Organizations around the country who are working to support family farmers. Join them to get involved!
Center for Rural Affairs
145 Main Street
PO Box 136
Lyons, NE 68038
Phone: 402-687-2100
Fax: 402-687-2200
Website: www.cfra.org
The Center for Rural Affairs is committed to building communities that stand for social justice, economic opportunity, and environmental stewardship. They encourage people to accept both personal and social responsibility for creating such communities and provide opportunities for people to participate in decisions that shape the quality of their lives and the futures of their communities.
Visit Connect to learn more about and work with other great organizations.
The National Family Farm Coalition
110 Maryland Ave. N.E., Suite 307
Washington, DC 20002
Phone: 202-543-5675
Fax: 202-543-0978
Website: www.nffc.net
The National Family Farm Coalition provides a voice for grassroots groups on farm, food, trade and rural economic sissues to ensure fair prices for family farmers, safe and healthy food, and vibrant environmentally sound rural communitities here and around the world. It works with federal and state policy makers, influences government officials, and mobilizes public support and energy for causes that support family farmers.
Visit Connect to learn more about and work with other great organizations.
The Federation of Southern Cooperatives
2769 Church Street
East Point, GA 30344
Phone: 404-765-0991
Fax: 404-765-9178
Website: www.federationsoutherncoop.com
The Federation of Southern Cooperatives/Land Assistance Fund works with the South’s rural low-income people where they are, on the land. They work to stop and reverse the vast amounts of black-owned land that is threatened or lost daily throughout the South. In addition, they strive toward the development of self-supporting communities with programs that increase income and enhance other opportunities, such as credit unions, better housing and health care delivery.
Visit Connect to learn more about and work with other great organizations.
Iowa Citizens for Community Improvement
2001 Forest Avenue
Des Moines, IA 50311
Phone: 515-282-0484
Fax: 515-283-0031
Website: www.iowacci.org
The mission of the Iowa Citizens for Community Improvement is to empower and unite grassroots people of all ethnic backgrounds to take control of their communities; involve them in identifying problems and needs and in taking action to address them; and to be a vehicle for social, economic and environmental change.
Visit Connect to learn more about and work with other great organizations.
Just Food
1155 Avenue of the Americas, 3rd Floor
New York, NY 10036
Phone: 212-645-9880 x221
Fax: 212-645-9881
Website: www.justfood.org
The mission of Just Food is to help develop a just and sustainable food system in the New York City region by fostering understanding, communication and partnership among diverse groups concerned with food, hunger and sustainability issues. By using food as the common element linking diverse organizations and individuals, collaborative projects can then develop community leadership, boost local food production and equitable food access, preserve open spaces and clean environments, create jobs, and bolster regional farms.
Visit Connect to learn more about and work with other great organizations.
Missouri Rural Crisis Center
1108 Rangeline Street
Columbia, MO 65201
Phone: 573-449-1336
Fax: 573-442-5716
Email: [email protected]
Website: www.inmotionmagazine.com/rural.html
The Missouri Rural Crisis Center’s (MRCC) mission is to preserve family farms, empower farmers and rural communities, promote stewardship of the land and environmental integrity, and strive for economic and social justice by building unity and mutual understanding among diverse groups, both rural and urban. They seek to increase the capacity of poor people and communities to organize and advocate for themselves as they work to address and achieve solutions to corporate control of the global food supply, a root cause of poverty in the state.
Visit Connect to learn more about and work with other great organizations.
Northern Plains Sustainable Agriculture Society
PO Box 194
100 1 Ave. SW
LaMoure, ND 58458
Phone: 701-883-4304
Fax: 701-883-4204
Website: npsas.org
The Northern Plain Sustainable Agricultural Society/Stewardship Fund is a grassroots organization that seeks to develop a sustainable society by promoting food production and a distribution system in the Northern Plains that is ecologically and socially sound. Specifically, the organization advocates land stewardship and organic farming.
Visit Connect to learn more about and work with other great organizations.
Operation Spring Plant
P.O. Box 1759
Oxford, NC 27565
Phone: 252-492-7301
Fax: 252-492-1368
Operation Spring Plant (OSP) is a grassroots, nonprofit organization operated by farmers and other business professionals. Their mission is to provide an environmentally safe food product to the community and to create an opportunity for the region’s limited resource, minority and small family farmers to work cooperatively to sustain economic viability in the face of major cuts to the tobacco program and competition from larger competitors.
Visit Connect to learn more about and work with other great organizations.
Updated 11/8/2010
