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SUMMARY:Investing in Regenerative Agriculture: Voices from the Field
DESCRIPTION:Hosted by Pathstone \n\n\n\nMark your calendar for Pathstone’s live video seminar highlighting key themes from their recent collaboration with a range of subject matter experts in this important and growing focus for investors. Registration link coming soon! \n\n\n\nPathstone Managing Director Katherine Pease will facilitate an in-depth\, interactive session with the people whose work is featured in our recent report\, Investing in Regenerative Agriculture: Voices from the Field. Presenters include leaders and practitioners in finance and investing\, farming\, advocacy and organizing\, philanthropy\, and academia. SAFSF’s Sarah Kelley will be among the speakers\, and will discuss the SAFSF Fibers Roadmap.  \n\n\n\nTopics will include: \n\n\n\nExploring regenerative agriculture – definitions\, best practices\, and innovations.Financing social equity within regenerative agriculture: mobilizing capital for Native American farmers and producers\, Black farmers\, and other underserved communities.Investing in the transition from conventional to regenerative agriculture.Investing in AgTech for impact.Transforming the Ag System: A vision for the future informed by lessons from the past.
URL:https://www.agandfoodfunders.org/event/investing-in-regenerative-agriculture-voices-from-the-field/
CATEGORIES:Webinars
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SUMMARY:Pathways for Engagement: A Deeper Look at Key Policy Strategies and Opportunities | Webinar 2
DESCRIPTION:Building off of webinar 1 and our current understanding of the state of agricultural policy in the U.S.\, we will dive deeper into the opportunities to secure progressive food and ag policies at both the state and national levels. In addition to highlighting some of the key strategies identified\, we will hear from experts and organizations who are leading these key strategies forward across the US. We will discuss topics such as how to connect critical state level policy work and organizations with the broader national policy work and conversations\, as we move towards the next two farm bills\, as well as what we will need to do to mobilize leaders and community organizations in the south and other key states. \n\n\n\nSpeakers: To be announced \n\n\n\nView descriptions for the other session in the series \n\n\n\nWebinar 1: US Food and Agriculture Policy: A Pivotal Moment For Action | July 13\, 2021 \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nWebinar 2: Pathways for Engagement: A Deeper Look at Key Policy Strategies and Opportunities | September 14\, 2021 \n\n\n\nFUNDERS ONLY: Download Key Takeaways\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nWebinar 3: Playing to Win: How to Engage Both C3 and C4 Strategies | October 19\, 2021
URL:https://www.agandfoodfunders.org/event/food-and-agriculture-policy-2/
CATEGORIES:Webinars
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210915T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210915T120000
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SUMMARY:SAFSF In the Kitchen Call: Funder Toolkit on Climate\, Health\, & Equity
DESCRIPTION:Co-hosted by SAFSF and HEFN \n\n\n\nJoin SAFSF\, Health and Environmental Funders Network (HEFN)\, and your member peers to dive into the recently released funder toolkit\, Investing at the Frontlines of Climate Change. This funder toolkit was created to accelerate philanthropy at the intersection of climate change\, health\, and equity. \n\n\n\nDuring this session\, funder participants will: \n\n\n\nLearn about how this collaborative project was developedSee how the toolkit’s resources can help funders find their niche in addressing climate change and its health and equity impacts\, collaborate with partners\, better target their funding\, and have greater impactHave space to discuss\, share\, and learn about peers’ current efforts at the intersection of climate change\, health\, and equity.\n\n\n\nThis webinar is open to members of SAFSF and/or HEFN. Join us! \n\n\n\nPhotos: Parker Johnson\, Max Bender\, Ann McArthur\, Janine Robinson\, Marcus Kauffman on UnSplash\, Susan Melkisethian\, Stephen Yang\, The Solutions Project
URL:https://www.agandfoodfunders.org/event/safsf-in-the-kitchen-call-funder-toolkit-on-climate-health-equity/
CATEGORIES:Member Only,Webinars
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210922T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210922T113000
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SUMMARY:Network Partnerships - Building Effective Regional Food Funder Networks\, Part 2
DESCRIPTION:SAFSF has helped convene or been an advisor to many regional food funder networks over the years and seen some prosper while others struggled to find their footing. This five-part series on Building Effective Regional Food Funder Networks will provide a venue for learning\, sharing best practices\, and discussing new resources that can help ensure your food funder network makes a difference in your region and\, as part of a network of regional groups\, contributes to systemic change on a national level as well. Register for the whole series for $100 or individual sessions for $25 each. \n\n\n\nAs every region and network is different\, there is no one way or best practice that is going to apply to everyone. Rather than have so-called “experts” speak during these workshops\, we will kick off each conversation with a brief sharing from a funder or network with an instructive perspective on the topic at hand as a starting point for conversation. Our goal is to facilitate a semi-structured opportunity for all participants to share their experiences and\, as a group\, look for opportunities to develop shared resources and “workshop” approaches that increase the effectiveness of individual networks\, while strengthening connections between regional networks for greater impact across the nation.  \n\n\n\nAugust 11: Part 1 – Network Structure and PurposeA clear understanding of the scope of work and the goals funders have for coming together is critical in order to measure progress and determine if your network’s efforts are successful. In this session\, we’ll discuss different ways to structure and staff regional food funder networks\, what kinds of gaps and needs networks often seek to address\, and look at various outcomes achieved by regional groups. Conversation kick-off: Virginia Clarke\, executive director of SAFSF. \n\n\n\nSeptember 22: Part 2 – Network Partnerships (note date change)A regional food funder network is just one element of any regional food system. In this session\, we’ll look at co-programming with regional associations of grantmakers\, councils of governments and state/regional agencies to engage new funders and open new paths for leveraging philanthropic dollars. We’ll also look at strengthening regional cooperation through connections with food policy councils\, food system networks\, sustainable agriculture coalitions and others. Conversation kick-off: Carol Pickering\, Dietel & Partners\, co-chair of the Food and Agriculture Systems Working Group of the Appalachia Funders Network. \n\n\n\nOctober 21: Part 3 – Meaningful Meetings (note date change)Meetings are important venues for building relationships. Meetings should also help move funders in a regional group toward their overall goals for collaboration. In this session\, we’ll talk about identifying relevant and timely topics\, balancing internal and external speakers and ensuring valuable takeaways from meetings. We’ll also talk about meeting frequency and how to engage participants to keep energy and enthusiasm high. Conversation kick-off: Adam Liebowitz\, North Star Fund\, director of Community Food Funders in New York. \n\n\n\nNovember 10: Part 4 – Regional-National Policy ConnectionsFood funders often find themselves stepping into the breach between federal policies and funding\, and the capacity to implement those policies or distribute that funding at the local and regional level. In this session\, we will address the roles regionally organized funders can play in helping to align regional and federal policy priorities so philanthropic dollars can be more effectively and equitably leveraged in communities. Conversation kick-off: Andrew McElwaine\, Heinz Endowments\, co-convener of Pennsylvania funder group organizing for 2023 Farm Bill advocacy. \n\n\n\nDecember 14: Part 5 – Network OutreachLet other funders know what you are doing and invite them to engage with your network through strategic outreach. In this session\, we’ll examine how to use meetings and programs as outreach tools\, how to keep those in the network informed and in touch with each other\, ways to share your food system learnings with others in philanthropy\, and how to interact with media to bring wider attention to critical regional food issues. Conservation kick-off: Karen Lehman\, director of Fresh Taste in Chicago.
