BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Sustainable Agriculture & Food Systems Funders - ECPv6.15.17//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME:Sustainable Agriculture & Food Systems Funders X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://www.agandfoodfunders.org X-WR-CALDESC:Events for Sustainable Agriculture & Food Systems Funders REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Los_Angeles BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20230312T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20231105T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20240310T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20241103T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20250309T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20251102T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20260308T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20261101T090000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Kentucky/Louisville BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20230312T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20231105T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20240310T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20241103T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20250309T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20251102T060000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Detroit BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20230312T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20231105T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20240310T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20241103T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20250309T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20251102T060000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240912T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240912T121500 DTSTAMP:20260403T130909 CREATED:20240808T165825Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240924T221222Z UID:10000636-1726138800-1726143300@www.agandfoodfunders.org SUMMARY:Post-Chevron: Impacts on the Food\, Agriculture\, and Public Health Regulatory Landscape DESCRIPTION:Co-hosted by Chesapeake Bay Funders Network\, Grantmakers In Health\, and Health and Environmental Funders Network. \n\n\n\nThis webinar explored the impacts of one of the most significant legal developments in recent years: the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Chevron deference in Loper Bright v. Raimondo. This ruling has profound implications for the regulatory interpretation of major legislation such as the Clean Air Act\, the Clean Water Act\, and the Farm Bill.  \n\n\n\nChevron deference required judges to defer to agencies’ reasonable interpretations of ambiguous statutory language. A bedrock of administrative law stemming from the 1984 case Chevron U. S. A. Inc. v. Natural Resources Defense Council\, Inc.\, the principle was grounded in the idea that agencies have technical and subject-matter expertise that judges and politicians do not. This decision\, combined with that in Corner Post\, Inc. v. Bd. of Governors of the Fed. Reserve System\, which expands the statute of limitations the Administrative Procedure Act grants for challenging agency regulations\, redefines the relationship between agencies and the judiciary.  \n\n\n\nIn this webinar\, our panel of experts (see below) addressed food\, agriculture\, and public health regulations that could be affected\, potential impacts on both the way Congress legislates and agencies conduct rulemaking\, and how this ruling may change the way funders conduct policy advocacy. \n\n\n\nThis was a funder-only webinar. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDemocracy Forward Resources:\n\n\n\n\nPost-Chevron Resource Center\n\n\n\nDoctrine Tracker\n\n\n\nCases since Loper/Relentless and Trends\n\n\n\nCongressional Testimony\n\n\n\nSummary of Key Points in Loper Bright/Relentless Oral Arguments\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nModerator:\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJulia McCarthy\, Senior Program Officer\, New York Health Foundation\n\n\n\nAs Senior Program Officer\, Julia McCarthy helps lead NYHealth’s Healthy Food\, Healthy Lives priority area\, the goal of which is to create a more equitable food system that connects all New Yorkers with the food they need to thrive. \n\n\n\nPrior to joining NYHealth\, Julia served as the deputy director of the Laurie M. Tisch Center for Food\, Education & Policy at Teachers College of Columbia University\, where she oversaw operations\, strategy\, and project execution. Julia also held policy roles at the Center for Science in the Public Interest and the Natural Resources Defense Council. \n\n\n\nJulia holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in History from Georgetown University and a Juris Doctor degree from New York University School of Law\, where she was a Root-Tilden-Kern scholar. She has served on the advisory committee on public policy for the Society for Nutrition Education and Behavior and on the food retail advisory board for the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeakers:\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRadhika Fox\, former Assistant Administrator for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Office of Water\n\n\n\nRadhika is a strategic and transformational leader with more than 25 years of experience in executive management\, policy\, strategy\, and operational roles. Currently Principal at North Star Strategy\, she has extensive expertise in the areas of sustainability\, infrastructure investment\, environmental management\, water resources\, the circular economy\, equity\, and environmental justice. Radhika is an expert facilitator and consensus-builder on complex\, intersectional issues; a nationally recognized thought leader; and a sought-after public speaker. \n\n\n\nRadhika most recently served as the Assistant Administrator for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Office of Water. Appointed by the President and confirmed with robust bipartisan support by the Senate\, Radhika served as the chief advisor to the EPA Administrator and White House on domestic water resources and water infrastructure matters. In this role\, Radhika oversaw a $4.8 billion annual operating budget and 1\,900 staff across the nation. She led the development of the water pillar of the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law for the agency—successfully securing a $50 billion appropriation\, the single largest federal investment in water. Radhika also led the water policy and regulatory agenda for the EPA\, and directed all initiatives focused on climate change\, sustainability\, equity\, and environmental justice for the Office of Water. \n\n\n\nPrior to joining EPA\, Radhika served as the Chief Executive Officer for the US Water Alliance\, the only national\, non-partisan network that unites diverse stakeholders on common-ground solutions to our nation’s pressing environmental\, water\, and climate challenges. As the CEO\, she transformed the organization—driving a five-fold increase in revenue and tripling membership. Radhika’s prior roles included senior management positions at the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission and PolicyLink. \n\n\n\nRadhika has also served on numerous boards\, including Jobs to Move America\, PolicyLink\, and the Water Solutions Network. Radhika graduated with a B.A. from Columbia University. She earned her M.A. in City and Regional Planning from the University of California\, Berkeley where she received a Community Development Fellowship from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAnne Knapke\, former Deputy Chief of Staff to Secretary Vilsack at the United States Department of Agriculture\n\n\n\nAnne recently departed the Biden-Harris Administration as the Deputy Chief of Staff to Secretary Vilsack at the United States Department of Agriculture. For the first year of the Administration\, Anne served as Deputy Assistant Secretary for Congressional Relations\, standing up the office and working on Senate confirmation of nominees. She was previously Senior Program Officer at the Gates Foundation focusing on nutrition and agricultural development policy. Prior to working at the Gates Foundation\, Anne served as Legislative Director for Senator Amy Klobuchar. Anne holds a bachelor’s degree from the Ohio State University and master’s degrees in public policy and social service administration from the University of Chicago\, and lives in Brookland with her husband and young son.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSkye Perryman\, President and CEO\, Democracy Forward\n\n\n\nSkye is President and CEO of Democracy Forward\, a nonpartisan\, national legal organization that promotes democracy and progress through litigation\, regulatory engagement\, policy education\, and research. Perryman took the helm at Democracy Forward a few months after January 6\, 2021\, in the midst of rising extremism in communities and courts across the country. She has built a visionary team of legal\, policy\, and communications experts to confront anti-democratic extremism head-on while also using the law to advance progress and a bold vision for the future. \n\n\n\nA highly regarded litigator and strategist\, Perryman previously served as General Counsel of the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists\, the nation’s leading association of physicians dedicated to the health of women. Earlier in her career\, Perryman served in litigation roles at WilmerHale and Covington & Burling where she gained the confidence of a number of private sector and public interest clients for her litigation skills\, tenacity\, and winning results. She also served as a founding member of Democracy Forward in the wake of the 2016 election where she developed high profile cases challenging the Trump Administration’s unlawful activities. \n\n\n\nIn 2024\, Perryman was named one of the Most Influential People Shaping Policy by Washingtonian magazine\, which noted her role as a resource for both moderates and progressives. Perryman is a frequent guest lecturer and keynote speaker to national and international audiences on matters at the intersection of law and policy. Her legal work has been cited by the U.S. Supreme Court as well as state supreme courts and her work and perspective are frequently covered by major media outlets such as The New York Times\, CNN\, MSNBC\, NBC\, The Washington Post\, Time\, Forbes Women\, Insider\, Ms. Magazine\, Teen Vogue\, among many others. \n\n\n\nPerryman grew up in Waco\, Texas and is a proud product of K-12 public education. She holds a Bachelor of Arts in Economics and Philosophy magna cum laude from Baylor University where she was elected to Phi Beta Kappa and a Juris Doctor with honors from the Georgetown University Law Center where she served as an Editor for the American Criminal Law Review and was an Editor in Chief for the ACLR’s Annual Survey on White Collar Crime. Skye serves on the boards of the Atlas Performing Arts Center\, the Interfaith Alliance\, the Baylor Line Foundation\, and the Texas Observer. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRebecca Riley\, Managing Director for Food & Agriculture\, NRDC\n\n\n\nRebecca Riley is the managing director for Food & Agriculture at NRDC. As the largest use of land globally\, agriculture has an outsized impact on climate change\, biodiversity\, and human health\, making it a critical part of NRDC’s work. The Food & Agriculture sector uses litigation\, legislation\, policy\, and partnerships to tackle threats like degraded soil health\, pesticide overuse\, pollinator decline\, and food waste. \n\n\n\nPreviously\, Riley established and directed NRDC’s work on pollinators and served as the legal director of NRDC’s Nature department\, leveraging her long-standing expertise working on wildlife and endangered species issues\, particularly around the Endangered Species Act. Before joining NRDC\, Riley was a trial attorney with the U.S. Department of Justice in the Environment and Natural Resources Division and clerked for a federal judge on the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals. \n\n\n\nRiley grew up in a Central Illinois farming community and is a graduate of the University of Toledo’s College of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences and Harvard Law School. She is based in Chicago. URL:https://www.agandfoodfunders.org/event/post-chevron-impacts-on-the-food-agriculture-and-public-health-regulatory-landscape/ CATEGORIES:Webinars ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.agandfoodfunders.