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SUMMARY:Federal Headwinds\, Frontline Resilience: Understanding the Impacts & Opportunities for Action - Session 1
DESCRIPTION:This funder series is organized by The Funders Network\, Health and Environmental Funders Network\, Neighborhood Funders Group\, Chesapeake Bay Funders Network\, Climate and Energy Funders Group and Sustainable Agriculture and Food Systems Funders in partnership with ClimateMAX\, a new national collaborative and intersectional table of NGOs advancing and defending climate and environmental justice policy solutions. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIn just a few months\, the current administration has dealt a series of significant setbacks to climate and communities: Billions of dollars\, including $2.6 billion for climate and environmental justice programs\, have been slashed from the federal budget. Agencies meant to protect our water and air have been gutted. And the promise of historic investments in climate-resilient infrastructure has been largely stripped away. \n\n\n\nBut despite these fierce federal headwinds\, there are opportunities for action — and models of collaboration\, partnership\, and frontline resilience. \n\n\n\nJoin us for a three-part learning series for funders Federal Headwinds\, Frontline Resilience: Understanding the Impacts & Opportunities for Action. \n\n\n\nThese webinars will bring together funders\, nonprofit and community leaders to share analysis of recent actions under the current administration\, including impacts on frontline communities and leaders. They’ll also create space for funders to look past silos and consider best ways to leverage their resources\, networks and expertise to meet this moment with urgency and flexibility.The series is designed as a three-part learning arc but funders are welcome to attend individual sessions as their schedules allow. Attendees will automatically be confirmed for all three sessions when registering. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSession 1 – November 3: Dumpster Fire in D.C.\nWe’ll look at the impacts of federal budget cuts and policy reversals on frontline communities\, and pathways for state and local solutions. Join this session to deepen your understanding of recent actions\, including a detailed analysis of the federal budget cuts\, impacts\, and what more could come. We’ll also lift up pathways for state and local solutions along with the latest research\, analysis and observations from a national perspective. \n\n\n\nSpeakers\n\n\n\n\nSylvia Chi\, Legal and Advocacy Director\, Just Solutions\n\n\n\nJillian Blanchard\, Vice President of Climate Change and Environmental Justice\, Lawyers for Good Government\n\n\n\nPeter Murchie\, Senior Director of Public Policy\, Environmental Protection Network\n\n\n\nLaura Wisland\, Senior Program Officer\, Heising-Simons Foundation\n\n\n\n\n\nSession 2 – November 17: Communities Leading & Protecting to Overcome Headwinds\nThis session will provide a deeper understanding of how communities are overcoming these rollbacks\, including impacts to programs intended to develop clean energy and economic opportunities for limited wealth and historically underinvested communities. \n\n\n\nWe’ll look at how communities are currently adapting and adjusting and create space for small-group breakouts\, so funders can hear directly from groups on the ground about their ongoing work. \n\n\n\nSpeakers\n\n\n\n\nJessica Boehland\, Senior Program Officer\, The Kresge Foundation\n\n\n\nLogan Burke\, Executive Director\, Alliance for Affordable Energy\n\n\n\nPaul Getsos\, Special Project Director\, United Today\, Stronger Tomorrow\n\n\n\nRahwa Ghirmatzion\, Senior Policy Fellow\, Just Solutions\n\n\n\nJennifer Somers\, Co-Executive Director\, Collectrify: A Frontline-Led Energy Fund\n\n\n\n\nStay tuned for additional speaker updates! \n\n\n\n\nSession 3 – December 1: Rising from the Ashes: Collaboration & Innovation Advance Strategies that Work\nWe will end the series with a discussion of the work and key strategies moving forward to build collaborative efforts that will drive solutions that advance energy affordability\, resilience in the face of growing climate disasters\, and health and safety. We will acknowledge the issues at stake in the context of mid-term elections and upcoming state legislative sessions. The final session also will spotlight ways that philanthropy is mobilizing to support work in communities. And it will highlight funder initiatives that model collaboration and partnership\, urging funders to lean in and get involved. \n\n\n\nSpeakers\n\n\n\n\nMaria Doerr\, Program Officer\, Rural Climate Partnership\n\n\n\nByron Gudiel\, Executive Director\, Center for Earth\, Energy and Democracy\n\n\n\nJacqueline Patterson\, Founder and Executive Director\, Chisholm Legacy Project\n\n\n\nAiko Schaefer\, Executive Director\, Just Solutions\n\n\n\nJennifer Somers\, Co-Executive Director\, Collectrify: A Frontline-Led Energy Fund\n\n\n\n\nStay tuned for additional speaker updates! \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRegister for the Series
URL:https://www.agandfoodfunders.org/event/federal-headwinds-frontline-resilience-understanding-the-impacts-opportunities-for-action-session-1/
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SUMMARY:Safeguarding Medicaid and SNAP in the Wake of H.R. 1
