Sustainable Agriculture - 2008

Grants Paid in 2008

 

 

Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund $25,000
Chambersburg, PA
General support to move communities and municipal governments struggling against factory farms, sludging of farmland, and other threats, from the regulation of cooperate harms to the elimination of those harms through the assertion of local democratic con

Cornucopia Institute $20,000
Cornucopia, WI
General support to promote family-scale organic farming in the Midwest and nationally.

Dairy Education Alliance $20,000
Eugene, OR
General support for a national coalition of grassroots groups seeking to make large-scale dairies more socially and environmentally responsible.

Dakota Rural Action $20,000
Brookings, SD
General support to build grassroots leadership for family-farm-based agriculture and environmental conservation through community organizing in South Dakota.

Federation of Southern Cooperatives/Land Assistance Fund $25,000
East Point, GA
General support to foster sustainable rural communities through cooperative economics, land retention, policy advocacy and leadership development.

Hunger Action Network of New York State $20,000
New York, NY
Program support to promote a community food security agenda for New York State, and to provide assistance to regional community food security networks.

Just Harvest USA $20,000
Oakland, CA
General operating support to bring concern for human rights and the voice of agricultural workers into the consciousness of natural foods consumers and the sustainable agriculture movement.

Michael Fields Agricultural Institute $15,000
East Troy, WI
Project support to provide information, training and organizing on the federal appropriations process, and to promote the utilization of federal programs that support sustainable agriculture.

Missouri Rural Crisis Center $20,000
Columbia, MO
General support to promote a locally-based agriculture and food system.

National Campaign for Sustainable Agriculture $25,000
Pine Bush, NY
General support for a grassroots network of organizations and individuals from across the country advocating for national public policies that promote an ecologically viable, environmentally sound and socially just food and agriculture system.

National Family Farm Coalition $25,000
Washington, DC
General support to coalesce grassroots organizations representing family farmers and rural communities to advocate for policies and practices that support a family-farm-based and environmentally sound food and agriculture system.

New York Sustainable Agriculture Working Group $20,000
Rochester, NY
General support to expand collaborative policy, advocacy, organizing, education and outreach in order to build a more sustainable food and agriculture system in New York State.

Organization for Competitive Markets $20,000
Lincoln, NE
General support to counter the further concentration of food production and the industrialization of agriculture.

Rooted In Community $10,000
Rochester, NY
General support for a national network of grassroots groups that develops youth leadership for healthy communities and sustainable food systems.

Rural Coalition $25,000
Washington, DC
General support to enhance the capacity of rural organizations working together to effect systemic change that fosters a more just and sustainable agriculture and food system.

Rural Vermont $20,000
Montpelier, VT
General support to help family farmers build economic justice and a sustainable food system.

Southern Sustainable Agriculture Working Group $20,000
Fayetteville, AR
General support to promote sustainable agriculture through a network of family farm, agriculture, consumer and environmental organizations from 13 Southern states.

Sustainable Agriculture Coalition $25,000
Washington, DC
General support to bring the grassroots perspectives of sustainable agriculture practitioners and proponents to Farm Bill debates, and to the implementation of federal farm policies and programs.

Washington Sustainable Food and Farming Network $20,000
Mount Vernon, WA
General support to promote community, environmental, social and economic well-being by mobilizing individuals and organizations to advocate for sustainable and organic food and farming.

White Earth Land Recovery Project $25,000
Callaway, MN
General support to protect indigenous seeds, foods and people, and to restore indigenous food systems.


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