Sustainable Agriculture - Grants

Jessie Smith Noyes Foundation
6 East 39th Street, 12th Floor,
New York, NY 10016-0112
TEL: (212) 684-6577 FAX: (212) 689-6549
E-Mail: noyes@noyes.org

Sustainable Agriculture - Grants - 2001 Annual Report

Abundant Life Seed Foundation	$2,500
P.O. Box 772 Port Townsend, WA 98368 The Abundant Life Seed Foundation (ALSF) was created 25 years ago to preserve genetic diversity of plants by growing and distributing open-pollinated seeds. ALSF promotes the cultivation and use of heirloom, native and rare seeds by providing workshops, apprenticeships, classroom visits and farmer trainings. This grant supported networking and dialogue among growers, seed organizations, small seed companies, gardening groups and concerned citizens on political and social issues around organic growing and genetically altered seeds. Matt Dillon, Interim Executive Director
Phone: 306-385-5660	Fax: 306-385-7455
E-mail: abundant@olypen.com	Web: www.abundantlifeseed.org

California Sustainable Agriculture Working Group	$25,000
P.O. Box 1599 Santa Cruz, CA 95061 (Fiscal Sponsor: Community Alliance with Family Farmers) The California Sustainable Agriculture Working Group was formed in 1994 to broaden and strengthen California's existing sustainable and organic agriculture movements and to increase the participation of farmers, consumers and environmentalists in state and national initiatives to advance sustainable agriculture. This grant supported their community organizing efforts. (Second year of a two-year grant totalling $50,000. Total grants since 1994: $200,000.) Stacie Clary, Director
Phone: 831-457-2815	Fax: 831-457-1003
E-mail: info@calsawg.org	Web: www.calsawg.org

Campaign for Family Farms and the Environment	$32,500
c/o Land Stewardship Project 3203 Cedar Avenue South Minneapolis, MN 55407 The Campaign for Family Farms and the Environment unites family farmers, consumers and environmentalists in support of a family farm system that is economically competitive, environmentally sound, locally integrated and humane. This grant provided support for a network of sustainable agriculture, family farm, environmental and animal welfare organizations to fight the proliferation of large-scale, factory-style hog operations and coporate consolidation in the livestock industry. Of this grant amount, $7,500 was for organizing and mobilizing against USDA's abrogation of their binding agreement to abide by the referendum vote ending the mandatory pork check-off, including mailing and travel expenses. (Total grants since 1995: $202,800.) Mark Schultz, Policy Director, Land Stewardship Project
Phone: 612-722-6377	Fax: 612-722-6474
E-mail: marks@landstewardshipproject.org	Web: www.landstewardshipproject.org

Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund	$20,000
2859 Scotland Road Chambersburg, PA 17201 The Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund was founded in 1995 to provide free legal services to grassroots organizations addressing issues affecting their local environments. This grant supported efforts of community groups throughout Pennsylvania and other parts of the country to limit the spread of factory hog farming. Thomas Alan Linzey, President
Phone: 717-709-0457	Fax: 717-709-0263
E-mail: info@celdf.org	Web: www.celdf.org

Community Farm Alliance	$30,000
614 A Shelby Street Frankfort, KY 40601 The Community Farm Alliance is a multi-issue, membership-based rural organization formed in 1985. This grant supported efforts to organize family farmers to advocate for practices and policies, particularly on the use of tobacco settlement funds, that advance sustainable agriculture. (Second year of a two-year grant totalling $60,000. Total grants since 1990: $294,603.) Deborah Webb, Executive Director
Phone: 502-223-3655	Fax: 502-223-0804
E-mail: cfarma@bellsouth.net	Web: www.communityfarmalliance.com

Community Food Security Coalition	$30,000
P.O. Box 209 Venice, CA 90294 Founded in 1994, the Community Food Security Coalition is an alliance of more than 500 groups and individuals promoting community food security, which they define as "all persons obtaining at all times a culturally acceptable, nutritionally adequate diet through local non-emergency sources." This grant supported efforts to transform the nation's increasingly industrialized and polluting food system to one that is sustainable and strong, locally and regionally. (First year of a two-year grant totalling $60,000. Total grants since 1995: $150,500.) Andy Fisher, Executive Director
Phone: 310-822-5410	Fax: 310-822-1440
E-mail: andy@foodsecurity.org	Web: www.foodsecurity.org

