For Grant Seekers

Good Food Policy Program Grantees

• Good Food Policy Program2024

  California Climate and Agriculture Network (Fiscal Sponsor: Earth Island Institute)

  Awarded $10,000

  To support the creation of the National Healthy Soils Policy Network to serve as an information clearinghouse, learning laboratory, and aggregator of farmer voices across the country for building power and securing resources that will catalyze a transition to a healthy and just agricultural system while delivering climate solutions and increasing on-farm resilience.

  View California Climate and Agriculture Network (Fiscal Sponsor: Earth Island Institute)'s Website
• Good Food Policy Program2024

  National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition (Fiscal Sponsor: Center for Rural Affairs)

  Awarded $40,000

  To help us bring our policy expertise to bear at critical climate crisis decision-making spaces in Washington, D.C. and mobilize our grassroots base around a major multi-year campaign on climate change from the field to advance legislation that addresses climate change mitigation and adaptation head-on and places just, regenerative policies at the heart of solutions for agriculture.

  View National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition (Fiscal Sponsor: Center for Rural Affairs)'s Website
• Good Food Policy Program2024

  Animal Agriculture Reform Collaborative (Fiscal Sponsor: Multiplier)

  Awarded $10,000

  To build a broad, powerful base of organizations across the country from the environmental, independent farmer, sustainable food, labor, civil rights, and animal welfare movements to jointly challenge corporate control of the food system and advocate for better U.S.-based agricultural policies.

  View Animal Agriculture Reform Collaborative (Fiscal Sponsor: Multiplier)'s Website
• Good Food Policy Program2024

  Food Chain Workers Alliance

  Awarded $10,000

  To continue their work and build capacity to introduce and center worker voices in local, state, and national policy campaigns in three primary categories: 1) worker health and safety standards for all food workers, and meatpacking workers in particular; 2) national farmworker policy priorities, including members' opposition of the Farm Workforce Modernization Act; and 3) continued development and implementation of food procurement policies across the United States as part of the Good Food Purchasing Program.

  View Food Chain Workers Alliance's Website
• Good Food Policy Program2024

  National Family Farm Coalition

  Awarded $20,000

  To pay for activities required to elevate the voice and priorities of our members who primarily live in rural America, advocate for policy changes that enrich their lives, and raise the profile of community-based and controlled food systems. This includes staff time, organizational expenses, and cost of travel and stipends for our members to compensate them for any potential loss of income while they are away from their businesses of farming, ranching, or fishing.

  View National Family Farm Coalition's Website
• Good Food Policy Program2024

  Union of Concerned Scientists

  Awarded $40,000

  To provide mini-grants to Good Food for All (GFFA) members to support their individual organizational capacity to make progress on collective GFFA priorities and goals. Over the last three years, these mini-grants have become an essential source of financial support for otherwise unfunded or underfunded projects; a valuable capacity building opportunity to develop and evaluate grant making skills; and a way of bringing the collaborative together to share learning.

  View Union of Concerned Scientists's Website
• Good Food Policy Program2024

  Government Accountability Project

  Awarded $10,000

  To enhance overall food integrity by facilitating truth-telling, accountability, and fairness to safeguard food, curtail farm animal abuse, and challenge economic exploitation of farmers and migrant workers through their support of enhanced and modernized corporate whistleblower protections for the agriculture industry.

  View Government Accountability Project's Website
• Good Food Policy Program2024

  National Young Farmers Coalition

  Awarded $10,000

  To create a cohort of young farmers trained to become leaders ready to bring their political know-how home to their agricultural communities, resulting in an expanded network equipped to serve as mentors, advocates, technical assistants, and public officials, resourced to serve without sacrificing their vital work as farmers and land stewards.

  View National Young Farmers Coalition's Website
• Good Food Policy Program2024

  Funders for Regenerative Agriculture (FORA)

  Awarded $20,000

  To move towards collaborative action for a network of 60 diverse members, including creating a Communications & Media studio, a grassroots policy strategy at the national and state level, a Financing the Transition strategy, a comprehensive Tracking the Field initiative, and Research series.

