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SUMMARY:2022 SAFSF Policy Convening: Commit to Action
DESCRIPTION:Funding Base-Building\, Narrative Shift\, and Policymaker Education and Advocacy for the Farm Bill—2023 and Beyond \n\n\n\n\n\nThe 2022 SAFSF Policy Convening: Commit to Action will bring funders together to build shared understanding and mobilize a commitment to action to drive equitable federal agriculture and food policy change in the farm bill. Together we will explore three high-impact fundable strategies: geographic power and base building; narrative shift; and policymaker education and advocacy. In addition\, March 7-9 we will work together to conduct virtual Congressional and USDA meetings for those who are interested (more details coming soon!). \n\n\n\nThis convening will challenge participants to coordinate their 2022-2023 funding to leverage policy change that drives us towards resilient\, sustainable\, and equitable food systems—while at the same time\, providing the opportunity to build strategic partnerships so that no one organization is going it alone. \n\n\n\n\n\n\nEVENT PROGRAM\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSPEAKER DIRECTORY\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nNew Speakers Confirmed! \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\nDr. Jewel H. Bronaugh was appointed the 16th Commissioner of the Virginia Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services in 2018 by Governor Ralph Northam. She previously served as the Virginia State Executive Director for the USDA Farm Service Agency (FSA)\, appointed by Governor Terry McAuliffe and then-U.S. Secretary of Agriculture\, Tom Vilsack\, in July 2015. Prior to her FSA appointment\, she served as Dean of the College of Agriculture at Virginia State University (VSU) with oversight of Extension\, Research and Academic Programs. Previously she was the Associate Administrator for Extension Programs and a 4-H Extension Specialist. \n\n\n\nIn spring 2019\, Dr. Bronaugh launched the Virginia Farmer Stress Task Force to raise awareness and coordinate resources to address farmer stress and mental health challenges in Virginia. In the fall of 2020\, she helped establish the Virginia Food Access Investment Fund and Program\, the first statewide program of its kind to address food access within historically marginalized communities. \n\n\n\nDr. Bronaugh received her Ph.D. in Career and Technical Education from Virginia Tech. She is passionate about the advancement of youth leadership in agriculture. Dr. Bronaugh is from Petersburg\, Virginia. She is married to Cleavon\, a retired United States Army Veteran. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSenator Corey Booker\, U.S. Senator (D-NJ)\, was born in 1969 in Washington\, D.C.\, and grew up in Harrington Park\, New Jersey. He attended Stanford University on a varsity football scholarship\, receiving a B.A. in 1991 and an M.A. in 1992. Booker was a Rhodes Scholar at the University of Oxford\, where he earned a graduate degree in history in 1994. He then attended Yale Law School\, graduating with a J.D. in 1997. After completing his education\, Booker moved into a public housing project in Newark\, New Jersey\, became a tenant organizer\, and founded a nonprofit that provided legal assistance to low-income families. He was elected to the Newark City Council in 1998 and served there until 2002\, when he ran unsuccessfully for mayor. The same year\, he became a partner at Booker\, Rabinowitz\, Trenk\, Lubetkin\, Tully\, DiPasquale & Webster. In 2006\, Booker ran again for mayor of Newark and was elected with 72% of the vote. He served as mayor until 2013.On October 16\, 2013\, Booker won a special election to the U.S. Senate after the death of Sen. Frank Lautenberg (D). Booker was re-elected to the U.S. Senate on November 4\, 2014. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nU.S. Representative Abigail Spanberger is proud to represent Virginia’s Seventh Congressional District\, which is comprised of ten counties throughout Central Virginia. \n\n\n\nRepresentative Spanberger began her career in public service\, first serving as a federal agent with the U.S. Postal Inspection Service investigating money laundering and narcotics cases\, and then serving as a case officer with the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). As a CIA officer\, she worked at home and abroad to collect vital intelligence\, keep our country safe\, and work in furtherance of our national security priorities. In the private sector\, Representative Spanberger worked with colleges and universities to help them diversify their student bodies and increase graduation rates. \n\n\n\nRepresentative Spanberger serves on the U.S. House Committee on Agriculture and the U.S. House Committee on Foreign Affairs. On the House Agriculture Committee\, she serves as Chair of the Conservation & Forestry Subcommittee and as a member of the Livestock and Foreign Agriculture Subcommittee. And on the House Foreign Affairs Committee\, Representative Spanberger serves as Vice-Chair of the Europe\, Energy\, the Environment\, & Cyber Subcommittee and as a member of the Asia\, the Pacific\, Central Asia\, & Nonproliferation Subcommittee. \n\n\n\nRepresentative Spanberger grew up in Henrico County. She earned her B.A. at the University of Virginia and her MBA at a dual degree program between Purdue University’s Krannert School and the GISMA Business School in Hanover\, Germany. Representative Spanberger resides in Glen Allen\, Henrico County\, Virginia with her husband\, Adam\, and their three children. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nReverend Dr. Heber Brown\, Founder of Black Church Food Security Network\, is a community organizer\, beginner farmer\, social entrepreneur and Senior Pastor of Pleasant Hope Baptist Church in Baltimore\, Maryland. For nearly two decades\, Dr. Brown has demonstrated a deep commitment to and advocacy on a myriad of social justice concerns at every level of government\, business\, and at the grassroots level as well. He is a catalyst for social change who believes that systemic problems need systemic solutions. Toward that end\, in 2015 in the midst of the Baltimore Uprising which sparked after the death of Freddie Gray\, he launched the Black Church Food Security Network which combats food apartheid by providing seed funding and support to help congregations begin growing food on church-owned land. The Network also works to partner Black Churches and Black Farmers in the Mid-Atlantic region in an effort to create a community-controlled\, alternative food system based on self-sufficiency and Black food and land sovereignty. He earned his B.S. degree in Psychology from Morgan State University\, a Master of Divinity degree from Virginia Union University and a Doctor of Ministry degree from Wesley Theological Seminary. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJonathan Coppess\, Assistant Professor\, and Director\, Gardner Agriculture Policy Program at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign\, author of The Fault Lines of Farm Policy: A Legislative and Political History of the Farm Bill.  Previously\, he served as Chief Counsel for the Senate Committee on Agriculture\, Nutrition and Forestry\, Administrator of the Farm Service Agency at USDA\, and Legislative Assistant to Senator Ben Nelson.  Jonathan grew up on his family’s farm in Western Ohio\, earned his Bachelors from Miami University in Oxford\, Ohio\, and his Juris Doctor from The George Washington University Law School in Washington\, DC. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nABOUT THE CONVENING\n\n\n\nSAFSF amplifies the impact of philanthropic and investment communities in support of just and sustainable food and agriculture systems\, and the SAFSF Policy Convenings are the only national gatherings for and by funders supporting just and sustainable food systems policy change. SAFSF Policy Convenings are developed with and for funders who are committed to leveraging broad and systemic change through public policy advocacy. As a participant\, you will engage in strategic conversations and commit to actions that strengthen the field and broaden our collective impact. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWHO IS A FUNDER?\n\n\n\nFunders are considered those organizations using grantmaking\, lending\, or investing as a core strategy to fulfill their mission. This includes individual donors\, executive and program staff\,​ and members of the board of grantmaking organizations (family foundations\, individual donors\, corporate foundations\, government\, community foundations\, etc.)\, as well as representatives of non-profit or for-profit investment enterprises. Development or fundraising staff are not permitted to participate in SAFSF events. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n2022 SAFSF Policy Convening Advisory Committee\n\n\n\nStacey Barbas – Kresge FoundationRudy Espinoza – Inclusive Action for the CityNoah Fulmer – Fair Food NetworkPaul Wolfe – Walton Family FoundationAnn Mills – Agua FundTenzin Dolkar – McKnight Foundation
URL:https://www.agandfoodfunders.org/event/safsf-commit-to-action-policy-convening/
LOCATION:Capital Hilton\, 1001 16th Street NW 20036\, Washington\, 20036
CATEGORIES:Meetings
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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/
CATEGORIES:Webinars
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220316T110000
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220323T120000
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SUMMARY:BIPOC Networking
DESCRIPTION:Any funder (or PSO staff member) who identifies as Black\, Indigenous\, and/or a Person of Color is invited to share a supportive and respectful space to foster connection and share experiences. \n\n\n\nPLEASE REGISTER BY “PURCHASING” A FREE TICKET BELOW. After you have used our new registration system once\, it will auto-populate your information for future webinar registrations.
