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Sustainable Fibers vs. Fast Fashion: Opportunities to Reshore the U.S. Fiber System

Hosted by SAFSF and The Honorable Chellie Pingree for members of Congress and their staffers Today, nearly two-thirds of all the fibers we wear and use are made from oil. The fashion industry is now responsible for more carbon emissions than all international flights and maritime shipping combined. Over the past several decades, hundreds of

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In the Kitchen Call: SAFSF Network Update

Join SAFSF leadership and your funder peers for our annual membership conversation about who you are, what we’ve accomplished, and where we are headed together. This is where all the information and data you provide to us gets reflected back out to you. We'll share the latest details about: This call is open to SAFSF

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Digging In Virtual Screening

Join us for the first virtual screening of the SAFSF-produced documentary Digging In. This film is designed to help funders understand concentration and consolidation, land access, and climate change and explore the connection these issues have to their work and the work of their grantees. We hope the film will be a tool to start

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The Food-Energy Nexus: Climate Opportunities for Cross-Sector Collaboration

Cohosted by SAFSF, Global Alliance for the Future of Food, Walton Family Foundation, and McKnight Foundation Over the past several decades, strategies to reverse climate change have focused on decarbonizing the most emissions-intensive sectors: nearly three-quarters of global greenhouse gas emissions (GHGs) come from energy use for electricity, heating and transport. Nevertheless, we are expected

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Participatory Grantmaking 101: Funder Peer Learning

Co-hosted by SAFSF and HEFN. The Health and Environmental Funders Network (HEFN) and Sustainable Agriculture and Food Systems Funders (SAFSF) invite you to join an informal conversation to learn from funder peers who are practicing participatory grantmaking (PG). We’ll begin with a brief overview of PG, and how this practice can be used to center

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Building Support for WIC: Opportunities for Philanthropic Advocacy

Co-hosted by SAFSF and Grantmakers in Health (GIH) -- This panel will discuss the current opportunities and challenges facing WIC, including how we can best uplift the voices of WIC clients in the policy conversation, reduce barriers to services, improve the WIC user experience, and ensure the program is adequately funded.

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Digging In Virtual Screening – All Welcome!

Come one, come all! Join us for the an open virtual screening of the SAFSF-produced documentary Digging In. This film is designed to help funders understand concentration and consolidation, land access, and climate change and explore the connection these issues have to their work and the work of their grantees. We hope the film will be a tool to

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Food & Agriculture – Transformative 25 Funds Webinar

Join Transformative 25 on Wednesday, October 18 where we will hear from fund leaders about their work and contributions to transforming finance for people and the planet. Featuring: The Transformative 25 is an annual list of funds, banks and initiatives that are demonstrating the power of integrated capital to reimagine the finance system to work

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Building Community of Practice Around In-Kind Support and Capacity Building

Co-hosted by SAFSF and GRACE Communications Foundation Increasing numbers of philanthropic organizations fund technical aid, increased capacity building, and in-kind support in addition to traditional forms of funding. This type of work can deepen our relationships with our grantee partners, support short-term capacity gaps in the field, and support lower-capacity organizations. This session aims to

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Farmland Access 101: Innovative Strategies toward Landscape Change

Co-hosted by SAFSF and Regenerative Agriculture Foundation Here in the Midwest, farmland access tops the list of barriers facing emerging farmers (which includes those new to farming as well as populations that have farmed outside of the scope of traditional state and federal farmer support programs).  At the same time, many Midwest agricultural communities are

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