URL:https://www.agandfoodfunders.org/event/network-partnerships-building-effective-regional-food-funder-networks-part-3/
CATEGORIES:Webinars
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211001T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211001T120000
DTSTAMP:20260405T202106
CREATED:20210901T183441Z
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SUMMARY:Nutrition Incentives: Lessons and Opportunities to Improve Healthy Food Access
DESCRIPTION:Co-sponsored with Grantmakers in Health (GIH) \n\n\n\nAccess to healthy food is an important social determinant of health. Over the past decade\, nutrition incentive programs that match federal SNAP dollars to purchase fresh fruits and vegetables have grown rapidly and proven to be a critical pathway to improving healthy food access. New streams of federal support that require local matching funds coupled with a surge in SNAP enrollment during the pandemic have presented important opportunities for public-private partnership. Join this webinar to learn about how these effective nutrition incentive programs have enabled vibrant public-private partnerships across the country\, the current state of the field and research\, and the opportunities for health funders to leverage these opportunities to improve healthy food access.  \n\n\n\nSpeakers include Mini Kahlon of UT Austin Dell Medical School and Factor Health\, Erica Raml of Fair Food Network\, and Amy Yaroch of Gretchen Swanson Center for Nutrition. \n\n\n\nThis webinar is open only to SAFSF members and GIH Funding Partners. SAFSF members who are not also GIH Funding Partners\, please email Priya Uppuluri to register. GIH Funding Partners may click here to register.
URL:https://www.agandfoodfunders.org/event/nutrition-incentives-lessons-and-opportunities-to-improve-healthy-food-access/
CATEGORIES:Member Only,Webinars
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211019T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211019T123000
DTSTAMP:20260405T202106
CREATED:20210622T195144Z
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SUMMARY:Playing to Win: How to Engage Both C3 and C4 Strategies | Webinar 3
DESCRIPTION:A key barrier to advancing transformational reform in our food and ag systems has been a lack of awareness about what private foundations are allowed to do and fund under Internal Revenue Service guidelines in regards to policy work. In this webinar\, we will provide critical context and resources for funders to better understand ways to engage in policy work\, both C3 and C4 strategies\, as well as explore case studies of how different funders and peers have been able to employ these strategies to win. We know\, from evidence\, that when foundations invest in advancing policy change\, their money has a large-scale impact on individuals and communities. Grants of any size\, combined with targeted investments of time\, effort\, and collaboration at just the right moment\, can yield investments in the hundreds of thousands or hundreds of millions of dollars. \n\n\n\nSpeakers: This session will be led by the Alliance For Justice and Bolder Advocacy\, as well as feature speakers from key case studies (To be announced) \n\n\n\nView descriptions for the other session in the series \n\n\n\nWebinar 1: US Food and Agriculture Policy: A Pivotal Moment For Action | July 13\, 2021 \n\n\n\nWebinar 2: Pathways for Engagement: A Deeper Look at Key Policy Strategies and Opportunities | September 14\, 2021 \n\n\n\nWebinar 3: Playing to Win: How to Engage Both C3 and C4 Strategies | October 19\, 2021
URL:https://www.agandfoodfunders.org/event/food-and-agriculture-policy-3/
CATEGORIES:Webinars
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211021T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211021T113000
DTSTAMP:20260405T202106
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SUMMARY:Meaningful Meetings - Building Effective Regional Food Funder Networks: Part 3
DESCRIPTION:SAFSF has helped convene or been an advisor to many regional food funder networks over the years and seen someprosper while others struggled to find their footing. This five-part series on Building Effective Regional Food Funder Networks will provide a venue for learning\, sharing best practices\, and discussing new resources that can help ensure your food funder network makes a difference in your region and\, as part of a network of regional groups\, contributes to systemic change on a national level as well. Register for the whole series for $100 or individual sessions for $25 each. \n\n\n\nAs every region and network is different\, there is no one way or best practice that is going to apply to everyone. Rather than have so-called “experts” speak during these workshops\, we will kick off each conversation with a brief sharing from a funder or network with an instructive perspective on the topic at hand as a starting point for conversation. Our goal is to facilitate a semi-structured opportunity for all participants to share their experiences and\, as a group\, look for opportunities to develop shared resources and “workshop” approaches that increase the effectiveness of individual networks\, while strengthening connections between regional networks for greater impact across the nation.  \n\n\n\nAugust 11: Part 1 – Network Structure and PurposeA clear understanding of the scope of work and the goals funders have for coming together is critical in order to measure progress and determine if your network’s efforts are successful. In this session\, we’ll discuss different ways to structure and staff regional food funder networks\, what kinds of gaps and needs networks often seek to address\, and look at various outcomes achieved by regional groups. Conversation kick-off: Virginia Clarke\, executive director of SAFSF. \n\n\n\nSeptember 22: Part 2 – Network Partnerships (note date change)A regional food funder network is just one element of any regional food system. In this session\, we’ll look at co-programming with regional associations of grantmakers\, councils of governments and state/regional agencies to engage new funders and open new paths for leveraging philanthropic dollars. We’ll also look at strengthening regional cooperation through connections with food policy councils\, food system networks\, sustainable agriculture coalitions and others. Conversation kick-off: Carol Pickering\, Dietel & Partners\, co-chair of the Food and Agriculture Systems Working Group of the Appalachia Funders Network. \n\n\n\nOctober 21: Part 3 – Meaningful Meetings (note date change)Meetings are important venues for building relationships. Meetings should also help move funders in a regional group toward their overall goals for collaboration. In this session\, we’ll talk about identifying relevant and timely topics\, balancing internal and external speakers and ensuring valuable takeaways from meetings. We’ll also talk about meeting frequency and how to engage participants to keep energy and enthusiasm high. Conversation kick-off: Adam Liebowitz\, North Star Fund\, director of Community Food Funders in New York. \n\n\n\nNovember 10: Part 4 – Regional-National Policy ConnectionsFood funders often find themselves stepping into the breach between federal policies and funding\, and the capacity to implement those policies or distribute that funding at the local and regional level. In this session\, we will address the roles regionally organized funders can play in helping to align regional and federal policy priorities so philanthropic dollars can be more effectively and equitably leveraged in communities. Conversation kick-off: Andrew McElwaine\, Heinz Endowments\, co-convener of Pennsylvania funder group organizing for 2023 Farm Bill advocacy. \n\n\n\nDecember 14: Part 5 – Network OutreachLet other funders know what you are doing and invite them to engage with your network through strategic outreach. In this session\, we’ll examine how to use meetings and programs as outreach tools\, how to keep those in the network informed and in touch with each other\, ways to share your food system learnings with others in philanthropy\, and how to interact with media to bring wider attention to critical regional food issues. Conservation kick-off: Karen Lehman\, director of Fresh Taste in Chicago.
URL:https://www.agandfoodfunders.org/event/meaningful-meetings-building-effective-regional-food-funder-networks-part-2/
CATEGORIES:Webinars
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211101T123000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211101T140000
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SUMMARY:Solidarity Funding: Supporting Racial Justice in Food and Agriculture Philanthropy
DESCRIPTION:Join a funder peer follow-up to the special 2021 SAFSF Forum session Decolonizing Food Philanthropy. This follow–up conversation on Monday\, November 1 is available only to funders who participated in the special Forum session. For other funders\, note that we are exploring a repeat of the original conversation in spring 2022. \n\n\n\nThis session has the following goals: \n\n\n\nReflect: Hear from participants about their experience at the May workshop. Are there any learnings or new relationships that influenced your thinking or brought up questions in your work?\n\n\n\nCheck in: Discuss what has happened since the workshop – did you stay in touch with your accountability partner? How have your goals advanced? What new challenges have you faced\, and what have you moved forward?\n\n\n\nLook forward: What do you see as your “next right step\,” as Navina Khanna put it during the Forum session? What challenges are you facing?\n\n\n\nConnect: Are there specific ways SAFSF – or other members – might be able to help\, or new ways you’re interested in working together?\n\n\n\nThe session will be a facilitated conversation with breakout sessions. Participants must complete a self-reflection survey before the session. As with the Decolonizing workshop\, the session will not be recorded\, but we will be looking to share high-level takeaway and insights with our broader membership (without attribution\, and/or with permission). \n\n\n\nAbout the session nameYou’ve likely noticed that we renamed this follow-up Solidarity Philanthropy\, rather than Decolonizing Philanthropy\, the name of the original forum session. \n\n\n\nWe made the change because we seek to use language that is clear\, respectful\, and not appropriative\, especially as non-Indigenous People and in particular\, as white women. Together\, we are learning from the article “Decolonizing is Not A Metaphor\,” especially Tuck and Yang’s opening comment\, “Decolonization brings about the repatriation of Indigenous land and life; it is not a metaphor for other things we want to do to improve our societies and schools.”  \n\n\n\nWe are also learning from the powerful guidance brought forward by Native American philanthropist Edgar VillaNueva (Decolonizing Wealth and Liberated Capital)\, which includes a powerful critique of many forms of institutional philanthropy and also offers steps for healing and getting things right: grieve\, apologize\, listen\, relate\, represent\, invest\, and repair. These are important aspirations for us all in this moment of deep interconnected crises\, and deep openings toward healing and repair. \n\n\n\nWe chose to focus on Solidarity because we feel it captured the heart of what we’d set out to discuss with the speakers from the Open Letter Group–how as funders to stand with our colleagues in BIPOC- and frontline-led organizations in authentic and accountable ways.
