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Congratulations to
Food for the Spirit
2022 Community Food Funders Champions Award Winner!
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Food for the Spirit of Buffalo, NY has been named the winner of the 2022 Community Food Funders Champions Award! Read the full announcement online.
For the first time, this year the selection committee was comprised solely of winners from previous years. Food for the Spirit was chosen in recognition of their grassroots efforts to build an equitable food system in Western NY, focused on BIPOC farmers and food system actors. Food for the Spirit builds and strengthens networks to foster collaborations and grow the food justice movement centered on equity and healing.
An online award presentation has been scheduled for July 21 to hear from the leaders of this wonderful organization and learn more about its work.
 Food for the Spirit (F4tS) is a nonprofit organization that uses the arts and creative facilitation to support racial healing, ecological justice, and equitable food systems. They center BIPOC folks in organizing and planning efforts because they believe that people who are most impacted by issues of race and racism in the food system are most equipped to identify the issues and solutions to those issues.
F4tS builds power through relational-organizing and trust-building. Partnering with people and communities in the City of Buffalo, Western New York, the Genesee Valley Region, and throughout New York State, F4tS supports the development of networks where local people can work together to address the issues they experience. Soon, Food for the Spirit will be hiring its first full time staff person to serve as Director of the Buffalo Food Equity Network.
Come hear from our winner at a special webinar on July 21 @ 1pm
Captioning and interpretation available
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Buffalo Food Equity Network members in Rochester NY, August 2019
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At the award presentation on July 21st, Food for the Spirit will be represented by Rebekah Williams.
 Rebekah is an organizer, trainer, facilitator, and strategic planner from Western New York and co-founder of Food for the Spirit and the Buffalo Food Equity Network. With over twenty years working in nonprofits in Buffalo, Rebekah has experience encouraging youth leadership, social and racial justice, environmentalism, and the arts.
In 2022, Rebekah is actively engaged in supporting the development of a cooperative enterprise for Black farmers in NYS. She is supporting BIPOC farmers in the Genesee Valley and Western New York to reach new markets and marketing support, and she is serving as project manager for two teams of Buffalo-based food systems activists.
Rebekah is a board member of the Northeast Sustainable Agriculture Working Group, a steering committee member for Black Farmers United NYS, and a committee chair for the Good Food Buffalo Coalition. She has a degree in Social Structure, Theory and Change from SUNY Empire State College; and has completed training with the Buffalo Montessori Teacher Education Program, Center for Economic Democracy in Boston MA, HEAL Food Alliance and Movement Generation in Oakland CA, North American Students of Cooperation in Chicago IL, and Training for Change in Philadelphia PA.
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Thursday July 21, 1-2pm
Zoom meeting
Captioning and interpretation available
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More about the CFF Champions Award
The Community Food Funders steering committee created the CFF Champions Award to recognize the leaders empowering food system change in our region. The award aims to promote the work of an outstanding organization that is working towards the transition of our food system to one that pursues a true triple bottom line: a system that honors and values people, the environment, and sustainable economic models.
Thank you to everyone who submitted nominations.
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