Florence Fang Community Farm’s Post

USD800,000. Raised by and for a community-owned sustainable forestry nonprofit in #PapuaNewGuinea. From one progressive European trust. The (relatively) smooth and stress-less process of a TWO-PAGE proposal. A first donation that's NOT from an institutional funder. But that wouldn't have been possible without having walked through the institutional funding fire (for two decades). And a two-year journey to grow beyond the habits and limited expectations that institutional funding shapes. #highvaluepartnerships

Industry Insights: Frogtown Farm, a nonprofit urban farming organization in St. Paul, is facing a dire situation. With a $150,000 budget deficit and turnover among leadership, the future of this 11-year-old organization is uncertain. The lease for their 5.5-acre site has also expired, leaving them in a precarious position. Despite these challenges, Frogtown Farm remains committed to their mission of providing fresh produce to low-income residents in the community. However, they need support now more than ever. As we navigate through these difficult times, it's important to come together and support organizations like Frogtown Farm that are working towards creating a more sustainable future. Whether it's through donations or volunteering your time, every little bit helps. We encourage you to share your thoughts and show your support for Frogtown Farm in the comments below. Let's work together to ensure that this valuable resource continues to thrive and make a positive impact in our community. #SupportFrogtownFarm #SustainableAgriculture #CommunitySupport #CommentPost

Exciting News! We’re launching a new fundraising campaign, and we’d love for you to be part of it: Help us plant 10 million wildflowers by June 30th. We’re seeing an incredibly high amount of interest from landowners interested in planting #pollinator habitat, and we need your help to make it a success. By helping us plant 10 million #wildflowers across the landscape, you are making a real difference for these #pollinators. Your donation will: 🌱Plant 1 million square feet of high-quality NextGen pollinator habitat projects through our Seed A Legacy and Solar Synergy programs. 🐝 Provide essential nutrition to support #honeybees, which are vital for our food production. 60 honey bee hives will be supported, which will produce over 4,200 lbs. of US honey. 🦋 Provide #monarchbutterfly-specific needs to prevent them from becoming endangered, including 100,000 milkweed seeds being planted within the pollinator habitat. 🌻 Provide ideal habitat for pollinators, native bees, pheasants, quail and grassland songbirds, improve soil, air and water quality, AND enhance #biodiversity while beautifying the landscape. Help us plant 10 million wildflowers by donating today: https://bit.ly/47qkwPU

I posted a little experiment on Monday trying to leverage $20 I was given for weed whacking my 80-year-old neighbor Darlene’s irrigation ditch into a larger donation for nonprofits.   Woot – woot – here’s the result: We turned that lonely Andrew Jackson ($20) into commitments for donations totaling $1,150 – that’s > 50x increase, friends! 🎉   I asked people to nominate nonprofits. The donation categories suggested generally fell into two broad groups: local to Darlene (which means Idaho) or Maui. For Idaho, there were a lot of candidates. For Maui, three were suggested: Hawaiian Community Foundation, Maui Food Bank, and Red Cross of Hawaii. I put all the candidates into an online random drawing generator, and it selected the Boise Period Project and Hawaii Red Cross. I think we all get what the Red Cross does – the Boise Period Project gathers menstrual products to create free period packs for those experiencing period poverty. Two worthy causes!   Now for the nitty gritty.   Some of you gave me funds via Venmo:   Cory Grabow Yung Thuy-Dung S. Karen Rush-Wilson Michelle Bushneff Elise Allyn Stephanie Robbins Lisa Arie Elizabeth Friend Erik Kingston, PCED Jay Story Jeremy Oliver Pete Gombert Randye S S. Don Bush Lee Denton Dixon Jeremy Kaplan. Hopefully I’m not missing anyone there – if so, let me know! 💪   Oh, and Scott Beecham dropped off cash at my desk. Rick S., I think you’re mailing yours to me, right? And Holly Cook went straight to the source and donated directly to nonprofit Jesse Tree.   I will use the Venmo funds to make donations 50/50 to the Red Cross Hawaii or to the Boise Period Project, unless you specifically designated nonprofits for your contribution. I will make those directly as well.   The rest of you fantastic humans committed to give via a comment on the post – I’ll kick in! – so we’re on the honor system here: You can make your donation to the Boise Period Project or to the Red Cross of Hawaii (links are at the bottom of this post). Of course, you can always make your donation to any fantastic nonprofit you’d like – the key here is to make that donation! I’ll recognize you in a comment to this post since there are so many of you!   Again, if I’ve missed recognizing anyone here, please let me know!   There were a lot of likes on the post as well. If the spirit moves any of you who liked what we were doing, go ahead and throw down a donation to your fave nonprofit – they deserve it!   This was a lot of fun. As one contributor, Tara Wolfson, said, “This gives me energy.” Me, too, Tara – me, too.   Thank you all! 🙏 Boise Period Project https://lnkd.in/gfr9RmsB   Red Cross Hawaii https://lnkd.in/g2QzXnzQ   #gratitude #giving #nonprofits #Maui #Boise