DESCRIPTION:As H.R. 1 begins to reshape the landscape of safety programs\, charitable foundations face a pivotal moment. The legislation delivers sweeping tax cuts to corporations and high-income earners—while dramatically reducing funding for essential programs like Medicaid and the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP). These cuts threaten the well-being of millions of families\, children\, and seniors\, and shift the financial burden to already overstretched state and local governments. \n\n\n\nNow more than ever\, philanthropic organizations must act swiftly and strategically to mitigate harm. A key opportunity lies in supporting states as they navigate urgent administrative and implementation challenges—ensuring vulnerable populations don’t fall through the cracks. \n\n\n\nJoin us for a timely funder briefing with: \n\n\n\n\nAriel Kennan\, Senior Director\, Digital Benefits Network at Georgetown’s Beeck Center\n\n\n\nTim Shaw\, Director\, Benefits Transformation Initiative at the Aspen Institute’s Financial Security Program\n\n\n\n\nTogether\, they will share efforts of the Digital Benefits Leadership Council\, a civic tech initiative designed to preserve and improve access to public benefits\, and how foundations can support efforts to reduce benefits loss for millions in the short term and leverage this moment to modernize the benefits delivery infrastructure for the future. \n\n\n\nThis program is for grantmakers who work for a qualifying philanthropy. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRegister Here\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeakers\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAriel Kennan\, Senior Director\, Digital Benefits Network\, Georgetown’s Beeck Center\n\n\n\nAriel Kennan (she/her) is a Senior Director at the Beeck Center for Social Impact + Innovation at Georgetown University\, where she researches and advises on advancing design\, data\, and technology for accessible and equitable delivery of public benefits. Ariel leads the Digital Benefits Network to support practitioners in current and near term challenges in public benefits delivery and envisioning future policies\, services\, and technologies. She also serves on the Beeck Center’s leadership team. \n\n\n\nAriel is a leader in service design\, digital product development\, and organizational strategy. She has worked in the private\, nonprofit\, and public sectors to drive change and deliver impactful solutions. Previously\, she served in the New York City Mayor’s Office for Economic Opportunity where she founded the nation’s first municipal service design studio and managed a portfolio of best-in-class digital products to connect and deliver services. Most recently\, she was the Director of Civic Innovation at Sidewalk Labs\, where she led the strategy for inclusive participation in the social infrastructure of cities. \n\n\n\nShe holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Integrated Design from Parsons School of Design. She is based in Brooklyn\, New York. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTim Shaw\, Director\, Benefits Transformation Initiative\, Aspen Institute’s Financial Security Program\n\n\n\nAs the Director of the Benefits Transformation Initiative and Senior Policy Advisor for the Financial Security Program\, Tim works to advance promising policies that address the most pressing financial security challenges facing people in America. Working with leaders across levels of government\, Tim and Aspen FSP’s Benefits team seek to provide policy\, nonprofit\, and market leaders with the innovative ideas\, research\, and networks of leaders they need to design and enact policies that help people weather financial shocks and comfortably afford everyday life. \n\n\n\nBefore joining the Aspen Institute\, he was an Associate Director for Economic Policy at the Bipartisan Policy Center. While there\, he was the policy lead for BPC’s Paid Family Leave Task Force and led projects on economic opportunity\, retirement security\, and fiscal policy. Prior to that work\, he was a tax and budget staffer at the Government Accountability Office. His work has been featured in numerous publications\, including the Washington Post\, Politico\, and the Wall Street Journal. \n\n\n\nTim holds a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science and Spanish from Washington University in St. Louis and a Master of Public Policy and Management from Carnegie Mellon University.
URL:https://www.agandfoodfunders.org/event/safeguarding-medicaid-and-snap-in-the-wake-of-h-r-1/
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SUMMARY:Indigenous Food Systems Community of Practice Alumni Circle
DESCRIPTION:The Indigenous Food Systems Community of Practice (IFSCoP) is a learning and relationship-building cohort for funders interested in advancing support for Native-led food systems work. Developed by Sustainable Agriculture and Food Systems Funders\, First Nations Development Institute\, and Melvin Consulting PLLC\, this program brings funders together to engage directly with Indigenous leaders\, deepen understanding of structural and philanthropic barriers in Indian Country\, and build more effective strategies for supporting Native food sovereignty and sustainable agriculture.  \n\n\n\nAlumni of the Indigenous Food Systems Community of Practice are invited to join a virtual gathering to share updates and experiences engaging in Indigenous food systems work.  \n\n\n\nThis virtual gathering is open only to past IFSCoP participants\, but stay tuned for more information about a new cohort launching in 2026!
