Rural Advancement Foundation International (RAFI)
GroupMission:
"RAFI cultivates markets, policies, and communities that support thriving, socially just, and environmentally sound family farms."
RAFI looks to the government for loans
This group funded by:
| Funder | Year | Amount | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| Unfi Foundation | 2017 | $10,000.00 | Growing North Carolina Organic From the Ground Up |
| CS Fund | 2016 | $7,500.00 | Protect organic integrity against synthetic biology and new genetic engineering techniques. |
| Central New York Community Foundation, Inc. | 2016 | $250.00 | |
| Fidelity Charitable Gift Fund | 2016 | $25,000.00 | General support |
| Fidelity Charitable Gift Fund | 2016 | $5,000.00 | General support |
| Fidelity Charitable Gift Fund | 2016 | $5,000.00 | General support |
| Silicon Valley Community Foundation | 2016 | $95,000.00 | Program development |
| The Burt’s Bees Greater Good Foundation | 2016 | $100,000.00 | To purchase wildflower seeds, which will be planted to support the Burt's Bees bring back the Bees campaign. |
| The Burt’s Bees Greater Good Foundation | 2016 | $25,000.00 | Bring Back the Bees - 2016-2-BB Project |
| The Burt’s Bees Greater Good Foundation | 2016 | $25,000.00 | Bring Back the Bees and administration of wildflower planting project |
| The Burt’s Bees Greater Good Foundation | 2016 | $20,000.00 | Bring Back the Bees - Burt's Bees Seeds Project |
| The Burt’s Bees Greater Good Foundation | 2016 | $10,952.00 | Bring Back the Bees - Burt's Bees Seeds Project |
| The Burt’s Bees Greater Good Foundation | 2016 | $10,000.00 | Durham Farmers' Market Double Bucks Program |
| The Chicago Community Trust | 2016 | $2,000.00 | For general operating support |
| The Duke Endowment | 2016 | $1,825,610.00 | To expand and coordinate food ministry programs. |
| Z Smith Reynolds Foundation Inc | 2016 | $50,000.00 | For general operating support |
| Z Smith Reynolds Foundation Inc | 2016 | $30,000.00 | For NC Farmer Leadership Network project |
| Allstadt Hardin Foundation | 2015 | $100.00 | Environment |
| Beer Army Vigilant Guardian Foundation | 2015 | $1,500.00 | Support family farms |
| GBL Charitable Foundation | 2015 | $5,000.00 | Program development |
| Louise Arnold Maddux Environmental Foundation | 2015 | $1,000.00 | General contribution |
| The Burt’s Bees Greater Good Foundation | 2015 | $10,000.00 | Durham Farmers' Market |
| The Chicago Community Trust | 2015 | $3,000.00 | For general operating support |
| The Duke Endowment | 2015 | $20,000.00 | To convene food and hunger grantees for learning and development of best practices. |
| The North Pond Foundation | 2015 | $6,225.00 | Education |
| Tides Foundation | 2015 | $30,000.00 | For Policy, advocacy and systems reform; Equal access; Grassroots organizing |
| Triangle Community Foundation | 2015 | $6,250.00 | Program development |
| Unfi Foundation | 2015 | $7,500.00 | For Growing North Carolina Organic Cotton from the Ground Up |
| Z Smith Reynolds Foundation Inc | 2015 | $60,000.00 | NC Farmer Leadership Network project |
| Allstadt Hardin Foundation | 2014 | $250.00 | Environment |
| CS Fund | 2014 | $40,000.00 | Reinvigorating Public Plant Breeding |
| Clif Bar Family Foundation | 2014 | $40,000.00 | Seed matters |
| Clif Bar Family Foundation | 2014 | $35,000.00 | Creating a robust healthy food system |
| GBL Charitable Foundation | 2014 | $5,000.00 | Program development |
| Gaia Fund | 2014 | $25,000.00 | Agricultural Justice Project |
| Kate B Reynolds Charitable Trust | 2014 | $211,299.00 | Program Development -For farm fresh and healthy; Local produce on every table. |