URL:https://www.agandfoodfunders.org/event/bipoc-networking-2/
CATEGORIES:Meetings
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220331T100000
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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:21-Day Racial Equity Habit Building Challenge
DESCRIPTION:Food Solutions New England will host its 8th version of the 21-Day Racial Equity Habit-Building Challenge from April 4th to the 24th in 2022. \n\n\n\nYou can still register! \n\n\n\nSAFSF has signed up as an organization to participate in this challenge. So if you sign-up\, up and you are a funder\, please select Sustainable Agriculture and Food Systems Funders as your group when you register.  \n\n\n\nSAFSF board and leadership will host peer conversations to help SAFSF members taking the Challenge to reflect collectively on what we learn through the 21 days and how we might take the learning forward. There is no need to register in advance\, and members are welcome to sign in whether this is your first time taking the challenge or you’ve taken it in the past year. Each call will be on Thursdays from 10-11 am PT / 11 am-12 pm MT / 12-1 pm CT / 1-2 pm ET and use the same Zoom meeting link – Click here to join. \n\n\n\nReflection Call # 1\, Thurs\, 4/7 at 10-11 am PT\, hosted by Jonah Fertig-Burd\, Elmina B. Sewell Foundation\n\n\n\nReflection Call #2\, Thurs\, 4/14 at 10-11 am PT\, hosted by Leslie Hatfield\, GRACE Communications FoundationReflection Call #3\, Thurs\, 4/21 at 10-11 am PT\, hosted by Kalila Booker-Cassano\, Henry P. Kendall Foundation\n\n\n\nDuring the calls\, we’ll check-in on what we’re learning\, discuss personal and professional next steps\, and what the prompts bring up for us around the role of philanthropy at the intersection of agriculture/food systems and racial equity. If you are a current SAFSF member and want to participate\, please contact Virginia Clarke at vclarke@safsf.org. \n\n\n\n\nLearn More + Register
URL:https://www.agandfoodfunders.org/event/21-day-racial-equity-habit-building-challenge/
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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/
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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:Early-bird Registration Deadline
DESCRIPTION:Early-bird registration for the 20th Annual SAFSF Forum: Commitment & Accountability is now open!  \n\n\n\nRegister before May 4th at Midnight PT to receive an early-bird discount. Additionally\, site visits and learning dinners have a limited number of spots available and will be filled on a first-come\, first-served basis. You can view our event program\, registration rates\, and speaker directory through the button below.  \n\n\n\n\nLEARN MORE + REGISTER
URL:https://www.agandfoodfunders.org/event/early-bird-registration-deadline/
CATEGORIES:Deadlines,SAFSF Forum
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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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SUMMARY:Call For Nominations For Directors
DESCRIPTION:*Deadline Extended to May 6*\n\n\n\nSAFSF is accepting nominations for two positions on the Board of Directors for three-year terms beginning on June 1\, 2022.  \n\n\n\nThe Board seeks candidates who will help ensure a diversity of perspectives representing gender\, geographic location\, life experience\, political ideology\, professional skills\, and race\, culture\, ethnicity\, and organization size and type. We are also expressly seeking individuals with interests in financial management and development. We are only able to have two nonmembers serving on the board and both of these slots are already filled. The two open positions must be filled by members of SAFSF. Qualified candidates must be: \n\n\n\nMembers of the board or staff of a grantmaking or investing organization active in sustainable agriculture and/or food systems philanthropy; andCommitted to uphold and lead with SAFSF’s core values: Collaboration\, Equity\, Respect\, Stewardship\, Integrity\, and in accordance with the SAFSF Commitment to Racial Justice. Familiar with SAFSF through previous experience on an SAFSF committee or active engagement by participating in our events\, cohorts\, or programming. Prepared to engage on an active board. Expectations include:Participation in quarterly meetings\, 2022 dates include:Tuesday\, August 16 | Board Meeting at 12:00 – 1:30pm PT / 1:00 – 2:30pm MT / 2:00 – 3:30pm CT / 3:00 – 4:30pm ET (virtual)Wednesday\, October 26 – Friday\, October 28 | Board Retreat at Location TBD (In Person)Thursday\, December 8 | Board Meeting at 11:00am – 12:30pm PT / 12:00 – 1:30pm MT / 1:00 – 2:30pm CT / 2:00 – 3:30pm ET (virtual)Participation on a sub-committee of the Board (see full list on website)Attendance at the Annual Forum\n\n\n\nTimeline for the nomination process: \n\n\n\nMay 6 |  Applications dueMay 9-20 | Nominating Committee review periodMay 23 | Outreach to nomineesMay 23-June 3 | 30-minute interviews with selected nomineesJune 6-10 | Final nominee(s) recommended to the BoardJune 15 | Board of Directors vote on approval of nomination slateJune 17 | Approved nominees notifiedJune 1 | New Director(s) term start date (retroactive)\n\n\n\nSelf-nomination or nominations of other qualified candidates are welcome. This form provides complete contact information for the nominee\, nominator (if applicable)\, background questions\, and a statement of interest describing why the nominee would make a great SAFSF Director.This form must be submitted no later than Friday\, May 6\, 2022. Questions about the nomination process should be directed to Stacy Nwokochah at stacy@safsf.org. \n\n\n\nPlease consider nominating yourself or a funder colleague to bring your perspective\, expertise\, and energy to the work of SAFSF!
