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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
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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/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210512T120000
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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
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210512T113500
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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
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210512T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210512T113000
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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
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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
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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
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210511T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210511T103000
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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
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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
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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
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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/
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SUMMARY:WORKSHOP – Solidarity Not Charity: How Mutual Aid Groups Fed Millions of Neighbors During the COVID-19 Pandemic
DESCRIPTION:Presented by Ioby and Claneil Foundation\n\n\n\nMutual aid organizations bloomed in the spring of 2020 as neighborhoods sought ways to feed their most vulnerable during covid-19. Whether they found roots in the queer disability movement or in the Black Panthers or simply mimicked other groups\, mutual aid’s success was often tightly connected to its liberating structures and rejection of typical nonprofit requirements. The mantra “Solidarity not Charity” was a direct rejection of the professionalization of the social sector\, and allowed groups to build authentic relationships and participation from the community. Hear directly from the leaders of several mutual aid groups to understand their lived experiences in feeding tens of thousands of people — from building infrastructure\, volunteer networks\, support and feedback loops\, from the ground up. \n\n\n\nSession goals:\n\n\n\nLearn about the ways that unincorporated groups found success in delivering to neighbors in need\, building from the ground up.Hear first-hand accounts of the ways that groups listened to their communities and adapted to community needs throughout the pandemic (so far). \n\n\n\nSpeakers\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nErin Barnes – Moderator\, Ioby; NY \n\n\n\n\nErin Barnes is co-founder and CEO of ioby\, which mobilizes neighbors who have good ideas to become powerful civic leaders who plan\, fund\, and make positive change in their own neighborhoods. In 2018\, Erin was accepted into the inaugural class of Obama Foundation Fellows for ioby’s contribution to civic innovation. In 2012\, the Rockefeller Foundation awarded Erin and her co-founders at ioby the Jane Jacobs Medal for New Technology and Innovation. Before ioby\, Erin Barnes was an editor at Men’s Journal magazine\, freelance writer\, and contributor to Al Gore’s book Our Choice. She conducted field research on water and fisheries markets in Latin America\, and was a community organizer at Save Our Wild Salmon Coalition. She has served on the boards of the Bronx and Manhattan Land Trusts\, EcoDistricts\, and Resource Media. She has a B.A. in English and American Studies from the University of Virginia and an M.E.M. from Yale University. Erin lives in Brooklyn\, NY.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nKelvin Taitt\, East Brooklyn Mutual Aid; NY  \n\n\n\n\nKelvin Taitt is a community organizer from Brooklyn and the co-founder of East Brooklyn Mutual Aid (EBMA)\, which he helped to launch in April 2020. He’s also the director of strategic growth and operations at The Corbin Hill Food Project\, a New York City nonprofit dedicated to distributing local\, farm fresh food\, especially to low-income communities and communities of color. Previously\, he served as the director of operations at Brooklyn Packers\, a worker-owned and Black-led food distribution cooperative\, and he remains an equity owner. Formerly a wedding MC and event planner\, Kelvin has long been civically engaged; as a resident of Brownsville\, he participates in his neighborhood association and volunteered for a local homeless shelter and food pantry. It wasn’t until the pandemic\, however\, that Kelvin threw his entire being into the work of addressing his community’s food insecurity. Kelvin harnessed the volunteer power of EBMA and the distribution power of Brooklyn Packers to build out an infrastructure that delivers farm fresh produce to a hundred households per week—an effort soon to expand thanks to new partnerships with local organizations and faith-based institutions. EBMA and Brooklyn Packers have also collaborated to provide food to pantries\, community fridges and community kitchens. Additionally\, EBMA worked with the USDA to distribute 1\,000 food boxes a day\, three days a week for six weeks\, from the Coronavirus Food Assistance Program. Kelvin also led the project with Brooklyn Packers in partnership with The Corbin Hill Food Project to distribute 4\,000 pantry food boxes a week to New Yorkers in five boroughs for 16 weeks for GetFoodNYC. Prior to the pandemic\, Kelvin held the positions of event producer at Masters of Ceremony and of president at Elegancia Entertainment\, his own entertainment and production company specializing in Latin American and Caribbean events \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMelissa Branfman\, Wyckoff House; NY  \n\n\n\n\nMelissa serendipitously landed at the Wyckoff House Museum just over a decade ago with an interest in museums and art. She soon became inspired by her colleague Jason who activated the land by growing food and teaching from plants as a means of connecting with the community. Previously Melissa had studied Art History and pre-Colombian visual culture\, while also teaching at several NYC art museums\, including the Brooklyn Museum and the Guggenheim. Starting as the Education Director at Wyckoff\, she eagerly explored the intersections of food systems\, history\, plants\, and community. Soon after\, she assumed the responsibility of Executive Director\, learning to navigate the world of fundraising\, board development\, programming\, partnerships\, human resources and more. One of her proudest achievements at Wyckoff has been to grow the organization towards a more robust farm and garden program\, including a paid summer apprenticeship for local teens. Melissa is continually inspired and challenged by the opportunity of collaborating with her staff and community at the Museum. She loves building connections within the largely Caribbean neighborhood\, learning about plants and growing\, and being inspired by her co-workers broader passions. She loves baking\, cooking\, dancing\, meditating\, Mexico\, and learning new things\, most recently trying ceramics\, while recovering from a broken jaw. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nZach Tan Strein\, Wyckoff House; NY  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nKacy McGill\, Pittsburgh Restaurant Workers Aid; NY  \n\n\n\n\nKacy McGill (they/them) co-founded and currently serves as the co-director of Pittsburgh Restaurant Workers Aid (PRWA). McGill has previously worked in restaurants as well as for non-profit advocacy groups and political campaigns. Initially collecting and distributing goods from McGill’s front porch and eventually growing to an operation that provides direct aid to over a hundred workers and their families each month\, PRWA was started by volunteers with the goal of addressing the immediate material needs of restaurant workers who suddenly faced financial\, food\, housing and health insecurity at the onset of the pandemic. In response to outreach and communication with aid recipients and the restaurant worker community at large\, McGill has helped broaden the scope of PRWA’s mission to include the empowerment of workers to address issues in the local restaurant industry that made the disruption of the pandemic particularly damaging. McGill and their colleagues found that restaurant workers not only needed material assistance to bridge the gap until they could resume work\, but desperately needed the means to confront the fact that their jobs had not ensured dignity and security before the pandemic and had no assurance that they would in the future. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nElina Malkin\, Pittsburgh Restaurant Workers Aid; NY  \n\n\n\n\nElina Malkin is a bartender\, organizer\, and an artist\, with over 15 years of experience in hospitality and the arts. She is currently a working board member of Pittsburgh Restaurant Workers Aid\, Treasurer of the Pittsburgh chapter of the United States Bartenders Guild\, bartender at Tina’s\, and co-manager of 3577 Studios and performance space\, and calls on her background in grassroots\, intersectional organizing and arts project management to support community causes.
URL:https://www.agandfoodfunders.org/event/2305/
CATEGORIES:SAFSF Forum
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SUMMARY:Movement Break
DESCRIPTION:Step away from your desk chair\, kitchen table\, or workspace for a grounding exercise and movement break. Join Erica\, 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-2/
CATEGORIES:SAFSF Forum
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SUMMARY:WORKSHOP – Decolonizing Food Philanthropy: Moving Toward More Racially Just Funding
DESCRIPTION:Presented by GRACE Communications Foundation and Ceres Trust\n\n\n\nIn the midst of the 2020 Uprising in defense of Black lives\, a group of BIPOC (Black\, Indigenous\, and other People of Color) leaders in the movement for just and sustainable food and agriculture systems published an Open Letter calling on foundations and philanthropic leaders to examine their own funding trends. They urged grantmakers to acknowledge – and invest in – the expertise and action led by BIPOC in their own communities\, and to consider participatory grantmaking processes that consulted BIPOC\, grassroots leadership. A handful of foundation program officers joined their calls for racial justice in philanthropy. In this session\, we’ll hear from three of the Open Letter’s co-authors\, and program staff who are pushing their foundations toward racial justice will facilitate confidential\, small-group breakouts\, where we’ll explore some of the challenges and opportunities for program officers and philanthropic leaders to take steps toward more racially just and equitable grantmaking practices. \n\n\n\nLimited capacity: 30 attendees. First come\, first served – no waitlist. $40 additional fee.  \n\n\n\nSession goals:\n\n\n\nTo hear from BIPOC movement leaders more about their vision for a more equitable relationship between funders\, regrantors and NGOs\, and about the challenges they have encountered.To foster open dialog regarding specific practices like research/scans and participatory grantmaking\, and host confidential discussions on challenges faced by funders challenging white supremacy culture and structural racism in philanthropy.To build relationships among funders committed to addressing systemic racism in philanthropy and the Black\, Indigenous and People of Color movement leaders pushing for more just and equitable food systems.\n\n\n\nSpeakers\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nKat Gilje – Moderator\, Ceres Trust; CA\n\n\n\n\nKat Gilje is Executive Director of Ceres Trust. Ceres Trust\, whose name honors the ancient goddess of agriculture\, provides grants that support healthy and resilient farms\, forests and communities; and the ecosystems upon which we all depend. Ceres Trust focuses on grassroots leadership and organizing\, equity\, and movement building toward systemic and transformational change. Grant areas include: education for farmers in organic\, sustainable and resilient farming systems; efforts to promote food crop biodiversity and public access to seeds; graduate student & farmer-led research in organic agriculture; protection & proliferation of our vital pollinators; protection of people\, farms & ecosystems from pesticide poisoning and from GMO contamination; protection of our forests from genetic engineering and use as biofuels; research by independent scientists; and documentary films & art (supported for public education purposes on key issues related to the Ceres Trust mission\, and as tools of cultural change). An agronomist and community organizer trained by Voices for Racial Justice in Minnesota\, Kat previously was co–director of Pesticide Action Network North America; co–founder/director of Centro Campesino; and senior associate at the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy. She currently serves on the steering committee of the Bay Area Justice Funders Network and as chair of Genesis\, a faith and values–based organizing group in Oakland\, California. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nNavina Khanna – Moderator\, HEAL Food Alliance; CA\n\n\n\n\nNavina has dedicated over 15 years to creating a more just and sustainable world through transforming food systems\, and in 2014\, her work was recognized with a James Beard Leadership Award. With a background in sustainable agriculture and food justice\, she’s worked as an educator\, community organizer\, and policy advocate\, organizing across sectors and communities. Based in Oakland\, Navina serves on the Board of Richmond’s Urban Tilth\, advises the Real Food Media Project\, and organizes with #Asians4BlackLives. A first-generation South Asian American\, Navina’s worldview is shaped by growing up – and growing food – in India and the US. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nStephanie Morningstar\, Northeast Farmers of Color Land Trust; ON\n\n\n\n\nStephanie is Mohawk\, Oneida\, and mixed European descent. She is an herbalist\, soil and seed steward\, scholar\, student\, and Earth Worker dedicated to decolonizing and liberating minds\, hearts\, and land- one plant\, person\, ecosystem\, and non-human being at a time. Stephanie is the Executive Director and Resources\, Relationships\, and Reciprocity Co-Director of the Northeast Farmers of Color Land Trust\, an organization dedicated to advancing land access for Indigenous\, Black\, Latinx\, Asian\, and other land stewards of color. Stephanie grows medicines and food with her community at Sky World Apothecary & Farm; and teaches about the wonders of plant medicine at Seed\, Soil\, + Spirit School. Stephanie’s theory of change is rooted in community-driven\, self-determined solutions created by BIPOC communities for BIPOC communities. She carries with her over a decade of Indigenous community-driven systems change work in healthcare\, legal\, herbal\, agricultural\, land access\, and academic research spaces where she cut her teeth on speaking Truth to Power. Her work advancing sovereignty in institutional spaces with and for Indigenous communities has resulted in mandating Indigenous Cultural Safety training to service providers; Indigenous Dispute Transformation frameworks; and meaningful and ethical Indigenous-driven research in climate change. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEdna Rodriguez\, Rural Advancement Fund International (RAFI USA); NC\n\n\n\n\nEdna became RAFI-USA’s Executive Director in 2017\, after serving as Development Director and Director of Operations\, beginning in 2011. During her time at RAFI-USA\, Edna has strategically grown the organization’s capacity by streamlining financial management\, increasing and diversifying contributed income\, and organizing workflow to allow staff members to effectively function within their own programs as well as in cross programmatic core teams. Additionally\, she is a fervent advocate for equity and justice and was instrumental in launching the Farmers of Color Network. Originally from the Dominican Republic\, Edna was raised in a global environment\, growing up between The Hague\, Netherlands\, and Santo Domingo. Prior to joining RAFI-USA\, Edna served as Senior Program Officer at the Atlanta Women’s Foundation\, and Director of Educational and Career Services at the Latin American Association in Atlanta\, GA. Edna holds a B.A. in Economics with a concentration in Latin American Studies from Haverford College. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMark Winston Griffith\, Brooklyn Movement Center; NY\n\n\n\n\nMark is the founding Executive Director of the Brooklyn Movement Center (BMC)\, a Black-led community organizing group based in Central Brooklyn. At BMC\, Mark convened the first organizing meetings that led to the formation of the Central Brooklyn Food Coop (CBFC) and now serves on the CBFC Board of Directors.  Mark was the founding Executive Director of the Central Brooklyn Partnership and co-founder of the Central Brooklyn Federal Credit Union in the early nineties and later served as the Executive Director of the Drum Major Institute for Public Policy. Mark currently serves on the leadership team of the National Black Food and Justice Alliance and is a 2019-2020 Castanea food justice fellow. Mark is also a board member of the Cooperative Economics Alliance of New York City\, Brooklyn Cooperative Federal Credit Union\, Communities United for Police Reform\, Black Freedom Project\, Free Speech TV and The City news site.  Mark has served on the faculties of the CUNY Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism\, and the CUNY Center for Labor and Community Studies\, and is currently a visiting assistant lecturer in Community Economic Development at Pratt Institute.
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SUMMARY:NETWORKING – Coffee Chat: Nuts and Bolts of Grantmaking and Investing
DESCRIPTION:Presented by Sustainable Agriculture and Food Systems Funders (SAFSF)\n\n\n\nThis informal\, unscripted morning session provides a space to connect with peers and discuss the tools needed to effectively implement funding programs and collaborations in the food and agriculture system space. How are you translating knowledge about critical issues in the food system into support of transformative change\, and moreover\, ensuring that your application and review processes and board are aligned with this work? \n\n\n\nThis session may be of special interest to those new to philanthropy and those from small-staffed foundations looking for additional peer support\, but all are welcome\, no matter how much of a novice or expert you might consider yourself to be in this space. Come share the tools in your toolkit\, discuss the stumbling blocks that are proving challenging\, offer your learning to your colleagues\, and make valuable peer connections to support you moving forward.  \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\nLenore Beyer – Kinship Foundation; IL\n\n\n\n\nLenore Beyer is the Director of Conservation Initiatives at the Kinship Foundation where she manages Food:Land:Opportunity\, an initiative to create a resilient local food economy in the Chicago region\, and supports programming for Kinship Conservation Fellows Prior to joining Kinship\, Lenore was the vice president of policy and planning at Openlands\, a regional conservation land trust where she created the Hackmatack National Wildlife Refuge and integrated farmland protection with local food initiatives.