URL:https://www.agandfoodfunders.org/event/solidarity-funding-supporting-racial-justice-in-food-and-agriculture-philanthropy/
CATEGORIES:Member Only,SAFSF Forum,Webinars
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211110T113000
DTSTAMP:20260405T202106
CREATED:20210623T221410Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20211026T151219Z
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SUMMARY:Regional-National Policy Connections - Building Effective Regional Food Funder Networks\, Part 4
DESCRIPTION:SAFSF has helped convene or been an advisor to many regional food funder networks over the years and been some prosper while others struggled to find their footing. This five-part series on Building Effective Regional Food Funder Networks will provide a venue for learning\, sharing best practices\, and discussing new resources that can help ensure your food funder network makes a difference in your region and\, as part of a network of regional groups\, contributes to systemic change on a national level as well. Register for the whole series for $100 or individual sessions for $25 each. \n\n\n\nAs every region and network is different\, there is no one way or best practice that is going to apply to everyone. Rather than have so-called “experts” speak during these workshops\, we will kick off each conversation with a brief sharing from a funder or network with an instructive perspective on the topic at hand as a starting point for conversation. Our goal is to facilitate a semi-structured opportunity for all participants to share their experiences and\, as a group\, look for opportunities to develop shared resources and “workshop” approaches that increase the effectiveness of individual networks\, while strengthening connections between regional networks for greater impact across the nation.  \n\n\n\nAugust 11: Part 1 – Network Structure and PurposeA clear understanding of the scope of work and the goals funders have for coming together is critical in order to measure progress and determine if your network’s efforts are successful. In this session\, we’ll discuss different ways to structure and staff regional food funder networks\, what kinds of gaps and needs networks often seek to address\, and look at various outcomes achieved by regional groups. Conversation kick-off: Virginia Clarke\, executive director of SAFSF. \n\n\n\nSeptember 22: Part 2 – Network Partnerships (note date change)A regional food funder network is just one element of any regional food system. In this session\, we’ll look at co-programming with regional associations of grantmakers\, councils of governments and state/regional agencies to engage new funders and open new paths for leveraging philanthropic dollars. We’ll also look at strengthening regional cooperation through connections with food policy councils\, food system networks\, sustainable agriculture coalitions and others. Conversation kick-off: Carol Pickering\, Dietel & Partners\, co-chair of the Food and Agriculture Systems Working Group of the Appalachia Funders Network. \n\n\n\nOctober 21: Part 3 – Meaningful Meetings (note date change)Meetings are important venues for building relationships. Meetings should also help move funders in a regional group toward their overall goals for collaboration. In this session\, we’ll talk about identifying relevant and timely topics\, balancing internal and external speakers and ensuring valuable takeaways from meetings. We’ll also talk about meeting frequency and how to engage participants to keep energy and enthusiasm high. Conversation kick-off: Adam Liebowitz\, North Star Fund\, director of Community Food Funders in New York. \n\n\n\nNovember 10: Part 4 – Regional-National Policy ConnectionsFood funders often find themselves stepping into the breach between federal policies and funding\, and the capacity to implement those policies or distribute that funding at the local and regional level. In this session\, we will address the roles regionally organized funders can play in helping to align regional and federal policy priorities so philanthropic dollars can be more effectively and equitably leveraged in communities. Conversation kick-off: Andrew McElwaine\, Heinz Endowments\, co-convener of Pennsylvania funder group organizing for 2023 Farm Bill advocacy. \n\n\n\nDecember 14: Part 5 – Network OutreachLet other funders know what you are doing and invite them to engage with your network through strategic outreach. In this session\, we’ll examine how to use meetings and programs as outreach tools\, how to keep those in the network informed and in touch with each other\, ways to share your food system learnings with others in philanthropy\, and how to interact with media to bring wider attention to critical regional food issues. Conservation kick-off: Karen Lehman\, director of Fresh Taste in Chicago.
URL:https://www.agandfoodfunders.org/event/regional-national-policy-connections-building-effective-regional-food-funder-networks-part-4/
CATEGORIES:Webinars
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211207T093000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211207T093000
DTSTAMP:20260405T202106
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SUMMARY:Backing Off the Herbicide Treadmill: Weed Management at the Intersection of Soil Health\, Climate Emergency\, Environmental Justice and Human Reproductive Health
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJoin us to explore the intersections of soil health\, environmental justice\, human reproductive threat and the climate emergency through the lens of extensive and rising herbicide use in US agriculture. Learn about how herbicides like glyphosate have led to widespread community exposures and the overall ramifications to human and environmental health\, especially in rural areas where pesticide exposure levels are much higher. We will also discuss the strategic opportunities for tackling herbicide dependence from multiple angles. The opportunity is ripe for shifting and changing policy with a sustained\, multidisciplinary approach demonstrating connection between excessive reliance on herbicides and a broad spectrum of collateral damage to our health\, the environment and the basis of soil health and fertility. \n\n\n\nThe Heartland Health Research Alliance (HHRA) is a collaborative of leading scientists\, advocates\, policy experts\, community organizers and public health professionals. HHRA is carrying out\, and hopes to expand cutting-edge clinical research essential in understanding how pesticide exposures during pregnancy and as children grow up can trigger adverse birth outcomes and developmental problems\, and heighten risk of adult-onset disease. The Heartland Study\, HHRA’s flagship project\, is a large-scale\, multi-disciplinary birth cohort study is quantifying herbicide exposures of expectant mothers across the Corn Belt and upper Mississippi Valley. It is documenting birth outcomes and newborn health\, monitoring for linkages between prenatal herbicide exposures to moms and dads\, and problem pregnancies\, birth defects\, epigenetic changes and neurodevelopment. By documenting connections between public health outcomes and soil health\, carbon sequestration and climate\, carbon/nitrogen cycling\, promoting microbiome health via soil health\, toxics\, environmental justice and changes in land use—this work hopes to leverage transformative policy change in several areas. \n\n\n\nWe will also discuss the rising reliance on high-risk herbicides in the Midwest\, the problems arising as a result\, and what needs to change to help farmers back off the herbicide treadmill. The panel will discuss how climate forward farming will have to contend with weed management and will share the status of their ongoing critical study following expectant parents’ herbicide exposures and the health effects in their children. If any of the following issues are of interest\, please join us for this important webinar: \n\n\n\nDepth and breadth of the herbicide-GE seed trap that farmers are massively locked into. The treadmill trap is deeper than ever\, and at a tipping point of failure.Shattered premises of pesticide risk assessment and regulation\, and consequential widespread\, compound harms. The courts are holding the system accountable for catastrophic neglect\, but cannot fix problems rooted in outdated laws\, policies and business models that promote excessive reliance on pesticides. We’ll discuss the regulatory consequences of Bayer/Monsanto trial evidence\, paraquat and chlorpyrifos litigation and the seismic changes needed in how farmers manage pests and regulators mitigate pesticide damage.The contradictions of herbicide dependence for scaling regenerative cropping systems. Focus on carbon-chemistry and soil mechanics is obscuring the biological fundamentals of soil health and ignoring the soil-health deficit due to agricultural chemicals.  Vulnerable communities on the front lines and public health-agriculture organizing in the Upper Midwest. Connecting the dots at the local and regional level for harm reduction\, participatory science\, environmental justice and public health education/advocacy. Strong local movements have to be a source of and force for solutions.\n\n\n\nModerator: Dr. Urvashi Rangan\, PhD Chief Scientist\, GRACE Communications Foundation \n\n\n\nSpeakers:  \n\n\n\nDr. Chuck Benbrook\, ED Heartland Health Research Alliance (HHRA)Audrey Tran Lam\, MPH University of Northern Iowa\, Farming For Public Health (HHRA Board Member)Zoe Hollomon\, Co-Director\, Pesticide Action NetworkDr. Robin Mesnage\, Kings College\, London UK\, Molecular and Medical Genetics (HHRA Science Advisor)Mark Lipson\, Staff Affiliate UC Santa Cruz\, Center for Agroecology  (HHRA Consultant)\n\n\n\nSponsored by: Funders for Regenerative Agriculture (FORA)\, Health & Environmental Funders Network (HEFN)\, and Sustainable Agriculture and Food Systems Funders (SAFSF).