URL:https://www.agandfoodfunders.org/event/november-indigenous-food-systems-community-of-practice-alumni-circle/
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SUMMARY:Pathways for Industry and Agriculture to Reduce N2O Emissions from Synthetic Fertilizer
DESCRIPTION:This webinar is hosted by Sustainable Agriculture and Food Systems Funders and co-hosts Climate and Energy Funders Group and Health and Environmental Funders Network. \n\n\n\nSynthetic nitrogen fertilizer is essential to modern agriculture\, but it is often overlooked in climate conversations and remains an underrecognized driver of climate change. \n\n\n\nNitrous oxide (N₂O)\, released during both the production and application of fertilizer\, is nearly 300 times more potent than CO₂\, with emissions. Today\, the U.S. is the world’s fourth-largest producer of synthetic nitrogen fertilizers. By 2030\, domestic production of synthetic nitrogen fertilizers is expected to quadruple. \n\n\n\nJoin us for a webinar to explore key findings from “Nitrous Oxide: A Hidden Threat\,” a new report produced by McKnight Foundation and Regenerative Agriculture Foundation. The report’s four authors highlight common-sense solutions to reduce N₂O emissions that center farmers and cross-sector collaboration. Attendees will leave with a greater understanding of how agriculture and climate partners can help catalyze action toward ambitious 2035 and 2050 reduction goals. \n\n\n\nThis webinar is open to all funders. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRecording\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeakers\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTenzin Dolkar\, Senior Program Officer\, McKnight Foundation (moderator)\n\n\n\n\nTenzin Dolkar (Dolkar) is a program officer with the McKnight Foundation’s Midwest Climate & Energy program\, where she works to shape and guide the trajectory of the Foundation’s climate initiatives\, aligning McKnight’s equity goals. Prior to McKnight\, Dolkar served as a climate advisor to the City of Minneapolis through a Natural Resources Defense Council partnership with Bloomberg Philanthropies American Cities Climate Challenge. From 2016 to 2018\, Dolkar served as a senior policy advisor to Governor Mark Dayton on transportation and agriculture. \n\n\n\nDolkar holds a master’s degree in social work from the University of Minnesota and a bachelor’s degree in international studies with a minor in social work from the University of St. Thomas. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMike Badzmierowski\, Manager\, U.S. Agricultural Policy\, World Resources Institute\n\n\n\n\nDr. Mike Badzmierowski is the Manager for U.S. Agricultural Policy at World Resources Institute. His role is to research and provide guidance on practices and strategies best suited to meaningfully reduce greenhouse gas emissions in agriculture. \n\n\n\nMike’s research has focused on soil carbon and nitrogen and related greenhouse gas emissions with an emphasis on ensuring data quality. He earned his PhD in Crop and Soil Environmental Sciences from Virginia Tech where he continued as a postdoctoral researcher. Mike holds a Bachelor of Science in Environmental Science and Management from the University of Rhode Island. \n\n\n\nOutside his professional pursuits\, Mike loves to stay active and is an avid explorer. He has a goal to see all of the U.S. National Parks. When Mike is not on the move\, he loves finding amazing food! Break the ice and reach out to him about your favorite dish (and where he can try it) or feel free to be direct about talking how we can best achieve greenhouse gas reductions in agriculture! \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCourtney Bernhardt\, Research Director\, Environmental Integrity Project\n\n\n\n\nCourtney is Co-Director of Environmental Integrity Project’s Center for Environmental Investigations and leads EIP’s team of dedicated analysts. She manages EIP’s public databases and analyzes and visualizes data to inform and support EIP’s advocacy efforts. She joined EIP in 2013 after earning a Master of Environmental Management and a certificate in geospatial analysis from Duke University’s Nicholas School of the Environment. Before then\, she spent several years working on CERCLA and CWA lawsuits as a paralegal at the U.S. Department of Justice’s Environment and Natural Resources Division. She also holds a B.A. in public policy from St. Mary’s College of Maryland. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nScott Faber\, Senior Vice President for Government Affairs\, Environmental Working Group\n\n\n\n\nScott Faber leads Environmental Working Group’s government affairs efforts to reform food\, farm\, water and chemical safety policies. Faber is also an adjunct professor at Georgetown University Law Center. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPatrick Molloy\, Principal\, Ammonia & Fertilizers\, Rocky Mountain Institute\n\n\n\n\nPatrick is a principal with RMI’s Climate-Aligned Industries Program\, where he leads workstreams focused on ammonia and fertilizers\, hydrogen infrastructure\, and hydrogen system innovation. He focuses on deployment potential\, system design\, market evolution\, and potential for disruption in next-generation traded markets. Patrick has been widely cited on next-generation technology emergence with particular focus on hydrogen applications in the industrial space. Previously\, he worked with RMI’s Business Renewables Center\, focusing on tax equity structures and PPA deal structures. Additionally\, as part of RMI’s mining team\, he led work on mine site remediation of on-site renewable resource development. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMark Muller\, Executive Director\, Regenerative Agriculture Foundation\n\n\n\n\nMark Muller serves as the executive director at the Regenerative Agriculture Foundation. He came to RAF in March 2020 after spending over 20 years working on related issues including agricultural conservation\, Midwest water quality\, racial equity in the food system\, and effective federal food and agricultural policy. \n\n\n\nMark served as director of the Mississippi River program at the McKnight Foundation\, and prior to that he directed the Food & Community Fellows program at the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy. He also spent two years teaching high school in New York City and 18 months volunteering in Honduras and Guatemala. He and his spouse and three children live in south Minneapolis.
URL:https://www.agandfoodfunders.org/event/pathways-for-industry-and-agriculture-to-reduce-n2o-emissions-from-synthetic-fertilizer/
CATEGORIES:Webinars
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SUMMARY:SNAP Strategy Funder Working Group: Advocacy Opportunities
DESCRIPTION:Sustainable Agriculture and Food Systems Funders and Grantmakers In Health are forming a funder Working Group for a coordinated\, strategic response to the SNAP cuts in H.R. 1. The Working Group comes as an actionable response to insights shared by field leaders in a SNAP-focused webinar earlier in October. \n\n\n\nRecognizing the far-reaching implications of SNAP for food security\, health\, and economic equity\, this Working Group will serve as an information hub and a strategic coordination space\, designed to help funders act quickly\, effectively\, and in alignment with one another. We will organize three Working Group meetings to start and then assess next steps. \n\n\n\nThe first call will focus on opportunities for funders to support and engage in policy advocacy to protect SNAP on a federal and state level. In addition to connecting with peers\, funders will hear from Joel Berg\, CEO of Hunger Free America\, who will provide a policy landscape update from D.C.\, and Joey Hentzler\, Program Manager at MAZON: A Jewish Response to Hunger\, who will share about MAZON’s policy engagement and rapid response funding. \n\n\n\nUpcoming Working Group Calls will focus on opportunities to support training and technical assistance and strategic communications. \n\n\n\nThis Working Group is open to all funders currently responding to or actively considering a response to SNAP cuts. Funders do not need to be members of SAFSF or GIH – if you are wrestling with the impact of SNAP cuts for your communities\, this space is for you. Please register below. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIntelligence Gathering with Experts\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJoel Berg\, CEO of Hunger Free America\n\n\n\nJoel Berg is CEO of Hunger Free America\, a nationwide anti-hunger 501c3 advocacy and direct service organization. He is also an internationally-recognized book author\, researcher\, media spokesperson\, and thought leader in the fields of domestic hunger\, food systems\, poverty\, national service\, and American politics. \n\n\n\nAccording to The Nation magazine\, under Joel’s direction\, the group “grew in one of the leading direct service and advocacy organizations on hunger and poverty” in the country. He currently oversees work of more than 50 diverse employees and a 44-person\, nationwide\, AmeriCorps VISTA team. \n\n\n\nHe has appeared on Morning Joe\, All In with Chris Hayes\, NBC Nightly News\, The Beat with Ari Melber\, NPR\, CNN\, Marketplace\, Fox News\, PBS Newshour\, The Daily Show with Jon Stewart\, Hardball\, PoliticsNation with Al Sharpton\, and the Kudlow Report. He’s also been quoted in outlets such as The New York Times\, The Washington Post\, New York Daily News\, New York Post\, The Guardian\, El Diario\, BET.com\, USA Today\, and The Wall Street Journal. \n\n\n\nJoel authored two books: All You Can Eat: How Hungry Is America?