  View Funders for Regenerative Agriculture (FORA)'s Website
• Good Food Policy Program2024

  Rural Coalition

  Awarded $30,000

  To advance community-based development in rural, persistently poor communities, expand equity in farm and food programs, and transform systems of inequity in USDA and its programs and services to yield foundational changes in Farm Bill legislation, making more resources available to family-sized farmers and rural communities.

  View Rural Coalition's Website
• Good Food Policy Program2024

  Open Markets Institute

  Awarded $20,000

  To shine a light on corporate agricultural monopolies through investigative reporting, in-depth policy research and proposals, proposing legal remedies and rulemaking, and coordinating a coalition for progressive policy and agriculture organizations on challenges in the food and agriculture systems space. Our work in food and agriculture has been focused on two key strategies: reviving antitrust enforcement and promoting fair dealing in food markets, and rebalancing power in political and economic systems.

  View Open Markets Institute's Website
• Good Food Policy Program2024

  Sustainable Agriculture & Food Systems Funders

  Awarded $40,000

  To support the project “Catalyzing Action: Building philanthropic knowledge and capacity to impact food and farm policy,” to enhance SAFSF's ability to contribute to more effective investments and accelerated learning within their membership.

  View Sustainable Agriculture & Food Systems Funders's Website
• Good Food Policy Program2024

  State Innovation Exchange

  Awarded $20,000

  The SiX Agriculture Program will prioritize helping state legislators across the nation work more effectively to coordinate and collaborate with grassroots organizations to engage and champion meaningful regenerative agriculture policy that centers food justice, farmer equity, clean air and water, healthy soils and re-establishes healthy local farm economies for our rural communities. While this work is state-based, it is Six's goal to not only impact policy at the state level but to compliment regional and national efforts that are working to advance regenerative and climate-friendly agriculture policy.

  View State Innovation Exchange's Website
• Good Food Policy Program2024

  HEAL Food Alliance (Fiscal Sponsor: Movement Strategy Center)

  Awarded $40,000

  To support the capacity-building and general operations of the Alliance to identify and advance strategic policy campaigns on the Farm Bill and food procurement, as well as protections for food workers and the dismantling of corporate control. HEAL Food Alliance will also cultivate new leaders through the third cohort of their School of Political Leadership, build their members’ capacity for organizing and communications, and coordinate an emerging initiative to increase philanthropic investment in the leadership of BIPOC groups accountable to their communities.

  View HEAL Food Alliance (Fiscal Sponsor: Movement Strategy Center)'s Website
• Good Food Policy Program2024

  Food and Environment Reporting Network (FERN)

  Awarded $10,000

  We are engaged in two, multipart reporting initiatives — The first focuses on creative agricultural solutions to the climate crisis and the impediments such solutions face. The second explores a key aspect of the biodiversity crisis: How agriculture depletes biodiversity, and how, when managed sustainably, it can enhance biodiversity while feeding a growing population. With climate policy a major factor in the current presidential campaign and the biodiversity crisis a subject of international concern, we believe support for this reporting is essential to increasing public pressure on lawmakers and corporations and catalyzing change.

  View Food and Environment Reporting Network (FERN)'s Website
• Good Food Policy Program2024

  Food and Farm Communications Fund (Fiscal Sponsor: Greater Kansas City Community Foundation)

  Awarded $10,000

  To provide targeted communications funding and resources to community-based organizations working at the forefront of food and farm systems change. The Fund advances communications initiatives and media projects to help shift narrative and further the goals of the grassroots and their allies. The Fund also seeks to influence increased funding and prioritization of strategic communications and narrative as essential tools in movement-building and systems change.

  View Food and Farm Communications Fund (Fiscal Sponsor: Greater Kansas City Community Foundation)'s Website
• Good Food Policy Program2023

  Food Chain Workers Alliance

  Awarded $10,000

  To continue their work and build capacity to introduce and center worker voices in local, state, and national policy campaigns in three primary categories: 1) worker health and safety standards for all food workers, and meatpacking workers in particular; 2) national farmworker policy priorities, including members' opposition of the Farm Workforce Modernization Act; and 3) continued development and implementation of food procurement policies across the United States as part of the Good Food Purchasing Program.