URL:https://www.agandfoodfunders.org/event/backing-off-the-herbicide-treadmill-weed-management-at-the-intersection-of-soil-health-climate-emergency-environmental-justice-and-human-reproductive-health/
CATEGORIES:Webinars
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SUMMARY:Network Outreach - Building Effective Regional Food Funder Networks\, Part 5
DESCRIPTION:SAFSF has helped convene or been an advisor to many regional food funder networks over the years and been some prosper while others struggled to find their footing. This five-part series on Building Effective Regional Food Funder Networks will provide a venue for learning\, sharing best practices\, and discussing new resources that can help ensure your food funder network makes a difference in your region and\, as part of a network of regional groups\, contributes to systemic change on a national level as well. Register for the whole series for $100 or individual sessions for $25 each. \n\n\n\nAs every region and network is different\, there is no one way or best practice that is going to apply to everyone. Rather than have so-called “experts” speak during these workshops\, we will kick off each conversation with a brief sharing from a funder or network with an instructive perspective on the topic at hand as a starting point for conversation. Our goal is to facilitate a semi-structured opportunity for all participants to share their experiences and\, as a group\, look for opportunities to develop shared resources and “workshop” approaches that increase the effectiveness of individual networks\, while strengthening connections between regional networks for greater impact across the nation.  \n\n\n\nAugust 11: Part 1 – Network Structure and PurposeA clear understanding of the scope of work and the goals funders have for coming together is critical in order to measure progress and determine if your network’s efforts are successful. In this session\, we’ll discuss different ways to structure and staff regional food funder networks\, what kinds of gaps and needs networks often seek to address\, and look at various outcomes achieved by regional groups. Conversation kick-off: Virginia Clarke\, executive director of SAFSF. \n\n\n\nSeptember 22: Part 2 – Network Partnerships (note date change)A regional food funder network is just one element of any regional food system. In this session\, we’ll look at co-programming with regional associations of grantmakers\, councils of governments and state/regional agencies to engage new funders and open new paths for leveraging philanthropic dollars. We’ll also look at strengthening regional cooperation through connections with food policy councils\, food system networks\, sustainable agriculture coalitions and others. Conversation kick-off: Carol Pickering\, Dietel & Partners\, co-chair of the Food and Agriculture Systems Working Group of the Appalachia Funders Network. \n\n\n\nOctober 21: Part 3 – Meaningful Meetings (note date change)Meetings are important venues for building relationships. Meetings should also help move funders in a regional group toward their overall goals for collaboration. In this session\, we’ll talk about identifying relevant and timely topics\, balancing internal and external speakers and ensuring valuable takeaways from meetings. We’ll also talk about meeting frequency and how to engage participants to keep energy and enthusiasm high. Conversation kick-off: Adam Liebowitz\, North Star Fund\, director of Community Food Funders in New York. \n\n\n\nNovember 10: Part 4 – Regional-National Policy ConnectionsFood funders often find themselves stepping into the breach between federal policies and funding\, and the capacity to implement those policies or distribute that funding at the local and regional level. In this session\, we will address the roles regionally organized funders can play in helping to align regional and federal policy priorities so philanthropic dollars can be more effectively and equitably leveraged in communities. Conversation kick-off: Andrew McElwaine\, Heinz Endowments\, co-convener of Pennsylvania funder group organizing for 2023 Farm Bill advocacy. \n\n\n\nDecember 14: Part 5 – Network OutreachLet other funders know what you are doing and invite them to engage with your network through strategic outreach. In this session\, we’ll examine how to use meetings and programs as outreach tools\, how to keep those in the network informed and in touch with each other\, ways to share your food system learnings with others in philanthropy\, and how to interact with media to bring wider attention to critical regional food issues. Conservation kick-off: Karen Lehman\, director of Fresh Taste in Chicago.
URL:https://www.agandfoodfunders.org/event/network-outreach-building-effective-regional-food-funder-networks-part-5/
CATEGORIES:Webinars
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SUMMARY:In the Kitchen Call: Building Relationships for 2022
DESCRIPTION:Join your SAFSF member peers for this first In the Kitchen call of 2022. As we embark on a new year\, this session will provide space to build new and/or deeper relationships with your funder and investor peers. We’ll spotlight new members who joined SAFSF during 2021. Additionally\, breakout session conversations will allow participants to reflect on professional successes achieved in 2021 and discuss opportunities for the next twelve months. \n\n\n\nRegistration for this session is limited to current SAFSF member organizations.
URL:https://www.agandfoodfunders.org/event/in-the-kitchen-call-building-relationships-for-2022/
CATEGORIES:Member Only,Webinars
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220202T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220202T103000
DTSTAMP:20260405T202106
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SUMMARY:Action for a Small Planet | Part 2
DESCRIPTION:An interactive conversation about innovative funding for systems change  \n\n\n\n\n\n\nRegister\n\n\n\n\nJoin your fellow grantmakers in a discussion with Anna Lappé\, founder of the Food Sovereignty Fund at the Panta Rhea Foundation about how funders can advance a fossil-free future with a focus on biodiversity. Anna will share her work at the intersections of food systems and the climate crisis and together we will discuss strategies and approaches for funding across issue areas to address the complex\, interlocking existential crises of climate chaos and biodiversity collapse. Bring your questions\, dreams\, and best examples of cross-silo programs.More information on Part 1 | Lessons for a Small Planet can be found here.