URL:https://www.agandfoodfunders.org/event/call-for-nominations-for-directors/
CATEGORIES:Deadlines
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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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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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SUMMARY:Forum Registration Closes
DESCRIPTION:Registration for the 20th Annual SAFSF Forum: Commitment & Accountability is now open until June 8 at Midnight PT. Register today for a better chance at securing your first choice site visit and learning dinner! \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLEARN MORE + REGISTER
URL:https://www.agandfoodfunders.org/event/forum-registration-closes/
CATEGORIES:Deadlines,SAFSF Forum
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SUMMARY:Funder Farm Bill Chat
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 on June 14th for 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-chat/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220620T080000
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SUMMARY:20th Annual SAFSF Forum: Commitment & Accountability
DESCRIPTION:Registration closed on June 8\, 2022.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRecordings\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPhoto Album\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nProgram\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeakers\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nABOUT THE FORUM\n\n\n\nJoin us in Kansas City\, Missouri for the 20th Annual SAFSF Forum: Commitment and Accountability.  \n\n\n\nSAFSF amplifies the impact of philanthropic and investment communities in support of just and sustainable food and agriculture systems\, and the SAFSF Forum is the only national gathering for and by funders supporting just and sustainable food systems change. The Forum challenges participants to understand the need for grantmakers and investors to take on risks in order to co-create more resilient\, sustainable\, and equitable food systems—and at the same time\, provides space to cultivate connections with peers so that no one organization is going at it alone. \n\n\n\nThe past two years have exposed the injustices that impact our world’s systems in a new way. The pandemic has underlined the need for sustainable investment\, creative collaborations\, and fearless mobilization. It’s clear that we need bold and steadfast commitment to build equitable and sustainable farm\, food\, and fiber systems. We must also be accountable to ourselves\, our partners\, and each other. \n\n\n\nWe invite funders\, investors\, and food system partners to gather in community in Kansas City\, Missouri on June 20-22 for the 20th Annual SAFSF Forum: Commitment & Accountability. Join peers for three days of dynamic funder-led workshops\, strategic plenary sessions\, regional site visits\, and deep relationship-building. These extraordinary times require extraordinary action\, and sessions will mobilize new connections for global\, national\, and regional issues like climate change\, consolidation\, land access\, racial equity\, and more. Through shared learning and strategic alignment\, we hope to inspire you to commit to new goals\, recommit to visions of a better food system\, and cultivate accountability in your work.  \n\n\n\nWe thank these sponsors whose support of the 2022 SAFSF Forum boosts our power to convene funders across the agriculture and food system spectrum at a critical moment for philanthropy \n\n\n\nConvening Sponsors\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPlenary and Site Visit Sponsors\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWorkshop Sponsors\n\n\n\n11th Hour Project – Agroecology Fund – Thousand Currents – Thread Fund – Woodcock Foundation\n\n\n\nNetworking Sponsor\n\n\n\nHRK Foundation\n\n\n\nFriends\n\n\n\nAvila Fund – Iowa State University – Lawson Valentine Foundation – The Lumpkin Family Foundation\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nHOTEL MEETING SPACES + BOOKING\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Forum will take place at the Kansas City Marriott downtown. Please be sure to select the correct dates for your duration of stay\, formal Forum programming will span 3 days starting Monday\, June 20 and concluding on Wednesday\, June 22. Most attendees will arrive sometime on Sunday\, June 19th. Registration will be open at 4 pm\, followed by an informal no-host reception at the hotel bar.  \n\n\n\nAs you may know\, the May 20th deadline has passed to book your hotel stay through the discounted SAFSF room rate; however\, you can still book a room with the hotel directly. \n\n\n\n\nBOOK HOTEL ROOM\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nHEALTH & SAFETY POLICIES\n\n\n\nLike you\, we take seriously the ongoing and evolving risks of COVID-19 transmission and infection. Current public health guidance indicates that with proper protocols in place we can gather safely in person in June. To read the details about our mask requirement\, vaccination or negative PCR test requirement\, and more\, please click the button below.  \n\n\n\n\nHEALTH & SAFETY\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n2022 FORUM ADVISORY COMMITTEE\nElizabeth Stewart Burger\, The Sunflower Foundation \n\n\n\nSkya Ducheneaux\, Akiptan CDFI \n\n\n\nJonathan Halperin\, The Marcus Foundation \n\n\n\nLauren Kohler\, Stray Dog Institute \n\n\n\nMark Muller (chair)\, Regenerative Agriculture Foundation \n\n\n\nDave Nezzie\, Thornburg Foundation \n\n\n\nEmily Parker\, Butterfly Equity Foundation \n\n\n\nMaggie Tauranac\, GRACE Communications Foundation \n\n\n\nGwen Wurst\, Greater Kansas City Community Foundation
URL:https://www.agandfoodfunders.org/event/2022-safsf-forum-commitment-accountability/
