Community Alliance With Family Farmers Foundation
Community Alliance With Family Farmers Foundation
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About this organization
Mission
CAFF's mission is to build sustainable food and farming systems through policy advocacy and on-the-ground programs that create more resilient family farms, communities, and ecosystems.
About
Farm to Market: CAFF connects farmers and businesses, providing growers with a suite of tools and marketing materials - and also coordinating product availability with aggregated purchasing to ensure supply and demand grow together. The Farm to Market program couples consumer education with technical assistance in tracing value through the supply chain. CAFF works with food service leaders to provide staff trainings, education for students, and collaborative purchasing and resource sharing structures. 2018 Highlights in Farm to Market include:(1) Farm to Cafeteria targets school districts and hospitals that serve low-income communities and increases access to fresh fruits, vegetables and proteins within these institutions while simultaneously expanding market access for local family farmers. Purchasing Collaboratives are groups of school and hospital food service purchasing representatives from the same region, utilizing common distributors and farmers. In 2018 CAFF facilitated over $1,100,000 sales via Purchasing Collaboratives (of 38 family farms and 41 institutions). Farm Direct sales directly connect institutional purchasers with farms, resulting in increased transparency, more opportunities for communication and education, a high level of customer service, more access to local, family farm, and in season products, and increased community awareness in the food system. In 2018 CAFF facilitated over $64,000 Farm Direct sales to 32 family farms from 12 institutions. While our reach has grown, there is still significantly higher demand and opportunity to help cafeteria leaders increase access to local food. (2) Food Safety: Our food safety outreach in 2018 included workshops, webinars, and in-depth one-on-one guidance to over 600 growers--as well as the development of our new podcast which debuted in February 2019. The first few podcasts episodes were recorded at different farms discussing various food safety "quick tips" for small growers.(3) Community Supported Agriculture (CSA): In an effort to increase the economic viability of CSA operations, CAFF partnered with technical assistance groups from across the nation to develop a CSA Community of Practice so they can more easily share marketing innovations and other best practices. The Community of Practice allows for the combination of extensive marketing expertise and collation of resources for the betterment of CSA farmers across the United States. By providing space for collaborations, we can facilitate the exchange of hard-won lessons and innovative ideas between service providers and CSAs nationwide. This exciting national effort feeds into a noteworthy international CSA movement, in which CAFF also participates, aimed at improving social justice and solidarity economies throughout the world through CSA and other farm-direct models.
Interesting data from their 2020 990 filing
According to the filing, the non-profit's mission is “Caff's mission is to build sustainable food and farming systems through policy advocacy and on-the-ground programs that create more resilient family farms, communities, and ecosystems.”.
When referring to its actions, they were described as: “Caff's mission is to build sustainable food and farming systems through policy advocacy and on-the-ground programs that create more resilient family farms, communities, and ecosystems.”.
- According to the law, the state of operation reported by the non-profit is CA.
- As per the filing, the address of the non-profit for 2020 is PO BOX 363, DAVIS, CA, 95617.
- According to their form, the non-profit as of 2020 has a total of 20 employees.
- Is not a private foundation.
- Expenses are greater than $1,000,000.
- Revenue is greater than $1,000,000.
- Revenue less expenses is -$61,163.
- The organization has 10 independent voting members.
- The organization was formed in 1978.
- The organization pays $909,473 in salary, compensation, and benefits to its employees.
- The organization pays $86,459 in fundraising expenses.
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