  View Food Chain Workers Alliance's Website
• Good Food Policy Program2023

  National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition (Fiscal Sponsor: Center for Rural Affairs)

  Awarded $40,000

  To help us bring our policy expertise to bear at critical climate crisis decision-making spaces in Washington, D.C. and mobilize our grassroots base around a major multi-year campaign on climate change from the field to advance legislation that addresses climate change mitigation and adaptation head-on and places just, regenerative policies at the heart of solutions for agriculture.

  View National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition (Fiscal Sponsor: Center for Rural Affairs)'s Website
• Good Food Policy Program2023

  Government Accountability Project

  Awarded $10,000

  To enhance overall food integrity by facilitating truth-telling, accountability, and fairness to safeguard food, curtail farm animal abuse, and challenge economic exploitation of farmers and migrant workers through their support of enhanced and modernized corporate whistleblower protections for the agriculture industry.

  View Government Accountability Project's Website
• Good Food Policy Program2023

  State Innovation Exchange

  Awarded $20,000

  The SiX Agriculture Program will prioritize helping state legislators across the nation work more effectively to coordinate and collaborate with grassroots organizations to engage and champion meaningful regenerative agriculture policy that centers food justice, farmer equity, clean air and water, healthy soils and re-establishes healthy local farm economies for our rural communities. While this work is state-based, it is Six's goal to not only impact policy at the state level but to compliment regional and national efforts that are working to advance regenerative and climate-friendly agriculture policy.

  View State Innovation Exchange's Website
• Good Food Policy Program2023

  Animal Agriculture Reform Collaborative (Fiscal Sponsor: Multiplier)

  Awarded $10,000

  To build a broad, powerful base of organizations across the country from the environmental, independent farmer, sustainable food, labor, civil rights, and animal welfare movements to jointly challenge corporate control of the food system and advocate for better U.S.-based agricultural policies.

  View Animal Agriculture Reform Collaborative (Fiscal Sponsor: Multiplier)'s Website
• Good Food Policy Program2023

  Food and Environment Reporting Network (FERN)

  Awarded $10,000

  We are engaged in two, multipart reporting initiatives — The first focuses on creative agricultural solutions to the climate crisis and the impediments such solutions face. The second explores a key aspect of the biodiversity crisis: How agriculture depletes biodiversity, and how, when managed sustainably, it can enhance biodiversity while feeding a growing population. With climate policy a major factor in the current presidential campaign and the biodiversity crisis a subject of international concern, we believe support for this reporting is essential to increasing public pressure on lawmakers and corporations and catalyzing change.

  View Food and Environment Reporting Network (FERN)'s Website
• Good Food Policy Program2023

  Rural Coalition

  Awarded $30,000

  To advance community-based development in rural, persistently poor communities, expand equity in farm and food programs, and transform systems of inequity in USDA and its programs and services to yield foundational changes in Farm Bill legislation, making more resources available to family-sized farmers and rural communities.

  View Rural Coalition's Website
• Good Food Policy Program2023

  HEAL Food Alliance (Fiscal Sponsor: Movement Strategy Center)

  Awarded $30,000

  To support the capacity-building and general operations of the Alliance to identify and advance strategic policy campaigns on the Farm Bill and food procurement, as well as protections for food workers and the dismantling of corporate control. HEAL Food Alliance will also cultivate new leaders through the third cohort of their School of Political Leadership, build their members’ capacity for organizing and communications, and coordinate an emerging initiative to increase philanthropic investment in the leadership of BIPOC groups accountable to their communities.

  View HEAL Food Alliance (Fiscal Sponsor: Movement Strategy Center)'s Website
• Good Food Policy Program2023

  Union of Concerned Scientists

  Awarded $40,000

  To provide mini-grants to Good Food for All (GFFA) members to support their individual organizational capacity to make progress on collective GFFA priorities and goals. Over the last three years, these mini-grants have become an essential source of financial support for otherwise unfunded or underfunded projects; a valuable capacity building opportunity to develop and evaluate grant making skills; and a way of bringing the collaborative together to share learning.