CATEGORIES:Forum Networking,SAFSF Forum
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SUMMARY:Finance Associate Application Deadline
DESCRIPTION:Sustainable Agriculture and Food Systems Funders (SAFSF) seeks a Finance Associate to be join our small but mighty operations team that prides itself in being detail-oriented\, data-loving\, and energized by knowing that they are contributing to the collective success of a dynamic non-profit organization. This is a new position for SAFSF\, the first solely focused on financial functions. The person in this role will have the opportunity to improve upon the systems already in place and shape the organization’s processes moving forward. This is a full-time\, exempt\, permanent\, remote position with a starting salary range of $50-54\,000. SAFSF offers an excellent benefits package.\n\n\n\nRead the full Finance Associate job description\n\n\n\nAll interested applicants must apply online at https://www.tfaforms.com/4991971 no later than 11:59 pm PT on July 10\, 2022. 
URL:https://www.agandfoodfunders.org/event/finance-associate-application-deadline-2/
CATEGORIES:Deadlines
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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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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/
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SUMMARY:Public Policy Associate Application Deadline
DESCRIPTION:Sustainable Agriculture and Food Systems Funders (SAFSF) seeks a  Public Policy Associate to work with the Senior Director of Public Policy in developing and executing policy-related content to engage our network of philanthropic and investment funders in opportunities to support sustainable agriculture and food systems policy work. This is a new role for SAFSF that will support and help shape our overall policy work\, including membership engagement and learning\, policy analysis and writing\, planning and executing events\, both virtual and in-person.  This is a full-time\, exempt\, permanent\, remote position with a starting salary range of $50-54\,000. SAFSF offers an excellent benefits package. \n\n\n\nRead the full Public Policy Associate job description\n\n\n\nAll interested applicants must apply online at https://www.tfaforms.com/4992321 no later than 11:59 pm PT on August 10\, 2022. 
URL:https://www.agandfoodfunders.org/event/finance-associate-application-deadline/
CATEGORIES:Deadlines
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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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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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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220920T113000
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SUMMARY:Funder Briefing: Policy\, Funding Opportunities\, and Approaches that Advance Food is Medicine
DESCRIPTION:Recording\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nHosted by Sustainable Agriculture and Food Systems Funders and Grantmakers In Health.  \n\n\n\nFood is medicine is an approach to addressing nutrition and diet-related illnesses\, ranging from produce prescription programs to medically tailored meals to screening for food insecurity in health care settings. Since the COVID-19 pandemic\, the growing recognition of the connection between health and nutrition security has opened new opportunities for philanthropy and its partners to work with health care systems to address a myriad of food-related issues. Join us for a funder briefing and conversation about policy opportunities and approaches to advance food is medicine that features funders who support this work and experts from the field working to increase the integration of specific food and nutrition interventions in our health care systems. Speakers include Merry Davis of Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina Foundation\, Diana Johnson of Rockefeller Foundation\, Brent Ling of Wholesome Wave\, and Maria Elena Rodriguez of DAISA Enterprises. \n\n\n\nRESOURCES\n\n\n\nPolicy platform from National Produce Prescription CollaborativeNPPC Letter to the White House Conference with detailed policy recommendationsAspen Institute Report Rural Toolkit Produce Prescription Programs US Field Scan Report: 2010-2020Blue Cross NC Foundation Health Food Rx granteesLargest Produce Rx program in the country\, Reinvestment Partners 
URL:https://www.agandfoodfunders.org/event/funder-briefing-policy-and-funding-opportunities-and-approaches-that-advance-food-is-medicine/
CATEGORIES:Webinars
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220928T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220928T180000
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SUMMARY:White House Conference on Hunger\, Nutrition\, and Health
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Biden-Harris Administration will host the White House Conference on Hunger\, Nutrition\, and Health on September 28\, 2022. In parallel to the conference\, we will be announcing a National Strategy that identifies steps the government will take and catalyzes the public and private sectors to address the intersections between food\, hunger\, nutrition\, and health. \n\n\n\nThe five pillars described below define the scope of the White House Conference on Hunger\, Nutrition\, and Health. They are meant to help identify actions that can be taken by all parts of society — including the federal government; local\, state\, territory\, and Tribal governments; nonprofit and community groups; and private companies.  \n\n\n\nClick here to get the link to view the conference online and let us know if you plan to host a Watch Party or Satellite Event. \n\n\n\nCheck out the conference agenda. \n\n\n\nMore information about the event can be found here.
