**This program is hosted by our partner, Community Food Funders, who has extended an invitation to PNY members.
Community Food Funders is gearing up to launch the next cohort of our Seeding Power Fellowship! Following a comprehensive redesign and successful pilot of the new program last year, we are building on lessons learned to make this next experience even better and more tailored to the needs of our movement leaders.
Please join us for a funder-only luncheon (also available online) to hear from recent alumni and program staff about the impacts of this unique program, and what we have planned for the next cohort. We have designed a fellowship experience where funders and nonprofit leaders come together to learn, build relationships, and envision the collaborations needed to create a more equitable food system for all.
Applications for the new cohort go live the day after this event takes place.
The Northeast’s regional food economy is home to hundreds of nonprofit, policy, advocacy, philanthropic, and industry leaders who work on a range of issues related to food and farming. And yet, there is no organized food movement to offer a unified vision or coordinate a response to the various inequities happening all along the food chain.
Instead, food work is often siloed by sector and issue area, with no entity holding space for collaboration and cross-sector dialogue. How do we build power to advocate for and bring about a regionally-responsive strategy to create a just food system? The Seeding Power Fellowship is our response.
What will you learn?
- Outcomes and lessons from the last cohort
- Curriculum and design elements of the fellowship program
- A one-of-a-kind approach bringing philanthropic partners together with movement leaders in the same cohort
- A timeline and deadlines to help spread the word to your grantees
Who should attend?
All interested funders in grantmaking roles. What to expect: discussion followed by Q&A.
How do you sign up?
Registration is required by March 13th.
Members and Non-Member Funders: Please click on the "Register Now" link above. Dial-in and webinar information will be emailed to you before the webinar.
Please email register@philanthropynewyork.org with any questions.
What else should you know?
The redesigned Seeding Power Fellowship pilot is a nine-month cohort-based food justice fellowship program for experienced leaders working across sectors to build equitable food systems. The program is designed for movement leaders and philanthropic partners in New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut. Seeding Power is unique in both the region it serves and the focus on effective collaborations and equitable relationships, while including fellows from the philanthropic sector. Racial equity, social justice, active communication, and collaboration form the core of a tested yet tailored curriculum designed by Emerging Equity. By creating a community of practice that develops a shared analysis of the issues plaguing our food system, this Seeding Power cohort will graduate with strengthened cross-sector relationships and skills, and the opportunity to develop projects together. Each fellow will receive at least three hours of individualized coaching. Movement fellows will receive a cash stipend, and philanthropic fellows will be asked to make a financial contribution.