  View Union of Concerned Scientists's Website
• Good Food Policy Program2023

  Open Markets Institute

  Awarded $20,000

  To shine a light on corporate agricultural monopolies through investigative reporting, in-depth policy research and proposals, proposing legal remedies and rulemaking, and coordinating a coalition for progressive policy and agriculture organizations on challenges in the food and agriculture systems space. Our work in food and agriculture has been focused on two key strategies: reviving antitrust enforcement and promoting fair dealing in food markets, and rebalancing power in political and economic systems.

  View Open Markets Institute's Website
• Good Food Policy Program2023

  Funders for Regenerative Agriculture (FORA)

  Awarded $20,000

  To move towards collaborative action for a network of 60 diverse members, including creating a Communications & Media studio, a grassroots policy strategy at the national and state level, a Financing the Transition strategy, a comprehensive Tracking the Field initiative, and Research series.

  View Funders for Regenerative Agriculture (FORA)'s Website
• Good Food Policy Program2023

  California Climate and Agriculture Network (Fiscal Sponsor: Earth Island Institute)

  Awarded $10,000

  To support the creation of the National Healthy Soils Policy Network to serve as an information clearinghouse, learning laboratory, and aggregator of farmer voices across the country for building power and securing resources that will catalyze a transition to a healthy and just agricultural system while delivering climate solutions and increasing on-farm resilience.

  View California Climate and Agriculture Network (Fiscal Sponsor: Earth Island Institute)'s Website
• Good Food Policy Program2023

  National Family Farm Coalition

  Awarded $20,000

  To pay for activities required to elevate the voice and priorities of our members who primarily live in rural America, advocate for policy changes that enrich their lives, and raise the profile of community-based and controlled food systems. This includes staff time, organizational expenses, and cost of travel and stipends for our members to compensate them for any potential loss of income while they are away from their businesses of farming, ranching, or fishing.

  View National Family Farm Coalition's Website
• Good Food Policy Program2023

  Sustainable Agriculture & Food Systems Funders

  Awarded $40,000

  To support the project “Catalyzing Action: Building philanthropic knowledge and capacity to impact food and farm policy,” to enhance SAFSF's ability to contribute to more effective investments and accelerated learning within their membership.

  View Sustainable Agriculture & Food Systems Funders's Website
• Good Food Policy Program2023

  National Young Farmers Coalition

  Awarded $10,000

  To create a cohort of young farmers trained to become leaders ready to bring their political know-how home to their agricultural communities, resulting in an expanded network equipped to serve as mentors, advocates, technical assistants, and public officials, resourced to serve without sacrificing their vital work as farmers and land stewards.

  View National Young Farmers Coalition's Website
• Good Food Policy Program2023

  Food and Farm Communications Fund (Fiscal Sponsor: Greater Kansas City Community Foundation)

  Awarded $10,000

  To provide targeted communications funding and resources to community-based organizations working at the forefront of food and farm systems change. The Fund advances communications initiatives and media projects to help shift narrative and further the goals of the grassroots and their allies. The Fund also seeks to influence increased funding and prioritization of strategic communications and narrative as essential tools in movement-building and systems change.

  View Food and Farm Communications Fund (Fiscal Sponsor: Greater Kansas City Community Foundation)'s Website
• Good Food Policy Program2022

  Open Markets Institute

  Awarded $20,000

  To shine a light on corporate agricultural monopolies through investigative reporting, in-depth policy research and proposals, proposing legal remedies and rulemaking, and coordinating a coalition for progressive policy and agriculture organizations on challenges in the food and agriculture systems space. Our work in food and agriculture has been focused on two key strategies: reviving antitrust enforcement and promoting fair dealing in food markets, and rebalancing power in political and economic systems.