CropChoice.com	$15,000
1014 Lamont Street, N.W. Washington, DC 20010 (Fiscal Sponsor: American Corn Growers Foundation) CropChoice.com (CropChoice) is a news service that researches farm, scientific, business and popular media for important information about transgenic crops (grown from genetically altered seeds), and their alternatives, and posts it on a continuously updated, easy-to-use web site. CropChoice also publishes stories and reports chronicling the first-hand experiences of farmers who have used transgenic crops. This grant provided support for the dissemination of information through their web site on genetic engineering in agriculture. Robert Schubert, Editor
Phone: 202-234-4333
E-mail: editor@cropchoice.com	Web: www.CropChoice.com

Delta Land and Community	$20,000
920 Highway 153 Almyra, AR 72003 In 1995, Delta Land and Community (DLC) was formed to overcome and reverse the deterioration of rural communities, family farms and the environment in the Mississippi Delta through value-added enterprise creation, action research, network building and leadership development. DLC provides technical assistance to farmers and works in the public policy arena to create financial and social capital to generate environmentally sound, community-based enterprises, which advance organic and sustainable farming practices. This grant supported the hiring of a lower Mississippi Delta organizer to bring conventional farmers into the economic opportunities provided by sustainable agriculture and value-added enterprise development, and thus to gain the support of a politically influential constituency. (First year of a two-year grant totalling $40,000. Total grants since 1996: $60,000.) Jim Worstell, Director
Phone: 870-673-6346	Fax: 870-673-7848
E-mail: worstell@deltanetwork.org	Web: www.deltanetwork.org

Federation of Southern Cooperatives/	$30,000
Land Assistance Fund 2769 Church Street East Point, GA 30344 The Federation of Southern Cooperatives was formed in 1967 by African American farmers and low-income people to work toward the development of self-supporting and more humane and livable communities. This grant supported the Federation's efforts to provide technical assistance and advocacy for African American farmers in the Southeast. (Total grants since 1990: $380,000, including an Organizational Strengthening Award of $100,000 in 1999.) Ralph Paige, Executive Director
Phone: 404-765-0991	Fax: 404-765-9178
E-mail: fsc@mindspring.com	Web: www.federationsoutherncoop.com
John Zippert, Director of Program Operations Rural Training and Research Center P.O. Box 95, Epes, AL 35460
Phone: 205-652-9676	E-mail: jzippert@aol.com

Florida Certified Organic Growers and Consumers	$5,000
P.O. Box 12311 Gainesville, FL 32604 Since 1989, the Florida Certified Organic Growers and Consumers (FOG) has operated an organic certification program to enable farmers and handlers to meet legal requirements, as well as consumers' and industry's expectations, for independent third party verification. This grant provided support for the expansion of FOG's certification services program to meet increasing demand throughout the southern tier and to explore certification options beyond organic. Marty Mesh, Executive Director
Phone: 352-377-6345	Fax: 352-377-8363
E-mail: qcs@qcsinfo.org	Web: www.qcsinfo.org

Georgia Poultry Justice Alliance	$20,000
c/o Epworth Methodist Church 1561 McLendon Avenue, N.E. Atlanta, GA 30307 The Georgia Poultry Justice Alliance is a coalition that brings together environmentalists, poultry growers, chicken catchers, processing plant workers, immigrant groups and faith-based groups in order to break through institutionalized isolation and division to work collectively for fundamental changes in the poultry industry. This grant provided support to unite people directly affected by the vertically integrated corporations that dominate the poultry industry in Georgia to win reforms that would protect people and the environment. Glennette Martin, Executive Director
Phone: 404-766-1472	Fax: 404-766-1472
E-mail: poultryjustice@hotmail.com	Web: http://go.to/gpja

Good Jobs First	$20,000
1311 L Street, N.W. Washington, DC 20005 (Fiscal Sponsor: Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy) The Corporate Research Project (CRP) of Good Jobs First assists campaigns for environmental protection and economic justice by providing in-depth corporate research. In addition to carrying out research projects, CRP helps groups increase their internal capacity to do research on corporations by conducting workshops and publishing training materials that explain basic research techniques. This grant supported CRP's in-depth analysis of a corporate target for the National Farm Action Campaign, which seeks to lessen the stranglehold that corporate agribusiness has on food production and reinvigorate the family farm-based system of environmentally sustainable farming and ranching. Greg LeRoy, Director Philip Mattera, Director of the Corporate Research Project
Phone: 202-626-3780	Fax: 202-638-3486
E-mail: goodjobs@ctj.org	Web: www.goodjobsfirst.org

