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Fresh Perspective: Food, Equity and Community Development Funders’ Bus Tour

Please join The California Wellness Foundation, Kaiser Permanente, the Los Angeles Food Policy Council, the Los Angeles Funders’ Collaborative, Sustainable Agriculture & Food Systems Funders (SAFSF) and Southern California Grantmakers for a funders-only bus tour in South Los Angeles to explore how food can be a powerful driver of equity and community economic development. Food

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Removing Structural Barriers for the Next Generation of Farmers: Land, Capital, Gender, and Race

Sponsored by Leichtag Foundation Click here to listen to the webinar recording and view the presentation slides. Resources mentioned during the call include:– Young farmers are the least diverse – and smallest – group of farmers in the country (Link) – How knowledge deficit interventions fail to resolve beginning farmer challenges (Link) – After the

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Removing Structural Barriers for the Next Generation of Farmers: Land, Capital, Gender, and Race

Sponsored by Leichtag Foundation Click here to listen to the webinar recording and view the presentation slides. Resources mentioned during the call include:– Young farmers are the least diverse – and smallest – group of farmers in the country (Link) – How knowledge deficit interventions fail to resolve beginning farmer challenges (Link) – After the

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Transformative Strategies for Climate-Friendly Livestock Production

Sponsored by GRACE Communications FoundationCo-sponsored by Environmental Grantmakers Association The rise in intensifying natural disasters like Hurricane Florence brings a new sense of urgency in re-thinking climate change. By 2050, all sectors of the economy must get on a 1.5 degree Celsius (2.7 degree Fahrenheit) global warming pathway to secure a future for humanity. Food

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Transformative Strategies for Climate-Friendly Livestock Production

Sponsored by GRACE Communications FoundationCo-sponsored by Environmental Grantmakers Association The rise in intensifying natural disasters like Hurricane Florence brings a new sense of urgency in re-thinking climate change. By 2050, all sectors of the economy must get on a 1.5 degree Celsius (2.7 degree Fahrenheit) global warming pathway to secure a future for humanity. Food

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Food Certification Programs for Farmworker Justice

Food Certification Programs for Farmworker JusticeThursday, November 1, 201812 – 2pm ET North Star Fund, 520 8th Ave, Suite 1800, NYCLunch will be provided Livestreaming is availableCo-sponsored by the Sustainable Agriculture and Food Systems Funders (SAFSF)Although the backbone of our food system, farmworkers are often marginalized in discussions about food and agriculture. Despite the upsurge

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Food Certification Programs for Farmworker Justice

Food Certification Programs for Farmworker JusticeThursday, November 1, 201812 – 2pm ET North Star Fund, 520 8th Ave, Suite 1800, NYCLunch will be provided Livestreaming is availableCo-sponsored by the Sustainable Agriculture and Food Systems Funders (SAFSF)Although the backbone of our food system, farmworkers are often marginalized in discussions about food and agriculture. Despite the upsurge

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Will Opportunity Zones Benefit Marginalized Communities?

Hosted by SAFSF and Confluence Philanthropy Read a recap of the webinar - Confluence Philanthropy Blog PostThe Opportunity Zone program that was created as part of the 2017 federal tax reform unlocks up to $6.1 trillion of unrealized capital gains for investment in marginalized communities by providing substantial tax benefits to investors. As early funds

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Will Opportunity Zones Benefit Marginalized Communities?

Hosted by SAFSF and Confluence Philanthropy Read a recap of the webinar - Confluence Philanthropy Blog PostThe Opportunity Zone program that was created as part of the 2017 federal tax reform unlocks up to $6.1 trillion of unrealized capital gains for investment in marginalized communities by providing substantial tax benefits to investors. As early funds

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Diving Deeper: Opportunities for Philanthropy and Rural & Small-Town America

Co-sponsored by Philanthropy Southwest The demographics of rural America are changing: nine out of ten rural areas are more ethnically diverse than they were 20 years ago. Many who live and work in rural communities are striving to promote participatory civic engagement, challenge structural inequity and racism, and foster transition to economies that sustain both

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