The Wheen Bee Foundation’s Impact Report for the 2023 financial year is out now. The report outlines the Wheen Bee Foundation's major programs, events and achievements, highlighting the tangible impact on bees and other pollinators. In the past 12 months, the Wheen Bee Foundation launched several new initiatives, each furthering the foundation's four main focuses of activity – research and development, awareness and education, connecting people and fundraising. These include the Centre for Bee Education, the Australian Pollinator Count, the Pollinator Photography Competition, the Discover Bees of Australia poster and the Carman’s Trees for Bees Community Tree Grants. In addition to these new initiatives, the Wheen Bee Foundation has awarded $65,000 in tree grants over the past two years, planting more than 92 hectares of pollinator friendly habitat, supported the Pollination Security CRC Core Bid Group which attracted $53 million in partnerships and partnered with Federal, State and local governments to invest $257,000 in the Powerful Pollinator Planting Guides program. All of these achievements are made possible thanks to donations from our generous supporters. Every donation counts – donate now at https://lnkd.in/gdrPSVeu Read the report at https://lnkd.in/gRCtWRxp #impactreport #bees #pollinators #beekeeping

As March is B Corp month we wanted to share an update on Meadow Mission, an initiative that was born out of the accreditation process. Since 2021 we've donated 2% of turnover to create wildflower meadows, a vital habitat for bees with our charity partner Plantlife International. To date, with our customers help, we’ve planted over 20 acres! We've lost 98% of our wildflower meadows since the 1940's which is a vital habitat for honey bees as well as many other invertebrates, mammals, bats, and birds. Meadows also store carbon. There is some research suggesting that a flower-full meadow can store 30% more carbon than a flower-less meadow. As Black Bee Honey grows and requires more honey we need to ensure there's more biodiversity to support the bees producing it. Read more here: https://lnkd.in/e5Uqr_iy #bcorpmonth #bcorp B Lab UK

🌱 Planning My Fall Garden and Grant Strategy: A Tale of Last-Minute Inspiration 🍂 Last week, I sat down to plan out my Fall garden (yes, that's a thing!). 🌿 Despite having been a director at a non-profit educational farm where I was in charge of planning all the crops, I found myself pushing the garden planning off until the last minute. 🙈 But hey, sometimes inspiration strikes when you least expect it! Hopefully, I'll have some nice greens and turnips this Fall though! Can you relate? Just as with gardening, grant planning can sometimes be left to the eleventh hour. 📅 If you've ever waited until the last minute to plan and execute your non-profit's grant strategy, you're not alone. 🌟 That's why I'm excited to share a valuable resource with you! Introducing my upcoming mini-course, "The GrantMaximizer Self-Assessment," built upon the foundation of my Maximize Your Grant Funding framework. 💡 The self-assessment part of the course will pinpoint exactly where your non-profit needs to focus to maximize its grant funding potential. 📊 And guess what? You can get early access before the public release on November 15th! 🙌 Simply sign up for my newsletter, "Take the Guesswork out of Grants," and you'll be among the first to access this valuable resource. https://lnkd.in/e9b4uxG2 The course will be exclusively available to my newsletter subscribers starting in the first week of October. 🚀 #GrantConsultant #CertifiedGrantWriter #GrantWriting #NonProfit #FreeResource #NonProfitNewsletter #GrantMaximizing #GrantFunding #LearningJourney

Though I rarely post on Linkedin, I am here regularly, absorbing the insights of those I admire. I post now because The Ag Community in Vermont needs more from the companies, individuals, and associations who work here or have visited, benefitted, or simply appreciate Vermont values. We need folks to come to the aid of damaged Vermont’s farms. The catastrophic storms of 2023 and 'wrong' weather throughout the winter into spring this year caused and continues to cause more than $45 million in losses to Vermont family farms. The devastation done to these farms is largely invisible - crops lost, infrastructure damaged or destroyed, and seasons of set-backs.  With ongoing, all-volunteer help from partners and supporters listed below, we're hoping to raise as much cash as we can to help offset the profound losses Vermont farmers have experienced. Learn more, share this post, AND make a donation to the farmers in the county you care about most at www.digdeepvt.com. Thank you, Vermont Community Fund, NOFA, and The State of Vermont for assistance provided to date. But it is simply not enough to ensure feed, crops to sell, infrastructure repair, and a viable future. Please. And thank you for those who are championing DIGDEEPVT now: @Ski Vermont/Vermont Ski Areas Association @Association of Vermont Credit Unions @Farm Credit East, ACA @Farrell Distributing @Driven Studio | Certified B Corporation® Studio | Certified B Corporation® @Image Relay | Certified B Corporation® @Unified Strategies Public Relations Network @Givio

As a citizen of the Oneida Nation and someone who works in conservation policy, thank you Natural Resources Foundation of Wisconsin for your support for this amazing project! This project, with a variety of non-tribal landowners participating, has taken place on a largely former agricultural landscape. Groups like the Wisconsin Farm Bureau Federation and Dairy Business Association can appreciate how the restored wetlands capture legacy phosphorus and nitrates. Groups like Trout Unlimited can appreciate how it’s produced cool, clear water for fishing. Groups like the Association of State Floodplain Managers, Inc. (ASFPM) can appreciate the flood mitigation from these wetlands. And groups like Ducks Unlimited, like we do, value the habitat for birds. Let’s support policies that promote projects like this to solve our water problems on landscapes everywhere they’re needed!