Food and Farm Communications Fund

Booker T. Washington Community Service Center, San Francisco, CA Black Farmers for Neighborhood Food Security – Production and screening of a short documentary on a local food ecosystem that revolutionizes how Black farmers are growing, distributing, and sharing produce to support the health and holistic wellness of the Black community in the Fillmore/Western Addition neighborhood. Malama Huleia, Lihue, HI Community …

Brandworkers, Long Island, NY Building Brandworkers’ Capacity to Support Food Factory Worker Organizing — to support the strategic communications, campaign coordination, and storytelling efforts of the Brandworkers Communications team; and utilize digital organizing trainings to support their efforts to mobilize factory workers to win dignified jobs and build power across the industry. Center Pole, Garryowen, MT Building Power through Food …

Advocates for Urban Agriculture, Chicago, Illinois – to purchase audio/visual equipment to enable communications, outreach, and education to be more accessible to members, including equipment to live stream educational workshops and events, language interpretation support of printed materials and events, as well as engaging a consultant to develop a communications strategy for the organization. Alliance for Fair Food, Immokalee, Florida …

The Alliance for Fair Food , Immokalee, FL — to increase communications capacity to mobilize consumers and investors to join with farmworkers in demanding corporate food retailers end farmworker exploitation in their supply chains by joining the Fair Food Program. Funds will develop lasting staff skills in digital media mobilizing and help frame and develop core resources for socially responsible …

The Center for Rural Strategies, based in Whitesburg, KY — to support an integrated communications campaign that produces and distributes content in ways that 1) increase the capacity of grassroots, multi-sector rural advocates and their national networks to address food systems change; 2) positively affect the coverage of food systems issues in local, regional, and national media; and 3) educate …

Agricultural Justice Project, Gainesville, FL – to support a video project to inspire the public to stand in solidarity with those most marginalized within the food system, when making purchasing decisions and supporting food justice work. The Alliance of Central Asian Mountain Communities, Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan – to deliver rural development news and information for villagers of Kyrgyzstan via the “Ayil …

American Indian Alaska Native Tourism Association, Inc., Albuquerque, NM – to facilitate networking, sharing of best practices and expansion of culturally relevant, sustainable agri-tourism product and itineraries in Indian Country, laying the groundwork to restore indigenous food systems through associated economic and cultural impacts. Center of Southwest Culture Inc., Albuquerque, NM – to support “Sembrando Salud!,” a robust communications and …

California Institute for Rural Studies Inc., Davis, CA – to support the “Cal Ag Roots: Docks to Delta” series, using storytelling, podcasts, listening sessions and dialogues to demonstrate the power of integrating historical analysis into movement narratives and strategies. Dakota Resource Council, Bismark, ND – to galvanize North Dakotans around bedrock community values to re-establish family owned and operated agriculture …