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SUMMARY:Responding to H.R. 1: Funder Opportunity to Help States Mitigate SNAP Coverage Losses
DESCRIPTION:Co-Hosts: Sustainable Agriculture and Food Systems Funders and Grantmakers In Health.  \n\n\n\nH.R. 1’s unprecedented requirement that states pay for a share of SNAP benefits based on their payment error rates will impose a massive financial burden on state budgets\, forcing them to choose between cutting other programs and services\, reducing SNAP eligibility\, or even stopping participation in SNAP entirely.  \n\n\n\nTo mitigate this threat\, the Aspen Institute’s Financial Security Program and Social Finance have partnered to develop a proposal to help states effectively implement H.R. 1 and reduce some of the coverage losses and fiscal impacts. The concept\, based on a successful model that supported states during Medicaid Unwinding\, is to deploy small teams of digital services and process design experts directly to states or counties (depending on the type of SNAP administration).  \n\n\n\nThis proposal is an outgrowth of many conversations\, including those as part of the SAFSF-GIH SNAP Funder Working Group\, between advocates\, state and county offices\, funders\, and many more. It is one of many essential strategies to ensure that millions of Americans continue to have access to SNAP.  \n\n\n\nPlease join this briefing to learn more about this timely intervention.  \n\n\n\nThis call is open to all funders currently responding to or actively considering a response to SNAP cuts. Funders do not need to be members of any of the co-hosting funder networks – if you are wrestling with the impact of SNAP cuts for your communities\, this space is for you. Please register below.
URL:https://www.agandfoodfunders.org/event/responding-to-h-r-1-funder-opportunity-to-help-states-mitigate-snap-coverage-losses/
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SUMMARY:SNAP Strategy Funder Working Group: Strategic Communications Opportunities
DESCRIPTION:Sustainable Agriculture and Food Systems Funders and Grantmakers In Health are forming a funder Working Group to coordinate a strategic response to the SNAP cuts in H.R. 1. The Working Group is an actionable response to insights shared by field leaders in a SNAP-focused webinar last October.  \n\n\n\nRecognizing the far-reaching implications of SNAP for food security\, health\, and economic equity\, this Working Group will serve as an information hub and a strategic coordination space\, designed to help funders act quickly\, effectively\, and in alignment with one another. We will organize three meetings to start and then assess next steps. The first two Working Group calls highlighted advocacy opportunities and training and technical assistance opportunities.  \n\n\n\nOur upcoming Working Group Call will focus on strategic communications opportunities. Elizabeth Wenk\, Principal and Managing Director\, and Nick Seaver\, Senior Vice President and Co-Director of Training Programs at Burness\, will share new insights from message testing about SNAP that highlights messaging that moves audiences\, insights on which arguments resonate and counter opponents\, and how different groups respond to these messages. The State Innovation Exchange (SiX) Food\, Agriculture\, and Rural Economies team will also share what they are hearing from state legislators advocating for SNAP\, and how funders can support state policymakers’ efforts to protect the program. \n\n\n\nThis Working Group is open to all funders currently responding to or actively considering a response to SNAP cuts. Funders do not need to be members of SAFSF or GIH; if you are wrestling with the impact of SNAP cuts on the communities you serve\, this space is for you.  \n\n\n\nIntelligence Gathering with Experts\n\n\n\n\nAlabama State Senator Merika Coleman (D-19)\n\n\n\nElizabeth Wenk\, Principal and Managing Director\, U.S.\, Burness\n\n\n\nNick Seaver\, Senior Vice President and Co-Director of Training Programs\, Burness\n\n\n\nJennie Day-Burget\, Senior Communications Officer\, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation\n\n\n\nState Innovation Exchange (SiX) Food\, Agriculture\, and Rural Economies team
URL:https://www.agandfoodfunders.org/event/snap-strategy-funder-working-group-strategic-communications-opportunities/
CATEGORIES:Webinars
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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\nIn times of crisis\, our values can be the anchor that guides how we show up for one another. Alumni of the Indigenous Food Systems Community of Practice are invited to join this virtual session\, where we will explore how funders and community leaders come together to respond in ways that are aligned with shared principles and centered on community needs. Participants will reflect on how they are partnering with grantees and local stakeholders to meet the moment and strengthen collective impact. \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-2/
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SUMMARY:From Fossil Fuels to Toxic Pesticides: Connecting Corporate Control\, Climate\, and Environmental Health
