The Anne Saxelby Legacy Fund provides monthlong paid apprenticeships for young adults to live on sustainable farms — to work, learn, and be inspired to create change in their communities. Our farms range from urban to rural; they produce cheese,...
Food System Focus Area: Urban Agriculture
Industrial Arts Brewing Company – Landscape Lager Series
Since its inception in 2018, Industrial Arts Brewing Company has donated 100% of the profits from the Landscape Lager Series to nonprofit organizations focused on the environmental and agricultural health of communities in the Hudson Valley and beyond. The Landscape...
Fairfield County’s Community Foundation
We are a community foundation focused on southwestern Connecticut. We work with several FCCF donor-advised fundholders who are focused on food security and food equity/access in our region. See our website for more info.
Growing Leaders event, 4/18
For 20 years, East New York Farms! has offered an intensive Youth Internship to build the skills, knowledge, and confidence of youth in East New York. As part of the mission, they have made intentional opportunities to hire and retain youth alumni on staff, creating pathways to positions of power. Join us for a conversation with current staff of ENYF! to learn about how they transitioned from youth participants to program leaders. Funders will learn how they can support organizations to create these pathways and build a movement of leaders who come from the communities they serve.
Foundation for Food and Agriculture Research (FFAR)
We build unique partnerships to support innovative science addressing today’s food and agriculture challenges. With 9.7 billion people projected to populate the world by 2050, our food system must evolve. Sustainably nourishing the growing global community demands transformative discoveries from...
B. Robert Williamson Jr. Foundation
We focus on the education and empowerment of young people.
Impact Fairfield County
Impact Fairfield County is a collective giving circle that engages women of Fairfield County, Connecticut in local philanthropy on a deeper level. We unite women by together providing large, transformational grants to local non-profits. We strive to reach the underserved...
Recap: Urban Agriculture & Social Justice Activism
On October 5th, CFF hosted a reception called Urban Agriculture & Social Justice Activism to celebrate the launch of a new book, Beyond the Kale: Urban Agriculture and Social Justice Activism in New York City by Kristin Reynolds and Nevin Cohen. You can find a video recording of the briefing below.
Urban Agriculture & Social Justice Activism, 10/5
A new book by Kristin Reynolds and Nevin Cohen, Beyond the Kale: Urban Agriculture and Social Justice in New York City, argues that urban agricultural projects focused explicitly on dismantling oppressive systems have the greatest potential to achieve substantive social change. Please join us for a casual evening of wine and cheese and a discussion with the authors of Beyond The Kale.
Recap: South Bronx Learning Tour
On August 4th, CFF and Philanthropy New York hosted a day-long South Bronx Learning Tour to highlight people and organizations using food as a vehicle to bring residents together and catalyze change in their neighborhoods. Twenty-five funders participated in the bus tour that included six stops and nine organizations across the South Bronx. Working on issues such as restorative justice, female empowerment, youth development, economic development, health and nutrition, and more, these groups were growing food, cooking meals, working with bodegas, running farmers’ markets, and creating buying clubs to achieve their goals.