\, and America We Need to Talk: a Self Help Book for the Nation\, which Nobel Prize-winner Toni Morrison called “important and entertaining.” Joel previously served for eight years in the Clinton Administration in senior executive service positions at including USDA\, including Coordinator of Community Food Security. \n\n\n\nFrom 1989 to 1993\, he served as a policy analyst for the Progressive Policy Institute and as a domestic policy staff member for then President-elect Bill Clinton’s transition team. He holds a BA from Columbia University \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJoey Hentzler\, Program Manager at Mazon\n\n\n\nJoey Hentzler is the Program Manager for MAZON. He leads and implements the organization’s grantmaking strategy and works to support state grantee partners to build their advocacy capacity and achieve their anti-hunger policy goals. He holds two undergraduate degrees from the University of Kansas in Political Science and Latin American Studies. Joey started political organizing with fellow college students in 2011 to push back against radical cuts to public education and the social safety net in Kansas. Most recently\, he helped lead grassroots campaigns in his hometown to stop county jail expansion and to achieve comprehensive Sanctuary City ordinance. Before joining MAZON\, Joey served as Director of Advocacy at Kansas Appleseed leading state-level advocacy campaigns focused on food safety net\, foster care\, and juvenile justice reform. He worked with MAZON during the 2018 Farm Bill fight to successfully protect SNAP by pressuring Kansas’s key Congressional leaders on agriculture and food policy. Throughout his career in his beloved Kansas\, the state motto has become a mantra for Joey: Ad astra per aspera.
URL:https://www.agandfoodfunders.org/event/snap-strategy-funder-working-group-advocacy/
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SUMMARY:Federal Headwinds\, Frontline Resilience: Understanding the Impacts & Opportunities for Action - Session 2
DESCRIPTION:This funder series is organized by The Funders Network\, Health and Environmental Funders Network\, Neighborhood Funders Group\, Chesapeake Bay Funders Network\, Climate and Energy Funders Group and Sustainable Agriculture and Food Systems Funders in partnership with ClimateMAX\, a new national collaborative and intersectional table of NGOs advancing and defending climate and environmental justice policy solutions. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIn just a few months\, the current administration has dealt a series of significant setbacks to climate and communities: Billions of dollars\, including $2.6 billion for climate and environmental justice programs\, have been slashed from the federal budget. Agencies meant to protect our water and air have been gutted. And the promise of historic investments in climate-resilient infrastructure has been largely stripped away. \n\n\n\nBut despite these fierce federal headwinds\, there are opportunities for action — and models of collaboration\, partnership and frontline resilience. \n\n\n\nJoin us for a three-part learning series for funders Federal Headwinds\, Frontline Resilience: Understanding the Impacts & Opportunities for Action. \n\n\n\nThese webinars will bring together funders\, nonprofit and community leaders to share analysis of recent actions under the current administration\, including impacts on frontline communities and leaders. They’ll also create space for funders to look past silos and consider best ways to leverage their resources\, networks and expertise to meet this moment with urgency and flexibility.The series is designed as a three-part learning arc but funders are welcome to attend individual sessions as their schedules allow. Attendees will automatically be confirmed for all three sessions when registering. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRegister for the Series\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSession 2: Communities Leading & Protecting to Overcome Headwinds\n\n\n\nThis session will provide a deeper understanding of how communities are overcoming these rollbacks\, including impacts to programs intended to develop clean energy and economic opportunities for limited wealth and historically underinvested communities. \n\n\n\nWe’ll look at how communities are currently adapting and adjusting and create space for small-group breakouts\, so funders can hear directly from groups on the ground about their ongoing work. \n\n\n\nSpeakers\n\n\n\n\nJessica Boehland\, Senior Program Officer\, The Kresge Foundation\n\n\n\nLogan Burke\, Executive Director\, Alliance for Affordable Energy\n\n\n\nPaul Getsos\, Special Project Director\, United Today\, Stronger Tomorrow\n\n\n\nRahwa Ghirmatzion\, Senior Policy Fellow\, Just Solutions\n\n\n\nJennifer Somers\, Co-Executive Director\, Collectrify: A Frontline-Led Energy Fund\n\n\n\n\nStay tuned for additional speaker updates!
