Foundation Partners

  • The Christensen Fund

    The Christensen Fund believes in the power of biological and cultural diversity to sustain and enrich a world faced with great change and uncertainty. We focus on the “bio-cultural” – the rich but neglected adaptive interweave of people and place, culture and ecology. The Fund’s mission is to buttress the efforts of people and institutions who believe in a biodiverse world infused with artistic expression and work to secure ways of life and landscapes that are beautiful, bountiful and resilient.

    www.christensenfund.org

  • Columbia Foundation

    Columbia Foundation’s mission is to be a catalytic funder of work to protect and enhance the quality of life within the means of nature.

    www.columbia.org

  • The Clarence E. Heller Charitable Foundation

    The Clarence E. Heller Charitable Foundation is a family foundation that focuses its funding on education, music, and the environment. Environmental grantmaking is aimed at three areas: (1) supporting programs to prevent harm to human health from toxic substances and other environmental hazards, (2) encouraging planning and development at the regional level that aims to integrate economic and social goals with sound environmental policies, and (3) supporting initiatives for sustainability in agriculture and food systems. The foundation also funds selected programs in environmental education for children and youth.

    www.cehcf.org

  • Panta Rhea Foundation

    The Panta Rhea Foundation has gifted Slow Food Nation a grant to support justice and inclusion programming and the Honey Pavilion of Taste.

  • RSF Social Finance

    RSF Social Finance is a non-profit financial organization offering innovative investing, lending, and giving services that help investors, donors, and social enterprises enliven consciousness and enhance quality of life. Inspired by the work of Rudolf Steiner, RSF has made over $100 million in loans and over $50 million in grants to organizations in the areas of Food & Agriculture, Education & the Arts, and Ecological Stewardship. In 2008, RSF is launching a new mezzanine finance product for social enterprises seeking growth capital, and a program related investing (PRI) program for foundations interested in making charitable loans to deep impact companies.

    www.rsfsocialfinance.org

  • The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation

    The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation has been making grants since 1967 to solve social and environmental problems at home and around the world. The Foundation concentrates its resources on activities in education, environment, global development, performing arts, and population. In addition, the Foundation has programs that make grants to advance the field of philanthropy, and to support disadvantaged communities in the San Francisco Bay Area. The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation is wholly independent of the Hewlett Packard Company and the Hewlett Packard Company Foundation.

    www.hewlett.org

  • The SEED Fund
  • The Hellman Foundation

  • NOV. 15 AND NOV. 22: COMMUNITY DAYS

    Come to the Victory Garden on Nov. 15 and Nov. 22 for events that build community through food.

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