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/SupremeCourt1-scaled.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240926T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240926T110000 DTSTAMP:20260403T130909 CREATED:20240823T185850Z LAST-MODIFIED:20241004T183801Z UID:10000639-1727344800-1727348400@www.agandfoodfunders.org SUMMARY:September Health Funders Learning Community Call DESCRIPTION:Food is medicine is an emerging and complex area of practice for many health and food funders. Join us for an interactive\, peer-led discussion where health funders will exchange insights and experiences to advance community health and equity. This group discussion will explore how funders are engaging with health systems and healthcare policy to drive better outcomes\, and the challenges they face along the way. Through guiding questions such as\, “How do grantees navigate complex medical systems as food-as-medicine providers?” and “What’s missing from food is medicine programs?” participants will dive into the nuances of healthcare integration\, funding impact\, and addressing social determinants of health. The Learning Community is a place to learn\, share\, and resource each other as peers working toward similar goals.   \n\n\n\nThis is an SAFSF member-only call. If you are interested in exploring membership\, please contact Holly Enowski\, Senior Membership Associate URL:https://www.agandfoodfunders.org/event/september-health-funders-learning-community-call/ CATEGORIES:Member Only,Webinars ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.agandfoodfunders.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/food-recovery.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241002T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241002T114500 DTSTAMP:20260403T130909 CREATED:20240823T183848Z LAST-MODIFIED:20241011T160022Z UID:10000637-1727866800-1727869500@www.agandfoodfunders.org SUMMARY:Digging Deeper: Climate Change with FoodWhat?! DESCRIPTION:Dig Deeper with Digging In! Digging In is SAFSF’s first documentary film\, produced by Nathan.works and underwritten by the Vatheuer Family Foundation\, and was designed as a tool for funders and their grantees to explore the wide-ranging challenges of land access\, consolidation and concentration\, and climate change on U.S. agriculture. The film uplifts on-the-ground perspectives and solutions across the country.  \n\n\n\nJoin us for our second installment of Digging Deeper\, a lunchtime condensed documentary screening and chat\, focused on climate change. We will dive deeper into the role philanthropy can play in combating climate change. Our guest speaker Kellee Matsushita-Tseng Land Stewardship Manager at FoodWhat?! will be joining us to share their perspective and expertise. \n\n\n\nThis 45-minute session is designed for you to enjoy on or off-screen and learn from field leaders. Recordings of the Digging Deeper series will be used in a multi-media discussion guide\, which will be published in early 2025.  \n\n\n\n\nRecording\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker:\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nKELLEE MATSUSHITA-TSENG (they/she)Land Stewardship Manager\, FoodWhat?!Former Young Farmer Board Member\, National Young Farmers Coalition \n\n\n\nKellee is a yonsei\, 4th generation queer japanese-chinese american\, living and farming on unceded territory of the Awas-was speaking Uypi-tribe. Kellee joined the Food\, What?! team in 2023 with over a decade of both farming and education experience\, with special love for connecting people to seed stewardship. In addition to their work with youth at Food What?!\, Kellee works to build seed sovereignty movements as a means of cultivating community power and organizes with a collective of AAPI farmers and organizers across the country\, called Second Generation Seeds\, which preserves\, improves\, and breeds crops significant to communities of the Asian diaspora. Kellee is a founding member of Bitter Cotyledons\, a collective of queer and trans asian americans that cultivates creative resilience through ancestral foodways and community. \n\n\n\nPrior to joining Food What?!\, Kellee worked as an instructor and assistant farm garden manager at the UCSC Center for Agroecology Farm\, and served on the board of directors at the National Young Farmers Coalition. Kellee has over two decades of experience working and organizing in community\, with a background in youth empowerment\, community education\, and advocacy for racial justice and equity in sustainable farming. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n \n Funder-Only Registration\n \n "*" indicates required fields \n \n CompanyThis field is for validation purposes and should be left unchanged.This field is hidden when viewing the formRegisterName*\n \n \n First\n \n \n \n \n Last\n \n \n \n Organization*Title*Email*\n \n Are you a funder?*\n \n Yes\, I am affiliated with a funding organization.\n SAFSF defines funders as staff\, board members\, trustees\, donors\, program officers\, and other professionals from organizations using grantmaking or investments as a core strategy to fulfill their mission.\nThis field is hidden when viewing the formEvent Name\nIt may take longer than expected to process your submission\, please only click submit once. URL:https://www.agandfoodfunders.org/event/digging-deeper-climate-change/ CATEGORIES:Digging In Film,Webinars ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://www.agandfoodfunders.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/Digging-Deeper.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241007T093000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241007T110000 DTSTAMP:20260403T130909 CREATED:20240913T144909Z LAST-MODIFIED:20241004T163212Z UID:10000642-1728293400-1728298800@www.agandfoodfunders.org SUMMARY:What Happens Next: How Election 2024 Could Impact Climate\, Health\, and Environmental Justice DESCRIPTION:Hosted by Health & Environmental Funders Network (HEFN)Co-sponsored by Neighborhood Funders Group (NFG)\, The Funders Network (TFN)\, and the Sustainable Agriculture and Food Systems Funders Network (SAFSF) \n\n\n\nWondering what is at stake in this election cycle\, and what impacts various election outcomes will have on health\, environment\, and climate? Join HEFN for an interactive workshop that will engage attendees in discussion\, reflection\, and ideation about the 2024 election cycle and\, importantly\, what happens post-election. \n\n\n\nDuring this 90-minute workshop\, we’ll frame what’s at stake in November and the ways in which funders could engage in transition and beyond\, and hear from a couple of funders about how they’re engaging in policy and advocacy work. During the discussion\, we will explore how funders can seize key opportunities in this moment to amplify their values and priorities to leverage more support for just outcomes in health\, environment\, climate\, and community. \n\n\n\nSpeakers: \n\n\n\n\nAlesandra Najera\, Water Foundation\n\n\n\nLynn Ross\, Spirit for Change Consulting\n\n\n\nJohn MItterholzer\, George Gund Foundation\n\n\n\n\nThis workshop is open to funders only\, but you do not need to belong to HEFN or one of these funder networks in order to participate. Registration is for ‘live’ participation only\, as a recording will not be shared post-workshop. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nREGISTER TO ATTEND URL:https://www.agandfoodfunders.org/event/what-happens-next-how-election-2024-could-impact-climate-health-and-environmental-justice/ CATEGORIES:Webinars ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.agandfoodfunders.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/IMG_2533-scaled.jpeg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241015T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241015T235959 DTSTAMP:20260403T130909 CREATED:20231017T182317Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240926T182054Z UID:10000588-1728950400-1729036799@www.agandfoodfunders.org SUMMARY:Deadline: Become an SAFSF Member DESCRIPTION:For over 20 years\, SAFSF has been the leading national membership organization for philanthropy and impact investors committed to creating an equitable and sustainable food and agriculture system. Our Network of 100+ member organizations includes foundations\, impact investors\, community development finance institutions (CDFIs)\, funding collaboratives\, and re-granting organizations. SAFSF membership offers networking\, learning\, professional development\, and strategic collaboration opportunities. We are committed to racial equity and social justice.  Join us for great impact if you are a values-aligned funder supporting sustainable agriculture and food systems. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMember Benefits\n\n\n\nOur network thrives on active member participation. Key benefits include: \n\n\n\n\nMember Portal and Listserv—Access to exclusive recordings\, member rosters\, and a forum to connect with other members.\n\n\n\nCustomized Data Insights—Request customized data reports to inform your funding strategy and identify funders with similar interests.\n\n\n\nCommunities of Practice—SAFSF members can join our Learning Communities. Currently\, we offer groups tailored to Small Funders\, Health Funders\, and Indigenous Food Systems\, led by member co-chairs and supported by SAFSF staff.\n\n\n\nAnnual Forum—Enjoy inspirational learning\, dynamic connections\, and community-building opportunities. Members receive discounted registration for their organization.\n\n\n\nPolicy Insights—SAFSF provides cutting-edge insights on policy change in food and agriculture. Stay informed with our monthly members-only email newsletter on key policy issues in sustainable agriculture and food systems.\n\n\n\nNetworking—Connect with new and experienced funders across various issue areas\, funding types\, and geographies.\n\n\n\nIssues Alignment—Collaborate with strategic partners to co-develop or co-fund impactful projects with SAFSF strategic convenings and working groups.\n\n\n\nProfessional Development—Access growth opportunities\, serve on committees\, or join our Board of Directors.   \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEligibility\n\n\n\nThe missions of our members should be in alignment with SAFSF’s own mission and values\, as well as the SAFSF Commitment to Racial Justice.  \n\n\n\nWe welcome those organizations and individuals who: \n\n\n\n\nOperate in alignment with SAFSF’s core values;\n\n\n\nUse grantmaking\, lending\, or investing as a core strategy to fulfill their mission and relate to SAFSF colleagues as peer funders\, not in a fundraising capacity;\n\n\n\nShare SAFSF’s goal of increasing viability of and funding for sustainable agriculture and food system organizations and enterprises;\n\n\n\nSupport relationship-building\, knowledge-sharing\, and collaboration within SAFSF’s framework;\n\n\n\nShare experiences\, perspectives\, and expertise with SAFSF colleagues;\n\n\n\nProvide financial support for SAFSF\, its programs\, and its initiatives; and\n\n\n\nShow an interest in enhancing the reputation of and expanding opportunities for SAFSF.\n\n\n\n\nParticipation in SAFSF events and committees is open to all individual donors\, executive and program staff\, and members of the Board of grantmaking or investment organizations. Development or fundraising staff are not permitted to participate in SAFSF events or to subscribe to our listserv. \n\n\n\nInterpretation of these criteria is at the discretion of the SAFSF Board of Directors. The Board of Directors also reserves the right to review a member’s fulfillment of these criteria at any time. Members may not use their participation in SAFSF for promotional purposes or for private gain. SAFSF reserves the right to deny membership or remove a member if an applicant’s or member’s actions reflect poorly on the field and might harm SAFSF’s reputation\, staff\, members\, or member organizations. While not an exhaustive list\, lawsuits\, federal or state investigations\, consumer boycotts\, or other significant actions against an applicant\, member\, or affiliated organization would raise such concern.