Hudson, NY
Funding for its Fourth Annual National Convergence to be held in College Park, Maryland in November 2018 in which it will bring together 100 young farmers from across the country to learn advocacy and organizing skills.
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Chesapeake Culinary Center – Summer 2018
Denton, MD
Support for the Food Connection project to expand connectivity between growers, consumers, and institutional purchasers of Eastern Shore grown products.
Chesapeake Bay Funders Network / Chesapeake Bay Trust – Summer 2018
Annapolis, MD
Project funding for Year 3 of the Regional Capacity Building Initiative, a multi-year initiative designed to build regional networks of conservation and civic organizations working to improve local environmental and community health conditions while building the organizational and partnership capacity of non-profits engaged with the network.
Easton Economic Development Commission – Spring 2018
Easton, MD
To support market readiness and food safety training for its network of producers throughout the Chesapeake Bay watershed.
Clean Water Fund – Special Fall 2017
Washington, DC
To support dedicated staff-time to mobilize grassroots field support for the Fair Farms Campaign.
Black Church Food Security Network / Fusion Partnerships – Spring 2017
Baltimore, MD
www.blackchurchfoodsecurity.net
In support of staffing for organizing and building the network of historically African American congregations on issues of food sovereignty and environmental sustainability.
Chesapeake Culinary Center – Spring 2017
Montgomery County Food Council – Summer 2016
Bethesda, MD
For support of work to develop a food action plan and also for work to help plan and implement the county’s food waste reduction plans.
Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments – Spring 2016
Washington, DC
support for a collaborative effort with USDA’s FoodLINC (Leveraging Investment for Network Coordination) program, to conduct a three-year effort aimed at building and leveraging strategic alliances between producers of healthy, sustainably grown food and institutional purchasers and anchor institutions in the Chesapeake Region (MD/VA/DC).
Earthjustice – Spring 2016
San Francisco, CA
for “Envisioning a Healthier Food and Farming System: A Scoping Project to Advance Sustainable Agriculture,” an extensive research effort designed to identify the precise drivers of health, environmental, and climate harm caused by the food and agriculture system.