• Good Food Policy Program2022

  California Climate and Agriculture Network

  Awarded $10,000

  To support the creation of the National Healthy Soils Policy Network to serve as an information clearinghouse, learning laboratory, and aggregator of farmer voices across the country for building power and securing resources that will catalyze a transition to a healthy and just agricultural system while delivering climate solutions and increasing on-farm resilience.

• Good Food Policy Program2022

  Union of Concerned Scientists

  Awarded $40,000

  To provide mini-grants to Good Food for All (GFFA) members to support their individual organizational capacity to make progress on collective GFFA priorities and goals. Over the last three years, these mini-grants have become an essential source of financial support for otherwise unfunded or underfunded projects; a valuable capacity building opportunity to develop and evaluate grant making skills; and a way of bringing the collaborative together to share learning.

• Good Food Policy Program2022

  Food Chain Workers Alliance

  Awarded $10,000

  To continue their work and build capacity to introduce and center worker voices in local, state, and national policy campaigns in three primary categories: 1) worker health and safety standards for all food workers, and meatpacking workers in particular; 2) national farmworker policy priorities, including members' opposition of the Farm Workforce Modernization Act; and 3) continued development and implementation of food procurement policies across the United States as part of the Good Food Purchasing Program.

• Good Food Policy Program2022

  Animal Agriculture Reform Collaborative

  Awarded $10,000

  To build a broad, powerful base of organizations across the country from the environmental, independent farmer, sustainable food, labor, civil rights, and animal welfare movements to jointly challenge corporate control of the food system and advocate for better U.S.-based agricultural policies.

  View Animal Agriculture Reform Collaborative's Website
• Good Food Policy Program2022

  Rural Coalition

  Awarded $30,000

  To advance community-based development in rural, persistently poor communities, expand equity in farm and food programs, and transform systems of inequity in USDA and its programs and services to yield foundational changes in Farm Bill legislation, making more resources available to family-sized farmers and rural communities.

• Good Food Policy Program2022

  National Family Farm Coalition

  Awarded $20,000

  To pay for activities required to elevate the voice and priorities of our members who primarily live in rural America, advocate for policy changes that enrich their lives, and raise the profile of community-based and controlled food systems. This includes staff time, organizational expenses, and cost of travel and stipends for our members to compensate them for any potential loss of income while they are away from their businesses of farming, ranching, or fishing. View National Family Farm Coalition's Website

• Good Food Policy Program2022

  National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

  Awarded $20,000

  To help us bring our policy expertise to bear at critical climate crisis decision-making spaces in Washington, D.C. and mobilize our grassroots base around a major multi-year campaign on climate change from the field to advance legislation that addresses climate change mitigation and adaptation head-on and places just, regenerative policies at the heart of solutions for agriculture.

• Good Food Policy Program2022

  Food and Environment Reporting Network (FERN)

  Awarded $10,000

  We are engaged in two, multipart reporting initiatives — The first focuses on creative agricultural solutions to the climate crisis and the impediments such solutions face. The second explores a key aspect of the biodiversity crisis: How agriculture depletes biodiversity, and how, when managed sustainably, it can enhance biodiversity while feeding a growing population. With climate policy a major factor in the current presidential campaign and the biodiversity crisis a subject of international concern, we believe support for this reporting is essential to increasing public pressure on lawmakers and corporations and catalyzing change.

• Good Food Policy Program2022

  Funders for Regenerative Agriculture

  Awarded $20,000

  To move towards collaborative action for a network of 60 diverse members, including creating a Communications & Media studio, a grassroots policy strategy at the national and state level, a Financing the Transition strategy, a comprehensive Tracking the Field initiative, and Research series.

  View Funders for Regenerative Agriculture's Website
• Good Food Policy Program2022

  State Innovation Exchange

  Awarded $25,000

  The SiX Agriculture Program will prioritize helping state legislators across the nation work more effectively to coordinate and collaborate with grassroots organizations to engage and champion meaningful regenerative agriculture policy that centers food justice, farmer equity, clean air and water, healthy soils and re-establishes healthy local farm economies for our rural communities. While this work is state-based, it is Six's goal to not only impact policy at the state level but to compliment regional and national efforts that are working to advance regenerative and climate-friendly agriculture policy.