DESCRIPTION:Co-Hosts: Funders for Regenerative Agriculture (FORA)\, Health and Environmental Funders Network (HEFN)\, Sustainable Agriculture and Food System Funders (SAFSF)\, and URSA Collective.  \n\n\n\nEverybody needs to eat. We believe that everyone wants a healthier food system\, but just need to be convinced it’s possible. We’ll show how the story of paraquat can build a drumbeat for broader narratives appealing to a wide audience\, such as: \n\n\n\n\nCorporate consolidation is driving farmers to the brink;\n\n\n\nFarming without synthetic pesticides can be more profitable over time\, and helps farmers regain independence from agrochemical conglomerates;\n\n\n\nAgricultural and industrial advocacy communities can organize together against the harms and massive profits of the four largest agrochemical companies. Together we are more powerful than we think\, and new audiences are interested in our messages.\n\n\n\n\nAt this funder briefing\, we encourage a robust discussion on how we can tell impactful stories together\, and advance a collective agenda for sustainable agriculture that values human health and dignity over corporate profits. \n\n\n\nThis session on the intersection of industrial and agrochemical corporate control\, climate impacts\, and environmental health inequities will showcase the findings of the recently released Phase 1 report\, Designed to Kill: Who Profits from Paraquat?\, and an accompanying storymap that illustrates the full lifecycle of the synthetic pesticide paraquat\, from fossil fuel extraction to transport to chemical manufacturing\, application\, and resulting exposure. These campaign materials are part of a broad systems approach that help coalitions “bust out of silos” between industrial and agricultural chemical issues\, and domestic and international chemicals campaigning\, while bringing pesticides into the climate conversation. \n\n\n\nPhase 2 of the work will launch a power-building campaign focused on the need to hold giant agrochemical companies accountable for their harms to people and climate across national borders. Our movement needs to go beyond communicating and organizing for individual pesticide bans and motivate root changes to our food system. \n\n\n\nThis discussion is intended for folks in funding or funder-adjacent roles. \n\n\n\n\nREGISTER\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeakers\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAnn Thrupp\n\n\n\nSenior Program Officer\, Clif Family Foundation\nANN THRUPP has extensive experience in sustainable\, organic\, equitable and regenerative agriculture and food systems in the United States and internationally. For more than 35 years\, she has been a pioneer working on the intersection of agriculture\, ecology\, food security\, social justice\, and public health. Ann has held leadership positions in non-profit organizations\, government\, academia\, business\, and now philanthropy.  \n\n\n\nShe is currently working as Senior Program Officer of Food Systems Transformation for the Clif Family Foundation. In 2022-23 she was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship to conduct research about pesticide use in banana production in Costa Rica. Ann previously served as the Director of the California Food is Medicine Coalition (2019-2022) and was founding Executive Director of the Berkeley Food Institute at the University of California Berkeley from 2013-2019. Prior to that\, she was Manager of Sustainability and Organic Development at Fetzer and Bonterra Vineyards for 11 years (2003-2013). She also worked for several years with the Environmental Protection Agency’s Agriculture Initiative in the Western Region office\, and for 10 years\, was Director of Sustainable Agriculture at World Resources Institute\, leading projects in Latin America and other regions of the world. \n\n\n\nAnn has a PhD and Master’s degree from Sussex University in England (with Marshall and Fulbright scholarships)\, a BA from Stanford University (Phi Beta Kappa)\, with double majors in Human Biology and Latin American Studies. She has more than 75 publications\, including three books (with two as co-author)\, and has served on boards of non-profit organization and advisory committees in the field. She is a graduate of the California Agricultural Leadership Program and is fluent in Spanish. She is an avid runner (and was an All-American cross-country runner at Stanford University) and enjoys gardening\, music\, and creative writing. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDiedre Nelms\n\n\n\nDirector of Communications\, Coming Clean\nDeidre is the Director of Communications for Coming Clean. She provides consistent framing\, messaging\, and promotion of Coming Clean’s work and that of strategic partner\, the Environmental Justice Health Alliance for Chemical Policy reform\, across communication channels including mass media\, social media\, websites\, and internal network communications.With a Master’s degree in philosophy\, Deidre was previously communications organizer for a graduate union local and taught environmental ethics at Georgetown University. She now lives in Kansas City\, Missouri. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAmy Tamayo\n\n\n\nNational Policy and Advocacy Director\, Alianza Nacional de Campesinas\, Inc.