Who We Are

GROWING JUSTICE: The Fund for Equitable Good Food Procurement is a multi-donor pooled fund driven by the wisdom and experience of funders, farmers and other workers in the food value chain with shared values and vision.

Our Advisory Committee

The Advisory Committee guides the grantmaking strategy and activities of The Growing Justice Fund. The Advisory Committee is comprised of field leaders and funders working to create change across food value chains in urban, rural and Tribal areas of the country. Our Advisory Committee members include:

Angel Mendez, Red Tomato
Betti Wiggins, Houston Independent School District
Erika Allen, Urban Growers Collective, Green ERA Educational NFP, Green Era Sustainability Partners
Haile Johnston, The Common Market
Jose Oliva, HEAL Food Alliance, Chicago Region Food System Fund
Kendal Chavez, Office of New Mexico Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham
Linda Jo Doctor, W.K. Kellogg Foundation
Nezahualcoyotl Xiuhtecutli, National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition
Nick Hernandez, Makoce Agriculture Development
Noah Cohen-Cline, The Rockefeller Foundation
Pakou Hang, Northwest Area Foundation
Rafael Tapia, Local First Arizona
Ricardo Rocha, Bondadosa, Inc.
Vanessa Miller, Oneida Nation

Our Team

Marissa Baron, Director of Operations

GROWING JUSTICE: The Fund for Equitable Good Food Procurement is fiscally administered by the Amalgamated Foundation, an independent nonprofit public charity. In addition to administering Combined Impact Funds like Growing Justice, the Foundation also offers Advance Change Funds, donor advised funds uniquely committed to social change. Reflecting their shared commitment to positive social change, Amalgamated Foundation receives charitable contributions from and maintains service agreements with Amalgamated Bank but is not a program or activity of Amalgamated Bank.

Web development services for the Growing Justice Fund are provided by self-governing tech solutions firm Colab Coop.

Every moment is an organizing opportunity, every person a potential activist, every minute a chance to change the world.
-Dolores Huerta

Our Funders

The fund was made possible by the collaborative efforts of its founding funders:

Our Field Leader Design Table

The fund was co-developed and co-designed by a robust body of leaders from across the field of equitable good food procurement:

Erika Allen, Urban Growers Collective, Green ERA Educational NFP, Green Era Sustainability Partners
Kendal Chavez, Office of New Mexico Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham
Alexa Delwiche, Center for Good Food Purchasing
Carly Griffith Hotvedt, Indigenous Food and Agriculture Initiative
Pakou Hang, Farmer, Hmong American Farmers Association
Haile Johnston, The Common Market
Marion Kalb, City and County of Denver
Kari Jo Lawrence, Intertribal Agriculture Council
Angel Mendez, Red Tomato
Joel Moffett, Affiliated Tribes of Northwest Indians
Michaela Oldfield, Greater Cincinnati Regional Food Policy Council
Jose Oliva, HEAL Food Alliance, Chicago Region Food System Fund
A-dae Romero-Briones, First Nations Development Institute
Christina Spach, Food Chain Workers Alliance
Betti Wiggins, Houston Independent School District
Darnella Winston, Mississippi Association of Cooperatives

Who We Are

Our Advisory Committee

Our Team

Our Funders

Our Field Leader Design Table

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