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Q4 Maximize Your Membership

Coming to you in a new format, Maximize Your Membership is an orientation for SAFSF members. If you are a new member, new staff at a long-time SAFSF member organization, or simply looking for a refresher on SAFSF programming or member benefits, join us to learn how to make the most of your membership!  Clare

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January RFI Open House

To support potential collaborators in developing their ideas, we will be offering brief sessions to review the process, discuss Frequently Asked Questions, and answer anything else still unresolved. While we will not be able to provide specific feedback on concepts, we will do our best to answer questions and address any uncertainties about the RFI

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Idea Submissions Due for 2025 SAFSF Forum

SAFSF is excited to announce the launch of our Request for Ideas (RFI). This initiative will gather ideas throughout the year for our general programming, with a specific call for 2025 SAFSF Forum submissions by Sunday, January 12. For this deadline, we are particularly seeking ideas that can be developed into proposals to engage a diverse range of funders—including

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Funding Policy Advocacy in 2025: Reflections, Takeaways, and Next Steps—Bolder Advocacy Series

Join us for a webinar series exploring how funders can effectively support a wide array of advocacy strategies within a food and agriculture context. Organized in partnership with Alliance for Justice’s Bolder Advocacy Program, these 4-sessions will provide funders with practical information and skill building opportunities in supporting election season advocacy and policymaker engagement, and

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2025 Locus Learning Exchange

Hosted by Locus at the Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden in Virginia as well as virtually Courageous Financing: Collaborating for High Impact Projects Join us for an engaging discussion that will unpack key takeaways from a recent collaborative investment that will drive food system change in central Virginia. During the keynote, you’ll hear from Clare Fox,

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Funder Briefing on New Research about Americans’ Perception of the Food System and CAFOs

Join us for a briefing about new research, including national surveys and hours of qualitative interviews exploring American attitudes on the state of the food system, particularly their perceptions of the industrial meat and dairy industry.  In early 2024, several organizations working to improve the food system engaged the Topos Partnership to better understand people’s

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Responding to the Federal Funding Crisis: What Farmers and Connected Nonprofits are Experiencing and What Funders Can Do

This conversation is co-sponsored by Funders for Regenerative Agriculture. Join SAFSF for a critical conversation about the immediate and long-term impacts of the federal funding freeze on farmers and connected nonprofits. An expert panel of farming advocates and policy specialists will break down: We also encourage you to review the following resources developed by Dãnia

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Maximize Your Membership Q1

Coming to you in a new format, Maximize Your Membership is an orientation for SAFSF members. If you are a new member, new staff at a long-time SAFSF member organization, or simply looking for a refresher on SAFSF programming or member benefits, join us to learn how to make the most of your membership!  Clare Fox, Executive

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Member Strategy Call – Funder Response to Federal Impacts: Ways to Support Funded Partners

Nonprofits and community organizations in food and agriculture are navigating uncertainty, increased demands for their services, fear of heightened scrutiny, and lost or delayed funding due to recent Trump administration policy priorities and federal funding freezes.  SAFSF is hosting a strategy call to explore how funders are responding to these situations and what they are

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