• Good Food Policy Program2022

  HEAL Food Alliance

  Awarded $30,000

  To support the capacity-building and general operations of the Alliance to identify and advance strategic policy campaigns on the Farm Bill and food procurement, as well as protections for food workers and the dismantling of corporate control. HEAL Food Alliance will also cultivate new leaders through the third cohort of their School of Political Leadership, build their members’ capacity for organizing and communications, and coordinate an emerging initiative to increase philanthropic investment in the leadership of BIPOC groups accountable to their communities.

• Good Food Policy Program2022

  National Young Farmers Coalition

  Awarded $10,000

  To create a cohort of young farmers trained to become leaders ready to bring their political know-how home to their agricultural communities, resulting in an expanded network equipped to serve as mentors, advocates, technical assistants, and public officials, resourced to serve without sacrificing their vital work as farmers and land stewards.

• Good Food Policy Program2022

  Food and Farm Communications Fund

  Awarded $10,000

  To provide targeted communications funding and resources to community-based organizations working at the forefront of food and farm systems change. The Fund advances communications initiatives and media projects to help shift narrative and further the goals of the grassroots and their allies. The Fund also seeks to influence increased funding and prioritization of strategic communications and narrative as essential tools in movement-building and systems change.

• Good Food Policy Program2022

  Sustainable Agriculture & Food Systems Funders

  Awarded $40,000

  To support the project “Catalyzing Action: Building philanthropic knowledge and capacity to impact food and farm policy,” to enhance SAFSF's ability to contribute to more effective investments and accelerated learning within their membership.

• Good Food Policy Program2022

  Government Accountability Project

  Awarded $10,000

  To enhance overall food integrity by facilitating truth-telling, accountability, and fairness to safeguard food, curtail farm animal abuse, and challenge economic exploitation of farmers and migrant workers through their support of enhanced and modernized corporate whistleblower protections for the agriculture industry.

• Good Food Policy Program2021

  Union of Concerned Scientists

  Awarded $30,000

  To support the activities of the Good Food For All (GFFA) initiative with the ultimate goal of improving the well-being of communities whose contributions are essential for the food and agriculture system to work but whose interests and priorities are seldom considered in federal policy.

• Good Food Policy Program2021

  National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

  Awarded $20,000

  To support a three-year effort to engage NSAC's members, allies, and their collective grassroots base around major opportunities to advance climate change legislation and farm and food policy reform.

• Good Food Policy Program2021

  Food and Environment Reporting Network

  Awarded $10,000

  To support two multipart reporting initiatives — one on climate and agriculture and another on biodiversity and agriculture. The first is inspired by the fact that there is no climate “solution” that does not include agriculture and food production.  The second explores a key aspect of the biodiversity crisis: How agriculture depletes biodiversity, and how, when managed sustainably, it can enhance biodiversity while feeding a growing population. 

• Good Food Policy Program2021

  Food and Farm Communications Fund

  Awarded $10,000

  To support communications funding and resources to community-based organizations working at the forefront of food and farm systems change, and to advance communications initiatives and media projects that help to shift public narrative and further the goals of grassroots organizations and their allies.

• Good Food Policy Program2021

  Rural Coalition

  Awarded $30,000

  General operating support to secure just and sustainable food systems that bring fair returns to diverse small farmers and ranchers, tribal and other communities; fair working conditions and dignity for farmworkers and food chain workers; protection of mother earth now and for our children’s children; safe, adequate and healthy food for all, especially the elders, youth, and most vulnerable of us. RC engages in an integrated program of public policy monitoring, technical assistance, capacity-building, participatory collaborative research, and education so that together they may secure the best possible federal policy outcomes and forge innovative, community-driven solutions with the grassroots communities they serve. 

• Good Food Policy Program2021

  National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

  Awarded $20,000

  To support a three-year effort to engage NSAC's members, allies, and their collective grassroots base around major opportunities to advance climate change legislation and farm and food policy reform.