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nApplication Process\n\n\n\nApplications are reviewed quarterly (January 15\, April 15\, July 31\, and October 15) by our Membership Committee and Board of Directors. Eligible organizations use grantmaking\, lending\, or investing as core strategies. We invite organizations to join as collaborative peers\, not for fundraising purposes. \n\n\n\nTo explore SAFSF membership\, please contact senior membership associate\, Holly Enowski (holly@safsf.org). \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMembership Dues\n\n\n\nMember organization annual dues are based on total grantmaking or investment that supports sustainable agriculture and food systems work.  \n\n\n\nAnnual SAFS-related grants or investmentsFoundation/InvestorsCDFIs/Regranting Organizations/Community Foundations<$100\,000$1\,200$1\,200$100\,000-$249\,999$1\,500$1\,500$250\,000-$499\,999$2\,500$2\,500$500\,000-$999\,999$5\,000$2\,500$1\,000\,000-$1\,999\,999$7\,500$3\,750$2\,000\,000-$4\,999\,999$10\,000$5\,000>$5\,000\,000$15\,000-$60\,000$7\,500 URL:https://www.agandfoodfunders.org/event/deadline-apply-for-safsf-membership-4/ CATEGORIES:Deadlines ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.agandfoodfunders.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/4.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241016T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241016T114500 DTSTAMP:20260403T130909 CREATED:20240913T191059Z LAST-MODIFIED:20241107T224316Z UID:10000643-1729076400-1729079100@www.agandfoodfunders.org SUMMARY:Digging Deeper: Climate Change with Practical Farmers of Iowa DESCRIPTION:Dig Deeper with Digging In! Digging In is SAFSF’s first documentary film\, produced by Nathan.works and underwritten by the Vatheuer Family Foundation\, and was designed as a tool for funders and their grantees to explore the wide-ranging challenges of land access\, consolidation and concentration\, and climate change on U.S. agriculture. The film uplifts on-the-ground perspectives and solutions across the country. \n\n\n\nJoin us for our third installment of Digging Deeper\, a lunchtime condensed documentary screening and chat\, focused on climate change. We will dive deeper into the role philanthropy can play in combating climate change. Our guest speaker Martha McFarland\, Practical Farmers of Iowa‘s Senior Farmland Viability Coordinator will join us to share her perspective and expertise. \n\n\n\nThis 45-minute session is designed for you to enjoy on or off-screen and learn from field leaders. Recordings of the Digging Deeper series will be used in a multi-media discussion guide\, which will be published in early 2025. \n\n\n\n\nRecording\n\n\n\nSlides\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker:\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMartha McFarland joined Practical Farmers of Iowa (PFI) staff in 2022 as the senior farmland viability coordinator. In this role\, she supports land seekers and landowners with land access and farm transition assistance and resources. Martha has been a farmer member of PFI since 2014. Martha also runs Hawkeye Buffalo & Cattle Ranch near Fredericksburg\, Iowa\, where she manages grazing on woods and pasture\, raises oats and hay and works with a tenant who raises corn and soybeans. Her experience with her farm’s transition and her love of the Iowa landscape inspired her to help the next generation of farmers and landowners. Prior to running the ranch\, Martha spent 10 years working in education and mentoring beginning teachers. She has served on the Minnesota Bison Association’s board of directors and a mentor and facilitator for the Women\, Food and Agriculture Network. She holds a Master of Education from Colorado State University. URL:https://www.agandfoodfunders.org/event/digging-deeper-climate-change-with-practical-farmers/ CATEGORIES:Digging In Film,Webinars ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://www.agandfoodfunders.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/Digging-Deeper.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241023T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241023T123000 DTSTAMP:20260403T130909 CREATED:20240722T224106Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250131T194324Z UID:10000629-1729681200-1729686600@www.agandfoodfunders.org SUMMARY:Foundation Support for Lobbying and Engaging Policy Makers—Bolder Advocacy Series DESCRIPTION: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 how to structure policy related grants.  \n\n\n\nWe encourage attendance at all four webinars to maximize learning\, though recordings will be made available for those unable to attend live. SAFSF will host a concluding reflection session to synthesize insights\, discuss integrating learnings into 2025 funding strategies\, and address ongoing challenges. \n\n\n\nThis webinar series is available as a benefit for SAFSF members. Not a member? Join our community by contacting our Senior Membership Associate\, Holly Enowski at holly@safsf.org to receive an application or for an information call.  \n\n\n\n\n\nGoals\n\nThis virtual programming series will enable SAFSF members to:  \n\n\n\n\nUnderstand why engaging in policy advocacy is essential for foundations and investors to achieve their missions; \n\n\nBuild support across the foundation for policy advocacy engagement; \n\n\nUnderstand characteristics of grantmaking that support effective policy advocacy; \n\n\nUnderstand how to comply with lobbying restrictions and build relationships with policymakers; \n\n\nBuild relationships and learn from peers engaged in policy advocacy funding.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nOutcomes\n\nAfter attending this virtual programming series\, SAFSF members should feel confident in:  \n\n\n\n\nRecognizing the broad scope of activities and strategies that can be considered policy advocacy;\n\n\nInitiating or continuing conversations with foundation board members about prioritizing policy advocacy; and \n\n\nHow to support grantees engaged in policy advocacy.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPart 2\n\n\n\nPrivate and public foundations can play an important role in influencing policy\, such as the farm bill\, by engaging in advocacy and funding their grantees to advocate on their issues. This workshop will provide your foundation with a clear understanding of why including policy advocacy as a deliberate organizational strategy can help you achieve your goals\, the kinds of advocacy activities you can safely engage in\, and how to build effective relationships with policymakers. \n\n\n\nNot sure how to make the case for funding issue advocacy? Wondering whether your public or private foundation can speak out on a particular issue? This training designed for foundation staff and trustees will answer these questions and more.  \n\n\n\nSAFSF Members will learn: \n\n\n\n\nWhy public and private foundations should support advocacy and build relationships with policymakers to advocate for a sustainable food system;\n\n\n\nAn overview of activities that constitute advocacy and public policy work;\n\n\n\nVarious advocacy roles for foundations;\n\n\n\nThe tax code’s definitions of lobbying;\n\n\n\nActivities that are exceptions to the definitions of lobbying\, including those which private foundations can engage; and\n\n\n\nRules for private and public foundation grants to nonprofits that lobby\, including general support\, specific project\, and multi-year grants.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLogin to access recordings & resources\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker:\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTim Mooney is senior counsel with the Bolder Advocacy Program at Alliance for Justice. He provides one-on-one technical assistance for nonprofit advocates\, teaches nonprofit and election law workshops and writes on these issues for Bolder Advocacy publications. This is his second tour with Alliance for Justice\, having previously served as senior counsel from 2001-2006. \n\n\n\nTim began his legal career as co-founder and counsel for Columbia Riverkeeper\, working to protect and restore the largest watershed in the Pacific Northwest. Following his first five years with Alliance for Justice\, Tim was senior counsel at Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington. He spent the next decade as general counsel and director of operations for Tranquil Space yoga studios and later consulted on legal\, tech and business operations for entrepreneurs and nonprofits. Tim serves on the board of directors of Pigs & Pugs Project\, a charity that supports pig sanctuaries and pug rescue organizations. \n\n\n\nTim earned his B.S. in Environmental Studies from Syracuse University/SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry and his J.D. from Pace University School of Law. URL:https://www.agandfoodfunders.org/event/foundation-support-for-lobbying-and-engaging-policy-makers/ CATEGORIES:Bolder Advocacy Series,Member Only,Webinars ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://www.agandfoodfunders.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/BolderSeries.Feature-Image.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Kentucky/Louisville:20241028T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Kentucky/Louisville:20241028T163000 DTSTAMP:20260403T130909 CREATED:20240910T164950Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240910T165719Z UID:10000641-1730106000-1730133000@www.agandfoodfunders.org SUMMARY:Toxic Agriculture: Communities Fighting For Environmental and Food Justice DESCRIPTION:REGISTER\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nExplore the intersections of environmental justice and sustainable agriculture in an interactive in-person learning tour the day before the Health and Environmental Funders Network (HEFN) Annual Meeting in Durham\, North Carolina\, co-sponsored by the Sustainable Agriculture and Food Systems Funders Network (SAFSF). \n\n\n\nAttendees will travel to Sampson County\, North Carolina to learn about hog and poultry Confined Animal Feeding Operations (CAFO) and their impact on communities\, the environment\, and sustainable food systems. Topics will include corporate consolidation\, the issues with so-called renewable biogas\, and the possibility of non-toxic and humane animal agriculture. \n\n\n\nWhether you come from an environmental health\, environmental justice\, or food systems perspective\, we hope you’ll come away from this visit with a deeper understanding of this web of systems\, and how communities are working together towards resilience.  \n\n\n\nSpace is limited – register now to secure your spot!  We also encourage you to join HEFN’s Annual Meeting to learn more about their work creating healthy and just environments for all. SAFSF is proud to partner with HEFN on this learning tour\, and many other events throughout the year to unite environmental and food funders. \n\n\n\nInterested in learning more about the topics covered in this program? Check out these resources: \n\n\n\n\nAlign RNG breaks ground on North Carolina’s largest biogas project | Bioenergy International \n\n\n\nHog farming has a massive poop problem \n\n\n\n\nIf interest exceeds capacity\, there will be a waitlist. For any questions about this program\, or if you’ve already registered for HEFN’s Annual Meeting and would like to add this on to your registration\, please contact Kalila Booker-Cassano\, HEFN’s Director of Programs. URL:https://www.agandfoodfunders.org/event/toxic-agriculture-communities-fighting-for-environmental-and-food-justice/ CATEGORIES:In Person Gathering,Tours / Site Visits ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.agandfoodfunders.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/pexels-photo-2737171.