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SUMMARY:Understanding the Impact of Federal Funding Cuts to LFPA and LFSCC on Schools\, Farmers\, and Communities
DESCRIPTION:This webinar is open to all funders. \n\n\n\nIn March 2025\, the Trump administration canceled more than $1 billion in federal spending through the Local Food Purchasing Cooperative Agreement Program (LFPA) and the Local Food for Schools Cooperative Agreement Program (LFSCC). These funds provided Tribal Nations and state agencies money to work in partnership with institutions like schools\, food banks\, and community organizations to purchase and distribute food from local farmers and ranchers.  \n\n\n\nThe cancellation of these local food procurement programs\, created under the Biden administration\, has caused drastic upstream and downstream impacts across the food supply chain. Farmers who scaled up their operations to meet the market opportunities created by these programs could lose their livelihoods. Students could lose access to fresh\, healthy\, and local menu options. Food hubs that have spent years building local and regional economic development opportunities could be forced to drastically scale back.  \n\n\n\nProtecting and maintaining the relationships and food systems innovations forged through the last several years of LFPA and LFSCC funding is essential. Join this session for a discussion on how impacted organizations and networks are navigating and responding to these cuts\, ongoing advocacy campaigns to restore them\, and what is needed from funders right now.  \n\n\n\nPlease note this session will not be recorded to protect the safety of speakers. Notes and key takeaways will be shared with registrants.  \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\nGary Besaw\, Director\, Menominee Tribal Department of Agriculture and Food Systems\, and Director\, Menominee Tribal Food Distribution Program\n\n\n\nGary\, of Keshena\, currently serves as the Director of the Menominee Tribal Department of Agriculture and Food Systems and Director of the Menominee Tribal Food Distribution Program. Gary is an enrolled Tribal member of the Menominee Nation and has served on the Menominee Tribal Legislature for 15 years\, twice holding positions as Tribal Chairman\, and once each as Vice Chairman and Secretary. Gary currently serves on the Shawano-Menominee Farm Service Agency (FSA) County Committee\, serving his second term. \n\n\n\nGary has served on multiple environmental and policy committees for the Menominee Nation including 15 years as the Menominee Nation’s representative on the Wisconsin Legislature’s State-Tribal Relations Study Committee. He previously worked in Native American education at the College of Menominee Nation as Vice President of Student Services. Gary holds a Bachelor of Science in Art Education from the University of Wisconsin-Stout and a Master of Science degree in education administration from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTom McDougall\, Founder and CEO\, 4P Foods\n\n\n\nTom was born and raised in the mid-Hudson Valley of New York State. He grew to love the rolling country\, and learned to question the suburban sprawl that took over one cow pasture after another around his childhood home. After moving to DC to finish school\, he was introduced to business concepts that had been foreign to him: corporate social responsibility\, externalized costs\, triple-bottom line\, social entrepreneurship\, true cost accounting\, and others. His first job after college had him traveling back and forth to China where he saw first hand what externalized costs really looked like. He experienced the impacts that producing all of our “stuff” elsewhere had on people’s lives\, the environment\, and the social construct of a backyard\, far far away. It was a jarring\, eye-opening experience for him\, one that ultimately led him to launch 4P Foods in an effort to be part of the solution. \n\n\n\nWhile he and his wife were participating in a CSA (Community Supported Agriculture) of their own\, and after reading one too many Michael Pollan books\, Tom found himself on a life-changing path of working towards food systems change\, and more broadly\, business systems change. What\, really\, is the true purpose of business in our society? What should it be? He’d love to know your thoughts. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nKatie Nixon – Co-Director\, New Growth Food Systems\, and Co-Director\, Heartland Regional Food Business Center\n\n\n\nKatie is the co-director of New Growth Food Systems and the Heartland Regional Food Business Center\, which serves a five-state region. Plus\, she is the owner and operator of Green Gate Family Farm in Wheatland\, Missouri. With a deep commitment to supporting local farmers and strengthening regional food networks\, Katie brings extensive experience and passion to her work. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLiz O’Gilvie – Director\, Springfield Food Policy Council\, and lnterim Director\, Gardening the Community\n\n\n\nAfter returning to her hometown of Springfield\, MA\, with her husband and newly adopted son in 2009\, Elizabeth found her voice as a passionate and highly effective advocate for access to healthy food in the community – especially for children. \n\n\n\nWorking with the Springfield Food Policy Council\, Elizabeth helped lead the campaign to build the new $21 million Springfield Culinary and Nutrition Center\, which prepares healthy meals from scratch each day featuring locally grown food for district schoolchildren. She also led efforts to bring free breakfast into Springfield Public Schools classrooms as well as helping the district qualify for the federal free lunch program to counter pervasive poverty and hunger. \n\n\n\nElizabeth also is chair of the board for Gardening the Community\, a local nonprofit organization that teaches children to grow their own nutritious food. She championed efforts to purchase land in the community to build a greenhouse\, so volunteers can grow food year-round\, and the beautiful new Walnut Street Community Farm Store\, where people in the neighborhood can buy locally grown\, pesticide-free fruits and vegetables. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSusan Lightfoot Schempf\, Director\, Food Systems Leadership Network\, Wallace Center at Winrock International\n\n\n\nSusan has dedicated her life’s work to building relationships of solidarity across communities\, nourishing leadership\, facilitating collaboration\, and realizing food sovereignty. She first dug her hands in the earth as a child at Our Father’s Garden – a faith-based community farm in her hometown of Baton Rouge\, Louisiana – and has been growing community through food ever since. She was the founding Executive Director of the Noyo Food Forest\, a community-based organization in rural northern California\, and launched the organization’s unique on-site farm to school and agricultural training program that is still in operation 20 years later. She then served as a regional Farm to Fork Manager for North Coast Opportunities\, where she spearheaded countywide farm to school initiatives\, supported the creation of the Mendocino County Food Policy Council\, co-created the Mendocino County Approved Source program\, and led the planning and design for the Mendo Lake Food Hub. After moving back home to Louisiana to attend graduate school at Tulane University Law School\, Susan joined the Wallace Center in 2016 and served as Co-Director of the national organization for five years before recently transitioning to a new role as the inaugural Executive Director of the Food Systems Leadership Network (FSLN). Outside of work\, Susan eagerly seeks out music\, food\, family\, and friends (preferably together)\, and is almost always plotting her next tropical surf adventure.
URL:https://www.agandfoodfunders.org/event/understanding-the-impact-of-federal-funding-cuts-to-lfpa-and-lfscc-on-schools-farmers-and-communities/
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SUMMARY:Indigenous Food Systems Community of Practice Alumni Circle
DESCRIPTION:The Indigenous Food Systems Community of Practice (IFSCoP) is a learning and relationship-building cohort for funders interested in advancing support for Native-led food systems work. Developed by Sustainable Agriculture and Food Systems Funders\, First Nations Development Institute\, and Melvin Consulting PLLC\, this program brings funders together to engage directly with Indigenous leaders\, deepen understanding of structural and philanthropic barriers in Indian Country\, and build more effective strategies for supporting Native food sovereignty and sustainable agriculture. The IFSCoP has been offered every other year since 2021.  \n\n\n\nAlumni of the Indigenous Food Systems Community of Practice are invited to join a virtual gathering bringing together Cohorts 1 and 2! This is an opportunity to reconnect\, share experiences\, and hear updates on how IFSCoP alumni are engaging in Indigenous food systems work\, especially in today’s evolving funding landscape across Indian Country.  \n\n\n\nThis virtual gathering is open to past IFSCoP participants only. Stay tuned for more information about Cohort 3 launching in 2026!
