Our Work

Organizational Support

  • Organizational infrastructure & compliance

  • Leadership transition & executive advising

  • Board governance & organizational strategy

  • Advocacy strategy & coalition-building

  • Philanthropy advising & grantmaking strategy

Movement Infrastructure

  • Convening & communities of practice

  • Grant administration & regranting

  • Incubation of pilot projects

  • Training, toolkits, and resource development

Organizational Capacity Community of Practice

The Organizational Capacity Community of Practice is a peer-based learning and support space focused on the internal work that sustains food and agriculture movement organizations. The CoP is intended for staff and leaders holding responsibility for operations, finance, HR, compliance, and related administrative functions, with an explicit priority for small, grassroots, and BIPOC-led /serving organizations that are often under-resourced and carrying disproportionate operational and compliance risk.

  • Join the Community of Practice here.

Current Initiatives

Project Incubation

We provide a short-term home for promising emerging or at-risk projects — giving them time and stability to regroup or transition to new hosts. One currently incubated project is the LCM Defense Network. LCM Defense Network is a coordinated coalition of 50+ awardees, subawardees, and allies of the USDA’s Increasing Land, Capital, and Market Access (LCM) Program. The Network’s ultimate goal is to tangibly improve access to land, capital, and markets for BIPOC, LGBTQ+, and historically underserved producers by resourcing community-led projects across the country – with or without the survival of the LCM Program. 

Federal Funding Matters

Federal Funding Matters is a group of food system and agriculture nonprofit and movement leaders who have been impacted by federal funding and administrative changes. Federal Funding Matters provides a structured, community-led space that equips nonprofits and other movement leaders with the tools, networks, and strategies needed to:

  1. Defend progress of critical work

  2. Protect organizations impacted by federal funding setbacks, and

  3. Sustain movement power.

The Food and Farm Democracy Initiative

A collaborative funding effort by RAFI, NSAC, RAF and Red Clover Collaborative to support democratic participation and advance grassroots-driven federal farm policy. Our role in this partnership is to lead capacity building efforts. As part of this effort, we will be launching a federal policy advocacy community of practice for beginning and established food policy practitioners will be launching in Spring of 2026. Stay tuned!