URL:https://www.agandfoodfunders.org/event/action-for-a-small-planet-part-2/
CATEGORIES:Webinars
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220203T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220203T113000
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SUMMARY:Trust-Based Philanthropy in 4D Webinar Series | Session 1: Using Trust-Based Values to Transform Your Grantmaking
DESCRIPTION:Register\n\n\n\nLearn More\n\n\n\n\nThe Trust-Based Philanthropy Project\, in partnership with the Environmental Grantmakers Association\, Blue Sky Funders Forum\, and Sustainable Agriculture and Food Systems Funders\, is pleased to announce a four-part webinar series on using trust-based values to guide your philanthropy’s grantmaking practices\, culture\, structures\, and leadership. \n\n\n\nThere is a values-to-practice gap in traditional philanthropy. Many foundations do their work in the name of building community\, advancing equity\, and increasing opportunity – however our sector’s most common grantmaking practices rarely reflect those values. Project-restricted grants\, unclear grant guidelines\, lengthy paperwork requirements\, and unrealistic impact measures have come to be the status quo in our sector\, with little regard for the expertise of the nonprofits we support. Not only does this perpetuate a top-down power dynamic that makes it virtually impossible to build trust and transparency; it also obstructs nonprofits’ ability to innovate\, grow\, and achieve their intended impact. \n\n\n\nTrust-based philanthropy offers a different approach\, applying equity-centered\, power-conscious values in the way we approach all aspects of grantmaking. This translates to leading with trust rather than distrust\, respecting the time and expertise of nonprofit partners\, and prioritizing relationship-building and mutual learning over scrutiny and transaction.  \n\n\n\nIn this session\, we will explore the core values that are fundamental to a trust-based approach\, and the six grantmaking practices that help advance a healthier and more equitable nonprofit sector: 1) multiyear unrestricted funding\, 2) doing the homework\, 3) simplifying and streamlining paperwork\, 4) being transparent and responsive\, 5) soliciting and acting on feedback\, and 6) offering support beyond the check. We’ll hear concrete examples from foundation leaders that have operationalized these practices\, as they share the details of transformation\, their learnings along the way\, and their approach to bringing along staff and boards on this journey. \n\n\n\nParticipants can expect to walk away with a clear understanding of what it means to be a values-aligned grantmaker\, persuasive talking points to help engage staff and boards\, and concrete steps they can take toward operationalizing trust-based grantmaking practices. \n\n\n\nSAFSF will host a breakout conversation following each session. Be sure to select your affiliation with SAFSF when registering. \n\n\n\nDiscussions will be facilitated by Mailee Walker\, Claneil Foundation. Funder participants will have the opportunity to ground the principles of trust-based philanthropy in relation to their own work within food and agriculture systems. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSeries: \n\n\n\nSession #1: TBP in 4D: Using Trust-Based Values to Transform Your Grantmaking \n\n\n\nThursday\, February 3\, 2022 from 10-11:30AM PT \n\n\n\nSession #2: TBP in 4D: Embracing and Embedding a Trust-Based Culture \n\n\n\nThursday\, March 3\, 2022 from 10-11:30AM PT \n\n\n\nSession #3: TBP in 4D: Building and Reinforcing Trust-Based Structures \n\n\n\nThursday\, March 31\, 2022 from 10-11:30AM PT \n\n\n\nSession #4: TBP in 4D: Cultivating Trust-Based Leadership \n\n\n\nThursday\, May 5\, 2022 from 10-11:30AM PT
URL:https://www.agandfoodfunders.org/event/trust-based-philanthropy-in-4d-webinar-series/
CATEGORIES:Webinars
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SUMMARY:Lessons for a Small Planet | Part 1
DESCRIPTION:An intimate mother-daughter conversation with Frances Moore Lappé and Anna Lappé   \n\n\n\n\n\n\nRegister\n\n\n\n\nThe Global Conservation Program at Biodiversity Funders Group (BFG) and the Panta Rhea Foundation would like to invite you to join us for a very special two-part dialogue for grantmakers on conservation\, climate\, and food systems. \n\n\n\nIn this intimate “fireside chat\,” author and funder Anna Lappé will host an engaging conversation with her mother\, Frances Moore Lappé\, whose book\, Diet for a Small Planet\, has sold more than 3.5 million copies since it was first published in 1971 and sparked a revolution in how people reflect on the connections between food\, health\, and the environment. Now\, a half-century later\, Frances and Anna are celebrating the book’s 50th anniversary and together exploring what we have learned across five decades of activism for a more just and healthy planet. Anna will take us on a journey with her mother\, probing big questions about how we can find hope in this dark time\, human nature and democracy\, and what have we learned about how to make lasting systems change at the intersections of agriculture\, biodiversity\, and the climate crisis.  \n\n\n\nMore information on Part 2 | Action for a Small Planet can be found here.
URL:https://www.agandfoodfunders.org/event/lessons-for-a-small-planet-part-1/
CATEGORIES:Webinars
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SUMMARY:Exploring the Textile Exchange Regenerative Agriculture Landscape Analysis Report
DESCRIPTION:With regenerative agriculture fast gaining momentum in the fashion and textile industry\, brands don’t have the luxury of a one-size-fits-all set of practices or solutions to implement. The concept is nuanced\, so how can they make concrete investments in regenerative projects? \n\n\n\nTextile Exchange’s latest report\, the Regenerative Agriculture Landscape Analysis\, provides a landmark framework for the industry to understand\, communicate\, and invest in regenerative agriculture. The report emphasizes regenerative agriculture’s roots in Indigenous and Native practices\, and promotes a holistic approach that puts humans and ecosystems at the center. \n\n\n\nJoin this webinar to learn more about this new resource for the industry. \n\n\n\nThis report was made possible through sponsorship from Kering\, J.Crew/Madewell\, and CottonConect. \n\n\n\nBy registering for this webinar\, you agree for Textile Exchange to share your name\, company\, and email with speakers and partnering organizations associated with this webinar. They will be required to obtain your permission before processing this contact information. \n\n\n\n\nRegister Here
URL:https://www.agandfoodfunders.org/event/exploring-the-textile-exchange-regenerative-agriculture-landscape-analysis-report/
CATEGORIES:Webinars
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SUMMARY:Trust-Based Philanthropy in 4D Webinar Series | Session 2: Embracing and Embedding a Trust-Based Culture
DESCRIPTION:Register\n\n\n\nLearn More\n\n\n\n\nThe Trust-Based Philanthropy Project\, in partnership with the Environmental Grantmakers Association\, Blue Sky Funders Forum\, and Sustainable Agriculture and Food Systems Funders\, is pleased to announce a four-part webinar series on using trust-based values to guide your philanthropy’s grantmaking practices\, culture\, structures\, and leadership. \n\n\n\nCulture is an organization’s general way of being\, expressed in organizational norms\, assumptions\, and behaviors. Given trust-based philanthropy’s values-driven stance on centering relationships and sharing power\, nurturing a trust-based culture is essential to making your trust-based philanthropy possible. \n\n\n\nIn order to nurture a trust-based culture\, we must understand our starting point. The majority of institutions operate within a white dominant cultural context\, wherein perceptions of trustworthiness and achievement are skewed in favor of those who have had access to – and have assimilated to – white dominant norms. In this default culture\, we also tend to prioritize wealth over the communities we serve – as indicated in commonly used phrases such as return on investment\, proof of concept\, and even program “officer.”   \n\n\n\nSo how can funders identify – and undo – cultural barriers to trust and equity? And what does it look like to build a trust-based\, racially equitable culture that prioritizes honesty\, community\, creativity\, and joy within and beyond your organization? In this session\, we’ll hear from leaders that have prioritized culture-building within their organizations\, including the strategies they are deploying to foster a sense of connection and collaboration\, and what they’re doing to build and sustain trust internally so that they can advance their trust-based goals externally. \n\n\n\nParticipants can expect to walk away with a clearer understanding of how white dominant culture shows up in our assumptions and norms; and strategies for initiating and deepening a culture of power consciousness\, humility\, and collaboration. \n\n\n\nSAFSF will host a breakout conversation following each session. Be sure to select your affiliation with SAFSF when registering. \n\n\n\nDiscussions will be facilitated by Mailee Walker\, Claneil Foundation. Funder participants will have the opportunity to ground the principles of trust-based philanthropy in relation to their own work within food and agriculture systems. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSeries:\n\n\n\nSession #1: TBP in 4D: Using Trust-Based Values to Transform Your Grantmaking \n\n\n\nThursday\, February 3\, 2022 from 10-11:30AM PT \n\n\n\nSession #2: TBP in 4D: Embracing and Embedding a Trust-Based Culture \n\n\n\nThursday\, March 3\, 2022 from 10-11:30AM PT \n\n\n\nSession #3: TBP in 4D: Building and Reinforcing Trust-Based Structures \n\n\n\nThursday\, March 31\, 2022 from 10-11:30AM PT \n\n\n\nSession #4: TBP in 4D: Cultivating Trust-Based Leadership \n\n\n\nThursday\, May 5\, 2022 from 10-11:30AM PT
URL:https://www.agandfoodfunders.org/event/trust-based-philanthropy-in-4d-webinar-series-session-2-embracing-and-embedding-a-trust-based-culture/
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SUMMARY:In the Kitchen Call: Nurturing Internal Culture
DESCRIPTION:Discuss efforts to nurture resilient\, anti-racist internal philanthropic culture during our March member peer conversation. SAFSF staff and board members will share experiences from our ongoing work to build more equitable internal and operational practices\, and how these efforts translate to our external programs and statements. We will also highlight opportunities to engage in the upcoming Food Solutions New England 21-Day Racial Equity Building Challenge.  \n\n\n\nMembers will be invited to share their own reflections\, successes\, and challenges related to internal staff and trustee/board culture. This could include moving to remote work\, being part of a small-staffed or single-staff organization\, equity learning\, or aligning organizational mission and operational practices.  \n\n\n\nJoin us! \n\n\n\nRegistration for this session is limited to current SAFSF member organizations.
