Nonprofit Purpose Brainstorm
Fiscal Sponsorship
Catalyzing/Accelerating?
Education
Food justice
Access for startup producers (farmers and other producers) to investment funding (connecting resource rich people OR micro-loan programming) – especially BIPOC, women, LGBT and other marginalized groups who want to get into this
Grantmaking for nonprofit style coop projects
Addressing food insecurity, food deserts, food equity
Combating narratives around "good" vs "bad" food
Small producer/business education to support small, especially women-, queer-, or minority-owned businesses
supporting food banks as they support communities recovering from disasters (grantmaking, connecting producers to food banks for inventory purposes)
supporting local community garden development
Working with producers or communities around advocating for better food-related rules, regulations, laws (linked to education below)
Working with producers or communities around understanding food-related laws, rules, regulations
working with coops to subsidize staple foods, making them more accessible to low-income people/families
Combating narratives that cultural foods are unhealthy foods
donation processing
grants management
HR
Accounting
Who do we serve?
Coops and natural grocery stores
nonprofit organizations like community gardens and food banks
contract management
fundraising support
small producers
What ill in the world are we trying to improve
convenings
shelby might want to axe this one
popular opinion is to maybe axe this
access to production space – especially BIPOC, women, LGBT and other marginalized groups who want to get into this
education about business financing (loans etc)