feel it captured the heart of what we’d set out to discuss with the speakers from the Open Letter Group–how as funders to stand with our colleagues in BIPOC- and frontline-led organizations in authentic and accountable ways. URL:https://www.agandfoodfunders.org/event/solidarity-funding-supporting-racial-justice-in-food-and-agriculture-philanthropy/ CATEGORIES:Member Only,SAFSF Forum,Webinars ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.agandfoodfunders.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/racial-justice.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210514T123000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210514T133000 DTSTAMP:20260621T032549 CREATED:20210330T212403Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230426T153105Z UID:10000463-1620995400-1620999000@www.agandfoodfunders.org SUMMARY:NETWORKING – Next Generation Philanthropy Trivia 'Afterparty' DESCRIPTION:Presented and Sponsored by Frost Family Foundation\n\n\n\nYoung people across America are driving today’s calls for radical societal transformation. Likewise\, young trustees of family foundations are sparking new\, and sometimes radical\, conversations about how generational wealth is deployed through philanthropy. \n\n\n\nBring a drink or snack and a friendly sense of competition for a fun trivia ‘afterparty’ where you’ll have the opportunity to connect with other next generation philanthropists\, trustees\, and staff in the SAFSF network. This session is intended for young SAFSF members seeking to connect with each other. It also provides a learning and connecting opportunity for foundation trustees and staff who are preparing to bring younger members into active foundation roles. \n\n\n\nHost\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAshley Lukens\, Frost Family Foundation; HI\n\n\n\n\nAshley Lukens\, PhD is an independent philanthropic and development advisor in Hawaiʻi and Oregon. She has worked in and with the impact sector in Hawaiʻi since 2006 as the founder of the Hawaiʻi Food Policy Council\, owner of Baby Awearness\, director of the RISE Program at Kupu\, director of Hawaiʻi Center for Food Safety\, and currently as the executive director of the Frost Family Foundation\, co-founder of Kūkulu\, and co-founder of Hoiʻwai Fund. URL:https://www.agandfoodfunders.org/event/networking-next-generation-philanthropy-trivia-session/ CATEGORIES:Forum Networking,SAFSF Forum ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.agandfoodfunders.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/2021_Forum_emailheader_2021_USE-copy.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20210514T110000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20210514T120000 DTSTAMP:20260621T032549 CREATED:20210330T215741Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230426T153105Z UID:10000466-1620990000-1620993600@www.agandfoodfunders.org SUMMARY:NETWORKING – Closing Reflections DESCRIPTION:Presented by Sustainable Agriculture and Food Systems Funders (SAFSF)\n\n\n\nClose out your two weeks of participation at the 2021 SAFSF Forum by joining us for this informal closing networking session. Connect with your peers and share what’s on your mind and what you’re taking with you as you leave the Forum. What exciting connections have you made? What questions will you continue to grapple with? What actions or continued learning might these two weeks inspire? \n\n\n\nHosts\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVirginia Clarke – Sustainable Agriculture and Food Systems Funders; CA\n\n\n\n\nVirginia Clarke is the executive director of Sustainable Agriculture and Food Systems Funders (SAFSF)\, a network of grantmakers working to strengthen connections\, build capacity\, and foster collaboration of the philanthropic and investment communities in support of vibrant\, healthy and just food and farm systems. She has led the network in its growth and impact since starting with SAFSF in 2003 as a part-time coordinator. Prior to SAFSF\, she worked with a variety of international education programs including the University of California’s Education Abroad Program as the regional director assistant for Asia and Africa\, and the Salzburg Seminar in Austria where she was a program director and led outreach efforts in Latin America. Other life/work opportunities involved a stint at the World Bank; leading a management reorganization for a private clothing manufacturer; assisting immigrants in their efforts to secure legal residency in the U.S.; and creating/running a restitution project for juvenile offenders in Western Massachusetts. Her fluency in Spanish stems from living and working in Spain\, Bolivia and Mexico. Virginia has a Masters in International Administration from the School for International Training and a B.A. with honors in Spanish from the University of California\, Santa Barbara. A TEDx Manhattan alumni (2014)\, Virginia lives in Santa Barbara\, CA and has two daughters. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nChristine James – The John Merck Fund; VT\n\n\n\n\nChristine James came to The John Merck Fund in 2008\, after 20+ years working for small\, community-based human service and environmental nonprofit organizations in Maine and Massachusetts. She has a BA in art history from Bowdoin College and an MA in public policy from Tufts University’s Urban & Environmental Policy program. Just prior to coming to JMF\, she was executive director of EarthWorks\, a small urban greening organization based in the Roxbury neighborhood of Boston. Her work in Maine included four years as executive director of an educational organic farm and two years working on clean energy and climate change issues. Prior to becoming Executive Director\, she was JMF’s Director of Programs from 2008 to 2017\, when she oversaw the foundation’s environmental grants programs: Clean Energy\, Health and the Environment\, and Regional Food Systems. URL:https://www.agandfoodfunders.org/event/networking-closing-reflections/ CATEGORIES:Forum Networking,SAFSF Forum ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.agandfoodfunders.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/2021_Forum_emailheader_2021_USE-copy.