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March 8, 2022
 

 
Welcome to the March 2022 edition of the Community Food Funders Newslink. This is a monthly compilation of news, articles, reports, and upcoming events for funders in the tri-state region interested in an equitable and sustainable food system. Our past newsletter archive is available online.

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CFF Spotlight

 

Recording: Feeding and Funding Our City

On March 1st, CFF partnered with Philanthropy New York and the NYC Workforce Funders to host a webinar titled, Feeding and Funding Our City: Recovery for New York City’s Invisibilized Food Ecosystem. The session featured a discussion with organizers from Street Vendor Project and Los Deliveristas Unidos, moderated by North Star Fund's Executive Director Jenn Ching. You can read a recap and watch a recording of the session on our website. 
 

Upcoming Events


Philanthropy’s Role in Building a Healthy Sustainable Food System in New Jersey 

March 29, 11am - 12pm ET
Zoom meeting  *for funders only*
Our food systems are inextricably linked to the health and well-being of New Jersey residents and our environment. A broken system affects everything from the use of environmentally harmful practices in food production to a families’ access to healthy, local food in their community. Supporting regional and local food production and distribution can strengthen the local economy while providing greater access to healthy, nutrient rich foods. And now, with innovative agriculture models and the latest technology, there are opportunities to help local farmers supply our communities with quality, affordable foods while maintaining environmentally sustainable practices. Join the Council for New Jersey Grantmakers for a conversation with the Community Food Funders and The Decency Foundation, a non-profit driving environmental sustainability, corporate stewardship, and ethical governance for small farms in New Jersey. Read more>>>

Selected Events

View the complete events calendar online
 

Home Grown: Food Justice and Feminist Activism (Virtual)

March 8
6-7pm ET
Food justice, feminist activist, Executive Director and Founder of the Black Feminist Project, Tanya Fields, and urban farmer and food justice instructor, Yonnette Fleming, will discuss the work they do to empower their communities to have agency over their health and combat food insecurity. Register here for this webinar presented by NYU Tisch.
 

NY Food 2025: Policy Recommendations for a Stronger, Healthier, More Just, and Sustainable Food System in NYC

March 16
9:30am ET
On March 16th, join NY Food 2025, a collaboration of the CUNY Urban Food Policy Institute, the Hunter College New York City Food Policy Center, and the Laurie M. Tisch Center for Food, Education & Policy, Teachers College, Columbia University, for an online public forum "NY Food 2025: Policy Recommendations for a Stronger, Healthier, More Just, and Sustainable Food System in NYC.” Building on our first report detailing COVID-19’s impact on the NYC food system during the first six months of the crisis, this forum is designed to educate and inspire stakeholders to support food policies and programs that will ensure NYC emerges from the COVID-19 pandemic with a stronger, healthier, more just, and sustainable food system.
 

NYSHealth Virtual Conference: “What’s in Store for New York’s Food Future?”

March 22
9:30am-1pm ET
Join NYSHealth for a half-day virtual conference focused on the federal and state policies and pilot programs that can have a positive impact on New York’s food future. Panelists will discuss the role that states have in: Tackling food and nutrition security; Scaling and replicating medically tailored meals and nutritious food referral programs; Developing policy pathways that will enable the permanent provision of free school meals for all New York State public school students. Register here.


Funders Briefing: Philanthropy’s Role in Building a Healthy Sustainable Food System in NJ

March 29
11am-12pm ET
Join the Council of New Jersey Grantmakers for a conversation with the Community Food Funders and The Decency Foundation, a non-profit driving environmental sustainability, corporate stewardship, and ethical governance for small farms in New Jersey. Adam Liebowitz from Community Food Funders will discuss philanthropy’s role in creating a more equitable and racially just food system in the tri-state region, providing examples from funders in his network and current opportunities to support this important work.


Trust-Based Philanthropy in 4D Webinar Series

March 31, May 5
1-2:30pm ET
The Trust-Based Philanthropy Project, in partnership with the Environmental Grantmakers Association, Blue Sky Funders Forum, and Sustainable Agriculture and Food Systems Funders, is pleased to announce a four-part webinar series on using trust-based values to guide your philanthropy’s grantmaking practices, culture, structures, and leadership. This webinar series is for anyone who works at a grantmaking organization, regardless of role and familiarity with trust-based philanthropy – however, most of the material will feel most relevant to those in senior leadership or decision-making roles.

