Funding Priorities
Roots of Change is currently funding four collaborative projects that resulted from our 2008 class of Fellows. During the Fellowship, each Workgroup developed a project plan for the period 2009-2012, for implementation with their Workgroup members. The four Workgroups focused on the following goals:
- Labor: Creation of a Worker-Owned Farm Labor Hiring/Recruitment System as an ethical alternative to farm labor contractors, offering improved living and working conditions for farmworkers and benefits for farmers.
- Regional Food Systems: Creation of a Bundled CSA model that takes the CSA concept to scale via bundling produce from multiple farms and delivering directly to the consumer.
- Health and Good Food Access: Creation of healthy, self-sustaining communities by supporting school food environments
- Outreach to Conventional Agriculture: Creation of stronger
relationships between Agriculture and the Food Movement by arranging a
series of small dinner conversations throughout the state's key
agricultural regions.
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Workforce Workgroup Participants |
Jessica Arciniega, Ag Futures Alliance Farm Worker Housing Task Force
Jerry Azevedo, APCO Worldwide
Jose Baer, Rancho La Vina
Eileen Brady, The Vivid Picture Project
Jim Cochran, Swanton Berry Farm
Alegria de la Cruz, California Rural Legal Assistance
Maria Echeveste, Nueva Vista Group
Theresa Figueroa, Farmworker Institute for Education and Leadership Development
Joaquin Garza Jr., Farmworker Institute for Education and Leadership Development
Rosalinda Guillen, Community to Community Development
Mario Gutierrez, The California Endowment
Martha Guzman, California Rural Legal Assistance
Russ Lester, Dixon Ridge Farms
Joseph McIntyre, Ag Innovations Network
Barbara Macri-Ortiz, Attorney
Julie F. Morris Earthbound Farm
David Runsten, Community Alliance with Family Farmers
Ron Strochlic, California Institute of Rural Studies
Kirke Wilson, former President and Executive Director of Rosenberg Foundation
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What is the Changemakers Network?
Movement toward a sustainable food
system is underway. Many individuals, organizations, businesses, and
agencies are already working to change the current system.
The Changemakers Network is a statewide
coalition that combines all these individual efforts into a common
framework in order to maximize impacts that will spur system-wide
change.
Everyone in the food system is welcome
to join the Changemakers Network. Whether you’re a business owner,
the head of a school nutrition program, a dairy operator, or an
enthusiastic eater – your leadership is needed to create a
sustainable food system for California in one generation.
Join Us
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Who are the Roots of Change Fellows?
Fellows get to work in the CLBL farm house.
Chosen through an open application process, the ROC Fellows
are a diverse group of CA food system leaders working together
to develop strategies to create a sustainable food system for CA by
2030. Each class of ROC fellows is selected to reflect a level of
diversity and experience representative of the current CA food system.
The fellows are chosen based on a wide variety of considerations
including: their role in food system, leadership experience,
project/business experience, connections to extended CA networks, and
diversity of age, race, and geographic location to reflect the state’s
overall diversity.
Read about the 2008 Fellows here.
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Roots of Change convened twenty-seven leaders from various food system sectors to work together over three sessions to define and prioritize strategies to launch a twenty-five year campaign. The goal of the campaign is to achieve a sustainable food system in California.
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