Alliances
The Alliance Program at Small Farms Conservancy
In an effort to strengthen it’s educational and advocacy work, the Small Farms Conservancy is actively seeking to build formal alliances with other non-profits and nongovernmental organizations. The SFC understands the value of intelligent collaboration in the world of small farming. We’ve got a lot of friends out there and we got them by treating them right. So we are determined to avoid unnecessary duplication and competition for public attention and resources. Through education and connectivity, Small Farms Conservancy is all about getting genuine help directly to small farmers.
As exciting as our vision and mission statement might be, we recognize that potential allies of the SFC may reasonably ask what we might bring to a partnership.
Benefits of membership and an alliance with Small Farms Conservancy include access to:
1. SFC’s grassroots membership is top heavy with real farmers and sincere folks who wish to be farming. And its office is peopled with engaging well-informed folks that know what they’re talking about and eagerly connect questions with answers.
2. SFC’s information and education outreach, fueled by one of the most extensive farming archives to be found anywhere.
3. Assistance and collaboration in many key areas of concern, including but not limited to:
a. education on behalf of small scale farming
b. pooled insurance offerings for farmers
c. retirement programs for farmers
d. apprenticeship clearinghouse
e. farm caretaking services
f. more farmers on more farms
g. legal assistance
h. estate planning for farmers
i. expanding local markets and marketing
j. advancing appropriate technology
k. micro lending for small farms
4. Networking. We will put you in contact with other allies we think might assist and/or compliment your efforts.
5. Annual conferencing.
6. A subscription to SFC’s partner publication Small Farmer’s Journal.
Here’s how your organization can form a working alliance with the Small Farms Conservancy.
We ask that potential organizational allies:
A. have a strong and demonstrated commitment to small farms
B. work in ways that directly benefit small farmers
C. are willing to distribute to their own constituency Small Farms Conservancy literature, notices, and bulletins.
D. be a non-governmental organization with a non-profit structure.
E. provide reciprocal website linkage
F. maintain an annual institutional membership with SFC ($75 per year)
G. consider direct participation on SFC subcommittees
H. consider being a signatory to SFC white papers.
I. be willing to consider collaboration on specific projects
If you wish to form an alliance with the Small Farms Conservancy please call our office (800-876-2893) or email us at agrarian@smallfarmersjournal.com.
If you sense an overlap with SFC in what you do, please get in touch with us.