GROWING JUSTICE works to reimagine food systems with first funding opportunity

GROWING JUSTICE has announced the availability of $3.5 million in grants for community-led efforts to transform food systems through institutional sourcing practices. GROWING JUSTICE: The Fund for Equitable Good Food Procurement is a pooled fund co-designed by funders, farmers, advocates, food suppliers, purchasers, and community partners from across the country to transform food systems through equitable good food procurement. Growing Justice envisions a future in which tribal, indigenous, black, Latin, Asian, and immigrant people engaged in food markets as suppliers, producers, distributors, workers and eaters at community-serving institutions are economically and physically thriving thanks in part to efforts by large community institutions to prioritize equitable good food procurement. Founding funders include: The Rockefeller Foundation, Native American Agriculture Fund, W.K. Kellogg Foundation, The Kresge Foundation, Panta Rhea Foundation and Clif Family Foundation. GROWING JUSTICE grants aim to support BIPOC-led and BIPOC-allied community- and community-based organizations, Tribal nations and their instrumentalities that are actively engaged in the food value chain and committed to transforming the food system through equitable good food procurement. Equitable good food procurement is the purchasing of good food from locally- or regionally-owned, and environmentally- and economically-sustainable farms, ranches, fisheries, and food businesses that prioritize the needs of […]

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