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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/
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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/
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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/
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