• Good Food Policy Program2021

  Open Markets Institute

  Awarded $20,000

  To support OMI's vision for fair and sustainable agriculture policy through work that includes 1) publishing policy papers and briefs, 2) conducting cutting-edge research, and 3) building broad coalitions to influence rulemaking.

• Good Food Policy Program2021

  State Innovation Exchange

  Awarded $0

  To support the work of the SiX’s Agriculture Program which prioritizes helping state legislators across the nation work more effectively to coordinate and collaborate with grassroots organizations to engage and champion meaningful regenerative agriculture policy that centers food justice, farmer equity, clean air and water, healthy soils and re-establishes healthy local farm economies for our rural communities.

• Good Food Policy Program2021

  Food Chain Workers Alliance

  Awarded $20,000

  To support policy work that will fall into three primary categories: 1) worker health and safety standards for all food workers, and meatpacking workers in particular; 2) national farmworker policy priorities, including members' opposition of the Farm Workforce Modernization Act; and 3) continued development and implementation of food procurement policies across the United States as part of the Good Food Purchasing Program.

• Good Food Policy Program2021

  HEAL Food Alliance

  Awarded $30,000

  General operating support to mobilize the alliance to bolster capacity-building activities that grow the sector for long-term transformational change.  HEAL members now represent 2 million rural and urban farmers, ranchers, fisherfolk, farm and food chain workers, scientists, indigenous groups, public health advocates, policy experts, community organizers, and activists.

• Good Food Policy Program2021

  Food Chain Workers Alliance

  Awarded $20,000

  To support policy work that will fall into three primary categories: 1) worker health and safety standards for all food workers, and meatpacking workers in particular; 2) national farmworker policy priorities, including members' opposition of the Farm Workforce Modernization Act; and 3) continued development and implementation of food procurement policies across the United States as part of the Good Food Purchasing Program.

• Good Food Policy Program2021

  State Innovation Exchange

  Awarded $25,000

  To support the work of the SiX’s Agriculture Program which prioritizes helping state legislators across the nation work more effectively to coordinate and collaborate with grassroots organizations to engage and champion meaningful regenerative agriculture policy that centers food justice, farmer equity, clean air and water, healthy soils and re-establishes healthy local farm economies for our rural communities.

• Good Food Policy Program2021

  National Family Farm Coalition

  Awarded $20,000
• Good Food Policy Program2021

  Sustainable Agriculture & Food Systems Funders

  Awarded $50,000

  To support the project “Catalyzing Action: Building philanthropic knowledge and capacity to impact food and farm policy,” to enhance SAFSF's ability to contribute to more effective investments and accelerated learning within their membership.

• Good Food Policy Program2021

  ActionAid USA

  Awarded $10,000

  To support the advance of research, communications, and movement building around new federal policy solutions for a climate-friendly, economically just, and sustainable food and farm system in the US.

• Good Food Policy Program2020

  Sustainable Agriculture & Food Systems Funders

  Awarded $75,000

  “Catalyzing Action: Building philanthropic knowledge and capacity to impact food and farm policy” will enhance our ability to contribute to more effective investments and accelerated learning within our membership.

• Good Food Policy Program2020

  Open Markets Institute

  Awarded $20,000

  To raise public awareness of the impact of monopoly power in the food system, and to support the creation of regional resilient food systems where farmers and food chain workers have support and dignity and consumers can access a wide variety of affordable, healthy, and culturally relevant foods.

• Good Food Policy Program2020

  ActionAid USA

  Awarded $20,000

  To support the advance of research, communications, and movement building around new federal policy solutions for a climate-friendly, economically just, and sustainable food and farm system in the US.

• Good Food Policy Program2020

  Union of Concerned Scientists - Good Food For All

  Awarded $30,000

  This project will enable members of communities that have been historically excluded from federal food and agriculture negotiations to generate, refine, and advocate for their policy priorities and innovations. The Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) facilitates the activities of the Good Food For All (GFFA) initiative with the ultimate goal of improving the well being of communities whose contributions are essential for the food and agriculture system to work but whose interests and priorities are seldom considered in federal policy.

