12/2021

Pleiades Network

To develop possibilities for improving leadership transition processes for small farm and food system nonprofits, and generate ideas for how to keep these leaders involved and advancing the sector.

Regional Food Systems

 $25,000
12/2021

Cooperative Development Institute

To preserve the viability of New American farmers and food businesses in Maine and the Connecticut River Valley, particularly as COVID persists; and to raise the profile of cooperative ownership in the regional food system.

Regional Food Systems

 $25,000
12/2021

Migrant Justice

To support the Milk with Dignity campaign, which works to broaden the definition of sustainable food production to include the dignity and rights of workers, and transform the dairy industry through worker-driven social responsibility that compels dairy brands to ensure respect for human rights in their supply chains.

Regional Food Systems

 $40,000
12/2021

Massachusetts Farm to School

To ensure that all Massachusetts students have access to high quality, culturally relevant meals featuring local food and to food education in school.

Regional Food Systems

 $25,000
12/2021

Northeast Sustainable Agriculture Working Group

To catalyze meaningful change toward a sustainable and just food system through policy outreach and education, peer learning, collaborative partnerships.

Regional Food Systems

 $45,000
12/2021

Red Tomato

To implement improvements in the organization’s internal structure and workplace culture, and advance the “Bypass” project through experimentation, product development, and increased sales.

Regional Food Systems

 $35,000
12/2021

CommonWealth Kitchen

To advance its building purchase and continuing market development initiatives to drive more local, diverse procurement and contracts from food service operations.

Regional Food Systems

 $45,000
09/2021

Real Food Generation

To build sustainable food systems through campaigns on college and university campuses, and to grow the broader movement for healthy, just, and sustainable food by bringing people together through in-person and digital organizing.

Regional Food Systems

 $55,000
06/2021

National Family Farm Coalition

To strengthen NFFC’s movement building and policy advocacy by influencing the planning, media coverage, and content of the 2021 UN Food Systems Summit in New York City.

Regional Food Systems

 $25,000
06/2021

Food Connects

To increase inter-food hub transactions and sales, while also building more efficient systems and envisioning the future of New England food hub networks.

Regional Food Systems

 $45,000