URL:https://www.agandfoodfunders.org/event/white-house-conference-on-hunger-nutrition-and-health/
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SUMMARY:Leveraging Federal Funding for Climate Justice in Midwestern Frontline Communities
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSustainable Agriculture and Food Systems Funders\, Grantmakers in Health\, Climate and Energy Funders Group\, Health and Environmental Funders Network\, The Funders Network\, and Midwest Organizing Infrastructure Funders invite interested nonprofit\, health\, academic\, philanthropic\, and government partners to join two webinars focused on the midwest.  \n\n\n\nThis meeting will discuss pathways for federal resources with high relevance for climate justice work in the Midwest\, with a focus on funding managed by the US Environmental Protection Agency. Midwestern stakeholders from government\, philanthropy\, the health and environmental sectors\, and community groups are invited to learn about how environmentally-focused federal funds can help frontline communities address climate change\, public health\, and environmental justice challenges. \n\n\n\nThe meeting will be moderated by Donele Wilkins\, Green Door Initiative\, and open with a presentation from Matthew Tejada\, Director of the US Environmental Protection Agency’s Office of Environmental Justice and Alan Walts\, Director\, Tribal and Multi-media Programs Office at US EPA Region 5. We will also hear from Rowzat Shipchandler\, Director of Programs and Strategic Initiatives\, Minnesota Department of Human Services (former Deputy Commissioner\, Minnesota Department of Human Rights)\, and Dale Asis\, Finance Director\, Little Village Environmental Justice Organization. Speakers will discuss mechanisms for supporting effective solutions that engage local partners and strengthen community capacity\, while creating room for participant comments and questions. \n\n\n\nPresenters and participants will be invited to: \n\n\n\nHighlight timely federal funding applications and decision-making points that will be critical for Midwestern participants working on climate justice issues; andSuggest concrete actions to help ensure frontline communities benefit from the public funding programs.\n\n\n\nWebinar #2: Resourcing Midwest Health Sector Work on Climate Change and Health Equity
URL:https://www.agandfoodfunders.org/event/leveraging-federal-funding-for-climate-justice-in-midwestern-frontline-communities/
CATEGORIES:Webinars
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SUMMARY:Impactful Learning with the SAFSF Indigenous Food Systems Community of Practice
DESCRIPTION:RECORDING\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJoin 2021-2022 Indigenous Food Systems Community of Practice members as they share their experience on how to increase investment in Indian Country. Listen to the community of practices’ key takeaways and learn about what they’re doing differently in their personal and professional lives. Participate in a conversation on how your organization can be a better ally for Native communities. \n\n\n\nThe Indigenous Food Systems Community of Practice (IFS CoP) is the result of a highly collaborative effort between Sustainable Agriculture and Food Systems Funders\, First Nations Development Institute\, and Melvin Consulting. Throughout the year funder participants have heard from a variety of Native practitioners and funders\, explored topical readings\, worked together on a research project\, and much more – all with the intention to break down personal and professional barriers to increase funding in Indian Country. \n\n\n\nThis event is free and for funders only.
URL:https://www.agandfoodfunders.org/event/indigenous-food-systems-community-of-practice-takeaways-webinar/
CATEGORIES:Webinars
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