Battery Powered Awards $1.02M for Future of Food

Battery Powered is excited to announce the grants made under its fall 2022 giving theme, the Future of Food. As a community, our giving circle raised and granted out $1.02 million to ten extraordinary organizations all working to make our food systems more sustainable, equitable and resilient.  This funding culminates four months of learning by our community about the challenges in our current food system.  Whether viewed through the lens of climate change and the environment, public health, economic opportunity, or social and racial equity, it is clear that food systems transformation is urgent. With these grants, we are honored to support the important work of organizations working toward this transformation. 

Since 2013, Battery Powered has granted out almost $30 million to 205 organizations working to end homelessness, improve public education, reverse climate change, support pandemic relief, stop gun violence, increase access to mental health and addiction services, expand women's health programs, and more. 

FUTURE OF FOOD GRANTEES: 

Agricultural Institute of Marin serves over 390 small-to-midsize farmers, ranchers, dairy producers, fishers, and small food businesses from 44 California counties at its Bay Area farmers’ markets in seven locations. AIM offers a holistic set of community education, farm-fresh nutrition access, and training programs connected to those markets.

ALBA promotes equity and sustainability in our food system by investing in Mexican immigrant farmworkers and other aspiring farmers to pursue organic farm ownership.

Eat REAL partners with school districts in California and across the U.S. to transform cafeterias into farm-to-school nutrition hubs, ensuring K-12 students have delicious, nourishing, and climate-smart meal programs through its evidence-based Certification Program.  

Growing the Table is recruiting distributed regenerative food system actors onto an Agricultural Platform Cooperative that creates a collectively-owned network effect for mutual benefit and permanent food sovereignty.

Planting Justice empowers people impacted by mass incarceration and other social inequities with the skills and resources to cultivate food sovereignty, economic justice, and community healing. Through its El Sobrante urban farm and East Oakland based nursery, it creates dozens of jobs for community members.

Additionally, small grants were made to each of the following exceptional organizations: Food Chain Workers Alliance, Food System 6 Accelerator, Kitchen Table Advisors, and The Cultural Conservancy.

We are honored to be supporting each of these organizations and look forward to championing their vision and mission to the broader community.