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  • Funding Narrative Power 101: From Communications to Systems Change

    Blue Sky Funders Forum, Chesapeake Bay Funders Network, Climate and Energy Funders Group, Funders for Regenerative Agriculture, Grantmakers in Health, Health and Environmental Funders Network, Sustainable Agriculture and Food Systems Funders, and The Funders Network. Who gets to shape how society understands health and harm, what is true and trustworthy, what is possible, who belongs

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    Gather Round: In This Moment: Regional Insights  from Across Our Membership

    In this Moment: Regional Insights  from Across Our Membership The Gather Round Monthly Membership Calls, held on the 3rd Thursday of every month at 1 pm PST / 4 pm EST, serve as a regular “drop in” space for SAFSF members. These calls are focused on connection and continuing dialogue on topics explored in virtual

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    Food Policy Councils: Food justice, democracy, and civic engagement

    Co-sponsored by Community Food Funders, New York Health Foundation, Council of New Jersey Grantmakers, and Sustainable Agriculture and Food System Funders Organizing and activating networks for policy changes are hallmarks of a healthy democracy. In this moment, food policy councils (FPCs) are responding to federal funding freezes, harmful federal food system policies, and communities in crisis. Their

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    Health Funders Learning Community Call

    Join us for the first Health Funders Learning Community call of 2026. Health funders are navigating urgent community asks in an increasingly unstable policy and economic landscape. This session is designed as a connection and sense-making space for SAFSF members funding at the intersection of health, agriculture, and food systems. Together, we will move beyond

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    Maximize Your Membership

    Maximize Your Membership is an orientation webinar for SAFSF members, new and veteran! If you are new staff at a new or long-time SAFSF member organization, have not engaged in SAFSF programming or member benefits yet yourself, want a refresher on all that is available to you as a SAFSF member organization, or just want to

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    SNAP Funder Working Group: Food Security Data Collection

    Sustainable Agriculture and Food Systems Funders and Grantmakers In Health have formed a funder Working Group to coordinate a strategic response to the SNAP cuts in H.R. 1. Recognizing the far-reaching implications of SNAP for food security, health, and economic equity, this Working Group serves as an information hub and a strategic coordination space, designed

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  • The Pesticide Industry’s Multi-Front Campaign for Legal Immunity: A Critical Moment for Funders

    Co-hosted by Funders for Regenerative Agriculture (FORA), Health and Environmental Funders Network (HEFN), Sustainable Agriculture and Food Systems Funders (SAFSF), and URSA Collective. The pesticide industry is pursuing a coordinated, multi-front strategy to win broad legal immunity—through the Supreme Court, state legislatures, and federal policy changes—that could severely limit the ability of farmers, farmworkers, families,

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    Gather Round on Membership Findings: Survey Insights For A Changing Time

    For this month’s Gather Round, we explore what’s emerging across the SAFSF membership at this moment of rapid change. “Funder organizing” is often discussed—but what does it actually take to mobilize philanthropic and impact capital for real food systems transformation? Drawing on insights from SAFSF’s member surveys over the past two years, we’ll share how

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    Voter Insights: Special Battleground Report on Food and Health

    This session is co-hosted by Sustainable Agriculture and Food Systems Funders (SAFSF), the Farm to Fork Initiative, and the From Now on Fund.  With funding support from the Farm to Fork Initiative and the From Now on Fund, Navigator Research recently surveyed 1,200 likely voters in 2026 House and Senate battleground races to understand which

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    Part 1 — Unlocking Land, Equity, and Climate Opportunity: Lessons from the Mobile Basin Heirs’ Property Initiative

    This two-part webinar series, featuring leaders at the Center for Heirs’ Property (CHP), Mississippi Center for Justice (MCJ), and World Wildlife Fund (WWF), will take a deep dive into the topic of heirs’ property as a land title issue and how addressing heirs’ property–through education, technical assistance, and legal support–unlocks opportunities for productive land use

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