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241112T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241112T120000 DTSTAMP:20260403T130909 CREATED:20241008T222712Z LAST-MODIFIED:20241008T224928Z UID:10000646-1731409200-1731412800@www.agandfoodfunders.org SUMMARY:Unlocking Possibilities: The Role of States in Advancing a Regenerative Agriculture Policy Agenda DESCRIPTION:Hosted by Funders for Regenerative Agriculture (FORA)Co-sponsored by Sustainable Agriculture and Food Systems Funders (SAFSF) and TomKat Ranch. \n\n\n\nFederal programs\, like those in the Farm Bill\, play a key role in incentivizing regenerative agriculture at the national level\, but state policies offer additional and significant opportunities to drive meaningful change as well. For example\, state governments can be more nimble to design policies tailored to the unique needs of their agricultural communities\, complementing and often enhancing federal efforts. Hear from the State Innovation Exchange (SiX) and their partners to discover how they’re organizing with legislators to collaborate with agencies\, farmers and advocates. Together\, they are working to accelerate the adoption of regenerative practices through state-level policies that not only benefit local communities\, but also serve as models for shaping national policy in the future. \n\n\n\nSpeakers:\n\n\n\n\nKendra Kimbirauskas\, Senior Director Agriculture & Food Systems\, SiX\n\n\n\nWendy Millet\, Ranch Director TomKat Ranch \n\n\n\nDr. Timothy Boring\, Michigan Director of Agriculture and Rural Development \n\n\n\nSenator Kimberly Jackson\, Georgia ( Committee Agriculture & Consumer Affairs)\n\n\n\nRepresentative J.D. Scholten\, Iowa (Agriculture & Natural Resource Committees)\n\n\n\nRepresentative Juanita Brent\, Ohio (Ranking member\, Agriculture Committee)\n\n\n\nSenator Sue Shink\, Michigan (invited) (Chair\, Committee on Agriculture and Natural Resources)\n\n\n\n\nModerators:\n\n\n\n\nJennifer O’Connor\, FORA\n\n\n\nKevin Irby\, FORA\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThis webinar is funder only. Registration is not required. \n\n\n\nPlease join using the Zoom link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/7031797640One tap mobile: \n\n\n\n\n+16465588656\, 7031797640# US (New York)\n\n\n\n+16469313860\, 7031797640# US URL:https://www.agandfoodfunders.org/event/unlocking-possibilities-the-role-of-states-in-advancing-a-regenerative-agriculture-policy-agenda/ CATEGORIES:Webinars ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.agandfoodfunders.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Regen-Ag-photo-e1739999070745.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20241114T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20241114T170000 DTSTAMP:20260403T130909 CREATED:20240523T145614Z LAST-MODIFIED:20241113T173039Z UID:10000625-1731571200-1731603600@www.agandfoodfunders.org SUMMARY:Health and Wealth: Fostering Healthy Communities and Economic Self-Determination through Food Systems DESCRIPTION:AGENDA\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFrontline communities of color have disproportionately suffered huge disparities in health and wealth due to multiple layers of systemic barriers. For every $100 in wealth white Americans hold\, Black Americans only hold $15\, and Black and Indigenous children are 2-3 times more likely to be food insecure than white families. Community-led solutions in food\, health\, environment\, and climate offer significant potential for addressing these disparities. \n\n\n\nOver the past two decades\, a number of food justice and food access initiatives have evolved from focusing primarily on access to healthy food to complex economic development and built environment projects developed by BIPOC-led organizations. These initiatives aim to improve food access and health outcomes through models of community self-determination\, economic development\, and wealth creation. \n\n\n\nThis one-day event will explore the question: How can funding for food access\, nutrition\, and health equity support community self-determination and ignite equitable food economies?  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWe will explore the intersection of health equity\, economic development\, and food justice to close racial wealth gaps through community-led approaches. Specifically\, we will explore and learn from models of healthy food projects\, organizations\, and networks that focus on community ownership and asset-building led by and for people of color in and from frontline communities. The event takes place at the Detroit Food Commons\, a groundbreaking 30\,000-square-foot multi-use facility with a community-owned grocery store\, which was conceived of and built by the Detroit Black Community Food Sovereignty Network (DBCFSN). Attendees will learn about DBCFSN’s powerful community organizing that led to raising $21 million to build the Detroit Food Commons\, and how similar models are emerging across the country. Funders focused on health\, community development\, and food systems are invited to join us in exploring how we can resource and support communities addressing food and nutrition security through more just and sovereign food economies. \n\n\n\nA special thank you to our event sponsors The Kresge Foundation and W.K. Kellogg Foundation. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nHealth & Safety Guidelines\n\n\n\nSAFSF is committed to creating a safe and comfortable meeting environment for all participants.  We respectfully request that you consider the following guidelines to  help us create an accessible and caring community space by: \n\n\n\n\nStaying home if you are feeling sick\n\n\n\nKeeping up to date on your vaccination for COVID-19 (including relevant boosters)\n\n\n\nWearing a mask (highly encouraged)\n\n\n\nRespecting physical contact and consent preferences of all attendees\n\n\n\n\nThe Detroit Food Commons team regularly cleans high-touch surfaces and provides hand sanitizing stations for all visitors. We are also monitoring the situation on the ground in light of the recent election\, and will continue to prioritize the safety and well-being of our guests. At this time\, we do not anticipate any changes to our event. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLand Acknowledgement\n\n\n\nWe honor the land we will be meeting on\, the current and ancestral homelands of three Anishinaabe Nations of the council of Three Fires: the Ojibwe\, the Ottawa\, and Potawatomi. The city of Detroit\, where we will gather as guests\, was established through the colonization\, land theft and desecration\, cultural erasure\, and ethnic cleansing of the Anishinaabe and other Native American communities.  \n\n\n\nWe know that land acknowledgments are only as good as their direction toward action and reparations. As such\, with this event\, we seek to take action and create repair in our own relationship to the Anishinaabeg people. SAFSF will be donating a portion of the registration costs for this event to the Anishinaabeg and invite each of you to complement this donation as part of your participation and presence in this convening. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue & Nearby Hotels\n\n\n\nThursday’s event will be held at the Detroit Food Commons – 8324 Woodward Ave. Detroit\, Michigan 48202. For those driving to the venue\, the Detroit Food Commons have ample free parking onsite. A list of nearby hotel recommendations can be found below. \n\n\n\n\nDetroit Marriott at the Renaissance Center (5 miles)\n\n\n\nShinola Hotel (3.3 miles)\n\n\n\nThe Siren Hotel (3.3 miles)\n\n\n\nDetroit Foundation Hotel (3.8 miles)\n\n\n\nThe Westin Book Cadillac (3.5 miles) \n\n\n\nEl Moore Lodge (2.3 miles) URL:https://www.agandfoodfunders.org/event/health-and-wealth/ CATEGORIES:In Person Gathering,Meetings ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.agandfoodfunders.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/Detroit.Square.Event_.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241119T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241119T120000 DTSTAMP:20260403T130909 CREATED:20240828T215422Z LAST-MODIFIED:20241127T013810Z UID:10000640-1732014000-1732017600@www.agandfoodfunders.org SUMMARY:November Small Funders Learning Community Call DESCRIPTION:Navigating Today’s Political Landscape: Small Funders’ Responses and Reflections \n\n\n\nIn the face of an ever-evolving political landscape\, our election responses can have a profound impact—often reaching beyond our immediate capacity. Join us for an open\, reflective conversation on where we are today as small funders and how we’re adapting our approaches in response to recent elections. Have you encountered challenges that shifted your strategy or deepened your perspective? \n\n\n\nThis is a space for SAFSF members who identify as small funders to share where they are\, explore collective insights\, and discuss how our unique strengths can drive meaningful change. Together\, let’s reflect on our journey\, celebrate the lessons learned\, and explore our paths forward in this moment. \n\n\n\nThis is a SAFSF member-only group and event for SAFSF Small Funders Learning Community Members. If you identify as a small funder within the SAFSF membership and are interested in joining\, please register below. URL:https://www.agandfoodfunders.org/event/november-small-funders-learning-community-call/ CATEGORIES:Member Only,Webinars ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://www.agandfoodfunders.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/315796b3-2f37-e31b-b026-37d8c833ffa5-1-1.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241202T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241202T235959 DTSTAMP:20260403T130909 CREATED:20241104T155113Z LAST-MODIFIED:20241104T155246Z UID:10000647-1733097600-1733183999@www.agandfoodfunders.org SUMMARY:Join Our Community by December 2 DESCRIPTION:For over 20 years\, SAFSF has been home to hundreds of philanthropic and investment organizations moving capital toward a more just and sustainable food system. This has been an exciting year at SAFSF. With a new Strategic Direction forthcoming\, we are looking forward to a big year in 2025\, including new programs\, the return of our popular Annual Forum\, and many member-only experiences and resources. We welcome you\, your voice and expertise into our community as we usher in a new year. \n\n\n\nTo celebrate an exciting year of growth and change\, we have an extra opportunity for you to join our community. Funders of all kinds – grantmakers\, investors\, lenders and other community finance organizations – are invited to apply for membership by Monday\, December 2\, ensuring your membership is activated at the top of the new year! \n\n\n\nSAFSF membership offers robust opportunities to strengthen connections\, foster collaboration\, and build capacity alongside funding peers. Here is a sampling of the benefits of membership: \n\n\n\n\nCommunities of Practice \n\n\n\nAccess to data and reports about food and ag funding\n\n\n\nMember-only listserv and events\n\n\n\nFood and agriculture policy analysis and insights\n\n\n\nDiscounted registration on in-person events and Annual Forum \n\n\n\nProfessional and leadership opportunities \n\n\n\n\nTo learn more about membership benefits\, eligibility\, and annual dues schedule a call or email our Membership Team at membership@safsf.org.  URL:https://www.agandfoodfunders.org/event/join-our-community-by-december-2/ CATEGORIES:Deadlines ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.agandfoodfunders.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Clares-Top-Pick-for-Gathering-Photo-scaled.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241205T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241205T110000 DTSTAMP:20260403T130909 CREATED:20241004T184319Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250724T202515Z UID:10000645-1733392800-1733396400@www.agandfoodfunders.org SUMMARY:December Health Funders Learning Community Call DESCRIPTION:Join us Thursday\, December 5 for our next Health Funders Learning Community call. This SAFSF member-only call is an excellent opportunity to connect with fellow members funding at the intersection of health\, agriculture\, and food systems and engage in a meaningful discussion around specific challenges in funding health solutions.  \n\n\n\nIn November\, SAFSF and Detroit Black Food Sovereignty Network (DBCFSN) co-hosted a powerful one-day event called “Health And Wealth: Fostering Healthy Communities and Economic Self-Determination through Food Systems.” The event convened funders\, community leaders\, and advocates at the Detroit Food Commons\, a community-owned grocery store and multi-use facility developed by DBCFSN—to explore the intersection of health equity\, sustainable economic growth\, and community self-determination. \n\n\n\nThe event highlighted the transformative potential of community-led food systems in addressing systemic inequities\, including health outcomes. Attendees engaged with themes such as health and wealth disparities impacting frontline communities\, the importance of community-driven solutions\, and the essential role funders must play in driving long-term\, systemic change. By showcasing actionable strategies and on-the-ground examples\, this event equipped funders and partners with the tools to support community-led food systems\, while advancing health equity\, economic empowerment\, and food justice through the lens of sovereignty. \n\n\n\nThe Health Funders Learning Community call in December will provide a space to share out and reflect on the insights from this event. Attendees will share key takeaways\, and invite peers who were not in attendance to reflect on how funding for health equity can connect to community self-determination and economic development. \n\n\n\nThis is an SAFSF member-only call. If you are interested in exploring membership\, please contact Holly Enowski\, Senior Membership Associate URL:https://www.agandfoodfunders.org/event/december-health-funders-learning-community-call/ CATEGORIES:Member Only,Webinars ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.agandfoodfunders.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/food-recovery.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241210T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241210T133000 DTSTAMP:20260403T130909 CREATED:20241125T174647Z LAST-MODIFIED:20241211T162111Z UID:10000653-1733832000-1733837400@www.agandfoodfunders.org SUMMARY:Navigating a Dramatically Different Federal Agency and Farm Bill Advocacy Landscape: Philanthropy’s role in supporting organizations through forthcoming transitions DESCRIPTION:Thanks to sustained advocacy and organizing both at the Congressional and Administrative level\, USDA has made strides in recent years addressing key issues such as climate change mitigation and support of disadvantaged farmers. The incoming Congress and Administration have already signaled a different approach\, and we anticipate an increased need to protect and advance critical policies and programs. This webinar will provide expert prognostications on what federal funding may be at risk\, what advocacy efforts around the farm bill and other legislation could be particularly helpful\, and what mutual aid support may be needed for vulnerable communities such as farmworkers.  \n\n\n\nSpeakers include: \n\n\n\n\nBidisha Bhattacharyya\, Senior Advisor for Climate and Conservation\, USDA\n\n\n\nSarah Hackney\, Coalition Director\, National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition\n\n\n\nJose Oliva\, Campaigns Director\, HEAL Food Alliance\n\n\n\nEdna Rodriguez\, Executive Director\, RAFI-USA\n\n\n\nJoe Shultz\, Executive Director of PACT (Platform for Agriculture & Climate Transformation)\n\n\n\n\nPlease join us to get better prepared for philanthropy’s important role in the coming weeks. \n\n\n\nThis webinar is sponsored by the Grassroots Farm Bill Project Team (Regenerative Agriculture Foundation\, National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition\, RAFI-USA\, and Waverley Street Foundation) in partnership with the Platform for Agriculture & Climate Transformation\, Sustainable Agriculture & Food Systems Funders\, Funders for Regenerative Agriculture\, Health & Environmental Funders Network\, Rural Climate Partnership\, and Climate & Energy Funders Group. URL:https://www.agandfoodfunders.org/event/navigating-a-dramatically-different-federal-agency-and-farm-bill-advocacy-landscape/ CATEGORIES:Webinars ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.agandfoodfunders.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/Supreme-Court-scaled.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241211T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241211T121500 DTSTAMP:20260403T130909 CREATED:20240722T224324Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250131T194438Z UID:10000630-1733914800-1733919300@www.agandfoodfunders.org SUMMARY:Grantmaking Strategies to Support Effective Policy Advocacy—Bolder Advocacy Series DESCRIPTION: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 how to structure policy related grants.  \n\n\n\nWe encourage attendance at all four webinars to maximize learning\, though recordings will be made available for those unable to attend live. SAFSF will host a concluding reflection session to synthesize insights\, discuss integrating learnings into 2025 funding strategies\, and address ongoing challenges. \n\n\n\nThis webinar series is available as a benefit for SAFSF members. Not a member? Join our community by contacting our Senior Membership Associate\, Holly Enowski at holly@safsf.org to receive an application or for an information call.  \n\n\n\n\n\nGoals\n\nThis virtual programming series will enable SAFSF members to:  \n\n\n\n\nUnderstand why engaging in policy advocacy is essential for foundations and investors to achieve their missions; \n\n\nBuild support across the foundation for policy advocacy engagement; \n\n\nUnderstand characteristics of grantmaking that support effective policy advocacy; \n\n\nUnderstand how to comply with lobbying restrictions and build relationships with policymakers; \n\n\nBuild relationships and learn from peers engaged in policy advocacy funding.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nOutcomes\n\nAfter attending this virtual programming series\, SAFSF members should feel confident in:  \n\n\n\n\nRecognizing the broad scope of activities and strategies that can be considered policy advocacy;\n\n\nInitiating or continuing conversations with foundation board members about prioritizing policy advocacy; and \n\n\nHow to support grantees engaged in policy advocacy.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPart 3\n\n\n\nFunding advocacy is different from funding programs. There are different rhythms\, benchmarks\, grantees\, rules\, expectations for funder actions – and levels of risk. Grantmaking structures\, policies\, and procedures that may have been initially set up to support programs must adapt to the different conditions and needs for policy engagement. In this session\, Bolder Advocacy Senior Counsel Sarah Efthymiou will share concrete examples of grantmaking practices that can empower grantees and create the conditions needed for policy change. Thornburg Foundation Executive Director Allan Oliver and RAFI Executive Director Edna Rodriguez will also speak about how their organizations implement funding for policy and advocacy. They will answer panel questions about board engagement strategies\, measuring impact of policy funding\, protecting grantees and movement leaders from threats posed by the incoming administration\, and how they are thinking about policy funding in 2025 and beyond. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLogin to access recordings & resources\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeakers:\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSarah Efthymiou serves as Senior Counsel for the Bolder Advocacy Program at Alliance for Justice. In her role\, she provides technical assistance\, resources\, and training to help nonprofit advocates understand their rights and abilities to advocate\, lobby\, engage in election related activities\, and fund advocacy. \n\n\n\nPrior to joining Alliance for Justice in 2023\, Sarah served as a Directing Attorney at Public Law Center in Orange County\, where she provided legal assistance and outside general counsel services to nonprofit organizations and social enterprises. \n\n\n\nSarah holds a B.A. from University of Redlands and a J.D. from Syracuse University College of Law. She is a member of the State Bar of California and currently resides in SoCal. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAllan Oliver is the Executive Director of the Thornburg Foundation. He oversees the Foundation’s Strategic Initiatives in K-12 education\, good government reforms\, food and agriculture\, water\, homelessness as well as Community Funding grants for social service organizations. \n\n\n\nIn addition to serving as Executive Director for 11 years\, he has served on Governor Lujan Grisham’s Education Transition team and was named to the Governor’s statewide Census Complete Count Commission and co- chaired the Census Funders group. He has been recognized by Albuquerque Business First as a C-Suite Honoree for his accomplishments. In 2021\, Allan was named to the Points of Light Inspiration Honor Roll for his efforts in New Mexico during the COVID-19 pandemic. \n\n\n\nBefore joining the Thornburg Foundation\, Allan served as Cabinet Secretary-Designate and Deputy Secretary for the New Mexico Economic Development Department and Director of Cabinet Affairs and Deputy Communications Director for Governor Bill Richardson. He also established the Partnership for Responsible Business and the New Mexico Green Chamber of Commerce\, a business association with over 1100 members supporting renewable energy technology and responsible business practices. Mr. Oliver earned a Master’s in Public Administration from Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government and was named a William Hodson Fellow for International Public Service. He recently completed an Executive Education program at Harvard Business School focused on Strategic Perspectives in Nonprofit Management. He also served as an NGO specialist and initiated the municipal development program for the US Peace Corps Volunteer in Guatemala and served as country director for the National Democratic Institute in Kazakhstan. \n\n\n\nHe serves on the board of the Santa Fe School for Arts and Sciences\, Groundworks New Mexico\, and the National Funders Census Initiative. Allan enjoys spending time in New Mexico’s incredible outdoors and most of all enjoys spending time with his son\, Max. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEdna Rodriguez became Rural Advancement Foundation International’s Executive Director in 2017 following six years as Come to the Table program Director\, Development Director\, and Director of Operations. Edna has grown the organization’s capacity by overhauling financial systems\, diversifying income\, and organizing cross-programmatic teams for greater collaboration and impact. In her current role\, Edna led RAFI through a strategic planning process centered around equity\, launched and grew the Farmers of Color Network\, and extended programs to the U.S. Caribbean territories. \n\n\n\nEdna is a strategic thinker with the consistent goal of funding the movement more equitably\, a value which most recently resulted — in partnership with the National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition (NSAC) — in a pool of granting funds devoted specifically to BIPOC-led organizations for climate and equity-centered policy work. In addition to serving on NSAC’s Organizational Council\, Edna serves as Treasurer of the National Family Farm Coalition’s Executive Committee. Born in Puerto Rico to Dominican parents\, Edna was raised between The Hague\, Netherlands\, and Santo Domingo\, Dominican Republic. Before RAFI\, Edna served as Senior Program Officer at the Atlanta Women’s Foundation and Director of Educational and Career Services at the Latin American Association in Atlanta\, GA. \n\n\n\nEdna holds a B.A. in Economics with a concentration in Latin American Studies from Haverford College. Edna lives in Chapel Hill\, NC\, with her husband\, three children\, and their growing puppy. URL:https://www.agandfoodfunders.org/event/grantmaking-characteristics-to-support-effective-policy-advocacy/ CATEGORIES:Bolder Advocacy Series,Member Only,Webinars ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://www.agandfoodfunders.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/BolderSeries.Feature-Image.