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210514T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210514T103000 DTSTAMP:20260621T032549 CREATED:20210330T214559Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210611T171749Z UID:10000464-1620982800-1620988200@www.agandfoodfunders.org SUMMARY:CLOSING SESSION – Elevating and Resourcing BIPOC (Black\, Indigenous\, and People of Color) Farmers and Producers DESCRIPTION:Presented and Sponsored by 11th Hour ProjectThanks to Forum Platform Sponsors 11th Hour Project\, Fair Food Network\, GRACE Communications Foundation\n\n\n\nAll farmers and producers don’t have the same opportunities. For the sake of healing the earth and being in right relationship with each other\, we are confronting the systems that have encouraged climate chaos\, environmental injustices\, land theft\, and forced and exploited work\, including the white supremacy that fueled the disparities we see today around who ‘owns’ land\, who works the land\, and what that means for racial wealth inequities. \n\n\n\nDuring this session\, we will continue the work of listening to each other\, particularly to Black\, Indigenous\, and folks of color who work and steward the land in culturally relevant ways. Efforts from across the landmass are bringing together multi-ethnic farmers\, farming groups\, and allies to root our food and farming system in practices and policies that support BIPOC land stewards and help build health equity. What does equity look like in action? How do we coordinate around resourcing support for Black\, Indigenous farmers and stewards of color? \n\n\n\nJoin us in community and solidarity as we close out the Forum by grappling with these critical questions and taking on the truth and reconciliation work of our time. \n\n\n\nSpeakers \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPaola Diaz – moderator\, The 11th Hour Project; CA\n\n\n\n\nPaola is the Food and Agriculture Program Coordinator at The 11th Hour Project. Her work focuses on co-creating healthy\, regional food and farming system infrastructure\, towards a just transition framework that centers racial\, economic\, and environmental justice\, and community self-determination. She is a first-generation New Yorker with familial and ancestral roots in Colombia. \n\n\n\nShe graduated from SUNY Binghamton with a B.A. in sociology and psychology. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJanssen Hang\, Hmong American Farmers Association; MN\n\n\n\n\nJanssen Hang is the Executive Director and Co-Founder of the Hmong American Farmers Association. Janssen grew up growing\, harvesting and selling vegetables for the local food economy and currently runs his family-owned value-added business making spring rolls and egg rolls at the downtown Saint Paul Farmers Market. A 2001 Saint Olaf graduate in Biology and Asian Studies\, Janssen has over 20 years of experience in agriculture\, 12 years in small business management\, and 7 years as a licensed real estate agent. Janssen is also one among just a few certified Hmong Mekongs (cultural broker). Janssen likes to spend his free time with his family in the outdoors. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJosefina Lara Chavez\, Community Alliance with Family Farmers; CA\n\n\n\n\nJosefina Lara Chavez is CAFF’s Farm to Market Specialist and works largely with Latino growers in the same place where she grew up\, the Salinas Valley. She has a graduate degree in Public Administration\, from the Middlebury Institute of International Studies. Through her work and volunteerism\, she has served communities locally and internationally with social justice\, equity\, and love being at the root of it all. She is passionate about creating stronger connections between people. Josefina recently launched her own farm\, Big Beaner Ranch\, a 1.5-acre agroecological operation in San Benito County\, CA\, where she grow specialty vegetables\, fruits\, herbs\, and flowers. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJason Lindsay\, Southeastern African American Farmers’ Organic Network; NC\n\n\n\n\nPeople and land stand at the center of Jason’s inspiration to collectively bring resolve for Black farmers across the southeast United States. With seven years of regenerative/carbon farming and four years of farm/farmer base organizing\, community and collective input is his position in moving things forward. Jason is the first generation in his family born off the farm and now the only farmer in the family. He was the first to register a farm in the city limits his home- town\, selling organic vegetables to local CSA’s\, juicing companies\, and a mobile food market. After years of cultivating community through the community garden network\, Jason developed a youth agricultural training program – Cultivating Young Entrepreneurs and a farm school curriculum. Now as a rural new and beginning farmer Jason continues to be an educator\, taking the practical and theoretical knowledge he has gained through his journey to reclaiming his agrarian identity and serves as a consultant to local farms and organizations on best practices\, certification\, market development\, and operation management. With a clear calling for this work\, Jason continues farming and building farmer-to-farmer relationships as a means to establish self-sustainable food systems throughout our communities. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nNeely Snyder\, Dream of Wild Health; MN\n\n\n\n\nNeely Snyder is Executive Director of Dream of Wild Health\, a Native-led nonprofit organization in Minneapolis\, MN\, whose mission is to restore health and well-being in the Native community by recovering knowledge of and access to healthy Indigenous food\, medicine and lifeways. The organization has an office in Minneapolis and a 30-acre farm just 40 minutes north of the city. Neely is an enrolled member of St. Croix Chippewa and a direct descendent of Red Lake Nation and Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe. Throughout Neely’s career in the nonprofit sector\, she has worked with multiple organizations including Native Americans in Philanthropy and American Indian Cancer Foundation\, and also serves on The Family Partnership Board of Directors in Minneapolis. As an Ojibwe woman\, her passion is building stronger and healthier Native communities. She enjoys watching her kids play sports and spending time with family and friends. URL:https://www.agandfoodfunders.org/event/closing-session-elevating-and-resourcing-bipoc-black-indigenous-and-people-of-color-farmers-and-producers/ CATEGORIES:SAFSF Forum ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.agandfoodfunders.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/2021_Forum_emailheader_2021_USE-copy.