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Recap: Cultivating Food Systems Change

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On June 27th, CFF partnered with Food for the Spirit to host a briefing titled Cultivating Food Systems Change. As this year's "Champions Briefing", the event provided an opportunity to learn more about and engage with the 2022 CFF Champions Award winner, Food for the Spirit. The interactive Zoom meeting, planned and facilitated by Food for the Spirit (F4tS), focused on how community-led food initiatives are addressing issues of race and racism in the food system and explored how philanthropy can partner with community to address systemic inequities.

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Cultivating Food Systems Change (6/27)

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Join the 2022 CFF Champion Award winner, Food for the Spirit, for this year’s Champions Briefing, an event wholly designed and created by the award recipient. Come together to learn about community-led food initiatives addressing issues of race and racism in the food system, and explore values and perspectives about how philanthropy can work in partnership with community to address these systemic inequities.

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Recap: NY Farm Bill Organizing

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On May 25th CFF partnered with five other philanthropic organizations to host a funder briefing titled Elevating and Mobilizing Voices from Across New York to Advocate for an Equitable 2023 Farm Bill. The session highlighted a statewide organizing campaign that engaged over 300 New Yorkers to create a NYS Farm Bill Platform. The leaders of the campaign, Equity Advocates, Black Farmers United NYS, and Food for the Spirit, prioritized outreach to and participation of BIPOC farmers, producers, and practitioners. The resulting policy platform represents a collective voice from NYS community food leaders, farmers, gardeners, land stewards, producers, & advocates.

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Elevating and Mobilizing Voices from Across New York to Advocate for an Equitable 2023 Farm Bill (5/25)

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Join CFF and our co-sponsors for a briefing in which Equity Advocates and Food for the Spirit discuss the importance of the 2023 Farm Bill for New York food and farming efforts, their collaborative campaign and NYS Farm Bill Platform, the different ways they are working to build the advocacy capacity of their networks to participate in the campaign, and ways they can strengthen their advocacy efforts to ensure a 2023 Farm Bill that works for all.

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Food for the Spirit Wins 2022 CFF Champions Award

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Food for the Spirit of Buffalo, NY has been named the winner of the 2022 Community Food Funders Champions Award! For the first time, this year the selection committee was comprised solely of winners from previous years. Food for the Spirit was chosen in recognition of their grassroots efforts to build an equitable food system in Western NY, focused on BIPOC farmers and food system actors. Food for the Spirit builds and strengthens networks to foster collaborations and grow the food justice movement centered on equity and healing.

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