URL:https://www.agandfoodfunders.org/event/in-the-kitchen-call-nurturing-internal-culture/
CATEGORIES:Member Only,Webinars
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220331T113000
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SUMMARY:Trust-Based Philanthropy in 4D Webinar Series | Session 3: Building and Reinforcing Trust-Based Structures
DESCRIPTION:Register \n\n\n\nLearn More\n\n\n\n\nThe Trust-Based Philanthropy Project\, in partnership with the Environmental Grantmakers Association\, Blue Sky Funders Forum\, and Sustainable Agriculture and Food Systems Funders\, is pleased to announce a four-part webinar series on using trust-based values to guide your philanthropy’s grantmaking practices\, culture\, structures\, and leadership. \n\n\n\nAn organization’s structures — the hierarchies\, systems\, protocols\, policies\, standardized processes\, and technologies — are deeply connected to culture and values. Because of the compliance-oriented culture that informs much of philanthropy\, even the best-intentioned grantmaking organizations may find that their structures and processes inadvertently perpetuate power imbalances\, obstructing their ability to fully operationalize trust-based philanthropy. \n\n\n\nA full commitment to trust-based philanthropy requires funders to take a close look at our various structural elements through a trust-based lens – especially grant management systems\, grant agreements\, hiring practices\, evaluation metrics\, and decision-making structures. The good news is that these concrete aspects of your operations can be addressed one-by-one\, in an emergent way\, without overwhelming or overloading your organization.  \n\n\n\nSo what are the core competencies we must rely on in order to be able to identify structural barriers to trust-based philanthropy in the first place? And what are some practical\, actionable ways we can reimagine these structures to be more relational and grantee-centric\, without disrupting our day-to-day work? In this session\, foundation leaders will share their journeys of reviewing and assessing specific structures within their organizations and how they are using emergent learning to iterate and evolve their systems and processes in order to create an infrastructure of trust.  \n\n\n\nParticipants can expect to walk away with a better sense of how power dynamics show up in organizational structures\, and heightened clarity on areas of focus and reassessment within their organizations. \n\n\n\nSAFSF will host a breakout conversation following each session. Be sure to select your affiliation with SAFSF when registering. \n\n\n\nDiscussions will be facilitated by Mailee Walker\, Claneil Foundation. Funder participants will have the opportunity to ground the principles of trust-based philanthropy in relation to their own work within food and agriculture systems. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSession #1: TBP in 4D: Using Trust-Based Values to Transform Your Grantmaking \n\n\n\nThursday\, February 3\, 2022 from 10-11:30AM PT \n\n\n\nSession #2: TBP in 4D: Embracing and Embedding a Trust-Based Culture \n\n\n\nThursday\, March 3\, 2022 from 10-11:30AM PT \n\n\n\nSession #3: TBP in 4D: Building and Reinforcing Trust-Based Structures \n\n\n\nThursday\, March 31\, 2022 from 10-11:30AM PT \n\n\n\nSession #4: TBP in 4D: Cultivating Trust-Based Leadership \n\n\n\nThursday\, May 5\, 2022 from 10-11:30AM PT
URL:https://www.agandfoodfunders.org/event/trust-based-philanthropy-in-4d-webinar-series-session-3-building-and-reinforcing-trust-based-structures/
CATEGORIES:Webinars
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SUMMARY:In the Kitchen: Strategic Planning
DESCRIPTION:Our April In the Kitchen Call will be a forum for member feedback on SAFSF’s future direction facilitated by strategic planning consultants Asha Carter and Beth Schermerhorn of Cambium Collective. This is an opportunity for members to share their thoughts and ideas candidly. Funders serving on the Strategic Planning Task Force will be participating\, but SAFSF staff will not.
URL:https://www.agandfoodfunders.org/event/in-the-kitchen-strategic-planning/
CATEGORIES:Member Only,Webinars
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220426T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220426T111500
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SUMMARY:Structurally Rooted Systemic Inequality Requires Social Justice Solutions
DESCRIPTION:View Recording\n\n\n\n\n\n\nHosted by SAFSF and Duke University World Food Policy Center \n\n\n\nStructural inequality establishes and maintains dominating relationships\, where certain groups of people are valued more than other groups of people. This plays out in every aspect of our society. Relational\, robust\, structurally rooted social justice informed equity is the way to deconstruct manifestations of structural inequality. This session will define Structurally Rooted Systemic Inequality\, identify the mechanisms that uphold it\, detail how that plays out in communities\, and open a conversation around philanthropy’s role in both upholding and dismantling it. This session will start the conversation of philanthropy’s role in upholding and unwinding these systems\, and set the stage for deeper dives into equity at the 20th Annual SAFSF Forum: Commitment & Accountability. \n\n\n\nThis is a free\, funder-only event\, please register below.  \n\n\n\nSession Goals: \n\n\n\nDefine structural inequality and what upholds it.Describe the human impact of structural inequality.Discuss the various ways in which philanthropy perpetuates structural inequality and how we are working to dismantle it.\n\n\n\nModerator:Jen Zuckerman\, director of strategic initiatives\, Duke University World Food Policy Center \n\n\n\nSpeakers:Jay Pearson\, associate professor of public policy\, Duke University Sanford School of Public PolicyCamryn Smith\, executive director\, Communities in Partnership \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nREGISTRATION
URL:https://www.agandfoodfunders.org/event/structurally-rooted-systemic-inequality-requires-social-justice-solutions/
CATEGORIES:SAFSF Forum,Webinars
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SUMMARY:Trust-Based Philanthropy in 4D Webinar Series | Session #4: Cultivating Trust-Based Leadership
DESCRIPTION:Register\n\n\n\nLearn More\n\n\n\n\nThe Trust-Based Philanthropy Project\, in partnership with the Environmental Grantmakers Association\, Blue Sky Funders Forum\, and Sustainable Agriculture and Food Systems Funders\, is pleased to announce a four-part webinar series on using trust-based values to guide your philanthropy’s grantmaking practices\, culture\, structures\, and leadership. \n\n\n\nAn organization’s leadership team plays a key role in upholding and reinforcing values and culture—not just by what is said\, but what is done. For this reason\, trust-based philanthropy is most successful when there is buy-in and modeling from leadership. In a trust-based context\, leaders strive to be collaborative and facilitative\, focused on lifting up the whole team and building trust internally rather than consolidating power and influence at the trustee level. Most importantly\, they lead by embodying values of humility\, equity\, and transparency — with a willingness to give up some of their power in service of the organization’s greater purpose. \n\n\n\nSo what does this tangibly mean for leaders at various roles within an organization? And how can a foundation’s CEO and board work to intentionally build trust among one another while upholding and reinforcing a trust-based culture? In this final session of the 4D series\, we will hear from practitioners who have embraced self-reflective practices to cultivate their own trust-based leadership\, as well as what they’re doing to reimagine their roles and their trustees’ roles toward advancing a more intentional trust-based culture within their organizations. \n\n\n\nParticipants can expect to walk away with a clearer understanding of what it means to be a trust-based leader; tools for taking a coaching stance to uplift\, guide\, and support teams; and strategies for reimagining board leadership to support your organization’s big-picture vision for trust-based philanthropy. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSeries:\n\n\n\nSession #1: TBP in 4D: Using Trust-Based Values to Transform Your Grantmaking \n\n\n\nThursday\, February 3\, 2022 from 10-11:30AM PT \n\n\n\nSession #2: TBP in 4D: Embracing and Embedding a Trust-Based Culture \n\n\n\nThursday\, March 3\, 2022 from 10-11:30AM PT \n\n\n\nSession #3: TBP in 4D: Building and Reinforcing Trust-Based Structures \n\n\n\nThursday\, March 31\, 2022 from 10-11:30AM PT \n\n\n\nSession #4: TBP in 4D: Cultivating Trust-Based Leadership \n\n\n\nThursday\, May 5\, 2022 from 10-11:30AM PT
URL:https://www.agandfoodfunders.org/event/trust-based-philanthropy-in-4d-webinar-series-session-4-cultivating-trust-based-leadership/
CATEGORIES:Webinars
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220524T110000
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SUMMARY:Funder Farm Bill Chats
DESCRIPTION:During the 2022 SAFSF Policy Convening: Commit to Action\, we heard from you that you want to connect more regularly with your peers specifically around the farm bill. We couldn’t agree more!Please join us and your peers for the kick-off of our monthly SAFSF Funder Farm Bill Chats! These chats will be a time for you to hear the latest and most important information on the 2023 Farm Bill\, share and network with your peers to facilitate alignment of funding strategies\, take away clear action steps\, and more. \n\n\n\nThis call is open to SAFSF members only. Registration is required.