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210513T103500 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210513T110500 DTSTAMP:20260621T032549 CREATED:20210421T223537Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210422T233509Z UID:10000472-1620902100-1620903900@www.agandfoodfunders.org SUMMARY:Movement Break DESCRIPTION:Step away from your desk chair\, kitchen table\, or workspace for a grounding exercise and movement break. Join Fenyx\, a Radically Fit instructor\, in this 30-minute movement break. \n\n\n\nRadically Fit is Oakland’s body positive community gym for Queer\, Trans\, BIPOC\, Big Bodied & Fat folx & their allies\, regardless of experience or ability URL:https://www.agandfoodfunders.org/event/movement-break-4/ CATEGORIES:SAFSF Forum ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.agandfoodfunders.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/2021_Forum_emailheader_noyear-e1617368728817.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210513T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210513T103000 DTSTAMP:20260621T032549 CREATED:20210330T195020Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210611T171822Z UID:10000460-1620896400-1620901800@www.agandfoodfunders.org SUMMARY:WORKSHOP – A Window of Opportunity for Equitable Climate and Agriculture Policy: Possibilities and Pitfalls DESCRIPTION:Presented by Walton Family Foundation\, Funders for Regenerative Agriculture (FORA)\, and Sustainable Agriculture and Food Systems Funders (SAFSF)\n\n\n\nThe agriculture industry has an enormous responsibility to reduce and reverse its greenhouse gas emissions (GHGs) in the face of climate change\, all while reckoning with an industrial system that marginalizes historically underserved communities and identities. \n\n\n\nWith a new Administration\, there is currently opportunity and political will to advance policies at the intersection of agriculture and climate change\, as well as momentum in carbon markets both in the public and private realms. How might philanthropy effectively engage to drive policy and carbon markets towards real greenhouse gas reductions and regenerative practices that work for a broad spectrum of farmers and farm operations? \n\n\n\nWe will explore this critical question with an eye toward solutions that engage underserved communities\, led by voices of farmers\, community leaders\, and policy experts. In an effort to favor engagement over presentation\, the conversation will begin in plenary and move toward Q&A followed by breakout sessions. \n\n\n\nSession goals:\n\n\n\nDiscuss the possibilities and pitfalls of new agricultural policy.Educate funders around ways they can affect policy to support integrated and equitable policy solutions.Engage with key voices and perspectives to guide possible action.\n\n\n\nSpeakers\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPipa Elias – moderator\, Walton Family Foundation\n\n\n\n\nPipa Elias is deputy director of the Environment Program at the Walton Family Foundation. Before joining the foundation\, she worked at The Nature Conservancy\, where she was Director of Agriculture for North America. Skilled at applying scientific research to advance policy and conservation solutions\, Pipa leveraged collaborations to help producers meet the growing demand for food while protecting critical lands and waters. Prior to her work on the agriculture team at TNC\, Pipa was a senior policy advisor\, leading land use policy advocacy at the United Nations climate negotiations and other multilateral venues. In her eight years working on the UN climate negotiations she led a coalition of nearly a dozen NGOs that helped influence the system of incentives and measurements for the land-use sector in global climate agreements. Pipa also served as policy lead on the team that helped to publish a seminal paper on Natural Climate Solutions. Pipa received her M.S. in forestry from Virginia Tech\, and her B.S. in environmental science from the University of Notre Dame. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEmily Bruner\, American Farmland Trust\n\n\n\n\nDr. Bruner has been a proponent of conservation agriculture for over a decade. As the Midwest Science Director for American Farmland Trust\, Dr. Bruner’s work focuses on identifying ways to accelerate adoption of soil health practices while simultaneously increasing the resiliency and productivity of Midwest farms. Prior to her current role\, she served as the Director for the Vigo County Soil and Water Conservation District\, as a Hydrologist with the United States Forest Service\, an adjunct faculty member at Saint Mary of the Woods College\, and as an Extension Associate for Natural Resources. Dr. Bruner’s work on nitrogen cycling in agricultural systems also led her to DC to investigate climate change mitigation policy as a Research Fellow with the Congressional Research Service. Bruner earned her PhD in Soil Science from Washington State University and has a Bachelor of Science Degree in Conservation and Natural Resource Management with a minor in Sustainable Agriculture from the University of Kentucky. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMaisah Khan\, Mississippi River Network\n\n\n\n\nBio coming soon \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nKristin Weeks-Duncanson\, Highland Family Farms\n\n\n\n\nBio coming soon \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCristel Zoebisch\, National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition\n\n\n\n\nCristel holds an M.A. in Food Studies from New York University\, where she focused on food and agricultural economics and policy\, and she earned her B.A. in Economics from the University of Texas at Austin. Her graduate thesis analyzed three farm bill programs that support beginning\, socially disadvantaged and veteran farmers and ranchers. Her previous work includes participating on a program evaluation team for the NYC Mayor’s Office of Food Policy\, conducting food policy advocacy and educational activities for a national nonprofit organization\, and consulting. She staffs NSAC’s Conservation\, Energy and Environment Committee and helps coordinate its Climate Change Subcommittee. URL:https://www.agandfoodfunders.org/event/workshop-a-window-of-opportunity-for-equitable-climate-and-agriculture-policy-possibilities-and-pitfalls/ CATEGORIES:SAFSF Forum ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.agandfoodfunders.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/2021_Forum_emailheader_2021_USE-copy.