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SUMMARY:Breaking Through: Constitutional Solutions to the Environmental Crisis
DESCRIPTION:As climate\, health\, and fundamental rights face attack\, the question is not whether regulation matters\, but how we develop innovative and collaborative tools that deliver lasting protection for people and the planet. \n\n\n\nFor decades\, U.S. environmental protection has relied on a permit-based system to limit pollution.  This approach delivered important gains but wasn’t designed to address today’s cumulative climate harms\, intergenerational rights\, or systemic inequity. Over time\, this system has been corrupted by political and economic pressures favoring industry and short-term interests. The consequences?  Limited power for those most affected\, unequal burdens for poor communities and communities of color\, and few meaningful protections for children and future generations.  \n\n\n\nJoin two long-time leaders in constitutional environmental protection for storytelling\, strategic insights\, and dialogue about how these constitutional approaches deliver durable legal and societal change–and why this moment calls for expanding our collective approach. \n\n\n\nGreen Amendments For The Generations works through civic education and democratic processes to enshrine explicit environmental protections in state constitutions\, and then helps communities enforce them through advocacy and legal action. Our Children’s Trust uses litigation to advance social and legal recognition that these rights already exist–implicit in constitutional guarantees like life\, liberty\, and equality. Together\, these strategies reinforce one another\, creating stronger legal infrastructure that benefits environmental\, public health\, and justice efforts. \n\n\n\nThis work transforms our system at a critical moment by breathing life into the human right to a healthy environment and stable climate system. When their collective work succeeds\, we shift from corporation-profit-pollution frameworks to life-rights-health frameworks—fundamentally changing how agencies operate and becoming a resource for communities and advocates across environmental\, health\, and justice work. \n\n\n\nThis discussion is intended for folks in funding or funder-adjacent roles.  The formal discussion will last 60 minutes\, and speakers will be available an additional 15 minutes for questions. \n\n\n\nThis webinar is hosted by Health and Environmental Funders Network and co-sponsored by Sustainable Agriculture and Food Systems Funders.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nREGISTER\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeakers\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMaya K. van Rossum  \n\n\n\nMaya is the Founder of Green Amendments For the Generations and has also led the 4 state watershed-based advocacy organization\, the Delaware Riverkeeper Network\, for over 30 years. In her role there\, Maya was the lead and only environmental plaintiff in the landmark case that defeated pro fossil fuel fracking legislation\, breathed new life into Pennsylvania’s long ignored environmental rights amendment and became the foundation for the 2014 founding of the national Green Amendment movement and organization. Since then\, New York passed an amendment in 2021 and proposals are now advancing in over 20 additional states\, with half a dozen more on the way\, and there is increasing use of existing Green Amendments in Pennsylvania\, New York and Montana. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMat dos Santos \n\n\n\nMat dos Santos is the Co-Executive Director of Our Children’s Trust\, where they lead organizational strategy advancing constitutional protections for a healthy environment and stable climate. They bring nearly two decades of experience in constitutional\, civil rights\, and complex litigation across public-interest and private-sector settings. Previously\, Mat served as Legal Director of the ACLU of Oregon\, practiced complex litigation at Morrison & Foerster\, and managed global commercial litigation and risk for a multinational pharmaceutical company—experience that informs their systems-level approach to legal and institutional change.