Resources & Announcements

 

ANNOUNCEMENTS

Grant opportunities from CSPI

Center for Science in the Public Interest’s (CSPI’s) first round of grantmaking for 2022 is now open. CSPI seeks to support communities as they explore local, state, and federal policy interventions to elicit systemic change and advance a just and equitable food environment. We are focused on identifying strategies and passing policies aimed at increasing purchasing power for, and access to, nutritious food that meets people’s needs, supporting a healthier food environment, and reducing health disparities across demographic groups.
 

Connecticut Farm-to-School Program

The Connecticut Department of Agriculture is offering a request for proposals for a Farm to School food procurement study. They are seeking to conduct a study of farm to school activities across the state focused on the procurement of Connecticut Grown farm products by Connecticut Public K-12 schools through interviews, surveys, and other data collection.
 

HEAL Food Alliance: 2022 School of Political Leadership

Now in its fourth year, HEAL's School of Political Leadership (SoPL) supports  teams of talented, passionate, food and farm justice leaders who are advocating for policies and solutions that will reimagine how our food and farm systems function. Over six months, SoPL will equip a cohort of 3 teams composed of 12 leaders from Illinois and California with the tools, knowledge, and skills they need to lead campaigns and drive political change. Meet the leaders who are working to transform our food and farm systems.
 

Senator Michelle Hinchey and Coalition Announce Legislation to Revolutionize the Way Municipalities Buy Food

The legislation (S7534/A8580), sponsored by Hinchey in the Senate and Assembly Majority Leader Crystal Peoples-Stokes in the Assembly, would make New York the first state to institute a values-based procurement model that promotes the purchase of more sustainably produced food from local economies, especially smaller-scale farms and minority-owned businesses, ensures that suppliers’ workers are offered safe and healthy working conditions and fair compensation, that livestock receive humane care and that consumers have access to nutritious meals.
 

VIDEO/AUDIO

Video: Remaking the Economy: Organizing for Black Food Sovereignty (Nonprofit Quarterly)

Catch a replay of Nonprofit Quarterly's Remaking the Economy: Organizing for Black Food Sovereignty. In this webinar, leaders in the movement for Black food sovereignty discuss how that movement is being built, rooted in the gifts and talents from within the Black community, and anchored in a community vision. Panelists included: Darnell Adams of Firebrand Consulting Cooperative, Dr. Jasmine Ratliff of the National Black Food & Justice Alliance, and Malik Yakini of Detroit Black Community Food Security Network.
 

Video: Is Now the Time for a Sugar-Sweetened Beverage Tax in New York City? (NYSHealth)

On February 9, 2022, NYSHealth hosted a webinar with Xavier Morales, Ph.D., Executive Director of the Praxis Project, and Steven Gortmaker, Ph.D., Professor and Director of the Prevention Research Center on Nutrition and Physical Activity at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health to discuss the potential impact of a sugar-sweetened beverage tax in New York City. 
 

Video: 'We're Cooked' #3 - The Joy of Cooking (Insects) (NYT Opinion)

“We’re Cooked” is an Opinion Video series about our broken food system and the three chances you get to help fix it — and save the planet — every day. In Part 3, they explore how a growing tribe of environmentalists, academics and entrepreneurs are arguing that edible insects must enjoy a wider acceptance to help create a more sustainable global food system and save the planet. Read a critique of this video series in Civil Eats.
 

Podcast: A Landscape of Relations with Rowen White (Spirit Plate)

In this episode, Rowen White-- Mohawk farmer, seed keeper, and organizer—joins Spirit Plate to talk about relationships to land and food, upholding our responsibilities to our kin, and developing a new lexicon to talk about the food system. She shares her practice of cultivating relational, kin-centric foodways and the possibilities opened by this worldview.
 

