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Virtual Farewell Celebration for Virginia Clarke

Join us for a virtual celebration of Virginia Clarke. Virginia has served as SAFSF's founding executive director for over 20 years and will be stepping down this December. Bring a cup of tea, a glass of champagne, some chocolates, tissues, whatever feels right as we toast to her incredible leadership. All who love and wish

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Catalyzing Funder Support for Food Policy Councils: Effective Spaces for Policy Change

Building equitable and resilient local food systems requires coordination of community efforts across and beyond the food system. Food policy councils help fulfill this role for over 300 jurisdictions across the U.S., serving as containers for civic engagement, community leadership, and policy change through the lens of food. These councils are diverse in their goals,

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[RESCHEDULED] In the Kitchen Call: Year-End Reflections

These SAFSF member-only calls are designed to evoke the warmth, nourishment, and welcomeness you feel when you are “in the kitchen”. Join fellow SAFSF members for bi-monthly calls to learn about each others’ work, discuss various topics, and build community. Join us as we look back at all that we've accomplished together in 2023. Let's

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Members-Only: Small Funders Learning Community

After the small/medium funder structured networking session at the SAFSF 2023 Forum in Washington DC, we saw continued interest that our members who identify as "small funders" would like more opportunities to connect and learn from one another. We have been brainstorming ways for this group to continue connecting and, with the help of a

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In the Kitchen Call: Indigenous Food Systems Working Group Reflections

Join fellow SAFSF members of the Indigenous Food Systems Working Group for their reflections and takeaways from their year of peer learning. The IFS Working Group has been a continued opportunity for those in our first cohort of the Indigenous Food Systems Community of Practice to deepen their understanding and to work collaboratively to remove

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SAFSF Maximize Your Membership

New to SAFSF? Long time member but haven’t been making use of the many resources available to members? Join us for our Maximize Your Membership orientation webinar! We’ll help you connect to new staff, other members, and help you discover how to make use of the incredible peer leadership and learning possible with our members.

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Taking Power Back: Food Policies to Curb Predatory Marketing in New York

Hosted by Community Food Funders Co-sponsored by New York Health Foundation, Philanthropy New York,and Sustainable Agriculture and Food System Funders Briefing: 1-2:30pm ET: Online In many communities of color across the five boroughs, it’s no mistake that McDonald’s outlets outnumber grocery stores. Marketers of processed food spend billions of dollars to manipulate the local food

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MO Funder Briefing on the Farm Bill (with Philanthropy Missouri)

Connecting food production, nutrition, and natural resources, Congress has passed Farm Bill legislation regularly since the 1930s. Every five years, the bill expires and is updated. The current bill was enacted in 2018 and scheduled to expire this year. What is the status of the Farm Bill? And what does this mean for Missouri?  PhilMO

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Opportunities in Good Food Purchasing: Learning from Peer Funders

This webinar is co-hosted by SAFSF, The Rockefeller Foundation, and W.K. Kellogg Foundation. The quickly expanding field of Good Food Purchasing offers a breadth of opportunities for social and environmental impact and systems change, with many entry points for funders. Whether you’re new to good food purchasing or have been in this space for a

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April In the Kitchen Call: Redefining Risk

These SAFSF member-only calls are designed to evoke the warmth, nourishment, and welcomeness you feel when you are “in the kitchen”. Join fellow SAFSF members for bi-monthly calls to learn about each others’ work, discuss various topics, and build community. How do we define risk? What does risk really mean when it comes to grantmaking

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