BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Sustainable Agriculture & Food Systems Funders - ECPv6.16.1//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 END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240806T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240806T120000 DTSTAMP:20260626T041713 CREATED:20240729T195238Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240729T195242Z UID:10000633-1722942000-1722945600@www.agandfoodfunders.org SUMMARY:August Small Funders Learning Community Call DESCRIPTION:Measuring Impact as a Small Funder \n\n\n\nHow do you measure the impact of your grants without being extractive to your grantees? What does success in a grant look like to you as a small funder? Who are you accountable to and what does that pressure look like for you? Join your fellow SAFSF members who identify as small funders to discuss your answers to these questions\, to build community with your peers\, to get insights into best practices\, and more. \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. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n \n Funder-Only Registration\n \n "*" indicates required fields \n \n PhoneThis 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/august-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:20240808T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240808T120000 DTSTAMP:20260626T041713 CREATED:20240726T164247Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240726T170133Z UID:10000632-1723114800-1723118400@www.agandfoodfunders.org SUMMARY:August In the Kitchen Call: Strategic Planning Workshop DESCRIPTION:We invite our members to join us on Thursday\, August 8\, to share elements of a rough sketch of the emerging strategic direction for our work together. Your collaboration and input on where we are headed are invaluable. We look forward to your participation and insights. \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”. Join fellow SAFSF members for bi-monthly calls to learn about each others’ work\, discuss various topics\, and build community. \n\n\n\nThis is a free\, member-only event. Please register below. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n \n Funder-Only Registration\n \n "*" indicates required fields \n \n LinkedInThis 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/august-in-the-kitchen-call-strategic-planning-workshop/ CATEGORIES:Member Only,Webinars ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://www.agandfoodfunders.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/Itk.branded.thumbnail.website.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240821T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240821T121500 DTSTAMP:20260626T041713 CREATED:20240719T160903Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250131T194233Z UID:10000628-1724238000-1724242500@www.agandfoodfunders.org SUMMARY:Election Season Advocacy: What Funders Need to Know—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 1\n\n\n\nThe November elections will significantly impact the policies governing our agriculture and food system. Policymakers elected at the federal\, state\, and local levels will influence who is eligible for food and nutrition assistance programs\, how much funding is allocated toward essential agricultural conservation programs\, how emerging and BIPOC farmers can access farmland\, and much more.  \n\n\n\nWith just a few months until November 5\, funders have the opportunity to impact voter turnout and support a host of essential civic engagement initiatives.  \n\n\n\nSAFSF members should join this session to learn:  \n\n\n\n\nHow private and public foundations can fund nonpartisan election-related activities;\n\n\n\nRules for conducting and funding voter registration drives; and \n\n\n\nHow foundations can take part in civic engagement initiatives during this critical election year.\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/election-season-advocacy-what-funders-need-to-know/ 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:20240829T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240829T114500 DTSTAMP:20260626T041713 CREATED:20240805T160529Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240830T185934Z UID:10000634-1724929200-1724931900@www.agandfoodfunders.org SUMMARY:Digging Deeper: Livestock and Poultry Concentration with Open Markets Institute 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 first installment of Digging Deeper\, a lunchtime condensed documentary screening and chat\, focused on concentration in the livestock and poultry industry.  \n\n\n\nThis call featured Claire Kelloway\, Food Systems Program Manager at Open Markets Institute.  \n\n\n\nTopics Covered:  \n\n\n\n\nUSDA’s New Fair and Competitive Livestock and Poultry Markets Proposed Rule \n\n\n\nCurrent state of the livestock and poultry industry \n\n\n\nWhat funders\, non-profit and communities can do \n\n\n\n\n\nRECORDING\n\n\n\nReal Food Generation Be-Trayed Kickbacks Report 2020\n\n\n\nSOMO Hungry for Profits\n\n\n\nThe Meat Racket by Christopher Leonard\n\n\n\nSubscribe to Claire’s Newsletter\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker:\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFeatured in Digging In\, Claire Kelloway is the program manager for fair food and farming systems at the Open Markets Institute. She is the primary writer for Food & Power\, a first-of-its-kind website\, providing original reporting and resources on monopoly power in food and agriculture. She also oversees Open Markets’ policy research into the legal underpinnings of corporations and market concentration in the food sector. \n\n\n\nKelloway has written for outlets such as The Intercept\, Civil Eats\, The American Prospect\, and ProPublica. She has appeared on NPR’s “All Things Considered\,” Vox’s “FuturePerfect” videos\, and numerous podcasts. Before joining Open Markets\, she worked as a sustainability fellow with Bon Appetit Management Company and studied political economy at Carleton College. Kelloway lives and works in Minneapolis. \n\n\n\nYou can reach her at @clairekelloway on X. 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