Podcast: Farm to Market in the Age of Covid (No Farms, No Future)

During the COVID-19 pandemic, many of us found bare shelves at the grocery store. In this episode, you’ll hear farmers, ranchers, and retailers talk about how choked food supply chains have compelled them to innovate new ways of ensuring their products reach the American consumer. Whether you’re growing the food or shopping for it, you’ll learn more about supply challenges and solutions and implications for the future of farming.
 

LITERATURE

Review: A Decade of College Student Hunger: What We Know and Where We Need to Go

The first article on college food insecurity, published in 2009, sparked conversation on the dark secret many students face while seeking a college degree; they do not have secure access to food. Over 10 years later, numerous investigators around the globe have reported on the heightened prevalence of college food insecurity, the correlates that increase risk, and the detrimental outcomes associated with not having a secure source of food. In this manuscript, we describe the decade of research devoted to college food insecurity and provide direction for research, programs, and policies moving forward.
 

Report: Unfencing the Future/Voices On How Indigenous and Non-Indigenous People and Organizations Can Work Together Toward Environmental and Conservation Goals

The goal of this project was to inform and support non-Indigenous conservation groups and conservation and environmental funders’ staff and boards working with Indigenous communities. At its core, this guide is about relationships. These are not relationships that may exist in the jargon of the non-profit or philanthropy worlds, usually termed “grants” and framed by “project periods.” These are relationships dependent on time, listening, understanding someone else’s perspective and desires, and letting go of power and control to work together respectfully and reciprocally.
 

Article: “How do we measure justice?”: missions and metrics in urban agriculture

This paper offers a critical analysis of program evaluation in contemporary urban agriculture. Drawing on data from an exploratory study designed at the request of and in collaboration with urban agriculture practitioners in Massachusetts, it describes both their critiques of extant practices of program evaluation and their visions for alternative ways of telling the story of their work.

Food in the News


FEATURED ARTICLES

How We Can Advance Support for Racial Equity and Racial Justice Funding, Lori Villarosa, Peak Grantmaking, Feb 1 2022

NYC Community Gardeners Might Have New Protection in the Fight Against Development, Greta Moran, Civil Eats, Feb 7 2022

‘Food is doing more injustice than mass incarceration’: New York mayor Eric Adams on veganism, Ed Pilkington, The Guardian, Feb 9 2022

Op-ed: The New York Times Took on the Food System. Here’s What They Missed. Sophia Murphy and Ben Lilliston, Civil Eats, Feb 17 2022

Black Farmers Fear Foreclosure as Debt Relief Remains Frozen, Alan Rappeport, The New York Times, Feb 21 2022

Preventing future 'wrongs': new USDA equity panel looks to expand agriculture resources to minority communities, Andrew Marquardt and Hannah Schoenbaum, USA Today, Feb 28 2022
 

ALL NEWS


Foodways, History and Culture

Poor food in prison and jails can cause or worsen eating and health problems. And the effects can linger long after release. Lela Nargi, The Counter, Feb 1 2022
Tribal groups want to boost traditional diets in federal food aid, Ellyn Ferguson, Roll Call, Feb 2 2022
The Untold History of CSA, FoodPrint, Feb 8 2022
How American Tipping Culture Became So Different From the Rest of the World, Julia Larson, Vinepair, Feb 14 2022
Hummus and Gentrification in Jaffa, Joel Hart, Whetstone Magazine, Feb 18 2022
What We Write About When We Write About Food, Ligaya Mishan, The New York Times Style Magazine, Feb 18 2022
How Yams Helped My Family Survive Postwar Vietnam, Hoang Samuelson, Catapult, Feb 24 2022
 

Food and Agriculture Policy

Food Prices Approach Record Highs, Threatening the World’s Poorest, Ana Swanson, The New York Times, Feb 3 2022
A just transition for farmworkers, Sarah Sax, The Counter, Feb 3 2022
New York City’s “Vegan Fridays” school-food program is as vegan as its mayor—that is, not entirely, Jessica Fu, The Counter, Feb 9 2022
Mayor Adams Takes Executive Action to Promote Healthy Food in New York City, NYC Office of the Mayor, Feb 10 2022
What’s Next for Healthier School Meals? We Asked the USDA. Lisa Held, Civil Eats, Feb 10 2022
The Super Bowl Brought ICE Agents to Los Angeles to Target Street Vendors On One Of Their Busiest Weekends Of The Year, Janette Villafana, L.A. Taco, Feb 14 2022
The White House Food Conference Returns (Potentially) after 50 years, Vinny Panza, Tisch Food Center, Feb 15 2022
The USDA Stumbles as it Attempts to Address Historic Racism, Ryan Nebeker, FoodPrint, Feb 17 2022
 

Earth and Environment  

NYC Must Enact a Universal Food Waste Composting Law, Eric A. Goldsteinn, NRDC, Feb 1 2022
How Giving Legal Rights to an Indigenous Food Could Stop a Pipeline, Eamon Whalen, Mother Jones, Feb 9 2022
That Organic Cotton T-Shirt May Not Be as Organic as You Think, Alden Wicker, Emily Schmall, Suhasini Raj and Elizabeth Paton, The New York Times, Feb 13 2022
New York Was Set to Expand Composting. Now It’s on the Chopping Block. Anne Barnard, The New York Times, Feb 17 2022
The Field Report: New UN Climate Report Paints a Stark Picture for Food Systems, but Solutions Exist, Lisa Held, Civil Eats, Feb 28 2022
 

Labor

Can Farmers Help Each Other Navigate Mental Health Crises? Lela Nargi, Civil Eats, Feb 1 2022
REI Calls Itself a Co-op. But That Doesn’t Mean It’s Worker-Friendly. Emily Hofstaedter, Mother Jones, Feb 18 2022
A California lawmaker wants to crack down on employers that exploit farmworkers. Will it help? Melissa Montalvo, The Counter, Feb 21 2022
The Unavoidable Fight to Unionize Starbucks in New York, Chris Crowley, Grub Street, Feb 23 2022
 

Organizing and Mutual Aid

Celebrating Black History Month with 10 Groundbreaking Black Food Activists, Lily Zaballos, Hunter College NYC Food Policy Center, Feb 1 2022
The Visionaries Running a Worm Farm In Prison, Christopher Blackwell with Nick Hacheney, Modern Farmer, Feb 3 2022
This Market Stepped Up to Feed a Town With No Grocery Store, Robin Catalano, Modern Farmer, Feb 13 2022
Meet the Modern Farmer Working to Increase Food Self-Reliance in Hawaii, Libby Leonard, Modern Farmer, Feb 20 2022
 

Philanthropy

Healing-Centered Leadership: A Path to Transformation, Shawn A. Ginwright, Nonprofit Quarterly, Feb 1 2022
Leaders of Color at the Forefront of the Nonprofit Sector’s Challenges, Cyndi Suarez, Nonprofit Quarterly, Feb 3 2022
Opinion: Looking at domestic and international food security through an Indigenous perspective, Toni Stanger-McLaughlin, Agripulse, Feb 25 2022

Job Opportunities


Multiple Positions, North Star Fund (NYC)
Multiple Positions, Harvest Home Farmers Market (NYC)
Farm Education Manager, Red Hook Farms (NYC)
Multiple Positions, Brooklyn Grange (NYC)
Multiple Positions, Earth Matter (NYC)
Multiple Positions, Green City Force (NYC)
Multiple Positions, City Parks Foundation (NYC)
Multiple Positions, Big Reuse (NYC)
Director of Philanthropic Engagement, Cause Effective (NYC)
Research Assistant - Oral Histories, New York Botanical Garden (NYC)
Finance Manager, GreenWave (NYC/New Haven, CT)
Multiple Positions, Phillies Bridge Farm Project (New Paltz, NY)
General Manager, Kingston Food Co-op (Kingston, NY)
Development Officer, Sky High Farm (Pine Plains, NY)
Development Director, Regional Environmental Council (Worcester, MA)
Project Coordinator - Livestock Support Program, Berkshire Agricultural Ventures (Great Barrington, MA)
Certification Director, NOFA-NY (Binghamton, NY)
Research and Education Program Fellow, Organic Farming Research Foundation (Remote)
Multiple Positions, Real Organic Project (Remote)
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