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241212T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241212T113000 DTSTAMP:20260403T130909 CREATED:20241106T031418Z LAST-MODIFIED:20241216T175028Z UID:10000648-1734001200-1734003000@www.agandfoodfunders.org SUMMARY:December RFI Open House DESCRIPTION: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 process. \n\n\n\n\nRECORDING URL:https://www.agandfoodfunders.org/event/rfi-open-house/ CATEGORIES:RFI,Webinars ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.agandfoodfunders.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/RFI.FeaturedWork-1.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241212T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241212T130000 DTSTAMP:20260403T130909 CREATED:20241119T234447Z LAST-MODIFIED:20241213T174508Z UID:10000651-1734004800-1734008400@www.agandfoodfunders.org SUMMARY:In The Kitchen Call: Year End Reflections DESCRIPTION:Join the SAFSF team for our final In The Kitchen call of 2024. We will reflect on highlights and key takeaways from our On the Road series of events we held this year. We also want to hear from you: What are some organizational or grantee highlights you want to share? What lessons have you learned from the organizations you’ve funded? Let’s come together and celebrate the close of 2024 and look forward to what’s ahead for SAFSF in the new year. \n\n\n\nThese SAFSF member-only calls are designed to evoke the warmth\, nourishment\, and welcomeness you feel when you are “in the kitchen”. \n\n\n\nThis is a free\, member only event. URL:https://www.agandfoodfunders.org/event/q4-in-the-kitchen-call/ CATEGORIES:Member Only,Webinars ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://www.agandfoodfunders.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/Itk.branded.thumbnail.website.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241217T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241217T120000 DTSTAMP:20260403T130909 CREATED:20241004T152508Z LAST-MODIFIED:20241217T205229Z UID:10000644-1734433200-1734436800@www.agandfoodfunders.org SUMMARY:Q4 Maximize Your Membership DESCRIPTION: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!  \n\n\n\nClare Fox\, Executive Director\, and Holly Enowski\, Senior Membership Associate\, will offer a deep dive into all things SAFSF membership\, including: \n\n\n\n\nUnderstanding & sharing your membership within your organization\n\n\n\nMember Benefits – including the Annual Forum\, data insights\, exclusive offerings\, and more\n\n\n\nHow to get the most of the Member Only Portal and Listserv\n\n\n\nSAFSF Professional and Leadership Development Pathways\n\n\n\nSneak Peek at what’s coming up in 2025 \n\n\n\n\nGet excited for the year ahead and get the most out of this incredible community. Meet other members\, learn about SAFSF\, and get engaged!  \n\n\n\nThis event is open to all SAFSF member organizations including their staff\, board\, or authorized designees.  \n\n\n\nNot a member yet? Email us at membership@safsf.org to get started. URL:https://www.agandfoodfunders.org/event/maximize-your-membership/ CATEGORIES:Member Only,Webinars ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://www.agandfoodfunders.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/315796b3-2f37-e31b-b026-37d8c833ffa5-1-1.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250107T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250107T113000 DTSTAMP:20260403T130909 CREATED:20241106T033004Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250108T000843Z UID:10000649-1736247600-1736249400@www.agandfoodfunders.org SUMMARY:January RFI Open House DESCRIPTION: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 process. \n\n\n\n\nRecording URL:https://www.agandfoodfunders.org/event/january-rfi-open-house/ CATEGORIES:RFI,Webinars ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.agandfoodfunders.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/RFI.FeaturedWork-1.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250112T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250112T235959 DTSTAMP:20260403T130909 CREATED:20241210T184151Z LAST-MODIFIED:20241210T185334Z UID:10000654-1736640000-1736726399@www.agandfoodfunders.org SUMMARY:Idea Submissions Due for 2025 SAFSF Forum DESCRIPTION: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 philanthropy\, community development finance institutions\, public agencies\, and impact investors—in strategies that drive systems change. These proposals can address elements of systems change  such as culture\, policy\, markets\, and tools\, all in support of building a more resilient\, just\, and democratic food and agriculture system. \n\n\n\nBeyond this deadline\, the RFI will remain open throughout the year to gather ongoing input and foster continuous dialogue with our network of collaborators. We aim to engage more broadly in partnership for the ongoing development of SAFSF’s programs\, both for the Forum and future program initiatives. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSUBMIT AN IDEA\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout the 2025 SAFSF Forum\n\n\n\nThe Sustainable Agriculture and Food Systems Funders (SAFSF) Forum is a unique gathering for the full capital spectrum of funders interested in education\, skill building\, and leadership development in food and agriculture. We will partner with the national ecosystem of funders\, frontline community and movement leaders\, and practitioners dedicated to advancing equity and sustainability in food and agriculture. The 2025 SAFSF Forum\, hosted at the Tamaya Resort\, in Santa Ana Pueblo\, New Mexico\, will focus on advancing solutions through a systems change approach\, grounded in the values of resilience\, justice\, and democracy.  \n\n\n\nWhat We’re Looking For\n\n\n\nWe invite high-level ideas for workshops\, structured networking\, learning dinners\, and field-based learning experiences that align with SAFSF’s vision for systems change in food and agriculture. This RFI is designed to be accessible and collaborative\, providing an opportunity for potential collaborators to share their initial thoughts and receive support in developing full proposals. By engaging a broad range of voices—from frontline communities and movement leaders to funders\, government leaders\, field-based practitioners\, and other stakeholders—we aim to create a program that is inclusive\, equitable\, and representative of diverse perspectives. \n\n\n\nMore information about the RFI Process\, including session type descriptions\, submission requirements\, timeline\, and more can be found here. For questions or more information about this RFI\, please contact the SAFSF Program Team at events@safsf.org. \n\n\n\nWe look forward to reading your ideas and working together to build a just and equitable food and agriculture system. URL:https://www.agandfoodfunders.org/event/deadline-2025-safsf-forum-ideas/ CATEGORIES:Deadlines,RFI,SAFSF Forum ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.agandfoodfunders.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/RFI.FeaturedWork-1.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250115T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250115T114500 DTSTAMP:20260403T130909 CREATED:20240722T224527Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250131T194550Z UID:10000631-1736938800-1736941500@www.agandfoodfunders.org SUMMARY:Funding Policy Advocacy in 2025: Reflections\, Takeaways\, and Next Steps—Bolder Advocacy Series DESCRIPTION: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 how to structure policy related grants.  \n\n\n\nWe encourage attendance at all four webinars to maximize learning\, though recordings will be made available for those unable to attend live. SAFSF will host a concluding reflection session to synthesize insights\, discuss integrating learnings into 2025 funding strategies\, and address ongoing challenges. \n\n\n\nThis webinar series is available as a benefit for SAFSF members. Not a member? Join our community by contacting our Senior Membership Associate\, Holly Enowski at holly@safsf.org to receive an application or for an information call.  \n\n\n\n\n\nGoals\nThis virtual programming series will enable SAFSF members to:  \n\n\n\n\nUnderstand why engaging in policy advocacy is essential for foundations and investors to achieve their missions; \n\n\n\nBuild support across the foundation for policy advocacy engagement; \n\n\n\nUnderstand characteristics of grantmaking that support effective policy advocacy; \n\n\n\nUnderstand how to comply with lobbying restrictions and build relationships with policymakers; \n\n\n\nBuild relationships and learn from peers engaged in policy advocacy funding.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nOutcomes\nAfter attending this virtual programming series\, SAFSF members should feel confident in:  \n\n\n\n\nRecognizing the broad scope of activities and strategies that can be considered policy advocacy;\n\n\n\nInitiating or continuing conversations with foundation board members about prioritizing policy advocacy; and \n\n\n\nHow to support grantees engaged in policy advocacy.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPart 4\n\n\n\nSAFSF members are invited to join an informal discussion to connect with peers engaged in funding policy advocacy. Funders will have the opportunity to ask Bolder Advocacy senior counsel follow-up questions about content covered in this series including funding election-related advocacy\, engaging with policymakers\, and strategies to structure policy-related grants. With the 119th Congress fresh underway and the inauguration of a new administration just days away\, funders will also have the chance to reflect on opportunities to incorporate learnings into 2025 funding strategies. Discussion questions will include: \n\n\n\n\nHow are you supporting coalitions and frontline communities in engaging in advocacy in 2025 and beyond? \n\n\n\nHow is your organization monitoring potential politically motivated threats to your grantees and how are you prepared to respond? \n\n\n\nHow is your organization planning to engage with policymakers\, including career staff at federal agencies\, this year? \n\n\n\nHow is your organization thinking about administrative advocacy this year? \n\n\n\nWhat’s a new strategy or tactic you’re planning to explore in 2025?\n\n\n\nWhat additional content or programming related to funding policy work would be helpful for SAFSF to organize?\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLogin to access recordings & resources\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeakers:\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSarah Efthymiou serves as Senior Counsel for the Bolder Advocacy Program at Alliance for Justice. In her role\, she provides technical assistance\, resources\, and training to help nonprofit advocates understand their rights and abilities to advocate\, lobby\, engage in election related activities\, and fund advocacy. \n\n\n\nPrior to joining Alliance for Justice in 2023\, Sarah served as a Directing Attorney at Public Law Center in Orange County\, where she provided legal assistance and outside general counsel services to nonprofit organizations and social enterprises. \n\n\n\nSarah holds a B.A. from University of Redlands and a J.D. from Syracuse University College of Law. She is a member of the State Bar of California and currently resides in SoCal. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTim Mooney is senior counsel with the Bolder Advocacy Program at Alliance for Justice. He provides one-on-one technical assistance for nonprofit advocates\, teaches nonprofit and election law workshops and writes on these issues for Bolder Advocacy publications. This is his second tour with Alliance for Justice\, having previously served as senior counsel from 2001-2006. \n\n\n\nTim began his legal career as co-founder and counsel for Columbia Riverkeeper\, working to protect and restore the largest watershed in the Pacific Northwest. Following his first five years with Alliance for Justice\, Tim was senior counsel at Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington. He spent the next decade as general counsel and director of operations for Tranquil Space yoga studios and later consulted on legal\, tech and business operations for entrepreneurs and nonprofits. Tim serves on the board of directors of Pigs & Pugs Project\, a charity that supports pig sanctuaries and pug rescue organizations. \n\n\n\nTim earned his B.S. in Environmental Studies from Syracuse University/SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry and his J.D. from Pace University School of Law URL:https://www.agandfoodfunders.org/event/bolder-advocacy-webinar-series-reflections-and-takeaways/ CATEGORIES:Bolder Advocacy Series,Member Only,Webinars ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://www.agandfoodfunders.