Food for Powerful Communities & Equitable Development

We’re shifting the conditions holding the food system’s problems in place.

What we’re facing

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Systemic barriers to capital

The lack of resources for community-owned food & agriculture development projects creates more inequity in the communities already most disinvested in.

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Legacies of extractive capitalism.

This has displaced community leadership and development projects in Black, Indigenous, Latinx, and AAPI communities.

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Widespread need for community

The expertise and peer support of community practitioners is overlooked and under-resourced.

WHAT WE DO

A multiracial coalition of community based food systems practitioners and leaders.

The EFOD Collaborative is a multiracial coalition of community food systems practitioners and leaders driving food-oriented development as vehicles for shared power, cultural expression, and community asset-building.

Building on decades of community leadership, we come together as a Collaborative to resource, support, celebrate, and connect EFOD work across our communities.

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WHAT WE’re building

Equitable Food Oriented Development (EFOD) is a community-anchored development strategy centering Black, Indigenous, and People of Color food and agriculture projects and enterprises as vehicles for shared power, cultural expression, and community asset-building.

THE EFOD COLLABORATIVE

15 Steering Committee Members

We come together as a Collaborative to resource, support, and connect EFOD work across the U.S.

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EFOD aligned organizations

FUNDING

The EFOD Fund

The EFOD Fund is a new way of funding grassroots EFOD projects, a way which seeks to dismantle embedded racist practices in conventional lending and philanthropy.

$1,500,000+

Dollars moved through EFOD Fund

FUNDING

The EFOD Fund

The EFOD Fund is a new way of funding grassroots EFOD projects, a way which seeks to dismantle embedded racist practices in conventional lending and philanthropy.

$1,500,000+

Dollars moved through EFOD Fund