| Louise Arnold Maddux Environmental Foundation | 2014 | $1,000.00 | General contribution |
| Park Foundation Inc | 2014 | $15,000.00 | Landowner, Outreach, Education & Empowerment Project |
| Park Foundation Inc | 2014 | $10,000.00 | Landowner, Outreach, Education & Empowerment Project |
| The Duke Endowment | 2014 | $68,000.00 | For Come to the Table conferences |
| The North Pond Foundation | 2014 | $9,329.00 | Education |
| Triangle Community Foundation | 2014 | $1,000.00 | |
| United States Rural Business Cooperative Service | 2014 | $200,000.00 | Rural Cooperative Development Grants |
| Z Smith Reynolds Foundation Inc | 2014 | $100,000.00 | For general operating support |
| Z Smith Reynolds Foundation Inc | 2014 | $30,000.00 | North Carolina Farmer Leadership Network Project |
| Allstadt Hardin Foundation | 2013 | $250.00 | Environment |
| CS Fund | 2013 | $40,000.00 | Reinvigorating Public Plant Breeding |
| Cedar Tree Foundation | 2013 | $100,000.00 | For project support for increasing Beginning Farmer Risk Management and Credit Opportunities |
| GBL Charitable Foundation | 2013 | $5,000.00 | |
| Louise Arnold Maddux Environmental Foundation | 2013 | $1,000.00 | General contribution |
| Park Foundation Inc | 2013 | $25,000.00 | For Landowner Rights and Fracking Project |
| Patagonia | 2013 | $8,000.00 | Program development |
| The Duke Endowment | 2013 | $255,000.00 | For research that will improve hunger relief delivery systems |
| The Mary Lynn Richardson Fund | 2013 | $10,000.00 | To assist organization in carrying out its exempt purpose |
| The McKnight Foundation | 2013 | $25,000.00 | To work for reforms in federally subsidized crop insurance |
| Wallace Genetic Foundation Inc | 2013 | $30,000.00 | For general support |
| Z Smith Reynolds Foundation Inc | 2013 | $120,000.00 | For general operating support |
| Educational Foundation of America | 2012 | $10,000.00 | For work on fracking in North Carolina |
| Park Foundation Inc | 2012 | $30,000.00 | For landowner outreach and education on gas drilling and leasing issues in NC |
| Park Foundation Inc | 2012 | $10,000.00 | For general operating support |
| The F B Heron Foundation | 2012 | $65,000.00 | |
| Triangle Community Foundation | 2012 | $1,000.00 | |
| Triangle Community Foundation | 2012 | $1,000.00 | |
| Wallace Genetic Foundation Inc | 2012 | $25,000.00 | For general support |
| Z Smith Reynolds Foundation Inc | 2012 | $70,000.00 | For general operating support |
| CS Fund | 2011 | $40,000.00 | For a campaign to reinvigorate classical(non-biotech) plant breeding in the US through coalition building and outreach |
| Mary Reynolds Babcock Foundation Inc | 2011 | $10,000.00 | For organizational development |
| Park Foundation Inc | 2011 | $16,000.00 | For general operating support and outreach to landowners on hydraulic facturing |
| Silicon Valley Community Foundation | 2011 | $5,000.00 | For general support |
| The F B Heron Foundation | 2011 | $65,000.00 | For operating revenue |
| Tides Foundation | 2011 | $20,000.00 | For general support |
| Triangle Community Foundation | 2011 | $1,000.00 | For protecting Farmers and Agriculture from Destructive Mining |
| New Hampshire Charitable Foundation | 2010 | $10,000.00 | For the Organic and Transitioning Farmers of New Hampshire |
| Park Foundation Inc | 2010 | $20,000.00 | For general operating support |
| The F B Heron Foundation | 2010 | $65,000.00 | For general support |
| Z Smith Reynolds Foundation Inc | 2010 | $120,000.00 | For general operating support |
| Ford Foundation | 2009 | $100,000.00 | To build domestic fair trade movement that offers fair treatment for workers, economic returns for family farmers and rural communities and environmental benefits |
