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Funding Policy Advocacy in 2025: Reflections, Takeaways, and Next Steps—Bolder Advocacy Series

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 with Alliance for Justice’s Bolder Advocacy Program, these 4-sessions will provide funders with practical information and skill building opportunities in supporting election season advocacy and policymaker engagement, and

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2025 Locus Learning Exchange

Hosted by Locus at the Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden in Virginia as well as virtually Courageous Financing: Collaborating for High Impact Projects Join us for an engaging discussion that will unpack key takeaways from a recent collaborative investment that will drive food system change in central Virginia. During the keynote, you’ll hear from Clare Fox,

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Funder Briefing on New Research about Americans’ Perception of the Food System and CAFOs

Join us for a briefing about new research, including national surveys and hours of qualitative interviews exploring American attitudes on the state of the food system, particularly their perceptions of the industrial meat and dairy industry.  In early 2024, several organizations working to improve the food system engaged the Topos Partnership to better understand people’s

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Responding to the Federal Funding Crisis: What Farmers and Connected Nonprofits are Experiencing and What Funders Can Do

This conversation is co-sponsored by Funders for Regenerative Agriculture. Join SAFSF for a critical conversation about the immediate and long-term impacts of the federal funding freeze on farmers and connected nonprofits. An expert panel of farming advocates and policy specialists will break down: We also encourage you to review the following resources developed by Dãnia

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Maximize Your Membership Q1

Coming to you in a new format, Maximize Your Membership is an orientation for SAFSF members. If you are a new member, new staff at a long-time SAFSF member organization, or simply looking for a refresher on SAFSF programming or member benefits, join us to learn how to make the most of your membership!  Clare Fox, Executive

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Member Strategy Call – Funder Response to Federal Impacts: Ways to Support Funded Partners

Nonprofits and community organizations in food and agriculture are navigating uncertainty, increased demands for their services, fear of heightened scrutiny, and lost or delayed funding due to recent Trump administration policy priorities and federal funding freezes.  SAFSF is hosting a strategy call to explore how funders are responding to these situations and what they are

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Food Labor Justice: Protecting Rights and Building Worker Power

Co-sponsored by Funders for Regenerative Agriculture, Grantmakers Concerned with Immigrants and Refugees, and Health and Environmental Funders Network. As the Trump administration escalates attacks on immigrant communities and weaponizes immigration enforcement at workplaces, frontline food system workers across the country face increasing threats to their safety, livelihoods, and labor rights. A new report from Food

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Seeding Power: Food Justice Leadership & Movement Building

Hosted by Community Food FundersCo-sponsored by Philanthropy New York and SAFSF Location: North Star Fund, 520 8th Ave, Rm 1800, NYC(streaming on Zoom also available) Community Food Funders is gearing up to launch the next cohort of our Seeding Power Fellowship! Following a comprehensive redesign and successful pilot of the new program last year, they are building on

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Two Months Into the New Administration: How Food & Ag Movement Leaders Are Responding and How Philanthropy Can Support

In December 2024, we hosted a webinar with an expert panel to understand potential concerns regarding the incoming Administration. Unfortunately, many of those concerns have come to fruition. Now, because of the USDA's freeze and termination of hundreds of millions of dollars of contracts to farmers and farm organizations, many nonprofits are in fiscal crisis. 

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