URL:https://www.agandfoodfunders.org/event/funder-farm-bill-chats/
CATEGORIES:Webinars
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220525T131500
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SUMMARY:Funders + Lawyers + Family Farmers = Success
DESCRIPTION:View Recording\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nThe Farmers Lawyer story of saving 245\,000 Family Farms from Illegal Foreclosures in the 1980s and Why Funding Legal Strategies is Crucial \n\n\n\n\n\nThis session will tell three stories. The first story is how Sarah Vogel\, then a solo practice lawyer in North Dakota\, brought a lawsuit against USDA for nine broke farmers that grew into a case that protected 245\,000 farmers from illegal practices and unconstitutional foreclosure. She will use her new book\, The Farmer’s Lawyer\, to explain how a small $15\,000 grant from a funder allowed her to do this case. The second story is how Willie Nelson held the first Farm Aid concert and used some of the $7 million in proceeds to help start a non-profit law firm\, Farmers’ Legal Action Group\, to support farmers with their legal needs. The third story will be how Farm Aid and FLAG have continued this work from the 1980s and how vital this work is to today’s family farm system of agriculture. This session will feature Sarah Vogel\, attorney\, advocate and author of The Farmer’s Lawyer\, Carolyn Mugar\, Executive Director of Farm Aid since its inception\, Glenda Yoder\, Associate Director of Farm Aid\, and Stephen Carpenter\, Deputy Director and Senior Staff Attorney of Farmers Legal Action Group (FLAG).Session outcomes:  \n\n\n\nParticipants will learn from Sarah Vogel how a small $15\,000 grant was instrumental in saving thousands of farmers from unconstitutional foreclosure and starve outs in the Coleman v. Block case\, as told in The Farmer’s Lawyer book. All of the speakers will give additional examples of how philanthropic support was vital to grass roots activism in the 1980s\, and how important it remains today.   Participants will be encouraged to keep working on problems that seem insoluble or overwhelming. If the broke farmers in the 1980s could win against the mighty USDA\, other “little guys” may be able to win against equally overwhelming odds today.Participants will learn how since the 1980s legal support has been a valuable tool in the arsenal of advocacy — from commenting on proposed regulations\, to counselling farmers in crisis\, to helping minority farmers\, and to fashioning solutions to bring a brighter tomorrow. Finally\, participants will get a sense of optimism and energy about how timely legal support to family farmers and grass roots organizations can be a critical part of resolving problems on land access\, racial equity\, and solving climate challenges.  \n\n\n\nModerator: Carolyn Mugar \n\n\n\nSpeakers:Sarah VogelGlenda YoderStephen Carpenter \n\n\n\nThis is a FREE event open to all funders. Registration is required.
URL:https://www.agandfoodfunders.org/event/funders-lawyers-family-farmers-success/
CATEGORIES:Event Slider,SAFSF Forum,Webinars
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SUMMARY:Philanthropy Listening Session on the White House Conference on Hunger\, Nutrition\, and Health
DESCRIPTION:Together with Grantmakers in Health\, we are pleased to be working with the White House to promote a philanthropy listening session regarding the upcoming White Conference on Hunger\, Nutrition and Health. \n\n\n\nThe White House invites you to join a listening session for philanthropic organizations on the White House Conference on Hunger\, Nutrition\, and Health which will be hosted in September. The Biden-Harris Administration is calling on all Americans to join us to achieve the goal of ending hunger and reducing diet-related diseases and disparities in the U.S.\, and we hope that you will join us so we can learn from you on ways we can partner together to seek to end hunger\, improve nutrition and physical activity\, and close the disparities surrounding them.  \n\n\n\n\nRSVP HERE
URL:https://www.agandfoodfunders.org/event/4895/
CATEGORIES:Webinars
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220714T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220714T110000
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SUMMARY:USDA Agricultural Marketing Services\, Transportation and Marketing Program: Local and Regional Food Systems
DESCRIPTION:7:00 AM HST | 9:00 AM AKDT | 10:00 AM PT | 11:00 AM MT | 12:00 PM CT | 1:00 PM ET \n\n\n\nSAFSF members please join us for a conversation with USDA Agricultural Marketing Services\, Transportation and Marketing Program: Local and Regional Food Systems. \n\n\n\nThis discussion will focus on opportunities for federal and private funders to work together in the development of local and regional food systems. The USDA Agricultural Marketing Service’s Transportation and Marketing Program (TM) serves as a convener\, technical assistance provider\, researcher\, and funder for local and regional food systems at USDA. Tricia Kovacs\, the Deputy Administrator of TM\, will lead a dialogue on USDA plans for local and regional food systems\, supply chain challenges\, and areas where federal and private funders can come together. \n\n\n\nThis call is for current SAFSF members only. Registration is required.
