In 2022, Community Food Funders (CFF) will be announcing the sixth recipient of the annual CFF Champions Award. We made some changes this year, to better align the award with its intended purpose and with our values as a network. The CFF Steering Committee made these changes after a series of racial equity training workshops we participated in together last year. They are part of ongoing conversations about equity within our network.
On March 1st, CFF partnered with Philanthropy New York and the NYC Workforce Funders to host a briefing titled, Feeding and Funding Our City: Recovery for New York City’s Invisibilized Food Ecosystem. The session featured a discussion with organizers from Street Vendor Project and Los Deliveristas Unidos, moderated by North Star Fund’s Executive Director Jenn Ching.
driving environmental sustainability, corporate stewardship, and ethical governance for small farms in New Jersey.
Street vendors and food delivery workers are essential to the New York City food system, but since long before the pandemic, the day-to-day realities of these essential workforces were largely invisibilized. In 2021, street vendors and food delivery workers took to the streets and organized to win major policy changes for increased worker rights. Join us for this virtual briefing, where funding organizations will hear from representatives of the Street Vendor Project and Worker’s Justice Project’s Los Deliveristas Unidos, well as a funder supporting both organizations. Learn about the important yet often overlooked role these workers play in our urban food ecosystem, the core elements of successful and ongoing campaign strategies, as well as the upcoming policy changes street vendors and delivery workers are organizing to achieve in 2022 and beyond.
On January 26th, CFF partnered with Northeast Sustainable Agriculture Working Group (NESAWG) to host a webinar titled, A Regional Imperative: Making The Case for Regional Food Systems. In it, authors Kathy Ruhf and Kate Clancy present an overview and key findings from their new report of the same name, which updates and greatly expands on the authors 2010 working paper, It Takes A Region.