Author: Adam Liebowitz

Taking Power Back: Food Policies to Curb Predatory Marketing in New York

Join Community Food Funders, New York Health Foundation and our co-sponsors to learn from community leaders and advocates about their recent wins, such as the Sweet Truth Act that passed last fall. We'll also hear about a new slate of food policies that would take the burden off consumers to parse healthy from unhealthy foods and that would encourage retailers, manufacturers, and government agencies to create healthier default options. 

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Recap: NYS Regional Food Hub Tour

CFF partnered with GrowNYC to host an insider's tour of the soon-to-open New York State Regional Food Hub. The day began with lunch at The Point CDC, where guests were given an introduction to the Hunts Point neighborhood and learned its history of environmental justice organizing and community-led solutions. From there we caught a ride on the Bronx Culture Trolley to the site of the Hub. GrowNYC staff led a tour of the 60,000-square-foot cold-storage facility.

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2023 CFF Annual Gathering recap

On September 20th, over 50 CFF members and invited guests gathered at New York Health Foundation for the 8th CFF Annual Gathering, and the first since 2019! Local food and drink was supplied by Bascom Catering, a catering company based out of the South Bronx. The evening featured a presentation by Columbia County Sanctuary Movement, our 2023 CFF Champions Award recipient; an update on the Seeding Power Fellowship; and a keynote presentation by Savi Horne, Executive Director of the North Carolina Association of Black Lawyers’ Land Loss Prevention Project, as well as member of the Agriculture Subcommittee of the USDA Equity Commission, and 2023 recipient of the James Beard Foundation Leadership Award.

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Meet the 2023-2024 Seeding Power Fellows

These twelve individuals will participate in the second Seeding Power Fellowship, concluding in June, 2024. They will embark on a 9-month learning journey, designed and facilitated by the folks at Emerging Equity, consisting of three in-person retreats, thirteen virtual sessions, collaboration space, individual coaching, and more!

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CFF Annual Gathering 2023

CFF is excited to be back hosting our 8th Annual Gathering, returning after a four-year hiatus! Please join us to meet new colleagues, learn about CFF programs, and be inspired by those changing our regional food system, as well as celebrate the relaunch of our Seeding Power Fellowship and this year's CFF Champions Award recipient! Whether your focus is on nutrition or hunger, food chain workers or farmland preservation, emergency food or food waste, we all have a part to play in creating the just food system that everyone deserves.

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Recap: Cultivating Food Systems Change

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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Columbia County Sanctuary Movement Wins 2023 CFF Champions Award

Columbia County Sanctuary Movement of Hudson, NY has been named the winner of the 2023 Community Food Funders Champions Award! This year, the selection committee was comprised of winners from previous years along with two members of the Community Food Funders steering committee. Columbia County Sanctuary Movement was chosen in recognition of their food justice program, Comida Para la Gente (Food for the People).

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Cultivating Food Systems Change (6/27)

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: Creating New Food Cooperatives with an Equity Focus

On May 31st CFF partnered with Sustainable Agriculture and Food System Funders to host a briefing titled Creating New Food Cooperatives with an Equity Focus. The webinar featured two justice-oriented food co-ops in the region: the Central Brooklyn Food Co-op (CBFC), a start-up food co-op working to open a store in Central Brooklyn, and Kingston Food Co-op, a co-op in Kingston, NY that will be opening soon. We also heard from Food Co-op Initiative (FCI), a nonprofit organization that provides free training, technical assistance, resources, peer learning opportunities and support to organizers starting co-ops across the country. FCI has worked with CBFC and Kingston Food Co-op.

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