Announcing RAF 2024 General Fund Grantees
We’re excited to announce the recipients of our 2024 general fund grants. The Regenerative Agriculture Foundation advances general fund grants once annually, and applications are by invitation. Our general fund aims to support urgent and emergent regenerative agriculture movement-building work in the areas of land access, convening and connecting of partners, inclusive narratives, policy transformation, racial justice, research and education, and supportive supply chains.
Grantees include the following organizations:
A Greener World promotes verified farming practices and encourages food choices that deliver positive impacts for the environment, society and animals—whether farmed or wild. We advocate practical and positive solutions, centered on a range of trusted and transparent market-based certifications, to inspire people to spend their food dollars in ways that result in real change.
www.agreenerworld.org
The California Tribal Fund supports California-based, California-Native-led nonprofits and tribal programs in controlling and protecting their land, water, food systems, and culture.
The mission of the California Tribal Fund is to invest in the viability and visibility of California Tribal Nations and communities.
www.firstnations.org/california-tribal-fund
The Carbon Cycle Institute (CCI) advances the carbon cycle as the fundamental organizing process underlying land management and on-farm conservation in our efforts to mitigate and adapt to the global climate crisis.
www.carboncycle.org
Center for Regenerative Agriculture and Resilient Systems
The Center for Regenerative Agriculture and Resilient Systems (CRARS) aims to investigate, develop, demonstrate, and educate about comprehensive, regenerative practices that both restore and enhance the resiliency of living systems and communities.
www.csuchico.edu
Ekvn-Yefolecv (ee-gun yee-full-lee-juh) is an off-grid, climate-positive, income-sharing Indigenous ecovillage community comprised of Maskoke persons who have returned to their ancestral homelands—after 180 years of having been forcibly removed—for the purpose of embodying sustainable lifeways through language and cultural revitalization, regenerative agriculture, ecological restoration, and natural building.
www.ekvn-yefolecv.org
Fibershed is a non-profit organization that develops regional fiber systems that build ecosystem and community health. Our work expands opportunities to implement climate benefitting agriculture, rebuild regional manufacturing, and connect end-users to the source of our fiber through education. We transform the economic systems behind the production of material culture to mitigate climate change, improve health, and contribute to racial and economic equity.
www.fibershed.org
The Land Stewardship Project (LSP) is a private nonprofit organization founded in 1982 to foster an ethic of stewardship for farmland, to promote sustainable agriculture, and to develop healthy communities. LSP’s work has a broad and deep impact, from new farmer training and local organizing, to federal policy and community based food systems development. At the core of all our work are the values of stewardship, justice, democracy, health and community.
www.landstewardshipproject.org
As the search for sustainable production models is on the lookout by various Industry and government Sectors. Tribal Nations and communities have critical keys to supporting these forward-thinking solutions, the Native American Fiber Program is putting all these pieces together.
www.nativeamericanfiberprogram.org
The Raw Milk Institute’s Vision is to build a healthier world where raw milk is safe, embraced, and accessible. RAWMI empowers dairy farmers and consumers by providing support from grass to glass and soil to soul.
www.rawmilkinstitute.org
The mission of the RAA is to scale up regenerative poultry in the movement to provide a farmer driven model that showcases regenerative agriculture as the transformational shift needed to balance our ecosystems at large.
www.regenagalliance.org
Our mission is to advance a resilient agriculture system that demonstrates the power to heal our lands, nourish our communities, and prepare emerging farmers.
