Geography: Tristate

Anne Saxelby Legacy Fund

The Anne Saxelby Legacy Fund provides monthlong paid apprenticeships for young adults to live on sustainable farms — to work, learn, and be inspired to create change in their communities. Our farms range from urban to rural; they produce cheese,...

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Seeding Power event, 12/4

Over the past two decades, food has emerged as a central strategy and focus of nonprofits worldwide concerned with environmentalism and climate change, public health and hunger, community and economic development, human rights, and racial and social justice. Despite gains on certain issues in some geographic areas, a coordinated and unified ‘food movement’ has yet to realize the true potential of the millions who care deeply about these causes. Now, the infrastructure is being put in place for that to change. You're invited on December 4th for a special discussion about three initiatives designed to bring together diverse leaders of this nascent movement, break down silos to encourage dialog, and support them in reaching their fullest power.

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Analyzing our Food Funding Landscape, 12/7

Screenshot of the Foundation Maps software

A new tool by Foundation Center, Foundation Maps is the premier data visualization tool and the easiest way to see who is funding what and where around the world. Join us for a briefing that will showcase this new tool and how it can be used to find the funding clusters and funding gaps around the food system in our region. We'll also flag a few other resources available across other platforms to help inform strategy

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Food System Resiliency, 6/8

Volunteers organize food donations after Sandy

Two years ago, CFF helped organize a 3-part breakfast series for funders to examine disruptions in the food system as a result of Hurricanes Irene and Sandy. Now, CFF is working with our former panelists and other experts to compile the lessons learned from that original series, update the work that has taken place in the interim, and look more seriously at what it would mean to seriously address the issues that were raised.

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