Federal Legislation, Regs etc.

• 8.18.22 USDA Release: USDA Announces First Three Lenders for Heirs’ Property Relending Program
• 8.18.22 State News (via NC PolicyWatch): Farm bill season arrives: What’s the outlook for 2023?
• 8.17.22 Reuters: Analysis: Biden debt relief plan disappoints Black farmers for avoiding race
• 8.16.22 NSAC Release: Biden Signs Historic Inflation Reduction Act of 2022
• 8.16.22 CBS News: Black farmers say Inflation Reduction Act reneges on promises for debt relief
• 8.16.23 Lancaster Farming: Inflation Adjustment Act Tweaks Black Farmer Aid
• 8.16.22 Civil Eats Op-ed by Joe Maxwell: It’s Time to End the Poultry Industry’s Exploitative Contracts
• 8.15.22 Politico Weekly Ag: Inside USDA’s partnership with United Farm Workers
• 8.14.22 Wash Post: As Congress funds high-tech climate solutions, it also bets on a low-tech one: Nature
• 8.13.22 Black Enterprise: Black Farmers get new life from Dem health and climate bill but it's bittersweet 
• 8.13.22 Reason: The Next Farm Bill Will Probably Stink Worse and Cost More. Asking the ag industry to stand on its own two feet remains a political third rail.
• 8.12.22 Food Fix: A guide to the White House food conference
• 8.10.22 Cong Research Service (CRS): Inflation Reduction Act: Ag Conservation and Credit, Renewable Energy, and Forestry

• 8.17.22 Seattle Dept. of Neighborhoods: Seattle’s Food Equity Fund invests $2.8 million in 22 community-initiated projects
• 8.16.22 Progressive Farmer: Farm Credit System 2021 Lending Report says YBS loans increased
• 8.15.22 AP News: Northeastern farmers face new challenges with severe drought
• 8.15.22 Civil Eats: Farm to School Efforts Just Got a Big Influx of Cash. Will It Help More Schools Get On Board?
• 8.12.22 KRDO-TV: Colorado Healthy School Meals for All ballot measure campaign kicks off
• 8.12.22 Midwest Center for Investigative Reporting: SEC proposal could shine a light on Big Ag companies’ supply chain emissions. The proposal would require the reporting of "Scope 3" emissions, which happen outside a business's main enterprise.
• 8.12.22 Civil Eats Op-ed: End of Roe v. Wade Makes Reproductive Health Even Tougher for Farmworkers
• 8.10.22 Daily Yonder: Yes We Can: The Rise, Fall, and Potential Rebirth of Municipal Canning
• 7.29.22 Self-Help Blog: Working With Communities to Build Sustainable Food Systems from Farm to Fork

• 8.18.22 KSU: Rural Grocery Succession Planning Webinar - Member Cooperative Grocery Stores
• 8.23.22 Wallace Center: Information Sharing Call: Opportunities and Challenges in the LFPA
• 8.24.22 Chicago for a Food Tank Summit
• 8.25.22 NC Food System Advocacy Coalition Summer Farm Bill Series
• 8.30.22 RAFI-USA: Market Readiness Series - Accepting SNAP/EBT Payments
• 9.7.22 Stop Land Grabs Coalition: Funder Learning Call: "Farmland, Climate and Human Rights"
• 9.11.22 A Call To Farms: Some Thoughts on Food, Money and Nonviolence in Honor of Wendell Berry
• 9.15.22 KSU: Rural Grocery Succession Planning Webinar - Worker-owned grocery stores
• Fall, '22: White House Conference on Hunger, Nutrition and Health, find info here.
• 9.24.22 Farm Aid 2022 Concert, Raleigh NC
• 9.30.22 NC A&T University: Community, Local and Regional Food Systems Open Forum
• 10.6-9.22 American Community Gardening Association Annual Conference
• 10.11.22 CDFA Webinar: Don’t Throw Away Opportunity! Creative Financing for Addressing Food-Related Waste 
• 10.12.22 Consumer Federation of America: National Food Policy Council
• 11.5-7.22 CFSA Annual Conference, Durham NC

• LEE Initiative: Southern Restaurants for Social Justice - $15-25K for Black-owned food businesses
• Duke Energy Social Justice & Racial Equity Grant Program Deadline 8.31.22
• NC Ag Dept: $15 million in grants for Independent meat and seafood processors to improve production, efficiency and capacity. Deadline 9.1.22
• USDA: Urban, Indoor, and Emerging Agriculture (UIE) Grants. Deadline 9.22.22

• NEW!  Massachusetts Department of Agricultural Resources: Farm Viability Program Planner
• NEW!  USDA: Agricultural Marketing Specialists
• NEW! Friends of the Earth: Senior Food and Climate Policy Analyst 
• NEW! Carolina Farm Stewardship Association: Farm Services Director, Soil Technician 
• NEW! The Edible Schoolyard: Garden Educator
• NEW! Transplanting Traditions Community Farm: Resource Development Director, Director of Finance and Administration
• NEW! Practical Farmers of Iowa: Digital Marketing Manager
• The Food Policy and Planning Office: Food Policy Fellow, Food Policy Data Fellow
• Seed Savers Exchange: Multiple Positions
• Castanea Fellowship
• COFED: Communications Coordinator
• The U.S. Federation of Worker Cooperatives: Multiple positions
• National Farm to School Network: Partnerships Director
• Food Empowerment Project: Development Manager, Executive Director
• NSAC: Policy Specialist: Marketing, Food Systems, and Rural Development
• Farmworker Institute of Education & Leadership Development: Cooperative Program Manager
• SAAFON: Education Project Associate
• Feast Down East: Farmer Engagement Coordinator, Food Rx Program Manager
• NC Farmworker Health Program: Special Projects Coordinator
• NSAC lists here relevant good food and farming job openings. 
• Here is Self-Help career information. For specific opportunities, click Self-Help, Self-Help Federal CU and Center for Responsible Lending.

• Center for Agriculture and Food Systems: “Rethinking Manure Biogas: Policy Considerations to Promote Equity and Protect the Climate and Environment”
• NIH Notice of Special Interest (NOSI): Stimulating Research to Understand and Address Hunger, Food and Nutrition Insecurity (closes Nov. 29)
• Apply to join Regional Food Policy Council Community of Practice (Due Sept 6)

That's all, Folks!
David Beck & Emily Sloss
david.beck@self-help.org, emily.sloss@self-help.org
Self-Help, Durham, NC 

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