Seeding Power:
Food Justice Leadership & Movement Building
Friday March 14, 2025
12:00 – 2:00 pm ET
Zoom meeting
This is a funder-only event
Co-sponsored by Philanthropy New York, Sustainable Agriculture & Food System Funders, and Funders of Regenerative Agriculture
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, we are building on lessons learned to make this next experience even better and more tailored to the needs of our movement leaders.
Please join us for a funder-only briefing to hear from recent alumni and program staff about the impacts of this unique program, and what we have planned for the next cohort. We have designed a fellowship experience where funders and nonprofit leaders come together to learn, build relationships, and envision the collaborations needed to create a more equitable food system for all.
Applications for the new cohort go live the day after this event takes place.
As food justice leaders prepare for attacks on their work, they need spaces that allow them to show up as their whole selves. They need reserves of resilience to tap into through difficult times. We need to put joy and connection at the heart of our work to build new systems rooted in justice and liberation.
A powerful leader is one with the skills and the community to cultivate an ever renewing sense of purpose, with the support and care that builds true stamina that social change demands.
Seeding Power, and other fellowship programs like the Castanea Fellowship, are designed to build the muscle of reflection, to reduce isolation, to practice communication and collaboration, and to deepen relationships. As such, they provide not just leadership development, but critical movement infrastructure that centers relationship and resilience. They hold the space of care, rest, joy, and camaraderie that is so desperately needed.
Learn about:
- Outcomes and lessons from the last cohort
- Curriculum and design elements of the fellowship program
- A one-of-a-kind approach bringing philanthropic partners together with movement leaders in the same cohort
- A timeline and deadlines to help spread the word to your grantees
May, 2024
The Seeding Power Fellowship is a nine-month cohort-based food justice fellowship program for experienced leaders working across sectors to build equitable food systems. The program is designed for movement leaders and philanthropic partners in New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut.
Seeding Power is unique in both the region it serves and the focus on effective collaborations and equitable relationships, while including fellows from philanthropy and government. Racial equity, social justice, active communication, and collaboration form the core of a tested yet tailored curriculum designed by Emerging Equity.
By creating a community of practice that develops a shared analysis of the issues plaguing our food system, the Seeding Power cohort will graduate with strengthened cross-sector relationships and skills, and the opportunity to develop projects together.
Each fellow will receive at least three hours of individualized coaching. Movement fellows will receive a $5,000 stipend, and philanthropic fellows will be asked to make a financial contribution.