URL:https://www.agandfoodfunders.org/event/networking-coffee-chat-new-to-philanthropy/
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SUMMARY:NETWORKING – Cook Along with Kitchenistas®: The Power of Communities to Use Food as a Platform for Change
DESCRIPTION:Presented by International Community Foundation\n\n\n\nGrab a snack or cook along with Olivewood Gardens and Learning Center and the International Community Foundation (ICF) as we experience authentic connections that mirror the important ways we connect over food and how food can be used as a tool for change. \n\n\n\nWe invite participants to pull up a chair in our virtual kitchen to cook along with the Kitchenistas®. Don’t want to cook? No problem\, feel free to watch the recipe demo\, ask any questions\, and store that recipe away for later! We’ll also enjoy a screening of The Kitchenistas® of National City documentary trailer to see the impact of Olivewood’s Cooking for Salud® and Kitchenista® programs. Then\, enjoy our snack and an opportunity to get to know colleagues better through meaningful conversations about the power of community as it relates to food\, equitable and nutritious food access\, community building through peer led education\, and how to inspire impact through cross-border partnerships.  \n\n\n\nIf you’d like to cook along\, click the links below to find the two recipes that we’ll be making together. If you don’t have all the ingredients\, don’t worry – this is a very forgiving meal that you can easily sub in whatever you have on hand. Quesadillas aren’t your thing? Don’t fret\, you’re welcome to bring any snack or meal you’d like.  \n\n\n\nHappy Quesadillas – Recipe + IngredientsMolcajete Salsa – Recipe + Ingredients\n\n\n\nSession goals:\n\n\n\nSession participants will learn about Olivewood’s Cooking for Salud® and Kitchenista® programs.Participants will have an opportunity to network and get to know each other in a more informal setting while enjoying a snack or meal.Participants will leave seeing the potential impact of collaborative community-based nutrition programs.\n\n\n\nSpeakers\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMcKenzie Campbell – Moderator\, International Community Foundation; BCS\, MX\n\n\n\n\nMcKenzie Campbell is currently a Program Officer with the International Community Foundation (ICF)\, where she manages ICF’s growing portfolio of special projects in Baja California Sur\, Mexico. McKenzie is expanding ICF’s food system impact in the Baja Peninsula by incubating new initiatives and catalyzing collective action around; equitable access to fresh\, healthy food\, improved community health and resilience\, regenerative production practices and regional marketplace connectivity. McKenzie has 18 years of community organizing\, leadership development and nonprofit management experience. Before coming to ICF\, she served as the Director of the Colorado State University Center in Todos Santos\, where she helped launch CSU’s first international facility\, and founded Living Roots (Raíces Vivas)\, a nonprofit promoting remote ranching communities’ unique cultural heritage through social enterprise. She holds an MBA\, in Global Social and Sustainable Enterprise from Colorado State University and a BA in Political Science with a concentration in International Development from Oberlin College. An avid outdoor enthusiast\, McKenzie enjoys exploring the coast and mountains with her two young kids. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCallie Brust\, Olivewood Gardens and Learning Center; CA\n\n\n\n\nCallie is the Director of Programs for Olivewood Gardens and Learning Center. She has her Masters in Public Health and is also a Registered Dietitian. Over the last 10 years\, Callie has worked with nonprofits in Atlanta\, Georgia and San Diego County\, California to implement nutrition education and food access programs. She has experience developing science-based nutrition curriculum and teaching classes for kids\, families\, and older adults. Callie is grateful for the opportunity to support all of the wonderful Olivewood Garden programs and cultivate community partnerships. She enjoys spending time with friends and family in the kitchen where food and love abound. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJacqueline Ante\, Olivewood Gardens and Learning Center; CA\n\n\n\n\nJacqueline Ante is from Mexico\, born and raised in Tijuana BC. She currently lives in National City\, California with her husband and two kids. Jacqueline is a proud Kitchenista® from the 10th Generation of the Olivewood Garden’s Cooking for Salud® program. She’s witnessed how a lack of access to quality and nutritious food impacts your life and health negatively. Jacqueline facilitates free Kitchenista® programming\, coordinates nutrition education classes throughout the community\, and recruits and manages other Kitchenistas® to lead because they see the importance of how education can teach ways to improve your health and the health of your family. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPatty Corona\, Olivewood Gardens and Learning Center; CA\n\n\n\n\nPatty Corona is a first-generation and professional Kitchenista®. She is Mexican\, growing up in both the city and country with deep indigenous roots. Patty coordinates each generation of Cooking for Salud®\, equips other program graduates to lead and teach\, and explores new partnerships with local chefs\, community organizations\, and others working in the food system. She loves being a Kitchenista because she’s passionate about sharing and reconnecting new generations with their culture through food\, using the universal ingredient of love. Patty is part of a 4-generation matriarchy: her grandmother is 101\, her mother is 79\, she is 51 and her daughter is 19 years old.
URL:https://www.agandfoodfunders.org/event/kitchenistas-the-power-of-communities-to-use-food-as-a-platform-for-change/
CATEGORIES:Forum Networking,SAFSF Forum
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SUMMARY:WORKSHOP – Creating and Safeguarding a Better Food Future through the Law
DESCRIPTION:Presented and Sponsored by Frost Family Foundation\n\n\n\nCourts have arisen as one of the best tools through which to effect meaningful social change and environmental protection across the food system. In many instances\, litigation is the only effective way to halt illegal\, damaging regulatory decisions promulgated to benefit corporations rather than public health and biodiversity. Litigating can result in stopping the approval and use of damaging industrial agricultural practices and resulting in protections for farming and impacted communities\, pollinators\, endangered species\, and public health. Litigation strategies also have the extra-legal benefits of raising public awareness\, raising consciousness\, and focusing appropriate public anger around destructive regulatory decisions. Litigation catalyzes public debate and encourages shifts towards organic and regenerative farming. This session will feature leading attorneys in the food and farming advocacy sector. Presentations will include a focus on integrating disadvantaged communities in litigation processes; examples of recent successful impact litigation; how litigation complements policy and grassroots organizing campaigns; successful litigation collaboration on cases; etc. \n\n\n\nSession goals:\n\n\n\nUnderstand the power of litigation.Understand how litigation fits into social movements. Learn from frontline cases and attorneys.\n\n\n\nSpeakers\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAshley Lukens – Moderator\, Frost Family Foundation; HI\n\n\n\n\nAshley Lukens\, Ph.D. is an independent philanthropic and development advisor in Hawai’i and Oregon. She has worked in and with the impact sector in Hawai’i since 2006 as the founder of the Hawai’i Food Policy Council\, owner of Baby Awearness\, director of the RISE Program at Kupu\, director of Hawai’i 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. https://www.ashleylukens.com/backstory \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nKaren Allston\, Quinault Indian Nation; WA\n\n\n\n\nKaren Allston\, Senior Assistant Attorney General for the Quinault Indian Nation\, has served as its in-house counsel for over 15 years. Her representation focuses on land use and natural resources issues affecting the Quinault Nation both on- and off-Reservation. Prior to her tenure at the Quinault Nation\, she served as Executive Director of the Center for Environmental Law and Policy\, a water watchdog and river advocacy organization in Washington. Prior to that\, she was in-house counsel for the Muckleshoot Indian Tribe. Ms. Allston holds a B.A. in Communications from the University of Washington and earned her J.D. cum laude from Seattle University. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nGeorge Kimbrell\, Center for Food Safety; WA\n\n\n\n\nGeorge Kimbrell is CFS’s Legal Director\, overseeing all of the Center’s legal work. Along with his Director duties\, George is counsel in many CFS cases. His legal\, legislative\, and policy work runs the gamut of many CFS program areas\, including pesticides\, genetically engineered organisms\, animal factory pollution\, food labeling\, foodborne illness\, organic standards\, and aquaculture. Among other landmark cases\, George was counsel in the first U.S. Supreme Court case on the regulation of genetically engineered crops. He received his law degree magna cum laude from Lewis and Clark Law School\, where he now teaches food and agriculture law as an adjunct professor. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nQuinton Robinson\, Rural Coalition; GA\n\n\n\n\nQuinton N. Robinson\, Esq. is a practicing attorney with litigation experience in the fields of employment and farm credit discrimination cases\, recently accomplishing groundbreaking legal precedents on behalf of minority farmers and ranchers. Mr. Robinson has served in many leadership capacities including\, a White House political appointee for the Obama Administration\, as a member of the Georgia State Directors of Rural Development with the United States Department of Agriculture\, the Director of the Office of Small Disadvantaged Business Utilization at the U.S. Department of Agriculture\, and as the Assistant Counsel on the House Agriculture Committee \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSylvia Wu\, Center for Food Safety; CA \n\n\n\n\nSylvia Wu is a Senior Attorney/Managing Attorney\, Hawaii & California offices at the Center for Food Safety\, where she works on law and policy related to genetically engineered crops\, factory farming\, aquaculture\, pesticides\, and other food safety issues. As an attorney with CFS\, Sylvia has litigated against U.S. federal agencies over approval of herbicide-resistant genetically engineered crops and their associated pesticide use\, the approval of pesticides that are harming pollinators and other sensitive species\, as well as approval of industrial offshore aquaculture systems that will pollute our oceans and marine resources. Through legislative efforts and litigation\, Sylvia also works with local communities to defend communities’ right to protect themselves against the harms of industrial agriculture. Sylvia holds a J.D. from UC Berkeley School of Law (Boalt Hall). Sylvia is involved in various projects promoting local economy and urban agriculture in the Bay Area.
URL:https://www.agandfoodfunders.org/event/creating-and-safeguarding-a-better-food-future-through-the-law/
CATEGORIES:SAFSF Forum
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SUMMARY:NETWORKING – Food and Farm Policy Helpdesk
DESCRIPTION:Presented by Sustainable Agriculture and Food Systems Funders (SAFSF)Sponsored by Walton Family Foundation\n\n\n\nHave questions about food and farm policy? We’ve got answers and connections. Connect with SAFSF’s public policy director and members of the SAFSF Policy Committee during this un-programmed\, informal space. Bring your questions—big and small—about local\, state\, Tribal\, and federal food and farm policy\, or join just to listen in about what’s on the mind of your peers. We’ll do our best to give you answers\, connections\, and ideas of how you can best amplify and support policy and advocacy strategies \n\n\n\nHost\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTraci Bruckner – Sustainable Agriculture and Food Systems Funders; NE \n\n\n\n\nTraci Bruckner joined the SAFSF team in October 2018 with nearly two decades of experience in public policy. She leads SAFSF’s work that helps funders fully engage in the policy process\, both in support of their grantees and in their own activities\, to shift inequities in food and agriculture systems. Traci spent 15 years with the Center for Rural Affairs\, leading their federal and state policy efforts around agriculture\, conservation\, and beginning\, women\, and socially disadvantaged farmer issues. She also worked on state health care and tax policy issues. During her tenure at the Center\, Traci served as a member and chair of the USDA Advisory Committee on Beginning Farmers and Ranchers. This Advisory Committee provides recommendations to the Secretary of Agriculture on policies and programs that create and foster opportunities for a new generation of farmers and ranchers. Traci also served on and chaired the governance council of the National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition\, a national grassroots coalition advocating federal policy reform for the sustainability of food systems\, natural resources and rural communities. Before joining SAFSF\, Traci was with the Northeast Nebraska Behavioral Health Network as a community outreach director\, working to build community supports to foster a pipeline of behavioral and mental healthcare professionals. Prior to that\, Traci was the policy director of the Women’s Fund of Omaha\, working on a host of policy issues that impact women and girls.
URL:https://www.agandfoodfunders.org/event/networking-ask-your-policy-questions-connect-with-the-policy-advisory-committee-and-traci-bruckner/
CATEGORIES:Forum Networking,SAFSF Forum
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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-networking-tables/
CATEGORIES:Forum Networking,SAFSF Forum
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SUMMARY:Movement Break
DESCRIPTION:Step away from your desk chair\, kitchen table\, or workspace for a grounding exercise and movement break. Join Erica\, 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/
CATEGORIES:SAFSF Forum
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SUMMARY:WORKSHOP – Food Without Borders: The Interconnectivity of U.S. and Mexico Food Systems
DESCRIPTION:Presented by International Community Foundation\n\n\n\nFood systems in the United States and Mexico are inextricably linked. This session will explore\, educate\, and generate thoughtful dialogue around the interconnectivity of these systems including; farm labor on both sides of the border\, production practices\, food insecurity\, public health and food waste. The goal of this presentation is to both generate awareness and highlight innovative solutions to current cross-border challenges. This session will begin with a virtual trivia game where participants will work in teams to answer questions in various categories such as: Imports\, Farm Labor\, Food Waste and Culinary Traditions. We will then move into short presentations and Q&A with experts in each field and will conclude in small breakout groups for continued networking and discussion. \n\n\n\nSession goals: \n\n\n\nParticipants will have a greater understanding of the connectivity of food systems between the U.S. and Mexico.Discuss timely emerging issues/themes connecting the US/Mexico food systems with a focus on innovative and actionable solutions.Participants will have the opportunity to meet and engage with allies and potential project partners interested in cross-border food systems.\n\n\n\nSpeakers\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMcKenzie Campbell – Moderator\, International Community Foundation; BCS\, MX\n\n\n\n\nMcKenzie Campbell is currently a Program Officer with the International Community Foundation (ICF)\, where she manages ICF’s growing portfolio of special projects in Baja California Sur\, Mexico. McKenzie is expanding ICF’s food system impact in the Baja Peninsula by incubating new initiatives and catalyzing collective action around; equitable access to fresh\, healthy food\, improved community health and resilience\, regenerative production practices and regional marketplace connectivity. McKenzie has 18 years of community organizing\, leadership development and nonprofit management experience. Before coming to ICF\, she served as the Director of the Colorado State University Center in Todos Santos\, where she helped launch CSU’s first international facility\, and founded Living Roots (Raíces Vivas)\, a nonprofit promoting remote ranching communities’ unique cultural heritage through social enterprise. She holds an MBA\, in Global Social and Sustainable Enterprise from Colorado State University and a BA in Political Science with a concentration in International Development from Oberlin College. An avid outdoor enthusiast\, McKenzie enjoys exploring the coast and mountains with her two young kids. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRobert Ojeda\, Community Food Bank of Southern Arizona; AZ\n\n\n\n\nRobert Ojeda was born and raised in Arequipa\, Peru\, where he grew up farming at his family’s farm. He joined the Community Food Bank of Southern Arizona (CFBSA) in 2010\, where he is currently Chief Program Officer. In his role\, Robert oversees the CFBSA’s programmatic initiatives including hunger relief\, and community health\, education\, and development. Robert has a master’s degree in International Agriculture and Rural Development and a Ph. D. in Adult and Extension Education from Cornell University. He has over twenty years of experience doing community development work in Arizona and overseas. He regularly teaches community organizing and development workshops to Latin American youth leaders. He is an enthusiastic soccer player and Andean music musician. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRupal Patel\, Akasha Strategies; CA\n\n\n\n\nRupal’s environmental and social impact portfolio includes developing the 579 MW Solar Star Project\, ranked in the top 10 largest projects in the world; developing and managing an inaugural Corporate Social Responsibility program for Sun World International\, one of RRG’s largest agricultural operating companies; and originating the first employee benefit company in the U.S.\, California Harvesters\, of which Rupal is Co-founder and Board President. California Harvesters provides quality jobs to over 1\,200 farmworkers in California’s Central Valley. Prior to joining RRG\, Rupal gained extensive experience engaging with LGBTQ\, environmental justice\, labor\, poverty\, and immigration issues while working for organizations such as the Council of Michigan Foundations\, NAACP Washington Bureau\, Urban Justice Center\, Liberty Hill Foundation\, and the California Immigrant Policy Center. Rupal serves on the Board of Leading Harvest and is a Founding Member of the Integrated Capitals Investment Committee for The Heron Foundation. Rupal received her B.A. in Sociology and M.P.P. from the University of Michigan\, Ann Arbor. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLuis Garduño\, Alianza para Seguridad Alimentaria de Baja California Sur; BCS\, MX\n\n\n\n\nLuis Fernando Garduño\, is currently executive director of the BCS Food Security Alliance (Alianza para Seguridad Alimentaria – ASA) an organization working to transform food systems in Baja California Sur\, Mexico. Luis has been rapidly building ASA’s capacity to unite cross-sector stakeholders to address immediate food needs while beginning to make shifts toward healthier\, more resilient food systems. Under Luis’ leadership\, ASA is launching the state’s first food bank\, striving to prevent and reduce food waste\, promoting community health and mobilization around nutrition\, and piloting a regenerative production collective. Luis comes to ASA with 10 years of experience founding and co-directing Red Turismo Sustentable\, a hybrid for-profit/nonprofit organization dedicated to empowering small tourism businesses in rural areas that connect travelers with social development and conservation programs. Luis is committed to catalyzing efforts in support of food justice in Mexico and amplifying the voices of those that often go unheard.