Hartford Food System	$32,750
509 Wethersfield Avenue Hartford, CT 06114 The Hartford Food System (HFS) was established in 1978 to work for local solutions to the problems of high cost and poor quality food, and the inaccessibility of food markets in the Hartford, Connecticut, area. This grant supported the development of an equitable and sustainable food system that reduces the levels of hunger, improves health and nutrition, and creates a healthy environment. Of this grant amount, $6,750 was used to help defray costs associated with legal fees, consulting services and travel expenses required for the development of a statewide agricultural land trust; and $1,000 assisted HFS in participating in the pension plan of the National Organizers Alliance. (First year of a two-year grant totalling $57,750. Total grants since 1995: $182,750.) Mark Winne, Executive Director
Phone: 860-296-9325	Fax: 860-296-8326
E-mail: info@hartfordfood.org	Web: www.hartfordfood.org

Idaho Rural Council	$20,000
P.O. Box 118 Bliss, ID 83314 Founded in 1986, the Idaho Rural Council is an organization of farmers and other rural citizens working to improve the economic vitality of, and increase the level of democracy in, Idaho's rural communities. This grant supported organizing by Idaho farmers, ranchers and consumers to support sustainable farming and food system policies and practices, and to address the growing concentration of livestock production and processing. (Total grants since 1993: $140,550.) Stacy S. Butler, Director
Phone: 208-352-4477	Fax: 208-352-4645
E-mail: irc@idahoruralcouncil.org	Web: www.idahoruralcouncil.org

Michael Fields Agricultural Institute	$15,000
W2493 County Road ES East Troy, WI 53120 The Michael Fields Agricultural Institute was founded in 1984 to advocate for sustainable agriculture and educate consumers and farmers about a sustainable food system. This grant supported the Grassroots Organizing Project for Sustainable Agriculture Appropriations which provides information, training and organizing support to grassroots activists on the federal appropriations process as it relates to sustainable agriculture programs. (Second year of a two-year grant totalling $30,000. Total grants since 1996: $80,000.) Margaret Krome, Agricultural Policy Coordinator
Phone: 608-238-1440	Fax: 608-238-1569
E-mail: mkrome@inxpress.net	Web: www.michaelfieldsaginst.org

Midwest Sustainable Agriculture Working Group	$25,000
c/o Center for Rural Affairs P.O. Box 406 Walthill, NE 68067 (Fiscal Sponsor: Center for Rural Affairs) The Midwest Sustainable Agriculture Working Group, established in 1988, is a network of sustainable agriculture, environmental, food, religious and rural development organizations. This grant supported efforts to develop and advocate for policies and practices that advance sustainable agriculture in the region and nationally. (First year of a two-year grant totalling $50,000. Total grants since 1988: $326,500.) Jon Bailey, Director, Rural Policy Program
Phone: 420-846-5428	Fax: 420-846-5420
E-mail: jonb@cfra.org	Web: www.cfra.org

Missouri Rural Crisis Center	$25,000
1108 Rangeline Street Columbia, MO 65201 The Missouri Rural Crisis Center was founded in 1985 to preserve family farms, promote stewardship of the land, strive for social and economic justice, and build unity and mutual understanding among diverse groups, both urban and rural. This grant supported efforts to promote sustainable agriculture policies and practices and to expand the Patchwork Family Farm project, which links local hog producers with rural and urban consumers. (Second year of a two-year grant totalling $50,000. Total grants since 1993: $205,000.) Roger Allison, Executive Director Rhonda Perry, Program Director
Phone: 573-449-1336	Fax: 573-442-5716
E-mail: morural@coin.org	Web: www.inmotionmagazine.com/rural.html

National Campaign for Sustainable Agriculture	$30,000
P.O. Box 396 Pine Bush, NY 12566 The National Campaign for Sustainable Agriculture is a network of hundreds of local, state, and national farmer, consumer, environmental and animal rights organizations joined together to develop and implement federal policies that increase the sustainability of U.S. agriculture and rural communities. This grant supported the Campaign's organizing and advocacy work to achieve national farm policy reforms. (Second year of a two-year grant totalling $66,300. Total grants since 1993: $400,400, including an Organizational Strengthening Award of $100,000 in 2000.) Kathy Lawrence, Executive Director
Phone: 845-744-8448	Fax: 845-744-8477
Loni Kemp, Co-Chair
Phone: 507-743-8300
Tim Bowser, Co-Chair
Phone: 814-349-6000