\nAmy is the National Policy and Advocacy Director at Alianza Nacional de Campesinas\, Inc.\, where she strategizes and advocates alongside farmworker women in advancing their policy priorities in the areas of immigration\, environmental justice and pesticides\, workers’ rights\, and ending violence against women. Prior to joining Alianza\, Amy was a Justice Catalyst legal fellow at Centro de los Derechos del Migrante\, where she focused on challenging labor abuse and discrimination migrant workers face during recruitment and in the workplace. Amy has a Juris Doctor from American University Washington College of Law\, and has over 10 years of experience working on intersectional issues in women’ s rights. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCristóbal Lagunas\n\n\n\nOrganizing Lead\, Pesticide Action & Agroecology Network\nCristóbal is Organizing Lead for Pesticide Action & Agroecology Network. Cris is a strategist\, and organizer currently based in Boston\, MA. His work is rooted in the belief that our people hold the power to transform the world when we move together. Born in Chile and shaped by the immigrant struggle in the U.S.\, Cris has spent years organizing alongside frontline communities fighting for immigrant rights\, climate justice\, and Just Transition. Whether it’s building narrative power\, crafting campaigns\, or showing up in the streets\, Cris brings heart\, humor\, and deep commitment to the work of collective liberation.
URL:https://www.agandfoodfunders.org/event/from-fossil-fuels-to-toxic-pesticides-connecting-corporate-control-climate-and-environmental-health/
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SUMMARY:Gather Round: Making Space to Connect
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\nIn February\, Gather Round will hold space during Black History Month with an emphasis on presence\, storytelling\, and connection. We’ll begin with a brief grounding and a short film highlighting Black farming and land stewardship\, offering a moment to reflect on the living legacy of Black agrarian leadership. From there\, we’ll move into breakout discussions on community care\, sustainability in our work\, and learning and unlearning. We will also have an open\, unprompted shared space for conversation.  \n\n\n\nThis gathering is an invitation to plant seeds together as we look ahead to gathering in Savannah\, Georgia\, later this year\, and to continue holding history\, care\, and community at the center of our work. \n\n\n\nThis event is designed for SAFSF members. Registering below will automatically register you for Gather Round each month.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\nTo register for Gather Round\, you must be logged in and a member of SAFSF. \nPlease log in or register for an account.
URL:https://www.agandfoodfunders.org/event/gather-round-making-space-to-connect/
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SUMMARY:Withstanding the Assault: Strategies for Philanthropy to Support Frontline Organizations and the Communities Most Impacted
DESCRIPTION:Even the most pessimistic among us were not adequately prepared for this past year’s multi-pronged federal attack on the health and wellbeing of disadvantaged farmers\, new immigrants\, SNAP recipients\, and the organizations that advocate for these diverse communities and the ecosystems that we depend on. These challenges have been ratcheted up in 2026\, with a farm economy spiraling toward crisis and skyrocketing food insecurity compounded by ICE activities in Minneapolis and other cities. This webinar\, organized by the Food & Farm Democracy Initiative (FFDI)\, is an opportunity for funders to hear from frontline organizations\, some that are focused on policy advocacy and others that are addressing the hardships created by this Administration. One year in\, panelists will share how their organizations and communities are responding to support farmers\, ranchers\, and families and how they are anticipating what comes next. These panelists\, as well as leaders from the FFDI founding organizations (National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition\, RAFI\, Red Clover Collaborative\, and Regenerative Agriculture Foundation)\, will also ground-truth how philanthropy can effectively respond to this reality.  \n\n\n\nIn addition to FFDI\, this webinar is co-sponsored by the Sustainable Agriculture & Food Systems Funders\, Health & Environment Funders Network\, Rural Climate Partnership\, and the Platform for Agriculture and Climate Transformation. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeakers\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJohn Benedict \n\n\n\nFarmer\, Desert Sky Produce \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nZoe Hollomon\n\n\n\nMidwest Farmers of Color Collective \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJohnElla Holmes\n\n\n\nKansas Black Farmers Association \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nHannah Kinney Smith\n\n\n\nPasa Sustainable Agriculture
URL:https://www.agandfoodfunders.org/event/withstanding-the-assault-strategies-for-philanthropy-to-support-frontline-organizations-and-the-communities-most-impacted/
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