URL:https://www.agandfoodfunders.org/event/food-without-borders-the-interconnectivity-of-u-s-and-mexico-food-systems/
CATEGORIES:SAFSF Forum
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SUMMARY:NETWORKING – Start Your Forum Experience Off Right: Newcomers Welcome
DESCRIPTION:Presented by Sustainable Agriculture and Food Systems Funders (SAFSF)\n\n\n\nIs this your first time attending the SAFSF Forum or participating in an SAFSF event? Or have you participated in the network for many years and are interested in learning how to make the most of this year’s online format to make peer connections and customize your engagement? \n\n\n\nWe invite you to join us for an informal welcome to the SAFSF network\, and an opportunity to connect with peers and connect with friendly peer faces you’ll be able to recognize on Zoom throughout the rest of the Forum. We’ll also share some tips and tricks to help you take full advantage of the online Forum experience. \n\n\n\nHost\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\nRenee Catacalos – Sustainable Agriculture and Food Systems Funders; MD\n\n\n\n\nRenee Brooks Catacalos joined SAFSF in 2019 with decades of experience in association management\, communications\, and food systems and sustainable agriculture work. In her current position\, she is focused on strengthening outreach to members and the broader philanthropic community\, creating opportunities for member engagement and benefit\, leveraging new resource partnerships\, and positioning SAFSF as the leading voice for sustainable agriculture and food systems philanthropy. Renee is a former Foreign Service officer\, having served tours in Mexico City\, Mexico and Istanbul\, Turkey. She has served in various communications\, management and business development capacities with the Houston Association of Realtors\, the Houston International Protocol Alliance\, VOLLMER Public Relations\, Future Harvest – Chesapeake Alliance for Sustainable Agriculture\, and the American Institute of Architects\, Potomac Valley Chapter. Additionally\, Renee was publisher and editor of Edible Chesapeake magazine from 2006-2009 and has served on the boards of ECO City Farms\, FRESHFARM Markets\, and the Neighborhood Design Center. She is currently on the Steering Team of the Chesapeake Foodshed Network (CFN). Her first book\, The Chesapeake Table: Your Guide to Eating Local\, was published in October 2018 by Johns Hopkins University Press.
URL:https://www.agandfoodfunders.org/event/networking-first-time-at-the-forum/
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SUMMARY:OPENING SESSION – Reckoning a Way Forward: Co-Creating Philanthropy’s Course toward a More Just and Sustainable Food System
DESCRIPTION:Presented by Sustainable Agriculture and Food Systems Funders (SAFSF) and The John Merck Fund Thanks to Forum Platform Sponsors 11th Hour Project\, Fair Food Network\, GRACE Communications Foundation\, Thread Fund\n\n\n\nCoronavirus infection rates are down\, vaccination rates are up\, stress on the healthcare system is easing\, schools are reopening\, and our struggling economy is stabilizing. Five months into the Biden-Harris Administration and the 117th Congress\, USDA\, FDA\, EPA and other agencies are getting back to their regulatory and programmatic duties\, and legislators are getting back to the business of lawmaking.A return to normalcy is at hand.  But is that what we want?2020 highlighted deep injustices in every one of our systems—health care\, politics\, economics\, education\, law enforcement—and\, of course\, food and agriculture. Such upheaval and disruption is an opportunity to reimagine and improve systems. SAFSF’s 19th Annual Forum will help agriculture and food system funders and investors examine how our practices have perpetuated the systems that have failed us\, especially in this last tumultuous year\, and amplify the voices of those who have kept their neighbors fed by growing their own food\, supporting their local farms\, changing their businesses on the fly\, and advocating for authentic redress of entrenched food system injustices. These leaders are showing us the way toward a more just\, equitable\, and sustaining food system. Join us at the Forum–and during this opening session–as a first step in following their lead. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nSpeakers\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nKat Gilje\, Ceres Trust; CA\n\n\n\n\nKat Gilje is Executive Director of Ceres Trust. Ceres Trust\, whose name honors the ancient goddess of agriculture\, provides grants that support healthy and resilient farms\, forests and communities; and the ecosystems upon which we all depend.  Ceres Trust focuses on grassroots leadership and organizing\, equity\, and movement building toward systemic and transformational change.  Grant areas include:  education for farmers in organic\, sustainable and resilient farming systems; efforts to promote food crop biodiversity and public access to seeds; graduate student & farmer-led research in organic agriculture; protection & proliferation of our vital pollinators; protection of people\, farms & ecosystems from pesticide poisoning and from GMO contamination; protection of our forests from genetic engineering and use as biofuels; research by independent scientists; and documentary films & art (supported for public education purposes on key issues related to the Ceres Trust mission\, and as tools of cultural change). An agronomist and community organizer trained by Voices for Racial Justice in Minnesota\, Kat previously was co–director of Pesticide Action Network North America; co–founder/director of Centro Campesino; and senior associate at the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy.  She currently serves on the steering committee of the Bay Area Justice Funders Network and as chair of Genesis\, a faith and values–based organizing group in Oakland\, California. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nReverend Mariama White-Hammond\, New Roots AME Church; MA\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker bio coming soon.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nKeoni Lee\, Hawaiʻi Investment Ready; HI\n\n\n\n\nKeoni Lee is the CEO of Hawai’i Investment Ready\, an impact investing intermediary with a mission to advance coordinated and collaborative capital approaches in support of a Just Transition for Hawaiʻi to a living island economy. HIR’s flagship program is its business accelerator that integrates ancestral wisdom with 21st century impact tools and experts. Keoni participated in HIR’s first accelerator cohort in 2013 as a co-founder of ‘Ōiwi TV\, the first Native Hawaiian language and culture television station. In his work with ʻŌiwiTV he had the privilege and honor to learn from and work in native communities across Hawai’i and around the world. These experiences and relationships to people and culture have shaped his perspective and drive his work to shift power by being grounded in indigenous knowledge and values. Keoni is active in community work and initiatives around decolonizing education\, food systems\, and the economy. In 2020\, he co-founded the ʻĀina Aloha Economic Futures initiative – an indigenous-led\, values and relationship-based liberation movement to transform Hawaiʻi’s economy. His leadership garnered selection as a Hawaiʻi Omidyar Fellow\, RSF Just Economy Institute Fellow\, and First Nations Futures Fellow.
URL:https://www.agandfoodfunders.org/event/opening-session-workshop-reckoning-a-way-forward-co-creating-philanthropys-course-toward-a-more-just-and-sustainable-food-system/
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SUMMARY:2021 SAFSF Forum
DESCRIPTION:The SAFSF Forum will again be held online in 2021 to bring you the opportunities for real-life learning and peer connection that funders look forward to all year. Spanning two weeks\, from May 3-14\, 2021\, the 2021 SAFSF Forum is a curated assortment of thought-provoking\, timely\, and diverse programming developed by your SAFSF funder peers. With a range of workshop and networking sessions offered over two weeks\, put together the schedule that works for your learning: \n\n\n\nTune in live and participate in dynamic discussions with expert speakersListen to session recordings at a time that works for youConnect and network with funder and investor peers working across the country\n\n\n\nThe Forum is 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\nClick here for information about sponsoring the 2021 SAFSF Forum \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout SAFSF\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 it alone. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWho is a “Funder?”\n\n\n\nThe annual SAFSF Forum is designed by and for funders. Funders are considered those organizations using grantmaking or investments as a core strategy to fulfill their mission and who make grants or invest more than $50\,000 annually. This includes individual donors\, executive and program staff\,​ and members of the board of grantmaking organizations (family foundations\, individual donors\, corporate foundations\, government\, community foundations\, etc.)\, as well as representatives of non-profit or for-profit investment enterprises. Development or fundraising staff are not permitted to participate in SAFSF events. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRegistration Rates\n\n\n\nMember                                                                                  $350Non-Member                                                                       $400Philanthropy Support Organization                                  $350Food System Partner*                                                         $350*Food System Partner registration is a member benefit. Email forum@safsf.org if you have questions about this member benefit.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n2021 Forum Advisory Committee\n\n\n\nDavid Beck\, Self-HelpLenore Beyer\, Kinship FoundationBryan Crawford-Garrett\, Thornburg FoundationPaola Diaz\, The 11th Hour ProjectNoah Fulmer\, Fair Food NetworkAshley Lukens\, Frost Family FoundationAnn Mills\, Agua FundCarol Pickering (chair)\, Dietel & Partners\, LLC Megan Saynisch\, GRACE Communications Foundation
URL:https://www.agandfoodfunders.org/event/2021forum/
CATEGORIES:SAFSF Forum
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SUMMARY:2021 Forum RFP Deadline
DESCRIPTION:SUBMIT A SESSION IDEA\n\n\n\nThe SAFSF Forum will again be held online in 2021 to bring you the opportunities for real-life learning and peer connection that funders look forward to all year. Spanning two weeks\, from May 3-14\, 2021\, the 2021 SAFSF Forum is a curated assortment of thought-provoking\, timely\, and diverse programming developed by SAFSF members and other funder peers.  \n\n\n\nSession proposals must be submitted online by January 22 at 5:00 pm Pacific. Please read through our Frequently Asked Questions before proceeding with your submission. These guidelines provide insight on the themes we are looking to address in this year’s session proposals and much more.Click here to navigate directly to the submission form.Session proposals must be submitted by funders or affinity group staff. Funder organizers do not need to be members of SAFSF. You will be notified about the status of your submission by February 15\, 2021.
URL:https://www.agandfoodfunders.org/event/2021-forum-rfp-deadline/
CATEGORIES:SAFSF Forum
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SUMMARY:Barriers For U.S. Farmers and Ranchers To Adopt Regenerative Ag Practices: Key Levers & Opportunities
DESCRIPTION:A deep dive into key barriers for farmers and ranchers to transition towards regenerative practices and highlighting funding levers that can have the most impact. \nPresented by: Patagonia \nAs part of investing Patagonia’s 2019 $10 million tax break dollars\, we have worked for the past year to develop a landscape analysis of the key barriers for farmers and ranchers face in transitioning towards regenerative practices nationally. Using an interview-driven research process (with over 300 interviews)\, we identified key levers that might alleviate these barriers and\, subsequently\, where current and future funding from philanthropic funders can have the most impact within this context. The goals of this session will be to share the analysis to drive increased collaboration and systems thinking amongst funders and key stakeholders. \nModerator:Jennifer O’Connor\, founder\, chief strategist\, Guidelight Strategies\, CA \nSpeakers:Sarah Ebe\, environmental grants program officer\, Patagonia\, CATorri Estrada\, executive director\, Carbon Cycle Institute\, CADavid Lezaks\, senior fellow\, Croatan Institute\, MIJonathan Lundgren\, director\, chief scientist\, Ecdysis Foundation\, SDIan McSweeney\, director\, Agrarian Trust\, NHAmy Saltzman\, program officer\, environment\, Walton Family Foundation\, CODennis Derryck\, Black Farmer Fund\, NYOnika Abraham Lee\, Black Farmer Fund\, NY
URL:https://www.agandfoodfunders.org/event/barriers-for-u-s-farmers-and-ranchers-to-adopt-regenerative-ag-practices-key-levers-opportunities/
LOCATION:Hotel Name\, Belmont Shore 1 Grenada Ave.\, Long Beach\, CA\, 90803\, United States
CATEGORIES:Event Slider,SAFSF Forum
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SUMMARY:Transformational Food Systems Philanthropy
DESCRIPTION:How can foundations and investors seize this moment to shift power that can lead to the true democratization of agricultural production\, food systems\, and philanthropy? \nPresented by: SAFSF \nThe extraction and concentration of resources––land\, wealth\, power––by a relative few is at the root of many of today’s agriculture\, climate\, and food system challenges; the COVID-19 pandemic has only intensified those challenges. Resource concentration is also the foundation of our century-old system of philanthropy and a key feature of our national and global economies. The pandemic has spurred some in philanthropy to shift more resources and power to communities while in rapid-response mode. How can foundations and investors seize this moment to shift power that can lead to the true democratization of agricultural production\, food systems\, and philanthropy? \nModerator:\nChristine James\, executive director\, The John Merck Fund\, VT \nSpeakers:\nEllen Dorsey\, executive director\, Wallace Global Fund\, DC\nRodney Foxworth\, chief executive officer\, Common Future\, CA
URL:https://www.agandfoodfunders.org/event/transformational-food-systems-philanthropy/
CATEGORIES:Event Slider,SAFSF Forum
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SUMMARY:Forum 2020
DESCRIPTION:About the Forum\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 it alone. \nThe SAFSF Forum is moving online to bring you the opportunities for real-life learning and peer connection that funders look forward to all year. Spanning two weeks\, from July 13-24\, the 2020 SAFSF Forum is a curated assortment of thought-provoking\, timely\, and diverse programming developed by your SAFSF funder peers. With a range of workshop and networking sessions offered over two weeks\, put together the schedule that works for your learning: \n\nTune in live and participate in dynamic discussions with expert speakers\nListen to session recordings at a time that works for you\nConnect and network with funder and investor peers working across the country\n\nAnd because the Forum theme and agenda is 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\nForum Theme\nThe 2020 Forum theme\, Fields of Vision: Building on Our Assets for Resilient Food Systems\, encourages participants to explore our fields of view by: \n\nFocusing on immediate critical needs and assets\nLooking beyond our own organizations and localities to build relationships with strategic allies and partners\nZooming out to map the complex systems and leverage points that will support health\, equity\, solidarity\, and resilience widely and for the long term\n\nForum offerings will reflect on this theme and be informed by the impacts of the coronavirus pandemic on our food and agricultural systems. \n\nREGISTRATION RATES\n$250 SAFSF Member  | $325 Non-Member Funder  | $250 Food System Partner* | $250 Affinity Group Staff \n* Food System Partner registration is a member benefit. Email forum@safsf.org if you have questions about this member benefit. \n\nWHO IS A “FUNDER”?\nThe annual SAFSF Forum is designed by and for funders. Funders are considered those organizations using grantmaking or investments as a core strategy to fulfill their mission and who make grants or invest more than $50\,000 annually. This includes individual donors\, executive and program staff\,​ and members of the board of grantmaking organizations (family foundations\, individual donors\, corporate foundations\, government\, community foundations\, etc.)\, as well as representatives of non-profit or for-profit investment enterprises. Development or fundraising staff are not permitted to participate in SAFSF events. \n\n2020 FORUM PLANNING COMMITTEE\nJ. Olu Baiyewu\, Food Well Alliance\, GAAlyssa Banks\, Greater Twin Cities United Way\, MNIla Duncan\, The Lumpkin Family Foundation\, NYDevin Foote\, W.K. Kellogg Foundation\, MILeslie Hatfield (chair)\, GRACE Communications Foundation\, NYChristine James\, The John Merck Fund\, MABob Scowcroft\, The Nell Newman Foundation\, CAElizabeth Stewart Burger\, The Sunflower Foundation\, KSJeff Usher\, Kansas Health Foundation\, KSGwen Wurst\, Greater Kansas City Community Foundation\, MO \n\n\nProgram\nWeek 1: Monday\, July 13 – Friday\, July 17\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMONDAY 7/13\n\n\n\n7 AM HST | 9 AM AKDT | 10 AM PT | 11 AM MT | 12 PM CT | 1 PM ET (90 min) \n\n\n\nTRANSFORMATIONAL FOOD SYSTEMS PHILANTHROPY\n\n\n\nHow can foundations and investors seize this moment to shift power that can lead to the true democratization of agricultural production\, food systems\, and philanthropy? \n\n\n\nPresented by: SAFSF The extraction and concentration of resources––land\, wealth\, power––by a relative few is at the root of many of today’s agriculture\, climate\, and food system challenges; the COVID-19 pandemic has only intensified those challenges. Resource concentration is also the foundation of our century-old system of philanthropy and a key feature of our national and global economies. The pandemic has spurred some in philanthropy to shift more resources and power to communities while in rapid-response mode. How can foundations and investors seize this moment to shift power that can lead to the true democratization of agricultural production\, food systems\, and philanthropy? Moderator: Christine James\, executive director\, The John Merck Fund\, VT Speakers: Ellen Dorsey\, executive director\, Wallace Global Fund\, DCRodney Foxworth\, chief executive officer\, Common Future\, CA