URL:https://www.agandfoodfunders.org/event/federal-headwinds-frontline-resilience-understanding-the-impacts-opportunities-for-action-session-2/
CATEGORIES:Webinars
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SUMMARY:Why Regenerative Producers Still Can’t Get Credit and How Integrated Capital Can Close the Gap
DESCRIPTION:Despite evidence to the contrary\, regenerative farmers\, ranchers\, and producers more broadly are often labeled as “too risky” by conventional lenders—not because of their actual performance\, but because they fall outside the structures that define creditworthiness in industrial agriculture. This webinar\, first presented at the 2025 SAFSF Forum\, will reframe the conversation around risk: What is real risk in ag lending\, and what’s just a byproduct of broken systems? \n\n\n\nSpeakers will examine how conventional lenders’ failure to offer patient\, flexible capital options for regenerative producers is hindering the regeneration of a resilient and sustainable food system. Rather\, the emergence of innovative\, mission-driven lenders and investors who are reviving relationship and opportunity-based models is making it possible to put soil health on the balance sheet. \n\n\n\nSpeakers will also explore the emergence of loan guarantees—one of the most effective tools for unlocking credit where traditional underwriting falls short. Lenders have fewer ways to assess risk because regenerative producers often operate without subsidies\, crop insurance\, or conventional benchmarks\, lenders have fewer ways to assess risk. Guarantees help close that gap\, giving lenders a backstop and making it possible to finance operations that are sound but structurally excluded. \n\n\n\nThis webinar is open to all funders. Join us for a conversation about risk\, reward\, and what it will take to truly finance regeneration. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRECORDING\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeakers\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLinda Jo Doctor\, Program Officer\, W.K. Kellogg Foundation (moderator)\n\n\n\nLinda Jo Doctor is a program officer at the W.K. Kellogg Foundation in Battle Creek\, Michigan. In this role\, she helps develop programming priorities\, reviews and recommends proposals for funding\, manages and monitors a portfolio of active grants\, and designs and implements national programming. She co- leads the Foundation’s efforts to promote equitable\, sustainable and nourishing food systems. Previously\, Ms. Doctor was deputy director for a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation National Program Office housed at the University of Michigan School of Public Health. She also directed the Division of Prevention at the Massachusetts Department of Public Health\, where she provided leadership for statewide health promotion and prevention programs\, interagency initiatives\, and national efforts. Ms. Doctor received her Master of Public Health degree from Boston University School of Public Health She recently completed her studies and received a Masters of Philanthropic Studies from the Lily Family School of Philanthropy at Indiana University. She has a Bachelor of Science from the University of Cincinnati\, College of Community Services. She currently serves on the board of directors of ALEPH: The Alliance for Jewish Renewal. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nZach Ducheneaux\, 5th C LLC\, Founder\n\n\n\nZach Ducheneaux was a third generation rancher\, and Executive Director of the Intertribal Agriculture Council prior to accepting a role as the Farm Service Agency Administrator in 2021. Since January of 2025 he’s been bringing an investment approach to production agriculture to revitalize rural economies and preserve family farms and ranches. His company\, 5th C LLC will match investors with agriculture producers in a manner that shares profits\, shares risk\, and shares opportunity more equitably with the producer. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLauren Manning\, Executive Director\, Food System 6\n\n\n\nLauren Manning\, Esq.\, LL.M.\, is Executive Director of Food System 6\, a nonprofit working to accelerate the transition to a just and restorative food system by expanding access to capital. Before FS6\, Lauren was a venture capital investor with agrifood-tech focused AgFunder while also raising grass-fed beef\, lamb\, and goat meat as part of a farmer collective in NW Arkansas for 10 years. She began her career as a civil litigator handling a broad range of cases including toxic torts and pharmaceuticals.
URL:https://www.agandfoodfunders.org/event/why-regenerative-producers-still-cant-get-credit-and-how-integrated-capital-can-close-the-gap/
CATEGORIES:Webinars
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SUMMARY:Gather Round Monthly Membership Call
DESCRIPTION:The Gather Round Monthly Membership Calls\, held on the 3rd Thursday of every month at 1 pm PST / 4 pm EST\, serve as a regular “drop in” space for SAFSF members. These calls are focused on connection and continuing dialogue on topics explored in virtual learning events and other programs hosted by SAFSF during the month.  \n\n\n\nWe want to hear what’s top of mind for you\, what you are wrestling with\, and what topics you want to explore deeper. Each call will have a different topic. \n\n\n\nSAFSF members are automatically enrolled in Gather Round meetings\, and will see the calendar invitations. If you do not\, email membership@safsf.org to receive access. 
URL:https://www.agandfoodfunders.org/event/gather-round-november/
CATEGORIES:Member Only,Webinars
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