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210512T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210512T130000 DTSTAMP:20260621T032549 CREATED:20210330T215043Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230426T153105Z UID:10000465-1620820800-1620824400@www.agandfoodfunders.org SUMMARY:NETWORKING – Community Connections: Networking Tables DESCRIPTION:Presented by Sustainable Agriculture and Food Systems Funders (SAFSF)\n\n\n\nBuild a break into your day by enjoying your coffee\, a snack\, a meal\, or just some nourishing dialogue as a community. No slides\, no presentation\, nothing formal—just an online version of small group conversations. Our online platform will put you at a virtual ‘table’ with others in the network for a short\, unstructured conversation\, then move you into another group and conversation. Listen in to what others are thinking about and learning at the Forum\, connect with others in the SAFSF network\, and join the dialogue. URL:https://www.agandfoodfunders.org/event/networking-community-connections-networking-tables/ CATEGORIES:Forum Networking,SAFSF Forum ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.agandfoodfunders.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/2021_Forum_emailheader_2021_USE-copy.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210512T113500 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210512T120500 DTSTAMP:20260621T032549 CREATED:20210421T223414Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210422T233536Z UID:10000471-1620819300-1620821100@www.agandfoodfunders.org SUMMARY:Movement Break DESCRIPTION:Step away from your desk chair\, kitchen table\, or workspace for a grounding exercise and movement break. Join Fenyx\, a Radically Fit instructor\, in this 30-minute movement break. \n\n\n\nRadically Fit is Oakland’s body positive community gym for Queer\, Trans\, BIPOC\, Big Bodied & Fat folx & their allies\, regardless of experience or ability URL:https://www.agandfoodfunders.org/event/movement-break-3/ CATEGORIES:SAFSF Forum ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.agandfoodfunders.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/2021_Forum_emailheader_noyear-e1617368728817.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210512T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210512T113000 DTSTAMP:20260621T032549 CREATED:20210329T224244Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210611T171904Z UID:10000450-1620813600-1620819000@www.agandfoodfunders.org SUMMARY:WORKSHOP – A State-level Case Study in Advancing Food Systems Equity DESCRIPTION:Presented by The Thornburg Foundation\n\n\n\nThis session will provide a state-level case study from New Mexico highlighting systemic efforts centered on equity\, shared power\, and direct representation to transform the local food ecosystem. Presenters will discuss efforts to facilitate market opportunities for smaller-scale farmers – primarily through values-based institutional purchasing – while simultaneously providing fresh\, local food to lower-income populations in rural\, frontier\, urban\, and tribal regions across the state. This work has been resourced through public-private partnerships\, direct support of advocacy to increase state legislative funding for local purchasing\, and investments in Value Chain Coordination positions and other human capital needed to strengthen the food system. As a result\, New Mexico Grown for Schools\, Senior Centers\, and Early Childhood Sites and Double Up Food Bucks have emerged as instruments critical to the evolution of the local food ecosystem. Through this session\, funders will therefore learn about a place-based model that could be applicable in other contexts. \n\n\n\nSession goals:\n\n\n\nTo highlight successful collaboration among a variety of stakeholders in New Mexico that is providing new market opportunities for farmers and local\, nutritious food to lower-income populations.For funders to learn about strategic initiatives in New Mexico that are incentivizing local food system development\, and how philanthropy\, state\, and federal dollars support and fund this collaborative work.To demonstrate how value chain coordination\, public-private partnerships\, and advocacy can advance equity across the food system.\n\n\n\nSpeakers\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBryan Crawford-Garrett – Moderator\, Thornburg Foundation; NM\n\n\n\n\nBryan Crawford-Garrett is the Food and Agriculture Policy Officer at the Thornburg Foundation and has been in this position since September 2017. In this role\, he manages the Foundation’s Food and Agriculture strategy and grantmaking portfolio. Bryan has nearly 20 years of experience working to strengthen local food and agricultural systems – in New Mexico as well as in numerous countries throughout the world. Prior to working with Thornburg\, Bryan was a consultant to non-profits and funders for five years. He has also worked for several years in leadership positions with international NGOs. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nKendal Chavez\, New Mexico Public Education Department; NM\n\n\n\n\nKendal Chavez is the Healthy Schools Coordinator for the New Mexico Public Education Department. In partnership with rural\, urban\, and tribal school and school district entities\, she works to deepen the impact of coordinated school health programs in New Mexico schools. Chavez is also an alumna of FoodCorps’ AmeriCorps service program and George Washington University’s Food Policy Fellowship Institute. Chavez is currently studying public policy and public administration at the University of New Mexico. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nHelga Garcia-Garza\, Agri-Cultura Cooperative Network; NM\n\n\n\n\nHelga Garza is Executive Director of Agri-Cultura Cooperative Network (ACN)\, a South Valley of Albuquerque farmer-owned cooperative. The network is inclusive of 32 allied farms from urban and rural Rio Grande communities committed to sustainable and regenerative growing methods. Helga is inspired by justice\, guided by her ancestral ceremonial agricultural calendar\, and engages community through a holistic intergenerational approach in developing a sustainable and equitable food system that is supportive of an environmental economy and community-driven markets. Helga is leading efforts that have increased equitable access to healthy local food\, by removing structural barriers such as price\, availability\, policy climate\, and increasing nutritional knowledge through curriculum development of a holistic family-based wellness program that is bilingual\, culturally relevant\, and community-based. Through these efforts\, Helga is building the capacity of New Mexico’s urban and rural small farmers ability to keep production local through an effective farm-to-market system that ensures household livelihood\, positive health outcomes\, economic activity and community wellbeing. Helga is a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Culture of Health Leader 2018-2021\, Castanea Fellow 2020 – 2021\, Governing Board Chair of the New Mexico Food and Agriculture Policy Council\, and Board President of South Valley Main St. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAlma Maquitico\, Anthony Youth Farm; NM\n\n\n\n\nAlma Maquitico is an agroe-cological trainer working towards equity in the food system. Alma has worked extensively with small-scale farmers in southern New Mexico and west Texas by bringing them together to produce\, aggregate\, and market their goods for neighborhood-scale efforts and institutional wholesale buyers. Her experience is centeredin developing models to help primarily migrant and small-scale growersovercome barriers of scale\, means\, skill\, and language. As part of ateam that leads the Anthony Youth Farm\, Alma serves as a farmer-trainer and coordinator\, providing leadership and sustainable agricultural training to low-income youth. The Anthony Youth Farm runs a subsidized fresh food distribution program for rural communities facing chronic food inequities in southern New Mexico. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDenise Miller\, New Mexico Farmers’ Marketing Association; NM\n\n\n\n\nDenise Miller has been the executive directive of the New Mexico Farmers’ Marketing Association (NMFMA) since 2005. Denise directs the NMFMA’s wide-ranging food value chain activities devoted to programs\, projects\, and resources that help New Mexico farmers and food producers improve profitability\, and that improve the nutritional health of communities across the state. Denise has helped grow the NMFMA from state-registered non-profit with a $200\,000 annual budget to a 501c3 organization now managing more than $2 million in 2021\, much of which is pass-thru funds for food incentive programs\, farmer grants\, and partner resources. Denise previously worked in marketing for a variety of corporate\, small business\, and non-profit organizations. Denise received her BA in Journalism from the University of Wisconsin-Madison\, and her MA from St. John’s College in Santa Fe\, NM. URL:https://www.agandfoodfunders.org/event/a-state-level-case-study-in-advancing-food-systems-equity/ CATEGORIES:SAFSF Forum ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.agandfoodfunders.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/2021_Forum_emailheader_2021_USE-copy.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210511T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210511T130000 DTSTAMP:20260621T032549 CREATED:20210501T004328Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230426T153106Z UID:10000474-1620734400-1620738000@www.agandfoodfunders.org SUMMARY:NETWORKING – Supporting Pathways to Careers in Agriculture for BIPOC Students DESCRIPTION:Presented by Minorities in Agriculture\, Natural Resources and Related Sciences (MANRRS) and Sustainable Agriculture and Food Systems Funders (SAFSF)\n\n\n\nJoin leadership from Minorities in Agriculture\, Natural Resources\, and Related Sciences (MANNRS) and Virginia Clarke\, SAFSF’s executive director\, for a dynamic discussion about opportunities to support pathways to careers in agriculture\, food systems\, and philanthropy for BIPOC students. MANNRS promotes academic and professional advancement by empowering BIPOC youth in agriculture\, natural resources\, and related sciences. How can SAFSF members support this mission and work; promote careers in philanthropy\, sustainable agriculture\, and food systems; and continue to shift power for a more inclusive and equitable future? URL:https://www.agandfoodfunders.org/event/networking-supporting-pathways-to-careers-in-agriculture-for-bipoc-students/ CATEGORIES:Forum Networking,SAFSF Forum ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.agandfoodfunders.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/2021_Forum_emailheader_noyear-e1617368728817.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210511T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210511T130000 DTSTAMP:20260621T032549 CREATED:20210330T193911Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230426T153106Z UID:10000458-1620734400-1620738000@www.agandfoodfunders.org SUMMARY:NETWORKING – Community Conversations: Attendee-led Ad Hoc Networking DESCRIPTION:Presented by Sustainable Agriculture and Food Systems Funders (SAFSF)\n\n\n\nWe know there are many important issues we could not fit into our Forum agenda. This time presents an opportunity for you to host or join a conversation on a topic we missed\, go deeper on a discussion started earlier in the week\, connect with peers who are located in your region or supporting similar issues\, bring forward a question you’ve been grappling with\, or build out a new collaboration. \n\n\n\nSuggest an informal conversation topic you’d like to host—ranging from the professional to the fun—when you register for the Forum\, or in the Forum web/mobile platform. Browse conversation topics that your peers plan to host in the Forum web/mobile platform\, along with meeting room details. \n\n\n\nCan’t make this time? You’ll also be able to host other side meetings and ad hoc conversations at any time throughout the two-week Forum. Details will be included in the Forum web/mobile platform\, which will go ‘live’ for registrants at the end of April. URL:https://www.agandfoodfunders.org/event/community-conversations-attendee-led-ad-hoc-networking/ CATEGORIES:Forum Networking,SAFSF Forum ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.agandfoodfunders.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/2021_Forum_emailheader_2021_USE-copy.