Learning and Action Cohort
Our mini grants program supports organizations across the United States to begin, extend, or deepen work to advance the right to food in their area. In 2025, we launched a Learning and Action Cohort as part of the program to strengthen connections and learning between the grantees.
Goals of the program:
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Facilitate shared learning and mutual support among organizers of local right to food efforts.
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Strengthen organizing work towards a national movement for the right to food.
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Identify and/or develop new policy and program pathways and practices at a local level towards progressively realizing the right to food, ensuring food is universally accessible, available, adequate and sustainable.
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Encourage and resource efforts to reframe the dominant narrative that says charity is an adequate solution to hunger, towards a narrative that supports food as a human right.
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Bridge traditionally siloed social justice sectors: food, farming, land access, housing, workers’ rights, childcare, the differently abled, and racial justice.
Grantees will each receive:
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Peer connection in a confidential, supportive space via a community of organizations doing similar work.
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Membership in the National Right to Food Community of Practice.
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Financial assistance (up to $5k) to develop or strengthen right to food advocacy and/or projects in a particular community framed in terms of food as a human right.
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Technical assistance in the form of dedicated advisors and regular group calls to increase organizations’ knowledge and capacity for design, collaboration, and implementation of right to food advocacy and other projects.
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Scholarships for travel to attend the annual National Right to Food Summit to help participants expand their network, deepen their connections, and join a national movement for the Right to Food.
Outcomes:
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Relationships and collaboration to strengthen right to food projects and/or advocacy programs.
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Increased understanding of the challenges, technical assistance needs, and best practices for progressively realizing the right to food in cities, towns, and states across the country.
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A broader and stronger national movement for the Right to Food.