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Join Our Community by December 2

December 2, 2024
For over 20 years, SAFSF has been home to hundreds of philanthropic and investment organizations moving capital toward a more just and sustainable food system. This has…

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December Health Funders Learning Community Call

December 5, 2024
Join us Thursday, December 5 for our next Health Funders Learning Community call. This SAFSF member-only call is an excellent opportunity to connect with fellow members funding…

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Grantmaking Strategies to Support Effective Policy Advocacy—Bolder Advocacy Series

December 11, 2024
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…

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December RFI Open House

December 12, 2024
To support potential collaborators in developing their ideas, we will be offering brief sessions to review the process, discuss Frequently Asked Questions, and answer anything else still…

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Join Our Community by December 2
December 2, 2024
For over 20 years, SAFSF has been home to hundreds of philanthropic and investment organizations moving capital toward a more just and sustainable food system. This has…

Learn More ›

December Health Funders Learning Community Call
December 5, 2024
Join us Thursday, December 5 for our next Health Funders Learning Community call. This SAFSF member-only call is an excellent opportunity to connect with fellow members funding…

Learn More ›

Grantmaking Strategies to Support Effective Policy Advocacy—Bolder Advocacy Series
December 11, 2024
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…

Learn More ›

December RFI Open House
December 12, 2024
To support potential collaborators in developing their ideas, we will be offering brief sessions to review the process, discuss Frequently Asked Questions, and answer anything else still…

Learn More ›

Recent News

SAFSF’s Election Response

The evening of Election Day, I stepped outside in time to witness a sky full of birds returning to their nesting place for the evening. The sky was stunning, showing off the best of LA sunset colors, and filled with bird flight. That night, I paused with recognition that no matter who is elected president, the birds will keep gliding to and fro with the movements of the sun. Our relationship with land shows us the abundant ecosystems that nurture and sustain us, across time and space. As Daniel Hunter wrote in his excellent article in Waging Nonviolence, “On the days when I can’t sense any of these political possibilities…I zoom out further to the…

Hurricane Helene & Milton Response

As we’ve seen in the news, devastating hurricanes have swept the East Coast, leaving communities in the wake of destruction, with more tropical storms predicted on the horizon. In the face of the challenging circumstances, private philanthropy and community groups are stepping up to aid in recovery and resilience. In response, our team has put together a resource page on our website collecting all the outlets for supporting hurricane relief right now. Please contact Communications Director, Maggie Mosley, if you have anything to add to this list. Federal Support and Shared Resources  Applying for Disaster Assistance: People in designated counties can apply for FEMA assistance in three ways: online by…

Addressing the Roots: Helpful tool for moving from charity to sovereignty

Phoebe Gooding, SAFSF Program Director, attended RAFI’s Come to the Table Conference: Food, Land, and Sacred Stories earlier this month. She shares short reflections from a workshop she attended that led her to dig deeper into what food charity, justice, and sovereignty are all about. Earlier this month, I attended Come to the Table: Food, Land and Sacred Stories, a conference hosted by Rural Advancement Foundation International (RAFI) where I participated in a workshop titled: Food Charity, Food Justice, Food Rights and Food Sovereignty—What is it all About?. Our facilitators, Chelsea Marshall, and Alison Cohen, led us through an exercise and discussion using a food systems change continuum they developed…

Navigating the Future of Aquaculture: Insights from Recent Convenings on Sustainable Seafood

Maggie Mascarenhas, SAFSF Public Policy Manager, this past May joined the GRACE Communications Foundation, Don’t Cage Our Oceans, many stakeholders in the fishing community, including members of the Gullah/Geechee Nation, in Savannah, Georgia at the kickoff event for a resource development project known as the Aquaculture Atlas. Later, in July, she joined Don’t Cage Our Oceans, State Innovation Exchange, state legislators from across the U.S., and members of the Duwamish Tribe and Suquamish Tribe in Seattle, Washington to discuss state policy opportunities to wrest seafood production from corporate control and support working waterfronts. Below are her reflections and learnings on the extractive nature of current systems, pathways for change, and…