The Funding Field

This interview continues "The Funding Field," SAFSF's series of candid conversations with leaders in philanthropy, impact investment, and social change who are mobilizing capital, shifting power, and changing systems from the ground up.  First Nations Development Institute is a twenty year member of Sustainable Agriculture and Food Systems Funders , and one of the first regranting organizations at...

We sat down with Shorlette Ammons, Co-Executive Director and Program Director of Farm Aid, to learn about her journey growing up in rural North Carolina to now leading the nation's largest musician-led fundraiser to support family farms. Shorlette Ammons brings a rare combination of lived experience and visionary leadership to her work at the intersection of food, music, and movement. Raised in Be...