URL:https://www.agandfoodfunders.org/event/safsf-member-call-with-usda-ams-tm/
CATEGORIES:Member Only,Webinars
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220727T110000
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SUMMARY:Transforming Food Culture to Transform Our World: Activating Narrative Strategies to Reimagine Food Systems
DESCRIPTION:RECORDING\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSLIDES\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWhat becomes possible when we seed and amplify transformative food narratives? Join a conversation with leading practitioners to explore the essential role of cultural and narrative strategies to reclaim and reimagine how we grow\, cook\, and gather around food.  Countless efforts to reshape food and agriculture in the U.S. perpetuate and reinforce dominant narratives rooted in extraction\, exploitation\, and white supremacy. Without intentionally addressing deep narratives to change the way we think about food\, we will continue to struggle to shift actions and behaviors that are desperately needed to meet this moment of climate crisis\, corporate consolidation\, and political polarization. When we embrace a cultural approach to food\, and invest in transformative narrative strategies\, a world that nourishes our mutual flourishing and collective liberation becomes possible. This briefing will explore orienting to a cultural framework for food systems transformation\, immersing in narratives as community activation\, the relationship between narrative strategy and strategic communications\, and offer a case study of creative activation for cultural impact.  \n\n\n\nFeatured Speakers: \n\n\n\nJovida Ross\, Director & Steward at Food Culture Collective\n\n\n\n\nFood has been a guiding force in Jovida’s life\, since her early years on her family’s organic micro-farm in Coast Miwok lands of rural Northern California. Jovida is a visionary organizer\, facilitator\, and strategist who has spent decades working with story-sharing as a cultural technology that builds community power. Before joining the Food Culture Collective team\, Jovida was the Director of Programs at Movement Strategy Center (MSC)\, where she co-founded The Transitions Initiative and led the design and facilitation of MSC’s Transitions Labs. These BIPOC-centered cross-movement learning and strategy spaces gathered more than 200 social justice movement leaders from across the country to explore the question: How do we transition our world from domination and extraction to resilience\, regeneration\, and interdependence? With Jovida’s leadership\, FC Collective has come to clearly situate our work within a movement-building context\, understanding that we are more powerful when we work in concert with others whose visions align with ours. \n\n\n\n\nShizue Roche Adachi\, Narrative Strategist at Food Culture Collective\n\n\n\n\nA storyteller\, strategist\, designer\, and creative director-at-large\, Shizue’s joined Food Culture Collective after a decade living and working in rural farming communities. Shizue’s work surfacing and crafting narrative frameworks that deeply witness and affirm us in our wholeness and support us in the messy work of collective transformation is deeply informed by her background raising livestock and her decade’s long career working with food and agriculture nonprofits\, creative projects\, and mission-driven spaces. A storyteller reaching across mediums\, her independent radio pieces have aired on Heritage Radio Network and New Hampshire Public Radio\, among others. Shizue holds a BA in Environmental Studies from Yale University. \n\n\n\n\nFabiola Santiago\, Oaxaqueña Zapoteca Chef & Creator of Mi Oaxaca\n\n\n\n\nFabiola is a Zapotec (Indigenous) migrant from Santiago Matatlán\, Oaxaca\, Mexico. She is a mother\, an outspoken thinker\, a cultural worker\, and a believer in possibilities. Her personal experiences as a formerly undocumented person and her connection to Oaxaca’s rich culture – particularly as a descendant of mezcal makers – anchors her commitment to community\, equity\, and Indigenous cultural preservation. Fabiola expresses her love for her culture through various mediums: cooking\, writing\, speaking\, and imagining a future where Native Oaxacans have cultural agency and where we have economic security. She is also creating Mi Oaxaca\, a project that centers the lived experiences\, voices\, knowledge\, and expertise of native Oaxacan people and those of the diaspora within the food and mezcal industries. Fabiola earned her BA in Sociology and Masters in Public Health from the University of California\, Los Angeles.  \n\n\n\n\nAisha Shillingford\, Artistic Director at Intelligent Mischief\n\n\n\n\nAisha is an anti-disciplinary artist\, world builder\, designer and cultural strategist originally from Trinidad & Tobago. The artistic director of the creative futures and design lab\, Intelligent Mischief\, she is an alumna of Laundromat Project’s Creative Change Fellowship\, a member of the New Museum Incubator\, and an inaugural Fellow at the Race Forward Butterfly Lab for Immigrant Narrative Strategy. Her written work has been published in Black Discourse and Grantmakers for the Arts. Her work has been commissioned by the Movement for Black Lives\, Root Rise Pollinate\, and Creative WildFire. She has a BA in Environmental Analysis & Policy\, an MSW in Social Innovation\, and an MBA in Social Entrepreneurship. She has studied Graphic Design\, Futures Design\, Design Fictions\, Design Thinking and Street Wear Design. She has been a Lead Community Organizer at the Muslim American Society Boston Chapter\, and at Close To Home DV Prevention Agency\, Director of Racial & Economic Justice at the New Economy Coalition\, Senior Associate at Interaction Institute for Social Change and Deputy Director of Innovation Strategy at Movement Strategy Center. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPresented by SAFSF with GRACE Communications and Food Culture Collective. \n\n\n\nAdvance registration is required. Free and funder-only.
URL:https://www.agandfoodfunders.org/event/transforming-food-culture-to-transform-our-world-activating-narrative-strategies-to-reimagine-food-systems/
CATEGORIES:Webinars
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SUMMARY:In the Kitchen Call: Network Update
DESCRIPTION:Join SAFSF leadership and your funder peers for our annual membership conversation about who we are\, what we’ve accomplished\, and where we are headed together. \n\n\n\nWe’ll share the latest details about: \n\n\n\nMembership growth and compositionWhere and what members are fundingExciting milestones we’ve achieved in the past yearWhat’s on the horizon for the next 12-18 months.\n\n\n\nThis call is open to SAFSF members only. Registration is required.
URL:https://www.agandfoodfunders.org/event/in-the-kitchen-call-network-update/
CATEGORIES:Member Only,Webinars
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220824T110000
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SUMMARY:Funder Policy Briefing: Climate Provisions in the Inflation Reduction Act
DESCRIPTION:RECORDING\n\n\n\nSLIDES\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCo-hosted by SAFSF and Funders for Regenerative Agriculture (FORA) and co-sponsored by the Panta Rhea Foundation and Regenerative Agriculture Foundation.\n\n\n\nJoin the Sustainable Agriculture and Food Systems Funders (SAFSF)\, and the Funders for Regenerative Agriculture (FORA) for Funder Policy Briefing: Climate Provisions in the Inflation Reduction Act. \n\n\n\nThe Senate just passed the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022. It is now moving to the House of Representatives for a vote\, likely tomorrow (Friday). Here is a brief rundown on what it would mean for agriculture conservation and debt relief for distressed farmers. \n\n\n\nWith USDA conservation programs oversubscribed\, this new funding would go a long way in helping more farmers and ranchers across the country implement conservation practices that make their lands more resilient to the changing climate. In addition\, the provision in the American Rescue Plan for debt relief for farmers\, who have faced historic discrimination in accessing federal resources\, has been tied up in the courts. The IRA replaces that provision with similar but looser language\, so proper implementation of this provision will be critical. \n\n\n\nDuring this funder policy briefing\, you will hear from leading policy experts about what this bill means for climate change\, agriculture\, conservation\, and debt relief for farmers of color. In addition\, speakers will also touch on what the immediate implementation issues are they will be working on with USDA\, as well as what this means for the upcoming farm bill debate. Speakers include: \n\n\n\nFerd Hoefner\, Farm\, Food and Environment Consulting – confirmedMike Lavender\, National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition – confirmedDãnia Davy\, Federation of Southern Cooperatives – invited\n\n\n\nThis is a free\, funder-only event. Registration is required.
URL:https://www.agandfoodfunders.org/event/funder-policy-briefing-implications-for-the-inflation-reduction-act/
CATEGORIES:Webinars
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220907T110000
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SUMMARY:Farm Bill Platforms from the Field - Native Farm Bill Coalition
DESCRIPTION:Join us to hear from various organizations about their farm bill platforms and strategies to support sustainable agriculture\, food\, and fiber systems. This conversation will also include where they see opportunities to place equity at the center of the farm bill debate. Our guest for September is the Native Farm Bill Coalition. \n\n\n\nThis is a free\, funder-only event. Registration is required. This event is a part of a series of Funder Farm Bill Chats. You can register for all of the related events\, by clicking the “Bundled Funder Farm Bill Chats” below.  \n\n\n\nSeptember Funder Farm Bill Chat: Farm Bill Platforms from the Field | Wednesday\, September 7October Funder Farm Bill Chat | Wednesday\, October 5 November Funder Farm Bill Chat | Tuesday\, November 15December Funder Farm Bill Chat | Wednesday\, December 7
URL:https://www.agandfoodfunders.org/event/funder-farm-bill-chat-3/
CATEGORIES:Webinars
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