• Good Food Policy Program2020

  State Innovation Exchange

  Awarded $25,000

  To support the work of the SiX’s Agriculture Program which prioritizes helping state legislators across the nation work more effectively to coordinate and collaborate with grassroots organizations to engage and champion meaningful regenerative agriculture policy that centers food justice, farmer equity, clean air and water, healthy soils and re-establishes healthy local farm economies for our rural communities.

• Good Food Policy Program2020

  Food and Environment Reporting Network

  Awarded $10,000

  To support multi-part reporting initiatives on climate and biodiversity in agriculture.

• Good Food Policy Program2020

  National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

  Awarded $20,000

  To support a three-year effort to engage NSAC's members, allies, and their collective grassroots base around major opportunities to advance climate change legislation and farm and food policy reform.

• Good Food Policy Program2020

  Food and Farm Communications Fund

  Awarded $10,000

  To support communications funding and resources to community-based organizations working at the forefront of food and farm systems change, and to advance communications initiatives and media projects that help to shift public narrative and further the goals of grassroots organizations and their allies.

• Good Food Policy Program2020

  National Family Farm Coalition

  Awarded $0

  To support elevating the voice and priorities of NFFC members who primarily live in rural America, advocate for policy changes that enrich their lives, and raise the profile of community-based and controlled food systems.

• Good Food Policy Program2019

  Food and Environment Reporting Network, Inc.

  Awarded $10,000

  To support a multi-part, multi-platform investigation and reporting into rural conflicts between large-scale animal production facilities (CAFOs) and local communities. 

• Good Food Policy Program2019

  Union of Concerned Scientists - Good Food For All

  Awarded $30,000

  This project will enable members of communities that have been historically excluded from federal food and agriculture negotiations to generate, refine, and advocate for their policy priorities and innovations. The Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) facilitates the activities of the Good Food For All (GFFA) initiative with the ultimate goal of improving the well being of communities whose contributions are essential for the food and agriculture system to work but whose interests and priorities are seldom considered in federal policy. 

• Good Food Policy Program2019

  National Family Farm Coalition

  Awarded $20,000

  To support elevating the voice and priorities of NFFC members who primarily live in rural America, advocate for policy changes that enrich their lives, and raise the profile of community-based and controlled food systems.

• Good Food Policy Program2019

  ActionAid USA

  Awarded $15,000

  To support the advance of research, communications, and movement building around new federal policy solutions for a climate-friendly, economically just, and sustainable food and farm system in the US. 

• Good Food Policy Program2019

  Sustainable Agriculture & Food Systems Funders

  Awarded $100,000

  “Catalyzing Action: Building philanthropic knowledge and capacity to impact food and farm policy” will enhance our ability to contribute to more effective investments and accelerated learning within our membership.  

• Good Food Policy Program2018

  Food Policy Action

  Awarded $40,000

  Through public education, advocacy, and community organizing, Food Policy Action Education Fund unites advocates across the food movement on diverse issues such as nutrition and health, organic foods, local community agriculture, beginning farmers, and clean water.  

• Good Food Policy Program2018

  Open Markets Institute

  Awarded $30,000

  To help policymakers and the public understand America’s monopoly problem in food and farming and take action to reverse it. We use investigative journalism, op-eds, grassroots alliances, and policymaker education to raise awareness of the consequences of concentrations of power in food and farm markets, and work directly with policymakers to develop solutions.

• Good Food Policy Program2018

  Union of Concerned Scientists - Good Food For All

  Awarded $30,000

  This project will enable members of communities that have been historically excluded from federal food and agriculture negotiations to generate, refine, and advocate for their policy priorities and innovations. The Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) facilitates the activities of the Good Food For All (GFFA) initiative with the ultimate goal of improving the well being of communities whose contributions are essential for the food and agriculture system to work but whose interests and priorities are seldom considered in federal policy. 

• Good Food Policy Program2018

  Sustainable Agriculture & Food Systems Funders

  Awarded $100,000

  “Catalyzing Action: Building philanthropic knowledge and capacity to impact food and farm policy” will enhance our ability to contribute to more effective investments and accelerated learning within our membership.