to support the establishment of earned media relationship building systems and data infrastructure to support immigrant worker organizing in NYC area food factories.

to develop Crow Voices, an indigenous community radio station, the first and only on the Crow Indian Reservation in rural southeastern Montana. Programming includes Crow traditional culture, food systems, natural farming, sustainability, sovereignty, and ecological stewardship. Crow Voices is part of the 20-year old organization Center Pole whose mission is to build knowledge, justice, opportunity and prosperity in indigenous communities with a focus on food sovereignty and decolonization education.

to design a platform for collaborative communication. This project will enable strategic and collective messaging between diverse organizations working together across different focal points (labor, environment, health, racial justice, economic development) in the food system. A unified voice will serve to amplify collective impact toward centering the experience of Black and Brown communities to shift narratives about food and farming.

Fishermen’s Partnership, and members of Southern New England’s commercial fishing community, support to undertake a series of exchanges with partner constituencies, narrative training, and media outreach, with the goal of developing and promoting a widely embraced, actionable narrative strategy around climate change and energy reform that supports the resilience of local food producers, particularly wild seafood, while building bridges with other impacted communities.

to support vital communications equipment and activities that support language justice capacity in programming; support the expansion of newly launched Food Workers Organizing platform; amplify FCWA and member campaign messaging through website, social media, and new communication mediums; and continue to shift the public narrative to uplift food worker voices in this important election year.

support for Writeshop, a process to convene frontline farm, food, racial, and climate justice movement leaders and articulate a shared, but diverse, vision for a Just Transition; starting with an intensive writing and strategic planning workshop to co-create core materials articulating this vision, followed by a multi-media campaign using the materials as a platform to inspire connections across movements and cross-sector organizing.

support for a project to strengthen the communications capacity of rural women’s organizations, through radio and other communications methods, with the aim of increasing awareness as well as public and state support of the women’s agroecology and food sovereignty movement in West Africa.

to support work to shift the rural narrative on race in the Upper Midwest. The project will provide the training and communications support for the creation of a rural racial justice advocacy network of farmers and working class people speaking out on agriculture, race, and immigration.

to support MRCC’s capacity, growth, and future sustainability at a critical time by investing in underlying communication and data infrastructure that will quickly engage people following a historic year of fighting against Big Ag in ways that lead to long-term organizational power in rural Missouri.

to support a power-building process designed to increase the capacity and coordination of network communicators and develop a comprehensive communications strategy to advance the vision and actions outlined in the Pittsburgh region’s first countywide food action plan.

to support a capacity-building project for peasant communities and their movement, Assembly of the Poor, to enhance the digital literacy and communication skills, and to develop the communication and advocacy strategy at grassroots and national levels.

to develop a comprehensive communications strategy to build a broad base of power for the rematriation of Indigenous food systems.