E-mail: campaign@sustainableagriculture.net	Web: www.SustainableAgriculture.net

National Family Farm Coalition	$45,000
110 Maryland Avenue, N.E., Suite 307 Washington, DC 20002 The National Family Farm Coalition, founded in 1986, is a coalition of farm and rural advocacy groups that promote federal farm policies to ensure environmentally sound farming practices, prices above the cost of production, a stable and affordable food supply, and viable family farms and rural communities. This grant supported the Farmer-to-Farmer Campaign, a collaborative effort among family farm organizations to promote the farmer perspective on genetic engineering; to increase the information, organizing and outreach surrounding the decisions that family farmers are making about what seeds to plant in their fields; and to organize farmers across the nation to be involved in the development, implementation and monitoring of national farm policies. (Total grants since 1993: $260,000.) Katherine Ozer, Executive Director
Phone: 202-543-5675	Fax: 202-543-0978
E-mail: nffc@nffc.net	Web: www.nffc.net

New York Sustainable Agriculture Working Group	$1,000
121 North Fitzhugh Street Rochester, NY 14614 The New York Sustainable Agriculture Working Group (NYSAWG) was established in 1992 to educate and advocate on agriculture and sustainable food system policies, and to positively impact rural economic revitalization in New York State. This grant assisted NYSAWG in participating in the pension plan of the National Organizers Alliance. (Total grants since 1995: $97,815.) Kelly Flegel, Executive Director
Phone: 716-232-1520	Fax: 716-232-1676
E-mail: nysawg@usadatanet.net

Northeast Sustainable Agriculture Working Group	$30,000
P.O. Box 608 Belchertown, MA 01007-0608 (Fiscal Sponsor: The New England Small Farm Institute) The Northeast Sustainable Agriculture Working Group, formed in 1992, is a network of family farm, environmental and consumer organizations that promotes a food system that is regionally based and sustainable. This grant provided ongoing support. (Total grants since 1992: $240,000.) Kathryn Z. Ruhf, NESAWG Coordinator
Phone: 413-323-4531	Fax: 413-323-9594
E-mail: nesawg@smallfarm.org	Web: www.smallfarm.org

Pennsylvania Association for Sustainable Agriculture	$20,000
P.O. Box 419 Millheim, PA 16854-0419 Established by farmers and food system advocates in 1992, the Pennsylvania Association for Sustainable Agriculture (PASA) is dedicated to the advancement of sustainable food and farming systems. PASA sponsors programs that give farmers an opportunity to share information and ideas, demonstrate environmentally sound production practices, promote community-based, value-added markets, and educate rural and urban consumers about sustainable and organic farming systems. This grant supported the group's work to promote sustainable agriculture in Pennsylvania by integrating farmer-based educational and community-based market strategies in order to increase farm profitability and to generate opportunities for local economic development, food security and ecological restoration. (Total grants since 1998: $45,000.) Brian W. Snyder, Executive Director
Phone: 814-349-9856	Fax: 814-349-9840
E-mail: brian@pasafarming.org	Web: www.pasafarming.org

Red Tomato	$28,000
1033 Turnpike Street Canton, MA 02021 Red Tomato was established in 1996 to undertake education and organizing campaigns to create markets for Northeast farmers who use organic or low-chemical input practices. This grant supported their efforts in Boston, Massachusetts, Hartford, Connecticut, and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Of this grant amount, $3,000 was used to help defray costs associated with providing the group's core management team and art director a two-day training on "Theories of Constraint" to improve skills and overall management. (Total grants since 1997: $133,900.) Michael Rozyne, Founder and Managing Director
Phone: 781-575-8911	Fax: 781-575-8915
E-mail: redtomato@redtomato.org

Regional Farm and Food Project	$20,000
148 Central Avenue, 2nd Floor Albany, NY 12206 Founded in 1996, the Regional Farm and Food Project supports farming that maintains the land, sustains communities and fosters a closer relationship between food producers and consumers in a ten-county area surrounding Albany, New York. This grant was for ongoing support. (Total grants since 1997: $90,000.) Tracy Frisch, Director
Phone: 518-427-6537	Fax: 518-689-2337
E-mail: farmfood@capital.net	Web: www.capital.net/~farmfood

Rural Advancement Foundation International-USA	$32,000
P.O. Box 640 Pittsboro, NC 27312 Rural Advancement Foundation International-USA, founded in 1990, works for healthy family farms, food diversity, sustainability and equity in agriculture in North Carolina and elsewhere. This grant supported their work to promote sustainable agricultural policies and practices that are environmentally sound and economically viable, to reduce pesticide use by peanut farmers, and to assist tobacco farmers in diversifying their crop production. Of this grant amount, $2,000 supported the Committee for Contract Agriculture Reform and its convening of contract growers in Washington, DC, for strategy sessions, trainings, congressional meetings and meetings with key officials from USDA. (Second year of a two-year grant totalling $62,000. Total grants since 1988: $475,184, including an Organizational Strengthening Award of $100,000 in 1998.)
Betty Bailey, Executive Director	E-mail: bbailey@rafiusa.org
Michael Sligh, Director, Sustainable Agriculture Program Scott Marlow, Director of Community Based Programs
Phone: 919-542-1396	Fax: 919-542-0069
Web: www.rafiusa.org

