CFF is proud to announce the sixteen organizations chosen to receive a grant from the CFF 2020 Food Movement Support Fund.
The Fund invited applications from organizations in NY, NJ, and CT that are led by people most impacted by food injustice and working towards systemic change. The selection committee was blown away by the amazing work represented in the 148 applications we received.
You can read about the grantees below, and on this online map. You can also watch a webinar from October in which we discuss how and why the Fund was created, and highlight the work of each grantee.
Alianza Agricola is New York State’s only worker-founded, worker-led grassroots organized group of undocumented immigrant dairy farmworkers.
BK ROT is New York City’s first community-supported, bike- powered, fossil fuel free food waste hauling and composting service based in Bushwick, Brooklyn. Our project is staffed by local youth and young people, the next generation of environmental leaders.
Black Farmer Fund is an emerging community investment fund governed by Black food actors that invests in Black farmers
and food system actors across New York State to create a more equitable food and farm economy.
Brandworkers New Jersey develops worker leadership through training, infrastructure, and a supportive community. Our vision is an organization of food manufacturing and distribution workers who control their industry through direct action, solidarity, and worker-led organizing.
The Central Brooklyn Food Coop (CBFC) is a Black-led community project utilizing our collective strength to ensure access to affordable and fresh food for low-moderate income Black people in Central Brooklyn. Our work is rooted in centuries of Black cooperative economics and organizing, and is aligned with other movements for Black liberation & self-determination. Our mission is to utilize our collective strength to ensure access to affordable and fresh food while centering the Black, low-to- moderate-income communities of Central Brooklyn.
CTCORE Organize Now (now called Black Infinitive Collective) is dedicated to building communities of racial justice freedom fighters to dismantle systemic and structural racism in the state of Connecticut.
Farm School NYC co-creates space for sharing knowledge about sustainable agricultural practice, and then embed justice-seeking farmers into every corner of our food system to help create the change we need to see.
Food for the Spirit uses the arts and creative facilitation to support racial healing, ecological justice, and equitable food systems in Buffalo/WNY, the Finger Lakes/rural central New York, and beyond.
Freedom Food Alliance unites urban and rural communities through food and land in order to organize around mass incarceration, by providing direct services as a basis for organizing while creating viable community-based agricultural alternatives to the prison economy in the Hudson Valley.
Kelly Street Garden focuses on growing food as a means of community engagement, healing, education, creativity and to alleviate food insecurity
The La Canasta program at Mary Mitchel Center addresses our community’s exclusion from an affordable and healthy food supply chain by creating a bulk purchasing buying club and integrating nutrition education and cooking classes into the food distribution.
Rock Steady Farm is a LGBTQ+ owned and operated cooperative farm, rooted in social justice, growing sustainable vegetables in Millerton, NY. We focus on food access through our 450 person CSA and wholesale to frontline community orgs. Additionally we provide a safe and dignified workspace for BIPOC and LGBTQIA+ people on our farm, while also providing educational opportunities, tours and events for our queer community.
Rockaway Youth Task Force is a grassroots member-led organization that builds power to secure social, economic,
and racial justice for residents of the Rockaway Peninsula and beyond, by developing politically conscious youth leaders who are invested in improving themselves and their communities through member-led campaigns, leadership development, movement building, and cultural expression.
Soul Fire Farm is an Afro-Indigenous centered community farm committed to uprooting racism and seeding sovereignty in the food system.
The Semilla Collective provides support, organizes cultural events, and advocates with and for immigrant families in the greater New Haven area by building relationships within and among multiracial and multilingual immigrant and working class communities.
Traditional Center for Indigenous Knowledge and Healing provides a place in which all people can seek refuge, sharing an understanding of the world through traditional culture and healing practices, while providing and maintaining a culturally safe place for the indigenous community
More About the Fund
The CFF 2020 Food Movement Support Fund was established as a one-time grant making program to support grassroots food justice organizations in our region. General operating grants of $10,000 were awarded based on smaller budget size, leadership from impacted communities, and a systems change approach to the work.