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/BolderSeries.Feature-Image.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250116T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250116T150000 DTSTAMP:20260403T130909 CREATED:20241217T165821Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250106T213014Z UID:10000655-1737025200-1737039600@www.agandfoodfunders.org SUMMARY:2025 Locus Learning Exchange DESCRIPTION:Hosted by Locus at the Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden in Virginia as well as virtually \n\n\n\nCourageous Financing: Collaborating for High Impact Projects \n\n\n\nJoin 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\, SAFSF’s executive director\, who will share her expertise in building collaborative networks and driving positive change through philanthropy and impact investment. Attendees will have the opportunity to dialogue with other participants to consider their roles in courageous financing. \n\n\n\nKeynote Speaker: \n\n\n\n\nClare Fox\, Executive Director of Sustainable Agriculture and Food Systems Funders\n\n\n\n\nPanelists include: \n\n\n\n\nYolunda Harrell\, Co-Founder and CEO of the New Hill Development Corporation\n\n\n\nEboni Bugg\, Director of Community Investment for the Charlottesville Area Community Foundation\n\n\n\nStephen Davis\, President of the Community Investment Collaborative\n\n\n\nLauren DeSimone\, Food Systems Investment Strategy\, Locus\n\n\n\nChris Engel\, Director of Economic Development for the City of Charlottesville\n\n\n\nNina Weissberg\, Trustee\, Weissberg Foundation\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRESERVE YOUR SPOT URL:https://www.agandfoodfunders.org/event/2025-learning-exchange/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.agandfoodfunders.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/locus-event.jpeg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250120T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250120T170000 DTSTAMP:20260403T130909 CREATED:20250127T182525Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250127T183427Z UID:10000658-1737360000-1737392400@www.agandfoodfunders.org SUMMARY:Member-Only Event DESCRIPTION:This is a test of the new member-only event registration process. \n\n\nTo register for this program\, you must be logged in and a member of SAFSF. \nPlease log in or register for an account. URL:https://www.agandfoodfunders.org/event/member-only-event/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250129T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250129T123000 DTSTAMP:20260403T130909 CREATED:20250115T183603Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250117T165850Z UID:10000657-1738148400-1738153800@www.agandfoodfunders.org SUMMARY:Funder Briefing on New Research about Americans’ Perception of the Food System and CAFOs DESCRIPTION: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.  \n\n\n\nIn early 2024\, several organizations working to improve the food system engaged the Topos Partnership to better understand people’s thoughts and feelings about how food is currently produced. The research focused on messages that could inspire doubt about Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations that produce most of the meat\, dairy\, and eggs in the United States.  \n\n\n\nThis briefing is designed for funders and investors who want to learn more about current attitudes and potential pathways for food system change.  \n\n\n\nHosted by Good Chaos\, presented by Topos Partnership\, and Facilitated by Local Root Strategies and Mazur & Co. \n\n\n\nCo-Sponsored by SAFSF\, Global Alliance for the Future of Food\, and Farmed Animal Funders. \n\n\n\nFor more information\, contact Jake Davis at jake@localrootstrategies.com \n\n\n\n\nRegister URL:https://www.agandfoodfunders.org/event/funder-briefing-on-new-research-about-americans-perception-of-the-food-system-and-cafos/ CATEGORIES:Webinars ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.agandfoodfunders.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/Cow.Feeding-scaled.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250219T123000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250219T134500 DTSTAMP:20260403T130909 CREATED:20250213T204431Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250226T022249Z UID:10000663-1739968200-1739972700@www.agandfoodfunders.org SUMMARY:Responding to the Federal Funding Crisis: What Farmers and Connected Nonprofits are Experiencing and What Funders Can Do DESCRIPTION:This conversation is co-sponsored by Funders for Regenerative Agriculture. \n\n\n\nJoin 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: \n\n\n\n\nWhat federal programs are being impacted by the funding freeze \n\n\n\nImmediate financial implications for farming operations and nonprofit staffing and infrastructure  \n\n\n\nAlternative funding sources and rapid response financial strategies that funders can support now and in the future \n\n\n\nOngoing advocacy efforts at the federal level  \n\n\n\n\nWe also encourage you to review the following resources developed by Dãnia Davy\, Founder\, Land & Liberation \n\n\n\n\nWhat you need to know & do to defend your federal funding\n\n\n\n2025 Federal Funding Resources\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSummary of Notes & Resources\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeakers \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCaitlin Arnold Stephano\, Hotline Program Manager\, Farm AidCaitlin joined Farm Aid in the fall of 2021 as the Hotline Program Manager. Caitlin grew up riding the tractor at her Grandfather’s cherry and apple farm in Eastern Washington state\, and has been working in agriculture\, farmer organizing\, and advocacy since 2006. Caitlin holds a Masters in Sustainable Food Systems with a focus on farmer mental health. She currently lives in Southern Maine with her family\, and loves exploring the coastal nooks and crannies\, walking in the woods\, and growing her garden. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDãnia Davy\, Founder\, Land & Liberation\, LLCDãnia is the founder of Land & Liberation\, LLC\, a consultancy promoting liberatory relationships between humans\, natural and financial resources\, and land. She teaches “Examining Food System Equity through Critical Race Theory” at Vermont Law School\, served as Senior Policy Advisor for the US Southeast Region at Oxfam\, Director of Land Retention and Advocacy at the Federation of Southern Cooperatives/Land Assistance Fund\, and started her legal career as a Skadden Fellow at the Land Loss Prevention Project. Dãnia earned her J.D. at the University of Virginia School of Law and her A.B. in Africana Studies & Community Health at Brown University. Dãnia currently serves on the boards of Agrarian Trust\, Farmers Legal Action Group\, and A Place Matters\, Inc. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSeanicaa Edwards Herron\, Founder & Executive Director\, Freedmen Heirs FoundationSeanicaa is a respected agricultural economist and market analyst with an impressive 20-year career trajectory across academia\, the private sector\, government and nonprofit roles. At the helm of the Freedmen Heirs Foundation Inc.\, which she co-founded\, Seanicaa is actively forging paths to dismantle systemic barriers faced by Black farmers in U.S. agriculture. This vital nonprofit organization focuses on bridging the widening gap between Black farmers and the marketplace\, aiming to eradicate agricultural inequities by facilitating access to technical assistance\, capital resources\, and new market opportunities. Seanicaa earned both her Bachelor’s degree in Agribusiness and a Master’s degree in Agricultural Economics from Mississippi State University\, further solidifying her profound commitment to advancing the field of agriculture.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMaisah Khan\, SHOT Fund Partnerships Manager\, Regenerative Agriculture FoundationAs the Fund Partnerships Manager\, Maisah is looking forward to helping rural nonprofits and historically underserved farmers identify\, pursue\, and manage public funding opportunities that align with their mission and work. \n\n\n\nMaisah comes to RAF with over a decade of experience in grassroots nonprofit work and federal policy advocacy. She was the Policy Director for the Mississippi River Network and before that the Water Policy Director for the Missouri Coalition for the Environment. Prior to that\, she served as an appointee in the Obama Administration for the U.S. Department of Energy\, focusing on international climate change policy and clean energy deployment. Maisah holds a Masters of Environmental Management from the Yale School of Environment. Her family ties to Bangladesh keep her grounded in our shared movement for climate change solutions. \n\n\n\nThe Soil Health Opportunities and Tools (SHOT) Fund is an initiative between Rural Climate Partnership and Regenerative Agriculture Foundation designed to connect farmers and the nonprofits that serve them with existing public funding opportunities such as the $18 billion available under the Inflation Reduction Act. The Fund focuses on enhancing capacity support\, providing innovative financing\, offering technical assistance\, and promoting market reform to support regenerative and climate-smart agriculture all while ensuring equitable access to public funding. URL:https://www.agandfoodfunders.org/event/responding-to-the-federal-funding-crisis-what-farmers-and-connected-nonprofits-are-experiencing-and-what-funders-can-do/ CATEGORIES:Webinars ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://www.agandfoodfunders.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/FARMBILL.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250220T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250220T120000 DTSTAMP:20260403T130909 CREATED:20250103T031106Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250221T183324Z UID:10000656-1740049200-1740052800@www.agandfoodfunders.org SUMMARY:Maximize Your Membership Q1 DESCRIPTION: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!  \n\n\n\nClare Fox\, Executive Director\, and Holly Enowski\, Senior Membership Associate\, will offer a deep dive into all things SAFSF membership\, including: \n\n\n\n\nUnderstanding & sharing your membership within your organization\n\n\n\nMember Benefits – including the Annual Forum\, data insights\, exclusive offerings\, and more\n\n\n\nHow to get the most of the Member Only Portal and Listserv\n\n\n\nSAFSF Professional and Leadership Development Pathways\n\n\n\nSneak Peek at what’s coming up in 2025 \n\n\n\n\nGet excited for the year ahead and get the most out of this incredible community. Meet other members\, learn about SAFSF\, and get engaged!  \n\n\n\nThis event is open to all SAFSF member organizations including their staff\, board\, or authorized designees.  \n\n\n\nNot a member yet? Email us at membership@safsf.org to get started. URL:https://www.agandfoodfunders.org/event/q1-maximize-your-membership/ CATEGORIES:Member Only,Webinars ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://www.agandfoodfunders.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/315796b3-2f37-e31b-b026-37d8c833ffa5-1-1.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250226T123000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250226T133000 DTSTAMP:20260403T130909 CREATED:20250218T223636Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250226T222144Z UID:10000664-1740573000-1740576600@www.agandfoodfunders.org SUMMARY:Member Strategy Call – Funder Response to Federal Impacts: Ways to Support Funded Partners DESCRIPTION: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.  \n\n\n\nSAFSF is hosting a strategy call to explore how funders are responding to these situations and what they are hearing from funded partners. This is a confidential\, judgement-free space for SAFSF members to strategize with peers\, coordinate efforts\, and exchange ideas for how to lead. For those attending the preceding webinar “Responding to the Federal Funding Crisis: What Farmers and Connected Nonprofits are Experiencing and What Funders Can Do\,” this call continues the discussion\, broadening the conversation beyond farmers and farmer-supporting organizations.  \n\n\n\nTopics to be covered: \n\n\n\n\nIdeas for adapting funding to address grantee gaps\n\n\n\nWays to support funded partners beyond funding\n\n\n\nExamples of funder responses and pivots\n\n\n\nCoordinating pooled emergency funding \n\n\n\n\nThis event is open to all SAFSF member organizations including their staff\, board\, or authorized designees. Not a member yet? Email us at membership@safsf.org to get started. URL:https://www.agandfoodfunders.org/event/member-strategy-call-funder-response-to-federal-impacts-ways-to-support-funded-partners/ CATEGORIES:Member Only,Webinars ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://www.agandfoodfunders.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/315796b3-2f37-e31b-b026-37d8c833ffa5-1-1.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250312T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250312T123000 DTSTAMP:20260403T130909 CREATED:20250221T184411Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250326T223743Z UID:10000665-1741777200-1741782600@www.agandfoodfunders.org SUMMARY:Food Labor Justice: Protecting Rights and Building Worker Power DESCRIPTION:Co-sponsored by Funders for Regenerative Agriculture\, Grantmakers Concerned with Immigrants and Refugees\, and Health and Environmental Funders Network. \n\n\n\nAs the Trump administration escalates attacks on immigrant communities and weaponizes immigration enforcement at workplaces\, frontline food system workers across the country face increasing threats to their safety\, livelihoods\, and labor rights. A new report from Food Chain Workers Alliance (FCWA) further underscores the necessity of building worker power across the food chain and demanding justice for the nearly 28 million food workers who are exploited by the current system.  \n\n\n\nJoin us for a discussion with FCWA to hear frontline perspectives on responding to mass deportation threats while sustaining long-term organizing for justice and labor protections. FCWA members will discuss their rapid response work – from know-your-rights trainings to mutual aid – alongside long-term and successful campaigns for systemic change.  \n\n\n\nThis session will provide funders with: \n\n\n\n\nConcrete ways to support both immediate protection and long-term systemic change\n\n\n\nAn understanding of critical resource gaps and funding needs\n\n\n\nOpportunities to stay connected and updated\n\n\n\n\n**Please note this webinar will be held in English and Spanish with interpretation for those who need it. This call will not be recorded. High-level notes and follow-up resources will be shared with all registrants afterward. \n\n\n\nOrganizations Represented\n\n\n\nAlianza Agrícola – The Agricultural Alliance is one of the few organized\, worker-founded and worker-led groups of undocumented immigrant farmworkers in New York State. We are membership-based\, and all members are directly affected undocumented immigrants\, mostly from Mexico\, living and working in isolation and poverty on dairy farms in 5 counties of Western New York. \n\n\n\nMigrant Justice – Our mission is to build the voice\, capacity\, and power of the immigrant farmworker community to organize for economic justice and human rights. We bring together community members to analyze shared problems and envision collective solutions. Through an ongoing investment in leadership development\, Migrant Justice members deepen their skills and knowledge to organize for long-term\, systemic change. \n\n\n\nCommunity to Community Development – We believe that another world is possible and we are active participants with other self-determined people’s movements. We strive to reclaim our humanity by redefining power in order to end structural racism and all of its manifestations including settler colonialism\, capitalism\, and patriarchy in their external and internalized forms. Towards this end we: Confront racism in existing power structures\, Empower under-represented peoples to have an equal voice in decision making processes\, Develop cross-cultural awareness with formación\, Restore justice to our food\, land and cultural practices\, Promote community relationships towards self-reliance\, Work in solidarity with those that strive towards human rights for all races and genders\, and Demand and demonstrate that the value of feminine intellect and leadership is recognized.  \n\n\n\nStreet Vendor Project – The Street Vendor Project (SVP) is a membership-based organization of over 2\,900 members who champion the rights of street vendors as small businesses to earn a living and contribute to the culture and life of New York City. We strive to expand vending as a viable\, lawful employment option for immigrants and other entrepreneurs. We celebrate the long tradition of street vending in NYC and the diversity of cultures and backgrounds from which vendors come\, noting that an estimated 95% of street vendors are immigrants who operate at the margins of the formal economy. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSummary of Notes & Resources URL:https://www.agandfoodfunders.org/event/food-labor-justice-protecting-rights-and-building-worker-power/ CATEGORIES:Webinars ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.agandfoodfunders.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/labor.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250314T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250314T110000 DTSTAMP:20260403T130909 CREATED:20250213T174811Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250213T194340Z UID:10000662-1741942800-1741950000@www.agandfoodfunders.org SUMMARY:Seeding Power: Food Justice Leadership & Movement Building DESCRIPTION:Hosted by Community Food FundersCo-sponsored by Philanthropy New York and SAFSF \n\n\n\nLocation: North Star Fund\, 520 8th Ave\, Rm 1800\, NYC(streaming on Zoom also available) \n\n\n\nCommunity Food Funders is gearing up to launch the next cohort of our Seeding Power Fellowship! Following a comprehensive redesign and successful pilot of the new program last year\, they are building on lessons learned to make this next experience even better and more tailored to the needs of our movement leaders. \n\n\n\nPlease join for a funder-only luncheon (also available online) to hear from recent alumni and program staff about the impacts of this unique program\, and what they have planned for the next cohort. They have designed a fellowship experience where funders and nonprofit leaders come together to learn\, build relationships\, and envision the collaborations needed to create a more equitable food system for all. \n\n\n\nThis is a funder-only event. \n\n\n\n\nRegister\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nApplications for the new cohort go live the day after this event takes place. \n\n\n\nAs food and climate leaders prepare for attacks on their work and all justice work\, now more than ever movements and organizations need spaces that allow leaders to show up as their whole selves. They need reservoirs of resilience to tap into and spaces where joy and connection are at the root of rebuilding systems rooted in justice and liberation. \n\n\n\nA powerful leader is one with the skills and the community to cultivate an ever renewing sense of purpose\, with the support and care that builds true stamina that social change demands. \n\n\n\nSeeding Power\, and other fellowship programs like the Castanea Fellowship\, are designed to build the muscle of reflection\, to reduce isolation\, to practice communication and collaboration\, and to deepen relationships. As such\, they provide not just leadership development\, but critical movement infrastructure that centers relationship and resilience. They hold the space of care\, rest\, joy\, and camaraderie that is so desperately needed. \n\n\n\nLearn about: \n\n\n\n\nOutcomes and lessons from the last cohort\n\n\n\nCurriculum and design elements of the fellowship program\n\n\n\nA one-of-a-kind approach bringing philanthropic partners together with movement leaders in the same cohort\n\n\n\nA timeline and deadlines to help spread the word to your grantees\n\n\n\n\nThe Seeding Power Fellowship is a nine-month cohort-based food justice fellowship program for experienced leaders working across sectors to build equitable food systems. The program is designed for movement leaders and philanthropic partners in New York\, New Jersey\, and Connecticut. \n\n\n\nSeeding Power is unique in both the region it serves and the focus on effective collaborations and equitable relationships\, while including fellows from philanthropy and government. Racial equity\, social justice\, active communication\, and collaboration form the core of a tested yet tailored curriculum designed by Emerging Equity. \n\n\n\nBy creating a community of practice that develops a shared analysis of the issues plaguing our food system\, the Seeding Power cohort will graduate with strengthened cross-sector relationships and skills\, and the opportunity to develop projects together. \n\n\n\nEach fellow will receive at least three hours of individualized coaching. Movement fellows will receive a $5\,000 stipend\, and philanthropic fellows will be asked to make a financial contribution. URL:https://www.agandfoodfunders.org/event/seeding-power-food-justice-leadership-movement-building/ CATEGORIES:In Person Gathering,Webinars ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.agandfoodfunders.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/SP-retreat.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250328T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250328T113000 DTSTAMP:20260403T130909 CREATED:20250320T191247Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250320T191249Z UID:10000668-1743156000-1743161400@www.agandfoodfunders.org SUMMARY:Two Months Into the New Administration: How Food & Ag Movement Leaders Are Responding and How Philanthropy Can Support DESCRIPTION:In December 2024\, we hosted a webinar with an expert panel to understand potential concerns regarding the incoming Administration. Unfortunately\, many of those concerns have come to fruition. Now\, because of the USDA’s freeze and termination of hundreds of millions of dollars of contracts to farmers and farm organizations\, many nonprofits are in fiscal crisis.  \n\n\n\nPlease join us on Friday\, March 28th\, for an update from the same expert panel to hear about how the crisis is evolving\, what actions nonprofit and philanthropic leaders are taking\, and what critical needs are not being met. We’ll talk about efforts to create active solutions to the crisis through narrative development\, advocacy\, legal guidance\, and networks of support. \n\n\n\nPanelists:\n\n\n\n\nSarah Hackney\, Coalition Director\, National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition (NSAC)\n\n\n\nNavina Khanna\, Executive Director\, HEAL Food Alliance\n\n\n\nEdna Rodriguez\, Executive Director\, Rural Advancement Foundation International (RAFI)\n\n\n\nJoe Shultz\, Executive Director of the Platform for Agriculture & Climate Transformation (PACT)\n\n\n\n\nThe webinar will also include a brief update on the flow of USDA funds from a former senior USDA official.  \n\n\n\nTo allow for open conversation\, this webinar will not be recorded. Please join us live!  \n\n\n\nThis webinar is sponsored by the Grassroots Farm Bill Project Team (Regenerative Agriculture Foundation\, National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition\, RAFI\, and Waverley Street Foundation) in partnership with the Sustainable Agriculture & Food Systems Funders and Funders for Regenerative Agriculture. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRegister Here! URL:https://www.agandfoodfunders.org/event/two-months-into-the-new-administration-how-food-ag-movement-leaders-are-responding-and-how-philanthropy-can-support/ CATEGORIES:Webinars ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.agandfoodfunders.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/Supreme-Court-scaled.jpg END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR