Sustainable Agriculture & Food Systems Funders Group

Funding Trends in Sustainable Ag and Food Systems

To bring new information and wisdom to philanthropy supporting sustainable agriculture and food system reform, the W. K. Kellogg Foundation and SAFSF commissioned Headwaters Group Philanthropic Services to collect and synthesize funding and giving trends. This comprehensive overview is intended to help funders understand gaps and ways to fill them, opportunities for leveraging resources, and ways to build successful strategic alliances with public and private partners.

1988-2002: Overview of Sustainable Agriculture Funding
2003-2006: Trends in Sustainable Agriculture

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The Sustainable Agriculture & Food Systems Funders (SAFSF) is a project of Community Partners. Formed in 1991, SAFSF is a national working group of grant-makers that seeks to promote a more sustainable agriculture and food system. We do this primarily by fostering communication, engaging in shared learning and exchanging information about issues connected to sustainable agriculture and food systems. SAFSF seeks to carry out its mission by providing opportunities for collaboration, increasing awareness of the issues as well as funding needs, and expanding beyond the current membership to increase support and funding for organizations that (i) promote sustainable food production; (ii) link to concerns about sustainability of our food system; and/or (iii) connect food production with issues of environmental stewardship, diet and health, and viability of communities.

UPCOMING EVENTS

		June 23-26, 2009 SAFSF and CGBD 2009 dates conflict June 23-26, 2009 2009 SAFSF Forum Greensboro, North Carolina view events page

CALL RECORDINGS

		*Tune in to SAFSF records!* October 8, 2008 Seeds for the Future Speakers: Cary Fowler , Director, Global Crop Diversity Trust, Rome, Italy and Amy P. Goldman, board member of the Seed Savers Exchange, and Trustee Lillian Goldman Charitable Trust Moderator: Greg Horner, Program Officer, Cedar Tree Foundation Please note: We apologize for the slight pause at the beginning of the recording as well as a fading out at the end. Listen to the call* * Please note, you must have RealPlayer or something similar to listen to the file. Download RealPlayer here. Replay Dial-In Numbers and Passcode Toll: 1 719 457-0820 Replay Passcode: 61726014 This recording will be available via this number until November 8th. To learn more about the work of the Global Crop Diversity Trust: http://www.croptrust.org For additional information about the Artic Seed Vault click here: Scroll down to the bottom of the homepage for for a link to special questions and answers covering various topics of interest. To learn more about Seed Savers Exchange click here. April 16th – Teleconference Accelerating Networked Action: Thinking About and Funding Groups Allied for Change Moderator: Kolu Zigbi, Program Officer, Jessie Smith Noyes Foundation Speakers: Paul Vandeventer, President & CEO of Community Partners, author of Networks that Work: A Practitioner's Guide to Managing Networked Action, Kathy Ruhf, Northeast Sustainable Agriculture Working Group, Stacie Clary, California Coalition for Food and Farming Listen to the call* * Please note, you must have RealPlayer or something similar to listen to the file. Download RealPlayer here. March 13th – Teleconference *Synthetic Biology and Post-Modern Agriculture:* *How Extreme Genetic Engineering is Transforming the Agricultural Economy* Moderator: Becca Golden, Executive Director, Ben & Jerry's Foundation Speakers: Darrin Qualman, Director of Research, National Farmers Union, Saskatchewan, Canada, Jim Thomas, Researcher and Programme Manager for ETC Group, Montreal To access recording simply dial (641) 715.3409 Access Code: 512 932# To learn more, click here for a list of resources.

PUBLICATIONS

		Green Beyond Grants A toolkit for greening your organization's operations Biofuels: Opportunity or Threat? Designed to supplement the EGA-SAFSF Mid West Policy Briefing on biofuels held Nov. 14-15, 2006 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The briefing book was created by select members of the event planning committee and was intended as a primer for the event. Eating up the Earth: How Sustainable Food Systems Shrink our Ecological Footprint by Diana Deumling, Mathis Wackernagel, and Chad Monfreda * Document in PDF format. If you do not have Acrobat Reader, download here.