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210511T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210511T103000 DTSTAMP:20260621T032549 CREATED:20210330T193223Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210611T171949Z UID:10000457-1620723600-1620729000@www.agandfoodfunders.org SUMMARY:WORKSHOP – Integrated Capital for Self-Determination and Resilience in Regenerative Agriculture DESCRIPTION:Presented by Swift Foundation and Guidelight Strategies\n\n\n\nHow can we fill the critical gaps in financing the transition to regenerative agriculture that supports the economic self-determination of Indigenous\, Black\, and other communities of color? \n\n\n\nNow is the time to ensure that the “regenerative” capital structures we develop center community economic and Indigenous Peoples’ rights and self-determination at their core. How do we guarantee that these funds explicitly address equity and structural racism that Indigenous Peoples\, farmers of color\, and other marginalized groups face\, especially regarding land access; and ensure that regenerative agriculture investments do not only strengthen white farmers\, who already own 98% of farmland in the US? \n\n\n\nWe will hear from speakers working on integrated capital structures across our landscapes\, and explore opportunities to create new financial entities necessary to support the growing needs of these sectors\, ensure equity\, and ensure that access to patient\, blended capital is equitable and available through creative strategies such as blended finance\, loan loss revenues\, CDFIs and loan funds. \n\n\n\nSession goals:\n\n\n\nSet context of current financial landscape and challenges and opportunities\, centering economic self-determination and food sovereignty as integral to regenerative agriculture and Indigenous agriculture.Inspire other philanthropic organizations and institutions with financial power to move more money towards regenerative agriculture led by BIPOC communities\, such as supporting loan loss reserves with grants alongside investments.Encourage more collaboration\, conversation\, and investment by funders and investors into innovative BIPOC-centered regenerative agriculture opportunities.\n\n\n\nSpeakers\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSuzanne Benally – Moderator\, Swift Foundation; NM\n\n\n\n\nSuzanne Benally is Navajo and Santa Clara Tewa. She grew up in the community of Shiprock\, New Mexico on the Navajo Nation. Her maternal clan is Kinlichii̒nii (Red House People) and she was born for Naashaashi (Bear People Clan). Suzanne has worked in higher education and the non-profit sector for 35 years. Most recently\, Suzanne served as the Executive Director of Cultural Survival\, an international Indigenous rights advocacy organization that advocates for Indigenous Peoples’ rights\, self-determination\, land\, language\, culture\, and political resilience. Formerly\, she served as the Associate Vice President for Academic Affairs at Naropa University\, and was a core faculty member and previous chair of the environmental studies department. Her extensive experience spans positions devoted to social justice\, diversity\, and equity. Suzanne is currently co-chair of the International Funders for Indigenous Peoples and a Trustee of the Naropa University Board of Trustees. She is a cohort member of the Rothko Chapel’s Spirituality and Social Justice initiative to further contemporary understandings about spiritualty and social justice. Deeply committed to social\, environmental and climate justice\, her work\, passion\, and interests center on relationships and interconnectedness between land\, spirituality\, culture\, and people as reflected in narratives and stories past and present. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAnthony Chang\, Kitchen Table Advisors; CA\n\n\n\n\nAs the son of Asian immigrant small business owners\, Anthony has been drawn to food and the people behind our food throughout his life\, driven by values of social justice and ecological responsibility. From learning how to make dumplings from his dad as a kid and working part-time jobs in a cafe and organic vegetable basket home delivery service\, to building relationships with farmers like Marsha and Modesto of Oya Organics at the Mountain View farmers’ market\, he has long respected the incredibly hard-working people who grow\, produce\, cook\, serve and share delicious food. Anthony has spent 20+ years working in economic opportunity for communities of color\, in particular immigrant communities. Much of his experience has centered around exploring different ways to channel capital to communities of color and immigrant small business owners. He learned the benefits and drawbacks of CDFI lending to small businesses through 15+ years at Opportunity Fund and California FarmLink. Serving on the boards of Common Future (current) and RSF Social Finance (past)\, he has contributed to uplifting the bridges and financial intermediaries between wealth holders and community wealth builders and/or social enterprises. Anthony has most recently partnered on experimenting with new models of BIPOC-led and governed resources through projects like the collaborative CA BIPOC Farmer/Land Steward Relief Fund. His current role at Kitchen Table Advisors focuses on institutional level change which shifts capital in ways that fuel the economic viability and self-determination of a multi-racial next generation of sustainable small farms and ranches. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nChrystel Cornelius\, Oweesta Corporation; CO\n\n\n\n\nChrystel Cornelius is the President & CEO of the Oweesta Corporation\, a national Native CDFI intermediary predominantly serving Native communities across the United States\, Alaska\, and Hawaii. Ms. Cornelius has worked with Native communities for most of her professional career\, with more than 23 years of experience working in the Native economic development field. She is an enrolled member of the Oneida Nation of Wisconsin and a member of the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians located in North Dakota. Ms. Cornelius has dedicated her career to capitalizing Native communities upholding tribal sovereignty and self-determination measures through the issuance of capital and organizational capacity building efforts. Chrystel Cornelius is a founding steering committee member and previously held the position as the Board Secretary for the Native CDFI Network (NCN). Ms. Cornelius is also a former board member of Opportunity Finance Network (OFN)\, is a current board member of the Community Reinvestment Fund (CRF) and holds the position of Board Chair for the Red Feather Development Group. Ms. Chrystel Cornelius attained a bachelor’s degree in Business Management from the University of Mary in Bismarck\, North Dakota. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSkya Ducheneaux\, Akiptan Fund; SD\n\n\n\n\nSkya Ducheneaux\, an enrolled member of the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe\, spent the first 18 years of her life on a cattle ranch on the CRST Reservation in South Dakota and has a Bachelor’s and Master’s Degree in Business Administration. Previously\, Skya worked for the Intertribal Agriculture Council; first as an intern and most recently as a Project Coordinator\, where she was introduced to the Native Community Development Financial Institution world (Native CDFI). Skya worked diligently to create the first national Native CDFI dedicated to Indian agriculture\, Akiptan\, which launched in 2019. Today\, she is the Executive Director of Akiptan and remains connected to agriculture\, just from the other side of the table. URL:https://www.agandfoodfunders.org/event/workshop-integrated-capital-for-self-determination-and-resilience-in-regenerative-agriculture/ CATEGORIES:SAFSF Forum ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.agandfoodfunders.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/2021_Forum_emailheader_2021_USE-copy.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210510T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210510T170000 DTSTAMP:20260621T032549 CREATED:20210330T190626Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230426T153106Z UID:10000454-1620662400-1620666000@www.agandfoodfunders.org SUMMARY:NETWORKING – Crafting with Fibers with Cocktails or Mocktails DESCRIPTION:Presented by Sustainable Agriculture and Food Systems Funders (SAFSF)Sponsored by The Conservation Fund/Resourceful Communities\n\n\n\nSAFSF has a long-time tradition of welcoming those among us who are crafters to bring their crafts to our tables when we meet in person. \n\n\n\nFor our virtual convening\, connect with other crafters online and learn more about the SAFSF Fibers Roadmap while working on projects together. \n\n\n\nHosts\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVirginia Clarke\, Sustainable Agriculture and Food Systems Funders; CA\n\n\n\n\nVirginia Clarke is the executive director of Sustainable Agriculture and Food Systems Funders (SAFSF)\, a network of grantmakers working to strengthen connections\, build capacity\, and foster collaboration of the philanthropic and investment communities in support of vibrant\, healthy and just food and farm systems. She has led the network in its growth and impact since starting with SAFSF in 2003 as a part-time coordinator. Prior to SAFSF\, she worked with a variety of international education programs including the University of California’s Education Abroad Program as the regional director assistant for Asia and Africa\, and the Salzburg Seminar in Austria where she was a program director and led outreach efforts in Latin America. Other life/work opportunities involved a stint at the World Bank; leading a management reorganization for a private clothing manufacturer; assisting immigrants in their efforts to secure legal residency in the U.S.; and creating/running a restitution project for juvenile offenders in Western Massachusetts. Her fluency in Spanish stems from living and working in Spain\, Bolivia and Mexico. Virginia has a Masters in International Administration from the School for International Training and a B.A. with honors in Spanish from the University of California\, Santa Barbara. A TEDx Manhattan alumni (2014)\, Virginia lives in Santa Barbara\, CA and has two daughters. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSarah Kelley\, Sustainable Agriculture and Food Systems Funders; RI\n\n\n\n\nSarah Kelley serves as Consultant/Project Director to SAFSF for its Special Project on Sustainable Fiber and Textiles. She is the Principal of Common Threads Consulting\, working with philanthropic clients to provide strategy development\, research\, impact assessment\, and facilitation. Other recent work includes interview-driven analysis for the Guidelight Strategies/Patagonia regenerative agriculture landscape assessment\, with a focus on racial equity in regenerative ag\, and strategy development for a family foundation seeking to defend environmental health progress from libertarian and corporate influence. Sarah is the author of Common Threads: U.S. Foundation Opportunities in Sustainable Fiber and Textiles\, published by SAFSF and recently cited in Vogue Business. Previously\, Sarah served for 10 years as Senior Program Officer at Island Foundation\, where she directed the Environment portfolio and managed $1.2 million in annual grants. In that role she developed and implemented a program on equity\, inclusion\, and environmental justice\, including an innovative cohort-based model for grantee equity training. She is a Board member and Treasurer of New England Grassroots Environment Fund\, and she was selected as a 2018-19 RSF Integrated Capital Fellow\, focusing on integrating investment and grantmaking strategies to drive change. Sarah holds an M.S. in Plant and Soil Science from UMass Amherst and a B.A. in History from Yale. URL:https://www.agandfoodfunders.org/event/crafting-corner-with-cocktails-or-mocktails/ CATEGORIES:Forum Networking,SAFSF Forum END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210510T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210510T113000 DTSTAMP:20260621T032549 CREATED:20210330T184132Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210611T172018Z UID:10000452-1620640800-1620646200@www.agandfoodfunders.org SUMMARY:WORKSHOP – Words Matter: How to Advance Racial Equity in Conversations with Decision Makers DESCRIPTION:Presented by Voices for Healthy Kids – American Heart Association\n\n\n\nVoices for Healthy Kids\, an initiative of the American Heart Association\, works to make each day healthier for all children. Our work is steeped in equity through grant making\, technical assistance to systems change efforts at the local\, state and tribal policy and collaborations. But what does that mean in 2021? Voices for Healthy Kids has spent the last 18 months focused on how we can call more explicitly for racial equity in all parts of our work – including our tools\, resources\, operations and support of grantees. This session will discuss these efforts with a focus on the culmination of our work in 2020 – a messaging guide to support grantees to call for racial equity in policy change.    \n\n\n\nWe will review a tool we created this year\, the Racial Equity in Public Policy Message Guide that provides readers with guidance on how to talk effectively about racial equity in policy and systems change. We will also share how we are supporting grantees and how some have used the Message Guide in their local efforts.   \n\n\n\nThis session offers an opportunity to learn successful approaches that participants will be able to apply to their own work and a chance to review and practice messages. \n\n\n\nFindings will be relevant to funders working on policy and systems change.  \n\n\n\nSession goals:\n\n\n\nReview the equity efforts within the Voices for Healthy Kids initiative – including grant making and supporting grantees– that lead to a more overt call for racial equity in our grant and policy efforts.  Discuss the importance of being overt that policies and funding must prioritize communities that have been impacted by structural racism. Review and practice messages from the Voices for Healthy Kids Racial Equity in Public Policy Message Guide that are call for racial equity with decision makers.  Identify ways funders can best support advocates as they talk about racial equity within their work.  \n\n\n\nSpeakers\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTerra Hall – Moderator\, Voices for Healthy Kids / American Heart Association; CA\n\n\n\n\nTerra Hall\, M.Sc.\, is the media advocacy manager for Voices for Healthy Kids. She collaborates with campaigns to provide them with the essential technical assistance\, state and local communications advocacy strategy\, and editorial guidance they need to pass public health policies. Terra came to Voices for Healthy Kids from the media relations department from the Pancreatic Cancer Action Network\, a nonprofit dedicated to improving health outcomes for patients with and survivors of pancreatic cancer. There\, she leveraged media relations to raise awareness about the disease\, clinical trials and the need for increased research and funding. Prior to working in the nonprofit sector\, Terra spent more than a decade as a TV and digital news journalist\, where she reported state and local politics\, health and breaking news. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nChristine Compton\, Voices for Healthy Kids / American Heart Association; WV\n\n\n\n\nChristine Compton\, M.P.H.\, is a policy engagement manager for Voices for Healthy Kids with an expertise in nutrition policies that support the healthier communities nationwide. Before joining Voices for Healthy Kids\, Christine served as the American Heart Association’s government relations director for West Virginia from 2013-2018. She fought to protect clean indoor air policies throughout the state. She also passed CPR in Schools legislation\, Shared Use Limited Liability legislation\, Stroke Systems of Care legislation and a 65-cent increase in the state’s tobacco tax. She is a two-year consecutive recipient of the Award of Excellence within the Great Rivers Affiliate (serving Ohio\, Kentucky\, Pennsylvania\, West Virginia and Delaware)\, has been named 2015-2016 Lobbyist of the Year\, and received the 2015-2016 Rome Betts National Award of Excellence from the American Heart Association. Christine has also worked at the American Lung Association in West Virginia\, where she was the manager of the West Virginia Asthma Coalition and the founder of West Virginia’s Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) Task Force. Additionally\, she was a trainer for their Freedom from Smoking and Not on Tobacco cessation programs. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJennifer Messenger\, Metropolitan Group; OR\n\n\n\n\nJennifer envisions a world where everyone can reach their best health and well-being. She works with clients and communities to make that a reality by changing policies\, power structures\, access to information and services\, or whatever else it takes. Most of Jennifer’s career has focused on public health\, and she leads MG’s work in that area. She keeps a sharp focus on health equity and has a keen interest in addressing the many social factors that have an inequitable influence on health\, such as educational success. She has led efforts to reduce the tobacco industry’s marketing power and influence\, build reproductive well-being\, increase job and housing options for people with disabilities\, make schools healthier for students and staff\, ensure that people have safe places to walk\, and connect people to affordable and culturally reflective health care services\, among other issues. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nApril Wallace\, Voices for Healthy Kids / American Heart Association; MD\n\n\n\n\nApril Wallace is the health equity partnership manager for Voices for Healthy Kids. As a public health professional and passionate advocate\, her work is dedicated to understanding the root causes of inequities and working to ensure the most socio-economically disadvantaged communities are represented and resourced across the initiative. Prior to joining Voices for Healthy Kids\, she was the program lead for the Million Hearts Collaboration and developed partnerships with health organizations and community partners to support regional cardiovascular health programs. Her experience also includes leading diverse work groups\, along with developing and implementing health education and promotion programs to improve health in communities nationwide. April is an alumna of Howard University\, holding a Bachelor of Science in health sciences and master’s degree in healthcare administration and education. She is committed to advancing equity and civil rights for people of marginalized populations. A native Detroiter\, she is passionate about engaging communities to build collective power and improve health outcomes. URL:https://www.agandfoodfunders.org/event/workshop-words-matter-how-to-advance-racial-equity-in-conversations-with-decision-makers/ CATEGORIES:SAFSF Forum ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.agandfoodfunders.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/2021_Forum_emailheader_2021_USE-copy.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210507T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210507T120000 DTSTAMP:20260621T032549 CREATED:20210423T195324Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230426T153107Z UID:10000473-1620385200-1620388800@www.agandfoodfunders.org SUMMARY:NETWORKING - BIPOC Attendee Networking DESCRIPTION:All Forum participants who identify as Black\, Indigenous\, and/or People of Color are invited to share a supportive and respectful space to foster connection and share experiences. URL:https://www.agandfoodfunders.org/event/networking-bipoc-attendee-networking/ CATEGORIES:Forum Networking,SAFSF Forum ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.agandfoodfunders.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/2021_Forum_emailheader_noyear-e1617368728817.jpg END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR