*A partnership of Fair Food Network, Food Research & Action Center, National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition, Policy Link, Reinvestment Fund, and The Food Trust The Resource Team consisted of Smart Growth America, Working Narratives, The Food and Agriculture Policy Collaborative* (FAPC), and the Center for Popular Democracy. This robust resource team informed and supported local, national, and Network-wide strategies and activities and accelerated Convergence-wide learning and progress by building synergy between efforts. In addition to funding these specific places, the Partnership brought on a set of national organizations to provide strategic support and technical assistance to the grantees, the Convergence Network, and the national Partnership on narrative change, food systems and policy, local economic development, and grassroots organizing and power building. San Joaquin Valley, CA - Sierra Health Foundation ![]() ![]() Greater Kansas City region - Health Forward Foundation Grantees included six local and regional funders and one statewide grassroots network to support placed-based efforts that amplified investments in grassroots organizing advanced local and regional policy and advocacy priorities and shifted narratives to support racial equity:īuffalo, NY - Community Foundation for Greater BuffaloĬhicago, IL - Elevated Chicago, and the Chicago Community Trust Presence of other funder collaborative investmentsĪlignment with Convergence Partnership priority issues (at the time these included: resilient equitable development with a focus on transportation and housing food systems and prevention and health systems)Īs a result, in 2018 the Partnership provided grants to seven organizations in six places that organize philanthropy and its constituencies to advocate for solutions that create equitable changes for diverse communities across the country. ![]() Political, geographic, and demographic salience Responding to changing community and political contexts in 2017, Convergence Partnership engaged in a series of internal and external discussions to re-examine how our grantmaking could better support racial and health equity. Six places (Buffalo, California, Chicago, Kansas, Kansas City Metro Region, and Louisiana) were prioritized for place-based investments based on an analysis of the following criteria:
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