Lumpkin Family Foundation - Good Food Policy Program

Lumpkin Family Foundation - Good Food Policy Program is sponsored by Lumpkin Family Foundation. Supports organizations working toward a more equitable, healthy, and environmentally sustainable food system.

Good Food Policy Program | Lumpkin Family Foundation The Good Food Program is administered by invitation only. The Lumpkin Family Foundation supports organizations working toward a more equitable, healthy, and environmentally sustainable food system. The Good Food Policy Program makes grants to advance policies that encourage and promote regenerative farming practices across the United States.

We will support efforts aimed at federal policy changes, whether place-based and grassroots or top-down and national in approach. Informed by and connected to our local and regional programs, we will invite applications aligned with our vision and mission that offer learning opportunities and strengthen grantee organizations, their networks, and the good food movement overall.

February 2027 - By Invitation Only This program focuses on federal policy and advocacy, empowering organizations and people to affect their communities and the food system.

In particular, grantee efforts will: Align with the Foundation’s mission, especially in supporting people working together in collaborations across sectoral, organizational, or community boundaries; Use communication tools to change or create a new narrative that can be used to influence policymakers and broader public understanding of the issues; Empower citizens and a range of stakeholders at a grassroots level in equal fairness; Represent a judicious and effective allocation of resources (human and capital) that meets the Foundation’s particular needs and goals with the size of that investment.

A post grant report is a requirement of nearly all grants. It is an opportunity to share what worked well, and what did not, and to what degree the project accomplished its goals. The date will vary, but the majority of reports are due 11 or 12 months from approval.

This will be communicated to you when your grant is awarded. We believe that it is important to measure the success of our grantmaking strategy. While we have our own internal strategy that we use to measure our own progress towards our programmatic goals, we allow our grantees to report metrics that are most relevant to their unique context.

We recognize that the measurement of success (and failure) is only valuable when it is done based on the specific and context-based parameters established by our grantees. We work in tandem with them to ensure that what is measured has meaning to both their work and our overall goals as a Foundation.

This will allow evaluation flexibility while helping The Lumpkin Family Foundation learn about what Outcomes and Metrics are most useful to our grantees. Please contact staff with any questions about Outcomes and Metrics. Your report template will be accessible through our Apply/Report here portal.

Most post grant reports are similar to the following example for the Land, Health, Community program: Please feel free to contact Foundation staff with any questions about your reporting date or details.

Please Direct Inquiries To: RE-AMP Network (Fiscal Sponsor: The Minneapolis Foundation) For the general operating expenses of the RE-AMP Network, a collaborative organization focusing on climate solutions in the Midwest, with a mission to equitably eliminate greenhouse gas emissions by 2050. The network comprises over 120 member organizations across 10 Midwestern states.

State Innovation Exchange To support the general operating needs of State Innovation Exchange (SiX), a national organizing hub for state legislators dedicated to developing regenerative agriculture policies that prioritize food justice, farmer equity, and climate-friendly practices.

The organization's core approach emphasizes co-governance that directly involves community members in policy-making, with the goal of redistributing power to marginalized groups.

Funders for Regenerative Agriculture (Fiscal Sponsor: Possibility Labs) For the general operating needs of the Funders for Regenerative Agriculture (FORA), an organization focused on aligning philanthropic and investment capital to accelerate the transition to regenerative agricultural systems and addressing systemic barriers in agriculture funding, ultimately aiming to mobilize capital for soil health and climate mitigation through regenerative agriculture.

Food and Environment Reporting Network (FERN) To support the general operations of the Food and Environment Reporting Network (FERN), an independent, nonprofit news organization dedicated to producing award-winning journalism on food, agriculture, and environmental health.

Through multi-format storytelling, collaborative partnerships with organizations like NPR and Center for Investigative Reporting, and impact-driven reporting, FERN aims to raise public awareness, drive policy changes, expose systemic issues, and provide in-depth coverage prioritizing underserved communities.

California Climate and Agriculture Network (Fiscal Sponsor: Earth Island Institute) For the general operations of CalCAN's National Healthy Soils Policy Network, a mission-driven organization focused on advancing sustainable and organic agricultural policies to address climate change. The network advocates for climate-resilient agricultural strategies, aims to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, and supports small and medium farms.

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