Delmarva Farmers Union Inc. / Future Harvest - CASA
$Fruitland, MD
For the Certified Delmarva Grown (CDG) program, a regional branding initiative, and third-party certification for farms and local food purveyors on the Delmarva Peninsula.
Food System Reform Program
Special Fall 2018 Grants
Summer 2018 Grants
National Young Farmers Coalition
$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.
Future Harvest - CASA
$Cockeysville, MD
Project funding for work on the Eastern Shore to train, connect, and create opportunities for resource sharing and leadership development for its network of sustainable farmers, to expand the capacity of its Delmarva programs through strategic planning and partnership development, and to facilitate development of a regional healthy soils initiative.
El Comité de Apoyo a los Trabajadores Agrícolas (CATA)
$Glassboro, NJ
Project support for Maryland Food Justice work.
Chesapeake Foodshed Network / Future Harvest-CASA
$Cockeysville, MD
Funding for work to manage an action network driven by shared leadership, foster connections, relationships, and information sharing, and facilitate collective regional action for food system reform.
Chesapeake Culinary Center
$Denton, MD
Support for the Food Connection project to expand connectivity between growers, consumers, and institutional purchasers of Eastern Shore grown products.
Spring 2018 Grants
Northeast Sustainable Agriculture Working Group / Tides Center
$Kingston, NY
For the 2018 annual conference that will focus on racial equity in the food system, and work in partnership with the Food Narrative Project to engage New England and Chesapeake region food system leaders in research and learning about food system communications frames.
Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments
$Washington, DC
Support for the Regional Food Systems Value Chain Coordination program to build local food supply chains between rural and urban geographies to increase farm enterprise viability, securing more food systems related jobs, and increasing consumer access to healthy food.
Future Harvest - CASA
$Cockeysville, MD
Interim grant to cover costs to send a delegation of Chesapeake Region farmers to USDA’s Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education 2018 Conference.
Easton Economic Development Commission
$Easton, MD
To support market readiness and food safety training for its network of producers throughout the Chesapeake Bay watershed.
Black Church Food Security Network / Fusion Partnerships
$Baltimore, MD
www.blackchurchfoodsecurity.net
Support for organizing and convening black growers, training and support for emerging leaders and building connections between the network of black growers with institutional purchasers including two Baltimore educational institutions.
Special Fall 2017 Grants
Washington Regional Food Funders / Windward Fund
$Washington, DC
Project funding to plan a two-day regional food system conference to be held in 2018 intended to create a venue for sustained cross-sector dialogue among food system leaders.
Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments
$Washington, DC
Interim grant to support speakers and convening for the MWCOG: Regional Food System Program – Local Food Distribution Work Group.
Harry R. Hughes Center for Agro-Ecology Inc. / University System of Maryland Foundation
$Queenstown, MD
www.agresearch.umd.edu/agroecol
Project funding to conduct a regional food system economic assessment and stakeholder engagement process using a GAP (good average poor) analysis to identify opportunities for integration of locally grown food into supply chains.
Alice Ferguson Foundation
$Accokeek, MD
Project funding for a series of regional Sustainability Salons intended to engage leaders and stakeholders across sectors in discussion of opportunities and solutions likely to increase adoption of healthy soils practices in Maryland’s agriculture sector.
Summer 2017 Grants
Washington Regional Food Funders / Windward Fund
$Washington, DC
Interim grant for 2017-18 membership dues for the Washington Regional Food Funders.
New Entry Sustainable Farming Project
$Lowell, MA
http://www.nesfp.org/
Interim grant for Community Food Systems Conference, including scholarships and travel for up to twenty participants from the Chesapeake region.
Future Harvest - CASA
$Cockeysville, MD
http://www.futureharvestcasa.org/
For its Eastern Shore program to support training, connectivity, and resource sharing for its network of sustainable farmers to build the supply of sustainably grown food, communications to raise awareness on the Eastern Shore about sustainable farming, healthy soils, and community benefits, and continue policy and coalition building work to advance and institutionalize healthy soils initiatives.
El Comité de Apoyo a los Trabajadores Agrícolas (CATA)
$Glassboro, NJ
http://www.cata-farmworkers.org/
For its Maryland Food Justice Program.
Chesapeake Foodshed Network / Future Harvest-CASA
$Cockeysville, MD
http://ww.futureharvestcasa.org/
For work to build a strategic and integrated network of food system stakeholders to accelerate the pace of change, facilitate collaboration on food issues of egional significance, and build a vision for the Chesapeake region’s food system.
Spring 2017 Grants
Northeast Sustainable Agriculture Working Group / Tides Center
$Kingston, NY
To support the 2017 Northeast Sustainable Agriculture Working Group Conference.
Chesapeake Foodshed Network / Future Harvest-CASA
$Cockeysville, MD
Interim grant to be used for Community Ownership, Empowerment, & Prosperity: Creating an Action Plan for the Chesapeake Foodshed.
Chesapeake Culinary Center
$Denton, MD
To support the Food Connection project.
Black Church Food Security Network / Fusion Partnerships
$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.
Special Fall 2016 Grants
Washington Regional Food Funders / Windward Fund
$Washington, DC
www.washingtongrantmakers.org/food-systems
To be used for the Chesapeake Bay Regional Food Funding Landscape project.
Maryland Farmers Market Association Inc.
$Annapolis, MD
To be used for the Building a Baseline for Transparency and System Level Change through Farmers Market Data project.
Summer 2016 Grants
Washington Regional Food Funders / Windward Fund
$Washington, DC
www.washingtongrantmakers.org/food-systems
Interim grant for Washington Regional Food Funders 2016 membership dues.
Montgomery County Food Council
$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.
Institute for Public Health Innovation
$Washington, DC
For the Prince George’s County Food Equity Council’s work to deepen and expand its food waste recovery initiative and to promote the integration of food equity considerations in Prince George’s County food planning and policy.
Future Harvest - CASA
$Cockeysville, MD
to support their Eastern Shore program building a network of environmentally sustainable farmers.
El Comité de Apoyo a los Trabajadores Agrícolas (CATA)
$Glassboro, NJ
In support of organizing work with Eastern Shore farmworkers and to support engagement with the Chesapeake Foodshed Network and Waterkeepers Chesapeake’s Fair Farms Campaign.
Crossroads Community Food Network
$Takoma Park, MD
www.crossroadscommunityfoodnetwork.org
For work with immigrant farmers and vendors to improve and expand their sustainability practices.
Chesapeake Food Network / Future Harvest CASA
$Cockeysville, MD
For facilitation, convenings, and communications work to help build a network of food system stakeholders in the Chesapeake Bay Watershed.
Center for a Livable Future / Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
$Baltimore, MD
In support of work to help build the capacity of food policy councils in Maryland and the Chesapeake Bay Region.
Alice Ferguson Foundation
$Accokeek, MD
To help support the organizing and convening of a Regenerative Agriculture Symposium.
Spring 2016 Grants
Western Maryland Resource Conservation and Development Council Inc.
$Hagerstown, MD
support for the development of the Western Maryland Food Council.
Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments
$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).
Institute for Public Health Innovation
$Washington, DC
for the project “From Planning to Action: Growing Maryland’s Food System Coalition,” a continuation of its work to convene stakeholders in an effort to foster collaboration and collective action at the state level in Maryland that resulted in the creation of the draft Maryland Food Charter over the past year.
Easton Economic Development Commission
$Easton, MD
for establishment of the Chesapeake Harvest Food Distribution Network project, a food hub, or a center for food aggregation, distribution, and education designed to promote and increase the supply of environmentally sustainably grown foods, create year-round jobs with fair wages, build an educated consumer base, and build commerce and connectivity between urban and rural communities.
Earthjustice
$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.
Center for Emerging Media
$Columbia, MD
www.centerforemergingmedia.org
for Sound Bites (on Delmarva), a weekly radio show that investigates and educates issues of food and the food system in the Chesapeake Bay Watershed.
summ 2016 Grants
Grow Maryland / Maryland Farmers Market Association
$Baltimore, MD
To support a summit intended to highlight the needs of small food and agriculture businesses, and to conduct a statewide economic impact study of value-added producers.