URL:https://www.agandfoodfunders.org/event/forum-2020-2/
LOCATION:Online\, United States
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SUMMARY:Forum 2020
DESCRIPTION:About the Forum\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 it alone. \nThe SAFSF Forum is moving online to bring you the opportunities for real-life learning and peer connection that funders look forward to all year. Spanning two weeks\, from July 13-24\, the 2020 SAFSF Forum is a curated assortment of thought-provoking\, timely\, and diverse programming developed by your SAFSF funder peers. With a range of workshop and networking sessions offered over two weeks\, put together the schedule that works for your learning: \n\nTune in live and participate in dynamic discussions with expert speakers\nListen to session recordings at a time that works for you\nConnect and network with funder and investor peers working across the country\n\nAnd because the Forum theme and agenda is 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\nForum Theme\nThe 2020 Forum theme\, Fields of Vision: Building on Our Assets for Resilient Food Systems\, encourages participants to explore our fields of view by: \n\nFocusing on immediate critical needs and assets\nLooking beyond our own organizations and localities to build relationships with strategic allies and partners\nZooming out to map the complex systems and leverage points that will support health\, equity\, solidarity\, and resilience widely and for the long term\n\nForum offerings will reflect on this theme and be informed by the impacts of the coronavirus pandemic on our food and agricultural systems. \n\nRegistration Rates\n$250 SAFSF Member  | $325 Non-Member Funder  | $250 Food System Partner* | $250 Affinity Group Staff \n* Food System Partner registration is a member benefit. Email forum@safsf.org if you have questions about this member benefit. \n\nWho is a “Funder?”\nThe annual SAFSF Forum is designed by and for funders. Funders are considered those organizations using grantmaking or investments as a core strategy to fulfill their mission and who make grants or invest more than $50\,000 annually. This includes individual donors\, executive and program staff\,​ and members of the board of grantmaking organizations (family foundations\, individual donors\, corporate foundations\, government\, community foundations\, etc.)\, as well as representatives of non-profit or for-profit investment enterprises. Development or fundraising staff are not permitted to participate in SAFSF events. \n\n2020 Forum Planning Committee\nJ. Olu Baiyewu\, Food Well Alliance\, GAAlyssa Banks\, Greater Twin Cities United Way\, MNIla Duncan\, The Lumpkin Family Foundation\, NYDevin Foote\, W.K. Kellogg Foundation\, MILeslie Hatfield (chair)\, GRACE Communications Foundation\, NYChristine James\, The John Merck Fund\, MABob Scowcroft\, The Nell Newman Foundation\, CAElizabeth Stewart Burger\, The Sunflower Foundation\, KSJeff Usher\, Kansas Health Foundation\, KSGwen Wurst\, Greater Kansas City Community Foundation\, MO \n\n\n\n\n\n\nProgram\nWeek 1: Monday\, July 13 – Friday\, July 17\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMonday 7/13\n\n\n\n7 AM HST | 9 AM AKDT | 10 AM PT | 11 AM MT | 12 PM CT | 1 PM ET (90 min) \n\n\n\nTransformational Food Systems Philanthropy\n\n\n\nHow can foundations and investors seize this moment to shift power that can lead to the true democratization of agricultural production\, food systems\, and philanthropy? \n\n\n\nPresented by: SAFSF The extraction and concentration of resources––land\, wealth\, power––by a relative few is at the root of many of today’s agriculture\, climate\, and food system challenges; the COVID-19 pandemic has only intensified those challenges. Resource concentration is also the foundation of our century-old system of philanthropy and a key feature of our national and global economies. The pandemic has spurred some in philanthropy to shift more resources and power to communities while in rapid-response mode. How can foundations and investors seize this moment to shift power that can lead to the true democratization of agricultural production\, food systems\, and philanthropy?  \n\n\n\nModerator: Christine James\, executive director\, The John Merck Fund\, VT Speakers: Ellen Dorsey\, executive director\, Wallace Global Fund\, DCRodney Foxworth\, chief executive officer\, Common Future\, CA \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n9:30 AM HST | 11:30 AM AKDT | 12:30 PM PT | 1:30 PM MT | 2:30 PM CT | 3:30 PM ET (90 min) \n\n\n\nBarriers for U.S. Farmers and Ranchers\n\n\n\nA deep dive into key barriers for farmers and ranchers to transition towards regenerative practices and highlighting funding levers that can have the most impact. \n\n\n\nPresented by: Patagonia \n\n\n\nAs part of investing Patagonia’s 2019 $10 million tax break dollars\, we have worked for the past year to develop a landscape analysis of the key barriers for farmers and ranchers face in transitioning towards regenerative practices nationally. Using an interview-driven research process (with over 300 interviews)\, we identified key levers that might alleviate these barriers and\, subsequently\, where current and future funding from philanthropic funders can have the most impact within this context. The goals of this session will be to share the analysis to drive increased collaboration and systems thinking amongst funders and key stakeholders. \n\n\n\nModerator:Jennifer O’Connor\, founder\, chief strategist\, Guidelight Strategies\, CA \n\n\n\nSpeakers:Sarah Ebe\, environmental grants program officer\, Patagonia\, CATorri Estrada\, executive director\, Carbon Cycle Institute\, CADavid Lezaks\, senior fellow\, Croatan Institute\, MIJonathan Lundgren\, director\, chief scientist\, Ecdysis Foundation\, SDIan McSweeney\, director\, Agrarian Trust\, NHAmy Saltzman\, program officer\, environment\, Walton Family Foundation\, CODennis Derryck\, Black Farmer Fund\, NYOnika Abraham Lee\, Black Farmer Fund\, NY \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTuesday 7/14\n\n\n\n10 AM HST | 12 PM AKDT | 1 PM PT | 2 PM MT | 3 PM CT | 4 PM ET (60 min) \n\n\n\nReporting on Sustainable Agriculture in Rural America During COVID-19\n\n\n\nA look at the challenges of covering alternative and sustainable practices and reporting on Big Ag during this complex time. \n\n\n\nPresented by: Nell Newman Foundation\, GRACE Communications Foundation\, and The 11th Hour Project \n\n\n\nReporting on agriculture in rural “news deserts” was a complex endeavor before the pandemic. Now\, the remaining media sources in these areas face a whole new set of hurdles. On top of agricultural consolidation\, and powerful agribusinesses\, the landscape now includes everything from COVID hotspots to gaps (and bottlenecks) in the supply chain and radical shifts in markets. We’ll also talk about: \n\n\n\n* How to get a wider range of voices included in rural media.* Covering regenerative/alternative/sustainable production methods in Big Ag country.* Working within the current context of media bashing.* Other risks and opportunities.  \n\n\n\nModerators:Twilight Greenaway\, contributing editor\, Civil Eats\, CABob Scowcroft\, trustee\, Nell Newman Foundation\, CA \n\n\n\nSpeakers:Sylvia Burgos Toftness\, podcast host and farmer\, Deep Roots Radio and Bull Brook Keep Farm\, WIChris Clayton\, ag policy editor\, DTN Progressive Farmer\, IAArt Cullen\, editor\, Storm Lake Times\, IA \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWednesday 7/15\n\n\n\n6 AM HST | 8 AM AKDT | 9 AM PT | 10 AM MT | 11 AM CT | 12 PM ET (60 min) \n\n\n\nLasting Resilience: Raising Animals Agroecologically from the Mongolian Steppes to the Navajo Nation\n\n\n\nFeaturing experiences with nomadic pastoralists across Central Asia and Navajo sheep and goat herders\, this session explores culturally-embedded agroecological livestock management and local food sovereignty. \n\n\n\nPresented by: Agroecology Fund\, Casey and Family Foundation\, Panta Rhea Foundation\, Thread Foundation\, and Funders for Regenerative Agriculture (FORA) \n\n\n\nIn these uncertain times\, sustainable livestock rearing must be more than technical. Scientists and agronomists have much to learn from indigenous herders whose practices are embedded in cultural traditions and rituals\, ensuring their rootedness and longevity. The Peace Building Center works with nomadic pastoralists across Central Asia to restore indigenous cattle and horse populations under threat of extinction. In Indian Country in North America\, the Dine’ (Navajo) work with sheep and goat herders to link Allan Savory methods with traditional ecological practices. This session will explore how systems\, rooted in indigenous knowledge\, can inform agroecological livestock management and food sovereignty. \n\n\n\nModerator:Daniel Moss\, executive director\, Agroecology Fund\, MA \n\n\n\nSpeakers:Indira Raimberdy\, executive director\, Peace Building Center\, KyrgyzstanJanene Yazzie\, sustainable development program coordinator\, International Indian Treaty Council\, AZ \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n10 AM HST | 12 AM AKDT | 1 PM PT | 2 PM MT | 3 PM CT | 4 PM ET (60 min) \n\n\n\nNetworking Session\n\n\n\nConnect with funder and investor peers\, speaker partners\, and Food System Partners during this networking opportunity. \n\n\n\nHosted by: SAFSF \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThursday 7/16\n\n\n\n7:30 AM HST | 9:30 AM AKDT | 10:30 AM PT | 11:30 AM MT | 12:30 PM CT | 1:30 PM ET (75 min) \n\n\n\nFood Health\, Land Health: Exploring Collaboration Between Sustainable Food and State Wildlife Agencies\n\n\n\nThis session will explore the potential for collaboration between the nation’s state wildlife agencies and sustainable food system funders. \n\n\n\nPresented by: Missouri Department of Conservation \n\n\n\nThe goal of this session is to explore potential for collaboration between sustainable food funders and the nation’s state wildlife agencies. It will include: \n\n\n\n*Overview from the Director of the Missouri Department of Conservation (MDC)\, about why her agency seeks such collaboration. MDC is one of the nation’s leading state wildlife agencies.* Briefing of Audubon’s Conservation Ranching program. launched in partnership with MDC\, and now national in scope\, as an innovative example of conservation friendly agriculture.* Feedback for a report MDC commissioned to forge partnership with sustainable food organizations and present the Association of Fish and Wildlife agencies nationally. \n\n\n\nModerator:Max Alleger\, regional administrator\, Missouri Department of Conservation\, MO \n\n\n\nSpeakers:Marshall Johnson\, vice president\, Audubon Conservation Ranching\, National Audubon Society\, NDSara Parker-Pauley\, director\, Missouri Department of Conservation\, MO \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFriday 7/17\n\n\n\n6 AM HST | 8 AM AKDT | 9 AM PT | 10 AM MT | 11 AM CT | 12 PM ET (60 min) \n\n\n\nDemystifying “Market Rate” Rate Returns in Food & AG\n\n\n\nIn this session we will illuminate a common blindspot of many impact-anchored professionals by pulling the sheet off of the concept and term “market rate.” \n\n\n\nPresented by: Kinship Foundation\, Torana Group\, and Lumpkin Family Foundation \n\n\n\nAs funders expand their toolkits to include impact investments\, “market rate” pops up in various contexts – sometimes as a reason to not invest (“they can’t generate market rate returns”) or to not grant (“they already generate market rate performance”). In many circumstances\, the term is applied in a clouded and sometimes misrepresented way. \n\n\n\nWhat does the term “market rate” actually mean? Who does it actually include? Why does it matter for professional grantmakers to understand market rate performance\, especially in food & agriculture? \n\n\n\nModerator:Lenore Beyer\, director of conservation initiatives\, Kinship Foundation\, IL \n\n\n\nSpeakers:Toyin Kolawole\, founder & CEO\, Iya Foods\, ILAndrea Longton\, lender\, Opportunity Finance Network\, NYMalini Ram Moraghan\, managing director\, Torana Group\, IL \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWeek 2: Monday\, July 20 – Friday\, July 24\n\n\n\nMonday 7/20\n\n\n\n7 AM HST | 9 AM AKDT | 10 AM PT | 11 AM MT | 12 PM CT | 1 PM ET (90 min) \n\n\n\nRisk\, Return\, and Impact: Funding Equitable Food Oriented Development in the Real World\n\n\n\nApply equitable funding and investment principles to case study projects\, utilizing a new\, urgently-needed model to support power- and wealth-building through community food systems change. \n\n\n\nPresented by: The Kresge Foundation \n\n\n\n“Power concedes nothing without a demand\,” said Frederick Douglass. Food justice work grew from an understanding that food was one marker of inequitable systems that have been built to concentrate wealth and power. The emerging field of Equitable Food Oriented Development (EFOD) is a practitioner-activist-led and funder-allied strategy that centralizes the urgency of power- and wealth-building to community food systems change. \n\n\n\nWith its own recently released funding prototype opportunity\, the EFOD Collaborative is designing equitable and practitioner-focused funding and investment principles. Session participants will learn and co-create alongside practitioner leaders\, workshopping case studies and applying EFOD principles to potential investments. \n\n\n\nModerator:Stacey Barbas\, senior program officer – health\, The Kresge Foundation\, MI \n\n\n\nSpeakers:Krysten Aguilar\, co-executive director\, La Semilla Food Center\, NMTrisha Chakrabarti\, manager\, equitable food oriented development\, DAISA Enterprises\, NYRudy Espinoza\, executive director\, Inclusive Action for the City\, CAHaleh Zandi\, co-founder and co-director\, Planting Justice\, CA \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTuesday 7/21\n\n\n\n7 AM HST | 9 AM AKDT | 10 AM PT | 11 AM MT | 12 PM CT | 1 PM ET (60 min) \n\n\n\nInvesting in Change: Foundation Support for Lobbying and Other Advocacy\n\n\n\nLearn how\, in this critical moment\, foundations can—and should—engage in advocacy themselves and fund NGOs to advocate on their issues. \n\n\n\nPresented by: The John Merck Fund \n\n\n\nEspecially in times of crisis like now\, foundations can—and should—engage in advocacy themselves and fund NGOs to advocate on their issues. We will cover how your foundation can safely engage in advocacy and best practices for providing grantees flexibility under the law for their advocacy efforts. This session will cover: \n\n\n\n* The various advocacy roles foundations can play;* What constitutes advocacy and public policy work;* The tax code’s definitions of lobbying\, and their exceptions;* Rules for how private & public foundation can fund NGOs that lobby; and* Grant agreement language that permits support for policy work. \n\n\n\nModerator:Christine James\, executive director\, The John Merck Fund\, VT \n\n\n\nSpeakers:Lisa Fernandes\, communications director\, Food Solutions New England at UNH Sustainability Institute\, MERonnie Pawelko\, senior counsel\, Alliance for Justice/Bolder Advocacy\, DC \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n2 PM HST | 4 PM AKDT | 5 PM PT | 6 PM MT | 7 PM CT | 8 PM ET (120 min) \n\n\n\n*NEW* Crafting Fun with Cocktails or Mocktails\n\n\n\nSAFSF has\, for many years\, had a tradition of welcoming those among us who are crafters to bring their crafts – knitting needles\, needlepoint\, crochet\, and more – to our tables when we meet in person. This year\, we want to gather once again and see what folks are working on\, hear about the projects you want to start\, and just share some time together.  \n\n\n\nSo we hope you will join us for an informal\, not scripted (or facilitated) couple of hours to just hang out. Just bring yourself and whatever else you might need\, a beverage (or not) of your choice. See you then we hope! Join at whatever time during this two-hour block that works for you! \n\n\n\nPresented by: SAFSF \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWednesday 7/22\n\n\n\n8 AM HST | 10 AM AKDT | 11 AM PT | 12 PM MT | 1 PM CT | 2 PM ET (60 min) \n\n\n\nCollaborating for Food and Farm Movement Leadership\n\n\n\nLeader-full movements require building power\, skills\, and relationships. Hear from four distinct and complementary fellowship programs investing in food systems leadership both regionally and nationally. \n\n\n\nPresented by: Presented by GRACE Communications Foundation\, Panta Rhea Foundation\, and North Star Fund \n\n\n\nLeadership matters. Funders have increasingly been investing in leadership development\, so what can we learn from it? How are the various fellowships collectively working to build a more just food system? What challenges\, and hope\, do they hold? This session will bring together both regional and national fellowship programs including the Castanea Fellowship\, HEAL Food Alliance’s School of Political Leadership (SoPL)\, the Hawaii Alliance for Progressive Action’s Kuleana Academy\, and the Seeding Power Fellowship to openly engage\, discuss\, and share how they are cultivating leadership to bring forth food system change in empowering ways. \n\n\n\nModerator:Anna Lappé\, director of the food and democracy program\, Panta Rhea Foundation\, CA \n\n\n\nSpeakers:Anne Frederick\, executive director\, Hawaiʻi Alliance for Progressive Action (HAPA)\, HINavina Khanna\, director\, Health\, Environment\, Agriculture\, Labor Food Alliance (HEAL)\, CAAdam Liebowitz\, Community Food Funders director\, North Star Fund\, NYFarzana Serang\, executive director\, Castanea Fellowship\, CASimran Noor\, principal\, Noor Consulting\, NY \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThursday 7/23\n\n\n\n6 AM HST | 8 AM AKDT | 9 AM PT | 10 AM MT | 11 AM CT | 12 PM ET (60 min) \n\n\n\nNetworking Session\n\n\n\nConnect with funder and investor peers\, speaker partners\, and Food System Partners during this networking opportunity. \n\n\n\nHosted by: SAFSF \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n8 AM HST | 10 AM AKDT | 11 AM PT | 12 PM MT | 1 PM CT | 2 PM ET (60 min) \n\n\n\nLeveraging Land Grant Institutions as a Force to Address Racism in the Food System\n\n\n\nLet’s identify disparities across 1862\, 1890\, and 1994 land grant institutions and discuss strategies to leverage land grants in addressing racism in the food system. \n\n\n\nPresented by: Center for Regional Food Systems at Michigan State University and the W.K. Kellogg Foundation \n\n\n\nLand grant educators touch food system work in every U.S. county. The land grant system includes the 1862 (white-led)\, 1890 (historically black) and 1994 (tribal) universities. 1862 land grant institutions use white solutions to address food system challenges and resist programs that support food justice for those in low-income communities. This session will: \n\n\n\n1) Identify disparities across 1862\, 1890\, and 1994 land grants;2) Contrast land grant and non-profit educator perceptions of equity;3) Discuss narratives of power-sharing and economic justice across land-grants; and4) Identify strategies to leverage land grants as a food system force to address racism. \n\n\n\nModerator:Kolia Souza\, outreach specialist\, MSU Center for Regional Food Systems\, KS \n\n\n\nSpeakers:Lindsey Lunsford\, sustainable food system resource specialist\, Tuskegee University\, ALRich Pirog\, director\, MSU Center for Regional Food Systems\, MIMekko Tyner\, registrar\, College of the Muscogee Nation\, OK \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFriday 7/24\n\n\n\n6 AM HST | 8 AM AKDT | 9 AM PT | 10 AM MT | 11 AM CT | 12 PM ET (60 min) \n\n\n\nThe State of School Food and How We Can Plan for the Future\n\n\n\nJoin a discussion about the role of school food in the food system\, the importance of healthy school meals\, and how the pandemic has impacted school food. \n\n\n\nPresented by: Chef Ann Foundation \n\n\n\nEvery day\, 30 million children eat school lunch and for many students\, these are the most nutritious meals of the day. 70% were eligible for free or reduced-price meals before the pandemic\, and that number is only rising. \n\n\n\nJoin a discussion about the role of school food in the food system and the importance of healthy school meals. Our panel of journalists\, policymakers\, policy advocates\, and school food professionals will discuss the impact of the pandemic and the needs of school districts. Finally\, we will ask attendees to join us in a conversation about school food in the future. \n\n\n\nModerator:Mara Fleishman\, chief executive officer\, Chef Ann Foundation\, CO \n\n\n\nSpeakers:Elizabeth Campbell\, senior director\, legislative and government affairs\, Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics\, DCAnn Cooper\, director of food services\, Boulder Valley School District; founder and president\, Chef Ann Foundation; partner\, Lunch Lessons\, LLC\, COAnya Kamenetz\, education correspondent\, National Public RadioJerone Wiggins\, director of educational programs and partnerships\, Jones Valley Teaching Farm\, AL \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeakers\n\n\n\n\nKrysten Aguilarco-executive director\, La Semilla Food Center\, NM\n\n\n\nMONDAY\, 7/20: RISK\, RETURN\, AND IMPACT: FUNDING EQUITABLE FOOD ORIENTED DEVELOPMENT IN THE REAL WORLD \n\n\n\nKrysten Aguilar is the co-executive director at La Semilla Food Center. Krysten led the initiative to get the Las Cruces Urban Agriculture and Food Policy Plan passed – the first of its kind in New Mexico – and is now leading efforts for a county-wide healthy food financing initiative. She is one part of a four-woman leadership team\, driving La Semilla’s mission of creating a fair and sustainable local food system and riding on the frontier of nonprofit development with an innovative leadership model\, holistic programming\, and using food systems work as a tool for racial and gender healing. Krysten holds a bachelor’s degree in wildlife and fisheries sciences from Eastern New Mexico University and a master’s degree in cultural anthropology from New Mexico State University. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMax Allegerregional administrator\, Missouri Department of Conservation\, MO\n\n\n\nTHURSDAY\, 7/16: FOOD HEALTH\, LAND HEALTH: EXPLORING COLLABORATION BETWEEN SUSTAINABLE FOOD AND STATE WILDLIFE AGENCIES \n\n\n\nMax Alleger is the Regional Administrator Missouri Department of Conservation’s Southwest Region. He supervises regional-level public and private land management and infrastructure management branches and coordinates programs aimed at meeting the needs of the people and native species which share southwest Missouri’s landscape. Max served as the Department’s Grassland Coordinator Prior more than a decade. Before coming to the Department in 1995\, Max worked for the Texas Agricultural Extension Service and as a partner in a family farm. He holds bachelor’s degrees in Agricultural Education and Fisheries & Wildlife Management from the University of Missouri-Columbia\, and a Master’s in Wildlife Science from Texas A&M. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nStacey Barbassenior program officer\, The Kresge Foundation\, MI\n\n\n\nMONDAY\, 7/20: RISK\, RETURN\, AND IMPACT: FUNDING EQUITABLE FOOD ORIENTED DEVELOPMENT IN THE REAL WORLD \n\n\n\nStacey Barbas is a senior program officer on the Kresge Foundation’s health team. She is responsible for managing a portfolio of approximately $20 million that focuses on increasing health equity by addressing conditions that lead to poor health outcomes. Her portfolio includes grants that address healthy food systems that benefit low-income communities\, and she is a lead staff person on Fresh\, Local\, and Equitable\, a $12 million initiative with the Foundation’s arts and culture program that funds projects around the country that use food-oriented programs to contribute to economic revitalization\, cultural expression\, and health in urban low-income communities. Stacey’s professional career in the nonprofit health and human service fields spans thirty years. She joined the Kresge Foundation in January 2008 after serving for five years as executive director of the Michigan AIDS fund\, a statewide nonprofit grantmaking organization. She received a master of science in administration and management from Central Michigan University. She serves on the steering committee of the Sustainable Agriculture and Food System Funders and chairs the Policy Committee. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLenore Beyerdirector of conservation programs\, Kinship Foundation\, IL\n\n\n\nFRIDAY\, 7/17: DEMYSTIFYING “MARKET RATE” RETURNS IN FOOD & AG \n\n\n\nLenore Beyer is the director of conservation programs at Kinship Foundation where she manages Food:Land:Opportunity\, a multi-year initiative that looks to increase the supply of local food in the Chicago region\, and supports the strategic planning for Kinship Conservation Fellows. Prior to joining Kinship\, Lenore was the vice president of policy and planning at Openlands\, a regional conservation land trust\, where she planned and implemented Openlands’ policy and advocacy agenda and managed specific projects to protect land\, water and natural resources. This included creation of the Hackmatack National Wildlife Refuge\, integration of farmland protection with local food initiatives\, and transforming Chicago schoolyards into greenspace. Lenore was previously the executive director of the Environmental Defenders of McHenry County\, a citizen advocacy organization. She also served as president of the Illinois Environmental Council and on the Endangered Species Protection Board in Illinois. Lenore has a B.A. from Oberlin College and an M.B.A. from the University of Illinois. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSylvia Burgos Toftnesspodcast host and farmer\, Deep Roots Radio and Bull Brook Keep Farm\, WI\n\n\n\nSylvia Burgos Toftness is a Latina baby boomer from the tenements of the South Bronx. Sylvia now raises 100% grass-fed beef in west-central Wisconsin with her husband Dave. They believe more people will choose to farm and eat healthful foods if they know the connections between what we eat and how it’s grown. That’s why they invite you to walk the fields with us; hear from experts on her Saturday morning show\, Deep Roots Radio; share their adventures on their blog\, From the Bronx to the Barn; and buy their sustainably-grown beef. They farm with a tiny carbon hoofprint (R) so that you can enjoy great-tasting grass-fed beef that’s high in nutrition while helping to restore our environment. \n\n\n\nSylvia serves on the board of the Farm Table Foundation and on the board of MOSES (the Midwest Organic and Sustainable Agriculture Services nonprofit). \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nElizabeth Campbellsenior director\, Legislative and Government Affairs\, Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics\, DC\n\n\n\nFRIDAY\, 7/24: THE STATE OF SCHOOL FOOD AND HOW WE CAN PLAN FOR THE FUTURE \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTrisha Chakrabartimanager\, equitable food oriented development\, DAISA Enterprises\, NY\n\n\n\nMONDAY\, 7/20: RISK\, RETURN\, AND IMPACT: FUNDING EQUITABLE FOOD ORIENTED DEVELOPMENT IN THE REAL WORLD \n\n\n\nTrisha Chakrabarti is leading DAISA Enterprises’ work to explore Equitable Food-Oriented Development as a practice and EFOD organizations on the ground. that do this work on the ground. DAISA Enterprises works alongside community organizations and social entrepreneurs that are innovating to build a better\, more equitable\, food system\, and their investors. Trisha has worked in community food programming\, statewide policy advocacy\, and has led participatory food access research initiatives with restaurant workers and systems-impacted youth. She grew up in the South Asian diaspora\, and sees a community-owned food system as a key indicator of political and economic self-sovereignty. Trisha serves on the Business and Strategy Board of the Central Brooklyn Food Cooperative. She holds a BA in Political Economy from UC Berkeley\, and Masters Degrees in Food Policy and Public Health from Tufts University\, where she was a Block Direct Service Fellow. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nChris Claytonag policy editor\, DTN Progressive Farmer\, IA\n\n\n\nTUESDAY\, 7/14: REPORTING ON SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE IN RURAL AMERICA DURING COVID-19 \n\n\n\nChris Clayton has been writing and editing for DTN/The Progressive Farmer since 2005 after working more than seven years as a reporter for the Omaha World-Herald. He is the author of The Elephant in the Cornfield: The Politics of Agriculture and Climate Change. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nArt Culleneditor\, Storm Lake Times\, IA\n\n\n\nTUESDAY\, 7/14: REPORTING ON SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE IN RURAL AMERICA DURING COVID-19 \n\n\n\nArt Cullen is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist\, editor of The Storm Lake Times (a family-run weekly newspaper in small-town Iowa)\, and author of the new book\, Storm Lake: A Chronicle of Change\, Resilience\, and Hope from a Heartland Newspaper. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAnn Cooperdirector of food services\, Boulder Valley School District; founder and president\, Chef Ann Foundation; partner\, Lunch Lessons\, LLC\, CO\n\n\n\nFRIDAY\, 7/24: THE STATE OF SCHOOL FOOD AND HOW WE CAN PLAN FOR THE FUTURE \n\n\n\nChef Ann Cooper is an internationally recognized author\, chef\, educator\, public speaker\, and advocate of healthy food for all children. In a nation where kids are born with shorter estimated life expectancies than their parents due to diet-related disease\, Chef Ann has been a constant champion of school food reform as an important avenue through which to improve childhood nutrition. \n\n\n\nIn 2009\, Chef Ann founded the Chef Ann Foundation\, a nonprofit organization dedicated to helping schools take action so that every child has daily access to fresh\, healthy food. \n\n\n\nAlso known as the “Renegade Lunch Lady\,“ Chef Ann serves as Director of Food Services for Boulder Valley School District in Boulder\, Colorado\, and is Partner of Lunch Lessons\, LLC\, a consultancy for school districts going through large-scale food change. Ann attends many national conferences and performs regular Speaking Engagements. Visit our Multimedia Center to view some of Ann’s notable lectures\, including several TED Talks. \n\n\n\nA graduate of the Culinary Institute of America\, Ann has 40 years of experience as a chef\, including 17 years in school food programs. Her books Bitter Harvest and Lunch Lessons: Changing the Way We Feed Our Children have made her a leading advocate for safe\, sustainable food. To raise further awareness about the value of healthy food systems\, Chef Ann has held several advisory positions: \n\n\n\n– Executive committee member\, Chefs Collaborative– Fellow\, W.K. Kellogg Foundation Food & Society Policy– Board member\, USDA’s National Organic Standards Board (by congressional appointment)– Member\, Google Innovation Lab for Food Experiences– President and board member\, Women’s Chefs and Restaurateurs– President\, American Culinary Federation of Central Vermont– Advisory Board Member\, Real Food for Kids \n\n\n\nChef Ann has also been honored by the National Resources Defense Council\, awarded an honorary doctorate from SUNY Cobleskill for her work on sustainable agriculture\, and received IACP’s 2012 Humanitarian of the Year award. Named one of the “Influential 20” by Food Service Director Magazine and one of the top 15 Crusaders for Health in the Food Industry by Greatist.com\, Ann has also received the Women Chefs and Restaurateurs’ Community Service Award and a Special Inspirational Award from the Susan B. Komen Foundation. In 2016\, she was named “One of the Top 50 Food Activists” by the Academy of Culinary Nutrition. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEllen Dorseyexecutive director\, Wallace Global Fund\, DC\n\n\n\nMONDAY\, 7/13: TRANSFORMATIONAL FOOD SYSTEMS PHILANTHROPY \n\n\n\nEllen Dorsey is Executive Director of the Wallace Global Fund\, a private foundation focused on progressive social change in the fields of environment\, democracy\, human rights and corporate accountability. Under her leadership\, the Fund is recognized for creative philanthropic strategies and mission-related investing. This alignment of programs and investments led the foundation to support the fossil fuel divestment movement since its inception and to launch a new global campaign\, Shine\, to end energy poverty. Dorsey was awarded the 2016 inaugural Nelson Mandela – Graca Machel Brave Philanthropy Award for launching Divest-Invest Philanthropy\, a coalition of over 170 foundations committed to deploying their investments to address the climate crisis and accelerate the clean energy transition. \n\n\n\nDr. Dorsey came to Wallace Global Fund from a series of academic\, philanthropic and non-profit leadership positions in the human rights and environmental fields\, including serving as Executive Director at the Rachel Carson Institute\, launching the Human Rights and Environment program at Amnesty International\, and serving as senior program officer in the Heinz Endowment’s Environment Program. \n\n\n\nAdditionally\, she has served on the board of numerous non-profit organizations promoting human rights and sustainable development\, including Greenpeace USA\, the Global Initiative for Economic\, Social and Cultural Rights\, the United States Human Rights Network\, and chair of the board of Amnesty International USA. \n\n\n\nDorsey holds a doctorate in political science from the University of Pittsburgh. She was a Fulbright Research Fellow in South Africa during that country’s historic transformation. She served on the faculty of several Universities\, teaching human rights and environmental sustainability. She has written extensively on effective strategies of non-governmental organizations and social movements. Dorsey is co-author\, with Paul J. Nelson\, of New Rights Advocacy: Changing Strategies of Development and Human Rights NGOs\, Georgetown University Press\, 2008. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSarah Ebeenvironmental grants program officer\, Patagonia\, CA\n\n\n\nMONDAY\, 7/13: BARRIERS FOR U.S. FARMERS AND RANCHERS TO ADOPT REGENERATIVE AG PRACTICES: KEY LEVERS & OPPORTUNITIES \n\n\n\nSarah Ebe serves as Patagonia’s environmental grants program officer. Within the sustainable agriculture space\, Patagonia focuses funding on supporting the enabling conditions to advance to a regenerative agriculture economy\, one that places the highest importance on soil health\, animal welfare\, and social justice. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRudy Espinozaexecutive director\, Inclusive Action for the City\, CA\n\n\n\nMONDAY\, 7/20: RISK\, RETURN\, AND IMPACT: FUNDING EQUITABLE FOOD ORIENTED DEVELOPMENT IN THE REAL WORLD \n\n\n\nRudy Espinoza is the Executive Director of Inclusive Action for the City\, a community development organization designing innovations to responsibly revitalize low-income\, urban areas. He specializes in designing economic development initiatives in low-income communities\, researching the informal economy\, building private/nonprofit partnerships\, and training the working poor to participate in the socio-economic revitalization of their neighborhoods. \n\n\n\nAt Inclusive Action\, he leads their advocacy efforts in support of the working poor and their micro-finance programs that support micro-entrepreneurs. Under his leadership\, Inclusive Action helped legalize street vending in Los Angeles\, has deployed over $500\,000 in low-interest micro-loans to under-served entrepreneurs\, and co-created a unique commercial real estate initiative that preserves small businesses in gentrifying neighborhoods. \n\n\n\nHe serves as the President of the East Area Planning Commission for the City of Los Angeles as well as the Board Chair of the LA Food Policy Council. He also serves on the Board of Directors of the Center for Nonprofit Management and the Advisory Boards of the LA Development Fund and Investing in Place. Rudy holds degrees in Business Administration and Urban Planning. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTorri Estradaexecutive director\, Carbon Cycle Institute\, CA\n\n\n\nMONDAY\, 7/13: BARRIERS FOR U.S. FARMERS AND RANCHERS TO ADOPT REGENERATIVE AG PRACTICES: KEY LEVERS & OPPORTUNITIES \n\n\n\nTorri Estrada is Executive Director at CCI and directs its policy and climate justice work. Torri has worked with non-profit\, community-based\, and public institutions to advance solutions to social and environmental justice\, climate\, and environmental issues for over twenty years. Previously\, Torri was the program director at the Marin Community Foundation\, where he managed the Foundation’s environmental grantmaking program and climate change initiative. He was also a program officer at the Unitarian Universalist Veatch Program at Shelter Rock\, where he managed its environmental justice\, media reform\, reproductive rights\, and civil rights portfolios. Torri was the co-founder and a senior policy fellow with the Environmental Justice Coalition for Water; served as Director of the Latino Issues Forum’s Environment and Sustainable Development Program; and was a Program Director at Urban Habitat\, where Torri managed the Brownfields and Community Revitalization Project and co-developed its Leadership Development Program. Torri holds an MS in Environmental Sociology and Policy (with an emphasis on environmental justice) from the University of Michigan. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLisa Fernandescommunications director\, Food Solutions New England at UNH Sustainability Institute\, ME\n\n\n\nTUESDAY\, 7/21: INVESTING IN CHANGE: FOUNDATION SUPPORT FOR LOBBYING AND OTHER ADVOCACY \n\n\n\nLisa M. Fernandes currently serves as the Communication Director for the Food Solutions New England network at the UNH Sustainability Institute in Durham\, NH\, helping to build a just\, healthy & sustainable regional food system. In 2005\, Lisa founded The Resilience Hub in Portland\, Maine and over 13 years\, grew it to nearly 3\,000 members\, delivering over 800 community-building and educational events. As an experienced strategist\, facilitator\, speaker\, network weaver and educator\, Lisa believes that resilience-building\, community connectivity and participatory design are among the best approaches for creating vibrant futures and navigating current challenges. She has served the boards of the Eat Local Foods Coalition\, the Permaculture Association of the Northeast\, the Grantmaking Committee of the New England Grassroots Environment Fund\, and on the Advisory Panel for Green & Healthy Maine Homes magazine. A Master Food Preserver and Master Composter\, Lisa has also been active in the Portland Mayor’s Initiative for Healthy Sustainable Food Systems\, Maine Organic Farmers & Gardeners’ Ag Services Committee\, the Portland Food Coop\, Hour Exchange Portland. She attended Boston College and Evergreen State College and has a rich set of work experiences\, including several years owning/operating a software firm with 100+ client companies across the region. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMara Fleishmanchief executive officer\, Chef Ann Foundation\, CO\n\n\n\nFRIDAY\, 7/24: THE STATE OF SCHOOL FOOD AND HOW WE CAN PLAN FOR THE FUTURE \n\n\n\nMara Fleishman serves as the CEO of the Chef Ann Foundation (CAF)\, an organization founded in 2009 to focus on solutions to the school food crisis. After becoming involved in school food as a concerned parent\, Mara served on the Chef Ann Foundation’s board of directors\, and she later transitioned to executive director in March of 2013. Mara has nearly 20 years of experience working in natural products including 12 years with Whole Foods Market\, where she served most recently as global director of partnerships. In addition to CAF\, she has held board seats at The Growe Foundation\, the Kitchen Community\, and Naturally Boulder. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRodney Foxworthchief executive officer\, Common Future\, CA\n\n\n\nMONDAY\, 7/13: TRANSFORMATIONAL FOOD SYSTEMS PHILANTHROPY \n\n\n\nA nonprofit leader and social entrepreneur\, Rodney Foxworth is CEO of Common Future\, formerly known as BALLE\, a network of leaders (re)building an economy that includes everyone. Common Future’s work unites wealth-holders and wealth-builders across the U.S. and Canada to advance a more equitable economy.  \n\n\n\nNotably\, Rodney has shared the stage with field leaders and spoken at the AEO Conference\, Conscious Company Global Leaders Forum\, Mission Investing Institute\, Social Finance Forum\, Confluence Philanthropy Convening\, Open Markets Institute\, Skoll World Forum\, and Global Philanthropy Forum. \n\n\n\nPreviously\, he was CEO and Founder of Invested Impact\, a consulting firm focused on economic development\, philanthropy\, and social innovation\, and co-founder and Strategy Advisor of Impact Hub Baltimore. Prior to founding Invested Impact\, Rodney was community manager at BMe\, a national network of black male leaders and entrepreneurs. Rodney has also served as program manager at Job Opportunities Task Force\, a policy advocacy and workforce development organization. Additionally\, he has been a consultant to the Annie E. Casey Foundation\, Calvert Impact Capital\, and the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation\, among others. \n\n\n\nRodney is a BALLE Fellow\, Next City Vanguard\, and Baltimore Business Journal “40 under 40” honoree. He is featured in the Washington Post bestseller\, “Reach: 40 Black Men Speak on Living\, Leading\, and Succeeding.” Rodney serves on the board of Justice Funders\, SOCAP\, and NFF. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAnne Frederickexecutive director\, Hawaiʻi Alliance for Progressive Action (HAPA)\, HI\n\n\n\nWEDNESDAY\, 7/22: COLLABORATING FOR FOOD AND FARM MOVEMENT LEADERSHIP \n\n\n\nAnne Frederick is the Executive Director of the Hawaiʻi Alliance for Progressive Action (HAPA)\, a Hawaiʻi-wide organization whose mission is to catalyze community empowerment and systemic change towards valuing ʻāina (environment / that which feeds us) and people ahead of corporate profit. HAPA’s work grows out of the movement to regulate the agrochemical industry and pesticide impacts in Hawaiʻi. Anne also works in support of the transition towards just and regenerative food systems in Hawaiʻi\, by regularly engaging in community-based mālama ʻāina work days\, and helping to steward a nine acre family farm/homestead in Anahola\, Kauaʻi. Prior to working at HAPA\, Anne co-founded and ran the community planning and design non-profit organization\, Hester Street in 2001 on the Lower East Side of Manhattan where she worked on a variety of land-use campaigns locally and citywide. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTwilight Greenawaycontributing editor\, Civil Eats\, CA\n\n\n\nTUESDAY\, 7/14: REPORTING ON SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE IN RURAL AMERICA DURING COVID-19 \n\n\n\nTwilight Greenaway is an editor at and regular contributor to Civil Eats. She has overseen the rural coverage on the site since 2017. He writing has appeared in the New York Times\, NBC News\, The Guardian\, Mother Jones\, and numerous other publications. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJoey Hentzlerdirector of advocacy\, The Kansas Appleseed Center for Law and Justice\, KS\n\n\n\nWEDNESDAY\, 7/22: FUNDING A STATEWIDE FOOD SYSTEMS MOVEMENT THROUGH COVID AND BEYOND: THE KANSAS STORY \n\n\n\nJoey Hentzler has worked in anti-hunger advocacy since joining Appleseed in 2017. In his position as Director of Advocacy\, he supports a team of advocates organizing communities to implement child nutrition programs like the Summer Meal Service Program and universal meal programs like Community Eligibility Provision. He also supports statewide collaborations to build sustainable advocacy infrastructure in Kansas\, increase participation in school breakfast programs\, and increase access to SNAP food benefits for eligible Kansans. Joey represents Appleseed in the statehouse advocating for anti-hunger policy reform. He has presented at several statewide and national conferences on Kansas Appleseed’s successful anti-hunger campaigns in rural communities and how to integrate community organizing strategies and policy advocacy into food systems work. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nChristine H. Jamesexecutive director\, The John Merck Fund\, VT\n\n\n\nMONDAY\, 7/13: TRANSFORMATIONAL FOOD SYSTEMS PHILANTHROPYTUESDAY\, 7/21: INVESTING IN CHANGE: FOUNDATION SUPPORT FOR LOBBYING AND OTHER ADVOCACY \n\n\n\nCHRISTINE H. JAMES is the executive director of The John Merck Fund. Christine 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 and Environmental Policy program. Just before 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. Before 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. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMarshall Johnsonvice president\, Audubon Conservation Ranching\, National Audubon Society\, ND\n\n\n\nTHURSDAY\, 7/16: FOOD HEALTH\, LAND HEALTH: EXPLORING COLLABORATION BETWEEN SUSTAINABLE FOOD AND STATE WILDLIFE AGENCIES \n\n\n\nMarshall Johnson serves as the Vice-President of the National Audubon Society\, leading its market-based regenerative grazing efforts through the Conservation Ranching Initiative. For the past decade\, he’s worked to build rural and urban community-focused habitat and ecosystem programs. Equipped with a business degree from the University of Minnesota\, Marshall strives to bring conservation into the 21st century\, creating eco-friendly supply chains and markets\, and urban habitat initiatives driven by the ecosystem services they provide to communities. \n\n\n\nAudubon’s Conservation Ranching Initiative brings farmers\, ranchers\, retailers and consumers together with grasslands\, herds and birds into win-win alignment. The groundbreaking market-based Conservation Ranching Program now enrolls more than 2\,500\,000 acres across 75 ranches. Additionally\, creating safe passage and respite for wildlife and wild humans within an urban context has been a priority of Audubon Dakota under Marshall’s leadership\, with the program now managing the largest urban conservation program in the Northern Great Plains. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAnya Kamenetzeducation correspondent\, National Public Radio\n\n\n\nFRIDAY\, 7/24: THE STATE OF SCHOOL FOOD AND HOW WE CAN PLAN FOR THE FUTURE \n\n\n\nAnya Kamenetz is an education correspondent at NPR. She joined NPR in 2014\, working as part of a new initiative to coordinate on-air and online coverage of learning. Since then the NPR Ed team has won a 2017 Edward R. Murrow Award for Innovation\, and a 2015 National Award for Education Reporting for the multimedia national collaboration\, the Grad Rates project. \n\n\n\nKamenetz is the author of several books. Her latest is The Art of Screen Time: How Your Family Can Balance Digital Media and Real Life (PublicAffairs\, 2018). Her previous books touched on student loans\, innovations to address cost\, quality\, and access in higher education\, and issues of assessment and excellence: Generation Debt; DIY U: Edupunks\, Edupreneurs\, and the Coming Transformation of Higher Education\, and The Test. \n\n\n\nKamenetz covered technology\, innovation\, sustainability\, and social entrepreneurship for five years as a staff writer for Fast Company magazine. She’s contributed to The New York Times\, The Washington Post\, New York Magazine and Slate\, and appeared in documentaries shown on PBS and CNN. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nNavina Khannadirector\, Health\, Environment\, Agriculture\, Labor Food Alliance (HEAL)\, CA\n\n\n\nWEDNESDAY\, 7/22: COLLABORATING FOR FOOD AND FARM MOVEMENT LEADERSHIP \n\n\n\nNavina Khanna is the Director of the HEAL (Health\, Environment\, Agriculture\, Labor) Food Alliance\, a national multi-sector\, multi-racial coalition of food and farm justice organizations. She’s worked as an educator\, community organizer\, and policy advocate toward justice through transforming agri-food systems. Based in Oakland\, Navina serves on the Board of Richmond’s Urban Tilth and organizes with #Asians4BlackLives. She is a Fellow at Movement Strategy Center\, and in 2014\, her work was recognized with a James Beard Leadership Award. Navina holds an MS in International Agricultural Development from UC Davis\, where she co-developed the first undergraduate major in sustainable agriculture at a Land Grant University. A first-generation South Asian American\, Navina’s worldview is shaped by growing up – and growing food – in India and the US. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAmir Kirkwoodchief lending and investment officer\, Opportunity Finance Network\, NY\n\n\n\nFRIDAY\, 7/17: DEMYSTIFYING “MARKET RATE” RETURNS IN FOOD & AG \n\n\n\nAmir Kirkwood manages OFN’s Financial Services team and is responsible for development of new funds and resources to support OFN’s on and offbalance sheet financing activity. Amir comes to OFN from Amalgamated Bank\, where he was First Vice President for Commercial Banking\, covering community development finance and growth markets. In this role\, he was a lead originator for mission focused lending to nonprofits\, CDFIs\, impact investment funds\, and foundations\, completing more than $100mm in approved transactions and originations. Also serving as Senior Advisor to the Amalgamated Foundation\, he advised nonprofits\, CDFIs\, and investment funds on impact finance strategies. \n\n\n\nPrior to Amalgamated Bank\, Kirkwood served as a Partner at Next Street\, playing various roles to support business development and client management. Earlier\, he was a Director in Citigroup’s Municipal SecuritiesDivision\, working as a relationship banker for Citi Community Capital. He managed origination with municipal agencies\, CDFIs\, intermediary lenders\, community development corporations\, and nonprofits. While at Citi\, and in partnership with OFN and Calvert Impact Capital\, Kirkwood helped create the Communities at Work Fund\, LP\, a national $200 million commitment to finance the general operating needs of CDFIs. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMiranda Klugesherzdirector\, Kansas Alliance for Wellness\, KC Healthy Kids\, KS\n\n\n\nWEDNESDAY\, 7/22: FUNDING A STATEWIDE FOOD SYSTEMS MOVEMENT THROUGH COVID AND BEYOND: THE KANSAS STORY \n\n\n\nHaving grown up in a family below the poverty line\, Miranda possesses first-hand experience of the health and environmental challenges faced by low-income individuals in their local food systems. She has dedicated her career to elevating the voices of socioeconomically and geographically disenfranchised individuals in the policies and systems which represent them. Miranda offers an informed perspective on the strengths of – and challenges faced by – rural communities seeking to ensure community members have access to a more healthy\, equitable way of life. As Director of the Kansas Alliance for Wellness\, she oversees a state-wide network of Kansas-based food\, farm\, and policy councils\, and provides technical assistance to individual councils seeking to make sustainable change in their local communities around the environment\, agriculture\, health\, and equity. Before coming to KC Healthy Kids\, Miranda was appointed to chair the food policy council of Junction City\, Kansas. She also co-founded Live Well Geary County\, a nonprofit seeking to alleviate health and environmental barriers in one of the most impoverished counties in Kansas. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAnna Lappéprogram director\, food and democracy\, Panta Rhea Foundation\, CA\n\n\n\nWEDNESDAY\, 7/22: COLLABORATING FOR FOOD AND FARM MOVEMENT LEADERSHIP \n\n\n\nANNA LAPPÉ is a national bestselling author\, an advocate for sustainability and justice along the food chain\, and an advisor to funders investing in food system transformation. A James Beard Leadership Award recipient\, Anna is the co-author or author of three books and the contributing author to more than a dozen others. Named one of TIME’s “eco” Who’s-Who\, Anna is the founder or co-founder of three national organizations\, including the Small Planet Institute\, which she launched with her mother Frances Moore Lappé\, and Real Food Media\, which partners with food movement allies to develop communications strategy and critical analysis for systems change. As a funder\, she has led the grantmaking of the Small Planet Fund for more than a decade and created and runs the Food & Democracy program of the Panta Rhea Foundation. Anna is a founding Steering Committee member of the Castanea Fellowship and serves on the Advisory Boards of the Food Chain Workers Alliance and the Food and Farm Communications Fund along with her board service at the Mesa Refuge and Rainforest Action Network. She lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with her husband and their two daughters. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDavid LeZakssenior fellow\, Croatan Institute\, MI\n\n\n\nMONDAY\, 7/13: BARRIERS FOR U.S. FARMERS AND RANCHERS TO ADOPT REGENERATIVE AG PRACTICES: KEY LEVERS & OPPORTUNITIES \n\n\n\nDavid LeZaks\, Ph.D.\, Senior Fellow\, is an environmental scientist and financial activist whose work is centered around developing innovative mechanisms for financing the transition to agroecological farming and food systems. \n\n\n\nBefore joining Croatan Institute\, Dr. LeZaks led the Regenerative Food Systems initiative at Delta Institute in Chicago\, where he managed a portfolio of projects that focused on the design and deployment of disruptive mechanisms to unlock substantial capital flows into regenerative agriculture. Previously\, he served as an RSF Social Finance Integrated Capital Institute fellow. Earlier in his career\, David was a postdoctoral scientist at the University of Wisconsin – Madison\, where he completed his Ph.D. in Environment and Resources and an M.S. in Land Resources. Afterward\, he served as Managing Scientist of the Knowledge Systems for Sustainability Consortium and Program Director of the university’s Agricultural Innovation Prize. Currently\, he serves in advisory roles to Mad Agriculture\, the Savanna Institute\, Nourishn\, Council of Development Finance Agencies’ Food Systems Finance Advisory Council\, and the Transformational Investing in Food Systems initiative\, an allied initiative of the Global Alliance for the Future of Food. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAdam LiebowitzCommunity Food Funders director\, North Star Fund\, NY\n\n\n\nWEDNESDAY\, 7/22: COLLABORATING FOR FOOD AND FARM MOVEMENT LEADERSHIP \n\n\n\nADAM LIEBOWITZ joined North Star Fund in 2013. He directs Community Food Funders (CFF)\, a philanthropic organizing project for funders in the NY-NJ-CT area to invest in the transition to an equitable\, ecologically sound\, and economically robust regional food system that emphasizes local growing\, processing\, and distribution. CFF facilitates roundtable discussions\, funder briefings\, site visits\, collaborative projects\, and social gatherings to foster information-sharing and networking among funders. Adam also administered and coordinated North Star Fund’s Greening Western Queens Fund and Community Fund for Sandy Recovery. Prior to joining North Star Fund\, Adam worked as an independent consultant to nonprofit organizations and private firms specializing in food systems planning and food access projects in New York. Before that\, he trained youth at The Point CDC in community organizing around environmental justice issues and led the organization’s policy and advocacy efforts. Adam created an urban agriculture and food justice program that included cooking and nutrition classes\, public health outreach\, the establishment of a local CSA\, and vegetable gardens across multiple sites. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJonathan Lundgrendirector\, chief scientist\, Ecdysis Foundation\, SD\n\n\n\nMONDAY\, 7/13: BARRIERS FOR U.S. FARMERS AND RANCHERS TO ADOPT REGENERATIVE AG PRACTICES: KEY LEVERS & OPPORTUNITIES \n\n\n\nDr. Lundgren is an agroecologist\, Director ECDYSIS Foundation\, and CEO for Blue Dasher Farm. He received his PhD in Entomology from the University of Illinois in 2004\, and was a top scientist with USDA-ARS for 11 years. Lundgren received the Presidential Early Career Award for Science and Engineering by the White House. Lundgren has served as an advisor for national grant panels and regulatory agencies on pesticide and GM crop risk assessments. Lundgren has written 126 peer-reviewed journal articles\, several book chapters\, authored the book “Relationships of Natural Enemies and Non-prey Foods”\, and has received more than $6 million in grants. He has trained 5 post-docs and 14 graduate students from around the world. One of his priorities is to re-envision how science is conducted to help fuel a revolution in regenerative agriculture. He regularly interacts with the public and farmers around the world regarding ecologically intensive farming and how diversity fuels the resilience and productivity of an agroecosystem and rural communities. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLindsey Lunsfordsustainable food system resource specialist\, Tuskegee University\, AL\n\n\n\nTHURSDAY\, 7/23: LEVERAGING LAND GRANT INSTITUTIONS AS A FORCE TO ADDRESS RACISM IN THE FOOD SYSTEM \n\n\n\nScholar activist and agriculture advocate\, Dr. Lindsey Lunsford\, inspired by her alma mater\, Tuskegee University\, is setting the tone for the upcoming generation of rural and urban agriculturalists. Dr. Lunsford is unique in that she worked full-time as a Sustainable Food System Resource Specialist through Tuskegee University’s Carver Integrative Sustainability Center\, while still being enrolled in the Tuskegee University Integrative Public Policy and Development Doctoral Program. Dr. Lunsford’s doctoral research focused on the restorying of African American food systems and foodways for the pursuit of cultural justice and food sovereignty. \n\n\n\nAlthough\, still early in her career\, Dr. Lunsford demonstrates noteworthy performance and accomplishments in her programming and research aims. Dr. Lunsford was recently named among the nation’s Top 40 Emerging Leaders in Food and Agriculture. Dr. Lunsford\, currently studies policy advocacy for strengthening grassroots efforts from state to international levels. Lunsford’s leadership focuses on educating underserved populations on self-sufficiency and healthy lifestyles while encouraging the larger community to pursue sustainable and equitable food-oriented development. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMary Marrowsenior staff attorney\, Public Health Law Center\, MN\n\n\n\nWEDNESDAY\, 7/22: FUNDING A STATEWIDE FOOD SYSTEMS MOVEMENT THROUGH COVID AND BEYOND: THE KANSAS STORY \n\n\n\nMary Marrow\, a senior staff attorney with the Public Health Law Center\, has provided legal technical assistance to several food systems initiatives funded by the Kansas Health Foundation for over 7 years. Mary will discuss the impact of federal\, state\, and local laws and policies on KHF initiatives and the role of legal technical assistance in supporting KHF’s food systems efforts\, including KHF’s Statewide Partnership\, Healthy Communities\, and Food Policy Council initiatives. Mary has been a public interest practitioner for over 20 years\, with an extensive background working with diverse clients as a public interest practitioner\, focusing on public health\, poverty\, civil and human rights\, and environmental advocacy efforts. She brings this experience to her food systems work in Kansas by actively incorporating equity considerations of how issues of race\, class\, religion\, immigration status\, and other classifications impact sustainable food systems initiatives. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIan McSweeneydirector\, Agrarian Trust\, NH\n\n\n\nMONDAY\, 7/13: BARRIERS FOR U.S. FARMERS AND RANCHERS TO ADOPT REGENERATIVE AG PRACTICES: KEY LEVERS & OPPORTUNITIES \n\n\n\nIan McSweeney is a leader in the farmland conservation movement in New Hampshire. He is the director of the Russell Farm and Forest Conservation Foundation. The Foundation\, based in New Boston\, NH\, is focused on assisting landowners and farmers through a customized approach to permanent protection of the land and the importance of farmland soils\, secure access and tenure to farmland for farms and farm viability\, and sustainable holistic food production. Ian also participates in many farmland conservation\, farmland access\, and farm and food system initiatives as well as land based education\, and is a consultant to several national farmland conservation\, farmland investment\, and organic food systems organizations. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMalini Ram Moraghanmanaging director\, Torana Group\, IL\n\n\n\nFRIDAY\, 7/17: DEMYSTIFYING “MARKET RATE” RETURNS IN FOOD & AG \n\n\n\nMALINI RAM MORAGHAN is Managing Director of Torana Group\, an investment firm that offers business owners alternative capital for responsible growth and equitable exits. Malini has spent years balancing margin and mission\, working at the intersection of food & agriculture and “impact investments.” Prior to Torana\, she ran a multi-million dollar portfolio of activity through Drawing Board and DAISA Enterprises\, advising single family offices\, national foundations\, regional food system investors and USDA career leaders. \n\n\n\nBefore she owned farm-grade rubber boots\, Malini spent decades in the private sector with McKinsey & Co.\, AmeriCorps VISTA\, and JPMorgan investment banking in New York. She has an MBA from University of Chicago’s Booth School of Business\, a BS in Chemical Engineering from Cooper Union and passed Level I of the CFA Exam. \n\n\n\nMalini has been nationally recognized as an expert\, speaking at the White House Rural Council ROI Summits\, USDA’s AgOutlook\, SSAWG\, SAFSF\, OFN\, and SARL conferences. Malini served on the Joint Federal Reserve-USDA Publication Advisory Committee. She is currently on the Board of The Common Market\, was a founding Board member of Red Hills Small Farm Alliance and a past Board Member of a Feeding America food bank. She is based in Chicago. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDaniel Mossexecutive director\, Agroecology Fund\, MA\n\n\n\nWEDNESDAY\, 7/15: LASTING RESILIENCE: RAISING ANIMALS AGROECOLOGICALLY FROM THE MONGOLIAN STEPPES TO THE NAVAJO NATION \n\n\n\nDaniel serves as Executive Director at AgroEcology Fund. Trained as a community organizer\, he strengthened tenant organizations in public housing in Boston and then lived in El Salvador and Mexico for five years\, working in support of social movements defending rights to land and water. In addition to work with the AgroEcology Fund\, he collaborates with the Equitable Food Initiative as an on-farm trainer and with Latin American water utilities to strengthen watershed conservation strategies. He holds a Master’s degree in City Planning from MIT and writes frequently on food and water issues for traditional and online media. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJennifer O’Connorfounder\, chief strategist\, Guidelight Strategies\, CA\n\n\n\nMONDAY\, 7/13: BARRIERS FOR U.S. FARMERS AND RANCHERS TO ADOPT REGENERATIVE AG PRACTICES: KEY LEVERS & OPPORTUNITIES \n\n\n\nAfter over 8 years working on food security and rural development issues in East Africa\, Jenny O’Connor founded Guidelight Strategies\, a strategic consulting firm focused on the development and implementation of program strategy and strategic initiatives for a variety of global food/ag\, environment and health programs. As the principal strategist and founding director of Guidelight Strategies\, Jenny works with innovative businesses\, foundations and nonprofits to strengthen organizational capacity and guide them through the development of both their social and sustainability strategies\, as well as advising and implementing strategic grantmaking. She focuses her work in the environment\, climate change\, water and food/ag sectors and advocates for systems approaches to solving root problems across these issue areas. Over the past year\, Jenny has been developing a national landscape analysis of the barriers for ranchers and farmers to transition to regenerative agriculture in the US\, diving deeply into financial\, supply chain and policy barriers and opportunities. Jenny was also selected as an RSF Integrated Capital Fellow for 2019\, where she engaged with diverse forms of financial and human capital to support enterprises and strategies that address complex social and environmental problems. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSimran Noorprincipal\, Noor Consulting\, NY\n\n\n\nWEDNESDAY\, 7/22: COLLABORATING FOR FOOD AND FARM MOVEMENT LEADERSHIP \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSara Parker-Pauleydirector\, Missouri Department of Conservation\, MO\n\n\n\nTHURSDAY\, 7/16: FOOD HEALTH\, LAND HEALTH: EXPLORING COLLABORATION BETWEEN SUSTAINABLE FOOD AND STATE WILDLIFE AGENCIES \n\n\n\nSara Parker Pauley serves as the ninth Director of the Missouri Department of Conservation since its formation in 1937. The Missouri Conservation Commission announced Pauley’s selection effective November 1\, 2016. \n\n\n\nA native of Columbia\, Pauley received both her law degree and bachelor’s degree in journalism from the University of Missouri – Columbia\, and did post-graduate studies in Australia as a Rotary Fellow. She previously served as Director of the Missouri Department of Natural Resources since 2010. She has worked as project manager for D.J. Case & Associates\, a natural resources communications firm\, and as a deputy director for the Missouri Department of Natural Resources. She has been an instructor at the University of Missouri’s School of Natural Resources\, teaching a course in natural resource policy and administration. \n\n\n\nPauley began her professional career as a Policy Analyst with the Missouri Department of Conservation from 1993-1996. Over the years\, though her career path varied\, it has never strayed far from her personal desire to be engaged in the stewardship of Missouri’s natural resources. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRonnie Pawelkosenior counsel\, Alliance for Justice/Bolder Advocacy\, DC\n\n\n\nTUESDAY\, 7/21: INVESTING IN CHANGE: FOUNDATION SUPPORT FOR LOBBYING AND OTHER ADVOCACY \n\n\n\nRonnie Pawelko is Senior Counsel for the Bolder Advocacy program at Alliance for Justice and is based in AFJ’s Washington\, DC office. Through trainings and technical assistance\, she provides nonprofit advocacy organizations and foundations with accessible information\, resources\, and information so organizations can safely navigate complex laws and rules as they pursue systems change. Ronnie received her J.D. from Albany Law School and her B.A. from Russell Sage College. Before joining AFJ\, Ronnie was General Counsel at Family Planning Advocates of New York State. Previously\, Ronnie served as Health and Human Services Team Counsel for the New York State Senate and as staff attorney for the MergerWatch Project. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRich Pirogdirector\, MSU Center for Regional Food Systems\, MI\n\n\n\nTHURSDAY\, 7/23: LEVERAGING LAND GRANT INSTITUTIONS AS A FORCE TO ADDRESS RACISM IN THE FOOD SYSTEM \n\n\n\nRich Pirog is director at the Center for Regional Food Systems (CRFS) at Michigan State University. The Center’s work includes healthy food access and financing\, healthy food procurement\, farm to school and farm to early childhood education\, food policy councils\, food value chains and the intersection of racial equity and food systems. From 1990-2011 he was associate director and program leader for marketing and food systems at the Leopold Center for Sustainable Agriculture in Iowa. Pirog’s recent writings and research include structural racism present in the U.S. food system\, and building networks that promote sustainable and equitable food systems. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIndira Raimberdyexecutive director\, Peace Building Center\, Kyrgyzstan\n\n\n\nWEDNESDAY\, 7/15: LASTING RESILIENCE: RAISING ANIMALS AGROECOLOGICALLY FROM THE MONGOLIAN STEPPES TO THE NAVAJO NATION \n\n\n\nIndira Raimberdieva comes from the ancient lineage of Saruu people historically inhabiting the Talas region of the Kyrgyz Republic. She currently leads the Peace Building Center (non-governmental organization) the main goal of which is to study and apply practically the potential of traditional spirituality\, culture\, knowledge and technologies; nomadic eco-mentality; and natural landscapes of the local communities in combination with the positive modern technologies for provision of dignity and prosperity in the life of indigenous peoples of Pamir\, Tien-Shan and Sayan-Altai biocultural region. She is a graduate of the Faculty of International Relations of the Kyrgyz-Russian Slavic University (Bishkek\, Kyrgyzstan) with a degree in international relations and political science majoring in inter-ethnic conflict management. Indira has 15 years of hands-on experience in inter-ethnic conflict management and preventive development of local communities with high conflict potential; 21 years of work in local community empowerment; and 13 years of practical work in the field of exploration of the potential of traditional culture-spirituality and values-based approaches in local community development\, as well as application of traditional spirituality\, culture\, knowledge and technologies in existing social systems. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAmy Saltzmanprogram officer\, environment\, Walton Family Foundation\, CO\n\n\n\nMONDAY\, 7/13: BARRIERS FOR U.S. FARMERS AND RANCHERS TO ADOPT REGENERATIVE AG PRACTICES: KEY LEVERS & OPPORTUNITIES \n\n\n\nAmy is a program officer for the Walton Family Foundation’s Mississippi River initiative. In this role\, she works with grantees to improve water quality in the Mississippi River basin by expanding the use of conservation practices in conventional agriculture systems. WFF’s Mississippi River strategy focuses on aligning policy and market incentives to encourage farmers to adopt practices that improve water quality\, build soil health and reduce pollution across the basin\, while continuing to meet the growing demand for food. Prior to WFF\, Amy managed an international agriculture and nutrition project\, HarvestPlus\, at the International Food Policy Research Institute. Amy also worked as an ag policy coordinator at the Rural Coalition and was a Fulbright fellow in Malawi\, where she studied smallholder farmer behavior change. Amy grew up on a farm in southwest Iowa. She has a BA in government and development sociology from Cornell University and an MPA from the University of Colorado. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBob Scowcrofttrustee\, Nell Newman Foundation\, CA\n\n\n\nTUESDAY\, 7/14: REPORTING ON SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE IN RURAL AMERICA DURING COVID-19 \n\n\n\nBOB SCOWCROFT has successfully transitioned from a “retirement” state of mind into a more active composition of consultant\, volunteer\, and advocacy-oriented activities. He currently serves as a trustee of the Nell Newman Foundation\, Inc.\, and sits on four nonprofit advisory boards. He previously served as executive director of the Organic Farming Research Foundation (OFRF)\, a national organization based in Santa Cruz\, CA. The organization was co-founded by Bob and two certified organic farmers in 1990. In the nearly twenty years Bob directed OFRF\, it awarded more than $2\,400\,000 in support of more than 320 organic research and education projects. During Bob’s tenure\, OFRF had an active policy\, research\, and publishing program\, and it disseminated information on all sectors of the organic product industry to the public at large. Bob averaged 200 media interviews and more than 15 conference presentations on all subjects “organic” annually. He resigned and retired from OFRF at the end of 2010. Prior to working for OFRF\, he was the first full-time executive director of California Certified Organic Farmers (1987-1992); before that he served in the Friends of the Earth’s San Francisco office as their national organizer with a primary focus on pesticide reduction and organic farming advocacy (1979-1985). \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFarzana Serangexecutive director\, Castanea Fellowship\, CA\n\n\n\nWEDNESDAY\, 7/22: COLLABORATING FOR FOOD AND FARM MOVEMENT LEADERSHIP \n\n\n\nFarzana brings more than 15 years of experience in leadership development\, food system innovation\, racial equity advocacy\, philanthropy\, and community development to her role as Executive Director of the Castanea Fellowship. \n\n\n\nMost recently\, Farzana led the Multicultural Fellowship at The San Francisco Foundation\, a program that has cultivated leaders of color in philanthropy for nearly thirty years. Prior to her time with the Foundation\, she was the first Executive Director of the Cooperative Food Empowerment Directive (CoFED). While there\, she deepened CoFED’s impact and infused racial equity as the driving principle of the nonprofit’s work. Prior to CoFED\, Farzana cultivated her organizing\, management\, and public policy skills at PolicyLink\, where she managed the Civic Engagement Learning Year\, a multimillion-dollar initiative that networked W.K. Kellogg Foundation grantees committed to advancing democracy. Alongside her commitment to equity in her professional service\, she is dedicated to fostering food equity in her community\, as a board member of Sustainable Economies Law Center and an active member of the Oakland (CA) Food Policy Council. \n\n\n\nFarzana holds a B.A. from the University of California\, Berkeley and a Masters in City Planning from the Department of Urban Studies and Planning at M.I.T. She is an alumni of the 2018 Leadership Academy 2.0 at the Aspen Institute\, 2016 East Bay class of LeaderSpring\, 2015 Uptima Business Bootcamp\, and 2015 Cooperative Development Fellowship. \n\n\n\nShe resides in Oakland\, California and if you meet her she’s likely to hug you\, just like her Mom taught her. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nKolia Souzaoutreach specialist\, MSU Center for Regional Food Systems\, KS\n\n\n\nTHURSDAY\, 7/23: LEVERAGING LAND GRANT INSTITUTIONS AS A FORCE TO ADDRESS RACISM IN THE FOOD SYSTEM \n\n\n\nKolia oversees the development of a community of practice and technical assistance for local food sourcing and food systems equity under the GusNIP Nutrition Incentive Hub. She also leads collaborative efforts between the Michigan Local Food Council Network and statewide food and health networks to build organizational capacity for executing individual and collective priorities. Prior to joining CRFS\, Kolia served as an assistant researcher/project coordinator for Kansas State University Center for Engagement and Community Development. Her research contributed to the Rural Grocery Initiative and the development of the Kansas Healthy Food Initiative. Kolia also served as a statewide food systems consultant where she conducted regional food system research and led statewide food policy council capacity-building efforts. She holds MS degrees in Architecture and Community Development and is completing her Master of Public Health. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMekko Tynerregistrar\, College of the Muscogee Nation\, OK\n\n\n\nTHURSDAY\, 7/23: LEVERAGING LAND GRANT INSTITUTIONS AS A FORCE TO ADDRESS RACISM IN THE FOOD SYSTEM \n\n\n\nMekko Tyner is Muscogee (Creek)\, Shawnee and Seneca and currently the Registrar at the College of the Muscogee Nation (CMN). Along with his duties as the Registrar\, he serves on the CMN Cultural Community Garden Committee and as Project Director for two NIFA grants. Mr. Tyner enjoys teaching and learning about his tribal heritage\, especially corn. He has a B.S. in Business Administration from Haskell Indian Nations University and J.D. from the University of Kansas School of Law. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nNo hard copy available\n\n\n\nJeff Ushersenior program officer\, Kansas Health Foundation\, KS\n\n\n\nWEDNESDAY\, 7/22: FUNDING A STATEWIDE FOOD SYSTEMS MOVEMENT THROUGH COVID AND BEYOND: THE KANSAS STORY \n\n\n\nMr. Usher’s responsibilities include working with foundation staff to develop program initiatives. He also provides technical assistance to applicants and grantees\, reviews proposals and monitors existing grants. Mr. Usher serves as senior program officer for the Foundation’s leadership\, healthy behaviors and growing community philanthropy Initiatives. In the last twenty-one years he has supervised a portfolio of nearly 800 approved grants totaling more than $170 million to support the mission of improving the health of Kansans. \n\n\n\nA graduate of Wichita State University\, Mr. Usher received a bachelor’s degree in psychology in 1982. He has also been active in several volunteer organizations including the Wichita Health and Wellness Coalition\, the Kansas High School Cycling League Development Team and the Governor’s Council on Fitness. He is an avid cyclist and a grandfather of 9 beautiful grandchildren. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJerone Wigginsdirector of educational programs and partnerships\, Jones Valley Teaching Farm\n\n\n\nFRIDAY\, 7/24: THE STATE OF SCHOOL FOOD AND HOW WE CAN PLAN FOR THE FUTURE \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJanene Yazziesustainable development program coordinator\, International Indian Treaty Council\, AZ\n\n\n\nWEDNESDAY\, 7/15: LASTING RESILIENCE: RAISING ANIMALS AGROECOLOGICALLY FROM THE MONGOLIAN STEPPES TO THE NAVAJO NATION \n\n\n\nJanene Yazzie (Dine) is a community activist from the United States and co-founder and CEO of Sixth World Solutions which works with Dine’ (Navajo) communities to develop projects\, programs and policies that promote sustainability\, environmental justice\, and self-governance. She also co-founded the first Navajo Nation community-led watershed planning program for local control in the sustainable management\, restoration\, and protection of natural resources through youth engagement and community capacity building. Her work has earned international recognition including serving as North American focal point to the UN High-Level Political Forum on the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Janene is also the IITC Sustainable Development Program Coordinator\, New Mexico Navajo-Hopi\, COVID Relief Effort Team Leader. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nHaleh Zandico-founder and co-director\, Planting Justice\, CA\n\n\n\nMONDAY\, 7/20: RISK\, RETURN\, AND IMPACT: FUNDING EQUITABLE FOOD ORIENTED DEVELOPMENT IN THE REAL WORLD \n\n\n\nHaleh Zandi is a mother\, land-based activist\, co-founder and director at Planting Justice\, a non-profit organization based in Oakland\, CA. For the past 10 years\, she has been organizing across prison walls to support people and their families impacted by mass incarceration. Haleh’s approach towards food sovereignty particularly draws critical connections between the United States’ dependence upon fossil fuels within the modern colonial food system and the unjust U.S. militarization of the Middle East/South West Asia. Prior to founding Planting Justice\, Haleh worked for Peace Action West in Berkeley and with the Women of Color Resource Center in Oakland. She received her BA at UC Santa Cruz and an MA at the California Institute of Integral Studies in San Francisco. Haleh is of Persian and Norwegian heritage\, was born and raised in California\, and as a settler in unceded Ohlone territory\, she is committed to honoring Indigenous leadership\, particularly through the Sogorea Te Land Trust.
URL:https://www.agandfoodfunders.org/event/forum-2020/
LOCATION:Online\, United States
CATEGORIES:SAFSF Forum
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SUMMARY:Supporting the Needs of New and Beginning Farmers | Site Visit at the 2019 SAFSF Forum
DESCRIPTION:On this tour\, we will learn about a variety of programs and organizations that are supporting new and beginning production farmers in Pittsburgh and the surrounding region. Although similar programs exist across the country\, Pittsburgh is unique in hosting a range of opportunities\, bolstered by deep and reciprocal working relationships between them\, that support farmers no matter where they are in their learning and farm enterprise development. This means that whether they aspire to build skills in growing their own crops\, develop their own small-scale organic urban farm enterprise\, or lease farmland in order to produce at scale\, local farmers can take a stepladder approach to a career in sustainable agriculture. \n\n\n\nParticipants will learn how an urban farm set against the backdrop of the last remaining steel mill in the Pittsburgh area is preparing young adults for future work in food and farming through hands-on apprenticeships. We’ll see how a nonprofit\, community-centered farm that is set to become the largest urban farm in the U.S. is developing a comprehensive workforce and business development program for new small-scale organic urban farm enterprises. And we’ll hear how other partners are supporting graduates of these programs in acquiring farmland within and outside Pittsburgh in order to stabilize and expand their production agriculture businesses. Together we’ll better understand how these farmer-development pieces fit together in practice—and hopefully get our hands a little dirty in the process. \n\n\n\nThis day-long site visit is offered to participants at the 2019 SAFSF Forum in Pittsburgh\, Pennsylvania.\n\n\n\nHost organizations include:• Braddock Farms\, Grow Pittsburgh• Hilltop Urban Farm• Western Pennsylvania Conservancy \n\n\n\nOther partners include:• Allegheny County Conservation District• Pennsylvania Association for Sustainable Agriculture (PASA)• National Young Farmers Coalition
URL:https://www.agandfoodfunders.org/event/supporting-the-needs-of-new-and-beginning-farmers-site-visit-at-the-2019-safsf-forum/
CATEGORIES:SAFSF Forum,Tours / Site Visits
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