URL:https://www.agandfoodfunders.org/event/indigenous-food-systems-community-of-practice-alumni-circle/
CATEGORIES:Webinars
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SUMMARY:Hunger in the US: How Disasters Disrupt Access to Food
DESCRIPTION:This webinar is hosted by The Center for Disaster Philanthropy and co-sponsored by Alliance Magazine\, Council on Foundations\, Giving Compass\, National Voluntary Organizations Active in a Disaster\, PEAK Grantmaking\, Sustainable Agriculture and Food Systems Funders\, and The Funders Network. \n\n\n\nHunger\, or periods of severe food insecurity when people may go for days without eating because of lack of money\, access to food or other resources\, affects 14% of households and about 1 in 5 children in the U.S. \n\n\n\nAs food prices increase year after year while funding cuts continue to hit programs across the country\, working families struggle to afford food daily. When a natural hazard or severe weather occurs\, it exacerbates hunger by disrupting supply chains\, reducing access to food from stores or restaurants\, increasing pressures on support systems like food banks\, and causing power outages that may prevent people from making their own food. \n\n\n\nJoin us for a webinar to discuss the systemic causes of hunger and why it is a preventable disaster. \n\n\n\nBy the end of this webinar\, donors will: \n\n\n\n\nUnderstand the systemic causes of hunger and how to address them.\n\n\n\nRecognize the repercussions of funding cuts.\n\n\n\nExplore how funders can reduce hunger in the U.S.\n\n\n\n\nWho should attend? \n\n\n\n\nAnyone interested in learning about hunger in the U.S.\n\n\n\nPhilanthropic organizations\, individual donors and funders\n\n\n\nPhilanthropic advisors\n\n\n\nDisaster response and recovery professionals\n\n\n\nCommunity leaders and policymakers\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPanelists: \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSalaam Bhatti\, Esq.\, SNAP Director\, Food Research and Action Center\n\n\n\nSalaam Bhatti joined FRAC in November 2023 as the SNAP Director. In this role\, he works to strengthen SNAP access and benefit adequacy. Salaam works closely with the Interim President to develop\, lead\, and track annual work plans; set and meet unit goals; collaborate with other unit Directors to assist in achieving FRAC’s strategic plan goals; and expand the unit’s innovation and work. \n\n\n\nSalaam joins FRAC after working at the Virginia Poverty Law Center (VPLC). While at VPLC\, he successfully lobbied to fully repeal the drug felon ban for SNAP and TANF\, twice achieved record increases to TANF cash benefits\, subsidized reduced-priced school meals\, repealed the TANF family cap\, ended lunch shaming policies in schools\, and received a unanimous vote to expand SNAP for over 20\,000 families. Salaam also helped develop a mobile-friendly\, SNAP screening tool which is used by tens of thousands of people & multiple non-profits and has been rolled out to be available for all states and D.C. He received the Young Alumni Achievement Award from Albright College for his work in alleviating poverty and promoting Muslim-Jewish relations. Salaam also received the inaugural Stuart A. Freudberg Award for Regional Partnership for his work with Maryland and DC Hunger Solutions to address food insecurity across the metropolitan Washington area from the Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments. \n\n\n\nSalaam has a J.D. from Touro Law School\, is barred in New York and Virginia\, and received his Bachelors in Political Science and International Relations from Albright College (with a year abroad in the University of Aberdeen). \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVincent Davis\, Senior Director of Disaster Services\, Feeding America\n\n\n\nVincent B. Davis is the Founder of Preparedness Matters Consulting and serves as Director of Disaster Services for Feeding America. Prior to joining Feeding America in January 2020\, he served as workplace resiliency manager at Amazon\, where he developed disaster frameworks to support the company’s 175 corporate offices. Before joining Amazon\, Vince was senior preparedness manager for Sony PlayStation in San Diego\, and manager of preparedness and response at Walgreens Co.\, where he developed disaster programs for their 8\,600 U.S. stores and distribution facilities. Following a distinguished 23-year career in the U.S. Air Force and Illinois National Guard\, Vince served as external affairs and community relations officer at FEMA\, managing field teams for 11 Presidential disasters. After leaving FEMA Vince served as regional preparedness manager for the American Red Cross of Greater Chicago\, where he led research and development of the Chicago Metropolitan Agency for Planning Go To 2040 Report on Emergency Preparedness\, a 30-year planning effort to improve community disaster resilience.  \n\n\n\nVince was principal developer of the FEMA Regional Catastrophic Incident Coordination Plan for Illinois\, Indiana\, and Wisconsin\, a plan for mass care of a million residents of the Chicagoland region. Vince is a Certified Emergency Manager (CEM). In 2019\, he completed the FEMA National Emergency Management Advanced Academy (NEMAA) for senior leaders. A passionate advocate for disaster literacy and underserved community preparedness\, Vince has authored three books\, Lost and Turned Out\, A Guide to Preparing Underserved Communities for Disasters (Amazon 2012)\, and The Native Family Disaster Preparedness Handbook (Heritage Publishing 2017)\, and the Emergency Guidebook for Broadcasters Serving Indian Country in collaboration with Native Public Media. Vince is a lifetime member of the Black Emergency Managers Association International (BEMA)\, an Advisory Board Member for the Institute for Diversity and Inclusion in Emergency Management (I-DIEM)\, Honorary Chair for the International Council for Women’s Leadership in Emergency Management and Business Continuity (ICWL)\, and Advisory Board member for the Homeland Security Center of Excellence\, Pierce College\, Washington. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nKavita Koppa\, Co-Executive Director\, Rural Advancement Foundation International (RAFI)\n\n\n\nKavita (Kuh-vee-thuh) serves as the Co-Executive Director of RAFI-USA\, where she worked 2013 to 2016 and then returned in 2023 as Land Access Director. She brings more than a decade of experience in agriculture across nonprofit\, for-profit\, and cooperative sectors. She is especially passionate about making financing more accessible and equitable for farmers — particularly those historically excluded from traditional financial systems. \n\n\n\nIn addition to her work at RAFI-USA\, Kavita served as co-owner at Money Positive\, a worker-owned financial planning firm focused on helping those who are often excluded from the conventional financial industry. She holds a Bachelor of Arts in geography and biology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a dual MBA/MA in Public Affairs from the University of Texas at Austin. Kavita can usually be found frolicking through the woods of North Carolina and getting overly-excited about plants. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nModerator: \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTanya Gulliver-Garcia\, Director of Advisory and Education Services\, The Center for Disaster Philanthropy\n\n\n\nTanya Gulliver-Garcia (she/they) brings practical\, lived\, academic and philanthropic understandings of disasters to her work as the Center for Disaster Philanthropy’s director of advisory and education services. In this role\, Tanya oversees the development of educational content and CDP’s educational webinar series. Tanya also directs CDP’s expert advisory services\, which help funders determine\, manage and improve their disaster-giving strategies. \n\n\n\nTanya is a self-described “disaster junkie” who is passionate about ensuring the most marginalized and oppressed in our communities can recover and build resilience. Their work is grounded in principles of equity and an understanding of how the intersections of race\, gender\, sexual orientation\, age\, disability\, class and other identities affect the lives of individuals and their families/communities. \n\n\n\nPrior to CDP\, Tanya worked as the associate director of programs and planning at Foundation for Louisiana (FFL). Her duties included helping FFL strengthen its capacity to manage various programmatic initiatives while building an effective evaluation practice. They led FFL’s Equitable Disaster Resilience Framework\, the associated Strategic Response Fund and the foundation’s LGBTQ+ Fund. \n\n\n\nTanya lived and worked most of her life in or around Toronto\, Canada. Their work there includes serving as the research coordinator for the Canadian Observatory on Homelessness/Homeless Hub (COH)\, which works to mobilize research results to have a greater impact on the elimination of homelessness in Canada. \n\n\n\nTanya regularly speaks and presents on issues related to disaster equity\, the numbers behind disaster giving\, and building relationships between funders and nongovernmental organizations. They have appeared in keynotes and conferences\, such as PEAK grantmaking\, Res/Con\, We Give Summit and National Voluntary Organizations Active in Disasters. \n\n\n\nTanya also worked as a freelance writer and editor for a couple of decades and served for eight years on the Professional Writers Association of Canada board\, including three terms as president. Tanya is a frequent writer for CDP’s blog and has authored analyses and commentaries in publications such as Giving Compass\, Nonprofit Quarterly and Reader’s Digest Canada. They are #TeamNoOxfordComma! \n\n\n\nTanya’s academic background is in sociology\, particularly disaster and environmental sociology. Their master’s degree developed a risk-based heat registry to protect low-income and marginally-housed communities from extreme heat. Tanya has responded to several major disasters across the United States and in her adopted state of Louisiana with American Red Cross. \n\n\n\nTanya lives and works remotely in the Broadmoor neighborhood of New Orleans.
