Check out the important work of our friends and partners
- The Coalition of Immokalee Workers (CIW): "a worker-based human rights organization internationally recognized for its achievements in the fields of social responsibility, human trafficking, and gender-based violence at work. Built on a foundation of farmworker community organizing starting in 1993, and reinforced with the creation of a national consumer network since 2000, CIW’s work has steadily grown over more than twenty years to encompass three broad and overlapping spheres: the Fair Food Program (FFP), Anti-Slavery Campaign, and Campaign for Fair Food."
- The Fair Food Standards Council "monitors the development of a sustainable agricultural industry that advances the human rights of farmworkers, the long-term interests of growers, and the ethical supply chain concerns of retail food companies through implementation of the Fair Food Program."
- Alliance for Fair Food: "a national network of people working in partnership with the Coalition of Immokalee Workers for farmworker justice"
- Rescuing Leftover Cuisine takes leftover, unsellable, unpresentable and excess food from restaurants, farmers markets, wholesalers and donates it to food pantries and soup kitchens in the nearby area in an effort to reduce food waste.
- Worker Justice Center of New York "pursues justice for those denied human rights with a focus on agricultural and other low wage workers, through legal representation, community empowerment and advocacy for institutional change."
- The Pluralism Project at Harvard University seeks "to document the contours of our multi-religious society, explore new forms of interfaith engagement, study the impact of religious diversity in civic life, and contextualize these findings within a global framework."
- Growing Power, an urban farming initiative based out of Milwaukee, WI.
- The Humanist Hub is "a place where you can connect with other people, act to make the world better, and evolve as a human being. We are a center for humanist life — a nonreligious community committed to the power of connection to help us do good and live well. We use reason and dialogue to determine our highest ethical values, we act on those values with love and compassion, and we help one another evolve as individuals, as we work to improve our world."
- Planting Seeds is a Seattle-based anti-oppression collective.
- The Watershed Center is restorative retreat center for changemakers, offering "seminars, workshops, consulting, and organizational retreats designed to help people align their lives with their own deepest sense of purpose, to strengthen the creative capacity of organizations, and to facilitate strategic conversations in service of democracy, ecology and liberation."
Relevant news and publications
- The Society of Saint John the Evangelist: "How might the rhythms you observe in nature inform the way you live?" Br. David Vryhof, 2/9/16
- NPR: "Thou Shalt Not Toss Food: Enlisting Religious Groups to Fight Food Waste," 1/19/16
- New York Times: "Iowa's Climate-Change Wisdom," Jeff Biggers, 11/20/15
- Huffington Post: "Why Consumers Matter in Realizing Workers’ Rights," Greg Asbed, Noelle Damico, Scott Nova, 9/4/15
- Creation Justice Ministries: "Have You Anything Here to Eat? Sustainable Food in a Changing Climate," Rev. Carol Devine and Rev. Rebecca Barnes, 4/22/15
- New York Times: "In Florida Tomato Fields, A Penny Buys Progress," Steven Greenhouse, 4/24/14
- Talk Poverty: "The Fair Food Program: Worker-driven Social Responsibility for the 21st Century," Greg Asbed and Sean Sellers, 5/27/14
- "Determining What is Best: The Campaign for Fair Food and the Nascent Assembly in Philippi," Noelle Damico and Gerardo Reyes Chavez in People Beside Paul: The Philippian Assembly and History from Below, ed. Joseph Marchal, Society of Biblical Literature, 2015
- Creation Justice Ministries: "Our Daily Bread: Harvesters of Hope and Gardeners of Eden," 2007
Grant opportunities
- Every Day Capacity Building Grants provide Friends Groups and Cooperating Associations with grant funds of up to $5,000 to help build their capacity to serve, improve, and promote the responsible use of our nation's public lands. Applications are now open. Click here to apply.
- Organic Farming Research Foundation.