URL:https://www.agandfoodfunders.org/event/breaking-through-constitutional-solutions-to-the-environmental-crisis/
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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\nWelcome Back! As we begin a new year\, this Gather Round is an opportunity for members to reconnect\, reflect\, and ground in community.  \n\n\n\nThis session is lightly facilitated\, creating space to share what’s top of mind as we move into 2026.  Come as you are and share: what you’re carrying forward\, what you’re leaving behind\, and what questions or priorities are emerging in your work.  Join us and listen\, share\, and be in conversation with peers across the SAFSF network. \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-monthly-membership-call/
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SUMMARY:Movement-Aligned Funding Learning Community
DESCRIPTION:Systems change requires a deliberate shift in power. In a landscape where the industrial\, consolidated\, and corporate food system is well-funded\, deeply entrenched\, and politically coordinated\, community-led movements must be equally robust—supported with consistent resources\, strong social infrastructure\, and long-term investment. \n\n\n\nShifting power means centering and following the leadership of those most affected by injustice—Black\, Indigenous\, and People of Color; immigrants; workers; 2SLGBTQIA+ people; women; disabled\, low-income\, poor\, and other urban and rural marginalized communities. Movements for food justice and food sovereignty need sustained investment in the organizing\, coalition-building\, and leadership development that enable communities to build and wield power over time. \n\n\n\nThis requires resources that are distributed nationally\, regionally\, and locally to support base building\, advocacy\, and community-led interventions across local\, state\, Tribal\, and national scales. Social and structural change is only possible when communities have the time\, infrastructure\, and capacity to organize—not just react. \n\n\n\nFunders play a critical role in supporting this work. To be “movement-aligned\,” funders must adapt practices and priorities to the values and leadership of frontline communities. This includes trusting community governance\, supporting grassroots leadership\, sharing decision-making power\, and shifting traditional funder prerogatives—even when it is uncomfortable. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWho Is This For?\n\n\n\nThis quarterly\, peer-led Learning Community is open to all SAFSF members. It is a space for honest dialogue\, where funders can share practices\, mistakes\, uncertainties\, and lessons learned with a shared intention of improving accountability to the communities most impacted by food system injustice. \n\n\n\nWe will read short pieces together and periodically invite movement leaders to ground the conversation. However\, this is not a curriculum-based or exhaustive learning space\, and we recognize that funders must seek learning directly\, in non-extractive ways\, from grassroots organizations and frontline leaders beyond this setting. Rather\, this Learning Community is designed to help funders learn about the principles and mechanics of movement building and do the internal work to be an effective ally.  \n\n\n\nAll SAFSF members are welcome\, and we especially encourage funders who are newer to movement-building or movement-aligned grantmaking or investing to participate. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWhy a Funder-Only Learning Community on Movement-Aligned Funding?\n\n\n\nThis space is intentionally designed for funders because: \n\n\n\n\nFunders need a place to build internal discipline and accountability without placing additional burdens on movement leaders to constantly educate them.\n\n\n\nFunders must examine their own power\, habits\, and practices—work that often requires internal organizing and strategy alignment.\n\n\n\nFunders need to be prepared before meaningfully engaging with movement partners\, so that conversations with frontline leaders are not extractive\, repetitive\, or centering funder needs.\n\n\n\nThis learning community complements—not replaces—direct engagement with movement organizations. The core purpose is to strengthen funders’ readiness to show up better in those relationships.\n\n\n\n\nOur intention is to help funders transform their practices to be accountable partners in multiracial\, frontline-led movements\, not to create a bubble where funders only talk to funders. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLearning Community Goals\n\n\n\n\nLearn about principles of long-term movement building for systems change from experienced practitioners and through the examination of successful examples in food systems context.\n\n\n\nBetter understand investment needs and funding practices that center the leadership of impacted communities\, support movement building\, and community-led food systems transformation.\n\n\n\nLearn and exchange best practices to increase frontline and grassroots organizations’ capacity (e.g.\, time\, financial resources\, communications infrastructure) so they can build leadership and power within the broader movement ecosystem.\n\n\n\nExplore the importance of organizing across the capital spectrum and across different issue areas (e.g.\, health\, food\, climate\, environment) in alignment with frontline communities of color and movement organizations.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBackground and Details \n\n\n\n\nThe idea for this new Learning Community came from two SAFSF Members— Chicago Food Policy Action Council and Michigan State University’s Center for Regional Food Systems—and follows a networking session with both funders and practitioners at the SAFSF Forum in 2025. \n\n\n\n\n\nCalls will not be recorded to facilitate more transparent conversations. \n\n\n\n\n\nPre-meeting reading materials will be shared in advance. \n\n\n\n\n\nWe highly encourage you to attend all sessions in the series to stay connected with your colleagues and incorporate learnings into your work throughout the year\, but you are welcome to join at any point. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThis is a SAFSF member-only series. If you are interested in exploring membership\, please contact our membership team.
URL:https://www.agandfoodfunders.org/event/movement-aligned-funding-learning-community/
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