URL:https://www.agandfoodfunders.org/event/hunger-in-the-us-how-disasters-disrupt-access-to-food/
CATEGORIES:Webinars
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SUMMARY:Gather Round Monthly Membership Call
DESCRIPTION:The Gather Round Monthly Membership Calls\, held on the 3rd Thursday of every month at 1 pm PST / 4 pm EST\, serve as a regular “drop in” space for SAFSF members. These calls are focused on connection and continuing dialogue on topics explored in virtual learning events and other programs hosted by SAFSF during the month.  \n\n\n\nWe want to hear what’s top of mind for you\, what you are wrestling with\, and what topics you want to explore deeper. Each call will have a different topic. \n\n\n\nSAFSF members are automatically enrolled in Gather Round meetings\, and will see the calendar invitations. If you do not\, email membership@safsf.org to receive access. 
URL:https://www.agandfoodfunders.org/event/gather-round-may/
CATEGORIES:Member Only,Webinars
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SUMMARY:Maximize Your Membership Q2
DESCRIPTION:Maximize Your Membership is an orientation webinar for SAFSF members\, new and veteran! If you are new staff at a new or long-time SAFSF member organization\, have not engaged in SAFSF programming or member benefits yet yourself\, want a refresher on all that is available to you as a SAFSF member organization\, or just want to connect\, join us! \n\n\n\nThis quarterly membership call features our newest SAFSF members  – help us welcome them into this community. Join Clare Fox\, Executive Director\, and Holly Hanes\, Senior Membership Associate\, for a deep dive into all things SAFSF\, including: \n\n\n\n\nCelebrating & sharing your membership internally and externally;\n\n\n\nMember Perks – including the annual Forum\, exclusive offerings\, and Learning Communities; \n\n\n\nHow to access your SAFSF benefits; \n\n\n\nSAFSF Professional and Leadership Development Pathways; \n\n\n\nTools and resources available to you; \n\n\n\nEvent Preview \n\n\n\n\nThis energizing conversation will excite you for the quarter ahead and expose you to one (or many!) benefits of membership that you were not utilizing to help in maximizing your SAFSF experience. Meet other members\, learn the SAFSF processes\, and get engaged! This event is a free\, SAFSF member only event. Interested in SAFSF membership? Email us. (membership@safsf.org) \n\n\n\n\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/maximize-your-membership-q2/
CATEGORIES:Member Only,Webinars
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SUMMARY:Last Chance to Register for the 2025 SAFSF Forum
DESCRIPTION:The SAFSF Forum is a unique conference for the full spectrum of funders—including philanthropy\, investors\, community finance\, and intermediaries—to engage with peers\, movement leaders\, and practitioners across the country around a shared mission for equitable and sustainable food and agriculture.   \n\n\n\nWe are gathering at Tamaya Resort\, which is located on sovereign Santa Ana Pueblo land\, June 9-12. Join us for skill building\, networking\, and leadership development in food and agriculture systems change. \n\n\n\nRegistration Rates\n\n\n\nWe are offering a 5% discount on registration for groups of 3 or more when registered and paid in one transaction. The discount will not apply if each person registers and pays separately. \n\n\n\nFood System Partner registration is an SAFSF member benefit. Each SAFSF member organization is entitled to invite one representative of an organization that they are sponsoring to attend the Forum. Email membership@safsf.org for questions about this member benefit.  \n\n\n\nWe are offering a 5% discount on registration for groups of 3 or more when registered and paid in one transaction. The discount will not apply if each person registers and pays separately. \n\n\n\nFood System Partner (FSP) registration is an SAFSF member benefit. Each SAFSF member organization is entitled to invite one representative of an organization that they are sponsoring to attend the Forum. Please log in to the SAFSF Member Portal for the FSP registration code.  If you have questions about this member benefit email membership@safsf.org.  \n\n\n\nEarly bird registration closed April 28\, 2025.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFunders who have been selected to organize Forum sessions are expected to cover travel and accommodations of their (non-funder) speakers\, as well as a meaningful honoraria for their time and expertise. Registration fees will be waived for non-funder speakers confirmed prior to April 15\, 2025. Funder speakers will receive a code for a discounted (member) registration rate. New this year\, SAFSF has a limited budget to support scholarships for up to 20 community-based leaders who are speaking in plenary and program sessions. Scholarships have been distributed and this information has been communicated to organizers. \n\n\n\n\nREGISTER\n\n\n\nMAIN FORUM PAGE\n\n\n\nFAQs
URL:https://www.agandfoodfunders.org/event/2025-forum-registration-deadline/
CATEGORIES:Deadlines,Forum Networking,In Person Gathering,SAFSF Forum
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SUMMARY:Solidarity in Action: Strategies for Power-Building in Anti-Immigrant Environments
DESCRIPTION:This webinar is hosted by Grantmakers Concerned with Immigrants and Refugees and co-sponsored by Economic Opportunity Funders\, Northern California Grantmakers\, Philanthropy New York\, and Sustainable Agriculture and Food Systems Funders. \n\n\n\nThe federal administration’s consolidation of power and scapegoating of migrant populations and other historically marginalized communities have presented staggering challenges for immigrant-serving organizations. There are many lessons we can learn from community-based groups that operate in this type of hostile environment. They have also built power in geographies with other low-paid workers or workers of color and have formed coalitions across social justice movements for the liberation of all. \n\n\n\nJoin GCIR to learn how multi-issue groups working to build an inclusive multiracial democracy are deploying strategies that address the needs of migrant communities in an increasingly hostile environment. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeakers:\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSofía Verónica Montez\, Legal Fellow\, Project South\n\n\n\nBorn and raised in Caracas\, Venezuela\, Sofía (they / them) is a 2023 graduate at UNC School of Law aiming to grow as a movement lawyer for grassroots efforts countering the inhumane violence and displacement inflicted by Western imperialism. Sofía joined Project South as a J.D. Pathways Fellow to advance our ongoing and emerging projects for justice\, including legal advocacy for basic utilities such as water\, gas\, and electricity for all regardless of citizen status or lack of social security documentation. During law school\, Sofía supported immigrants’\, labor\, and housing rights through their service as a Certified Legal Intern at the UNC Civil Legal Assistance Clinic and as a Special Trips Coordinator for the UNC Pro Bono Board\, informed by their developing experiences as a Fellow for the Peggy Browning Fund\, as an intern for the Equal Justice Center and for Project South\, and as an extern for Sur Legal Collaborative. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAmanda Weaver\, Network Power Building Director\, People’s Action\n\n\n\nAmanda is the Network Power Building Director for People’s Action\, the nation’s largest network of member-based\, grassroots power-building organizations working for social\, economic and racial justice\, with 40 affiliates in 38 states and more than a million members. \n\n\n\nShe is a community organizer\, trainer and director who has over a decade of experience building campaigns and programming with communities across Cook County IL and nationally across multiple states. She has experience and expertise in building electoral and community based organization to make concrete change for working people’s lives\, and to elect working people to office. She has a passion for building community resilience and connection across differences. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSteven Wu\, Organizing and Policy Director\, Woori Juntos\n\n\n\nSteven is the Director of Organizing & Policy at Woori Juntos\, bringing expertise in policy development and community engagement. \n\n\n\nAt Woori Juntos\, Steven oversees organizing and policy initiatives\, building on experience as Manager\, Organizing & Policy. Their work supports the organization’s commitment to ensuring access to health and social services for Asians\, immigrants\, and all Texans\, while also promoting civic engagement to foster equity and justice. Steven contributes to the organization’s advocacy efforts and supports its mission to address structural challenges faced by communities. \n\n\n\nDrawing on a background in research and policy analysis\, Steven previously served as a Health Policy Associate at Scholars Strategy Network. In this role\, they contributed to addressing public challenges and increasing the accessibility of research findings. \n\n\n\nTheir work history includes a role as Research Assistant at Georgia Tech\, demonstrating applied knowledge of scientific principles. Steven holds a Bachelor of Science degree from Georgia Institute of Technology. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nModerator:\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDeepa Iyer\, Senior Director\, Strategic Initiatives\, Building Movement Project\n\n\n\nDeepa Iyer is a South Asian American writer\, strategist\, and lawyer. Her work is rooted in Asian American\, South Asian\, Muslim\, and Arab communities where she spent fifteen years in policy advocacy and coalition building in the wake of the September 11th attacks and ensuing backlash. Currently\, Deepa leads projects on solidarity and social movements at the Building Movement Project\, a national nonprofit organization that catalyzes social change through research\, strategic partnerships\, and resources for movements and nonprofits. She conducts workshops and trainings\, uplifts narratives through the Solidarity Is This podcast\, and facilitates solidarity strategy for cohorts and networks. Previously\, she has held positions at Race Forward\, South Asian Americans Leading Together\, the US Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division\, the Asian Pacific American Legal Resource Center\, and the Asian American Justice Center. \n\n\n\nDeepa’s first book\, We Too Sing America: South Asian\, Arab\, Muslim\, and Sikh Immigrants Shape Our Multiracial Future (The New Press\, 2015)\, chronicles community-based histories in the wake of 9/11 and received a 2016 American Book Award. Deepa’s most recent book (2022)\, a guide based on the social change ecosystem map that she created\, is called Social Change Now: A Guide for Reflection and Connection. Her debut children’s picture book\, We Are The Builders!\, was released in the fall of 2024. \n\n\n\nDeepa serves on the advisory council of the Emergent Fund. She has been an adjunct professor in Asian American Studies and Public Policy programs. Deepa is an immigrant who moved to Kentucky from Kerala (India) when she was twelve years old. She graduated from the University of Notre Dame Law School and Vanderbilt University.
URL:https://www.agandfoodfunders.org/event/solidarity-in-action-strategies-for-power-building-in-anti-immigrant-environments/
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SUMMARY:Small Funders Learning Community Call: Responding in the Moment
DESCRIPTION:This is a space for SAFSF members who identify as small funders to explore collective insights and discuss how our unique strengths can drive meaningful change. Together\, let’s reflect on our journey\, lessons learned\, and explore our paths forward in this moment. \n\n\n\nDuring this call\, we will explore: \n\n\n\n\nHow have you responded to the federal administrative changes?\n\n\n\nWhat do you think is most needed now\, both for small funders and from small funders?\n\n\n\n\nWhether you have been part of this Learning Community for a while or are new to the conversation\, your perspective is valuable and very welcome. We’re looking forward to seeing you and discussing how this community can support small funders at this moment.  \n\n\n\nThis is a SAFSF member-only group. 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/small-funders-learning-community-call-responding-in-the-moment/
CATEGORIES:Member Only,Webinars
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