Rural Coalition/Coalición Rural	$25,000
1411 K Street, N.W. Suite 901 Washington, DC 20005 The Rural Coalition, founded in 1978, is an umbrella organization for 90 community-based groups that advocate for progressive public policies that address rural issues and needs. This grant supported their advocacy work on behalf of low-income farmers and farmworkers and their support of farmer cooperatives through their web site. (First year of a two-year grant totalling $50,000. Total grants since 1994: $245,000, including an Organizational Strengthening Award of $100,000 in 2001.) Lorette Picciano, Executive Director
Phone: 202-628-7160	Fax: 202-628-7165
E-mail: lpicciano@ruralco.org	Web: www.ruralco.org
Retail Web Site: www.supermarketcoop.com

Southern Sustainable Agriculture Working Group	$35,980
P.O. Box 324 Elkins, AR 72727 (Fiscal Sponsor: Rural Advancement Foundation International-USA) The Southern Sustainable Agriculture Working Group (SSAWG) was organized in 1991 and has a membership of 40 organizations from thirteen southern states. This grant supported efforts to organize farmers, engage in a land grant accountability project in the region, sponsor an annual conference, and establish marketing alternatives for organic and sustainably grown food products. Of this grant amount, $5,980 was used to cover the cost associated with the work of a special planning committee that will evaluate the SSWAG's annual conference and create a plan that will allow it to better meet the needs of a growing and diverse constituency. (Second year of a two-year grant totalling $65,980. Total grants since 1991: $307,980.) Keith Richards, Director
Phone: 501-587-0888	Fax: 501-587-1333
E-mail: ssfarm@lynks.com	Web: www.attra.org/ssawg/

Sustainable Cotton Project	$25,000
6176 Old Olive Highway Oroville, CA 95966 The Sustainable Cotton Project was initiated in 1991 to approach agricultural reform in a holistic way so that each step, from farming to finished product, is sustainable. This grant supported their efforts to promote the reduction of chemicals used in the production of cotton by working with clothing companies to get them to increase the use of organic cotton in their manufacturing. (First year of a two-year grant totalling $50,000. Total grants since 1997: $95,000.) Kate Duesterberg, Managing Director
Phone: 530-589-2686	Fax: 530-589-2688
E-mail: info@sustainablecotton.org	Web: www.sustainablecotton.org

Washington Sustainable Food and Farming Network	$27,500
P.O. Box 6054 Bellingham, WA 98227-6054 (Fiscal Sponsor: Washington Tilth Producers) The Washington Sustainable Food and Farming Network was formed in 1997 as a statewide alliance of individuals and organizations working collaboratively to advance sustainable agriculture in Washington State. This grant provided ongoing support. Of this grant amount, $2,500 helped to cover costs associated with a two-day strategic planning retreat to define programmatic goals and clarify the leadership team's role in working to meet these goals. (Second year of a two-year grant totalling $47,500.) Bonnie Rice, Coordinator
Phone: 360-527-9426	Fax: 360-527-2615
E-mail: brice@televar.com

Western Sustainable Agriculture Working Group	$25,000
3040 Continental Drive Butte, MT 59701 The Western Sustainable Agriculture Working Group was formed in 1993 as a support network to provide a unified citizen's voice from the region on agricultural and rural development policy issues. This grant provided ongoing support. (First year of a two-year grant totalling $50,000. Total grants since 1992: $216,537.) Jeff Schahczenski, Executive Director
Phone: 406-494-8636	Fax: 406-494-2905
E-mail: wsawg@ncat.org	Web: www.westernsawg.org

White Earth Land Recovery Project	$26,750
32033 East Round Lake Road Ponsford, MN 56575-9250 The White Earth Land Recovery Project seeks to regain land that was set aside in an 1867 treaty between the U.S. and the White Earth Band of the Chippewa Indians in northern Minnesota. This grant supported the promotion of traditional and sustainable agriculture on the reservation and through public policy advocacy. Of this grant amount, $6,750 supported two trainings in sustainable agriculture techniques, one for hominy and one for strawberries, and the upgrading of the group's capacity for direct mail and internet sales for their Native Harvest brand items. (Second year of a two-year grant totalling $46,750. Total grants since 1994: $96,750.) Winona LaDuke, Founding Director
Phone: 218-573-3448	Fax: 281-573-3444
E-mail: WELRP@unitelc.com	Web: www.welrp.com
Web: www.nativeharvest.com

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