Join the Northeast Farmers of Color (NEFOC) Land Trust and the Black Farmer Fund to learn how they are institutionalizing solutions to make land and capital accessible for Black and BIPOC farmers. Hear how their work is situated within an ecosystem of local, regional, and national organizations that are working to realize a racially just transition in the food system.
Join the 2019 CFF Champion Award winner, Groundswell Center for Local Food & Farming, for this year’s Champions Briefing, an event wholly designed and created by the award recipient. Groundswell Center will dig deep into their process of centering racial equity and anti-racist principles into their agricultural organization and discuss how to bring this work into your organization or foundation. As a non-profit with predominantly white leadership, Groundswell will examine staff/board development, relationship building, organizational policymaking, and systems for accountability.
Staring on March 18, 2020 with an emergency funder briefing and strategy call, CFF began hosting weekly funder-only calls to discuss the philanthropic response to food system needs resulting from the Covid-19 crisis. This page will be used to document those calls and ay key take aways or next steps.
Community Food Funders has been working to compile resources that are relevant to the philanthropic sector and our grantees, related to food and farming systems during the COVID-19 crisis. This is an ongoing list in formation and will be updates periodically.
On March 18, 2020 Community Food Funders organized a quick-response video meeting so that members could listen to nonprofits and local government officials about how the current crisis is affecting food distribution and access in NYC.
In August 2019, New York City announced plans to adopt the Good Food Purchasing Program, a procurement model that gives public institutions the tools and support to implement better food-purchasing policies. Through this program, public school systems, city governments, and other large institutions are transforming the way they purchase food and helping create a more transparent and equitable food system. GFPP is currently being implemented in 15 cities and jurisdictions nationwide. On January 27, 2020, NYSHealth hosted a discussion with national and local leaders in the Good Food Purchasing Program