| Jessie Smith Noyes Foundation Inc | 2009 | $5,000.00 | To cover a portion of the travel/accommodation and conference registration expenses for African American, Native American and Latino leaders of organizations representing limited resource farmers to help shape a national organic action plan at a summit |
| Park Foundation Inc | 2009 | $10,000.00 | To create sustainable opportunities for family farmers |
| The F B Heron Foundation | 2009 | $50,000.00 | For general support |
| The Janey Fund Charitable Trust | 2009 | $20,000.00 | For unrestricted support |
| The John Merck Fund | 2009 | $35,000.00 | For Keystone Campaign to Halt Expansion of Genetically Engineered Agriculture |
| Tides Foundation | 2009 | $20,000.00 | For general support |
| Triangle Community Foundation | 2009 | $1,000.00 | |
| Triangle Community Foundation | 2009 | $1,000.00 | For the matching grant from Z. Smith Reynolds Foundation |
| Triangle Community Foundation | 2009 | $1,000.00 | For the matching grant from Z. Smith Reynolds Foundation |
| Z Smith Reynolds Foundation Inc | 2009 | $25,000.00 | For Crop Insurance Development Fund for Innovative NC farmers |
| Ford Foundation | 2008 | $150,000.00 | To build domestic fair trade movement that encompasses farmers, farmworkers, independent distributors, processors and retailers |
| Mary Reynolds Babcock Foundation Inc | 2008 | $300,000.00 | For General Operations |
| New Hampshire Charitable Foundation | 2008 | $10,000.00 | For general support |
| Newman’s Own Foundation | 2008 | $15,000.00 | For Just and Sustainable Food Systems |
| Park Foundation Inc | 2008 | $20,000.00 | For Just Foods Program |
| Park Foundation Inc | 2008 | $20,000.00 | For Poultry Collaborative for Clean Water Project |
| The Janey Fund Charitable Trust | 2008 | $20,000.00 | For unrestricted support |
| The John Merck Fund | 2008 | $40,000.00 | To develop market and regulatory framework reducing economic and legal risks to farmers and rural communities from genetically engineered agriculture, while promoting continued growth of conventional alternatives such as organic and local crops |
| The New York Community Trust | 2008 | $17,350.00 | For general support |
| Triangle Community Foundation | 2008 | $1,000.00 | |
| Triangle Community Foundation | 2008 | $1,000.00 | |
| Z Smith Reynolds Foundation Inc | 2008 | $120,000.00 | For creating sustainability and fairness in agriculture |
| Z Smith Reynolds Foundation Inc | 2008 | $15,000.00 | For NSR Award |
| Compton Foundation Inc | 2007 | $5,000.00 | For project, Creating a Social Justice Food Label |
| Park Foundation Inc | 2007 | $25,000.00 | For Poultry Collaborative for Clean Water Project |
| Park Foundation Inc | 2007 | $20,000.00 | Continuing support; Equal access; Systems reform; Program development |
| The F B Heron Foundation | 2007 | $100,000.00 | For general support |
| The Janey Fund Charitable Trust | 2007 | $5,000.00 | |
| The John Merck Fund | 2007 | $50,000.00 | To expose substantial economic and legal risks that genetically engineered crops impose on farmers and rural communities, and demonstrate benefits of growing conventional crops, particularly when they are organic |
| The New York Community Trust | 2007 | $35,000.00 | To provide financial counseling and technical assistance to Gulf Coast farm communities affected by Hurricanes Katrina and Rita |
| Z Smith Reynolds Foundation Inc | 2007 | $50,000.00 | To strengthen NC family farmers by supporting stewardship, contract fairness and diversification |
| Cornerstone Campaign | 2006 | $35,000.00 | |
| Mary Reynolds Babcock Foundation Inc | 2006 | $115,000.00 | |
| Newman’s Own Foundation | 2006 | $10,000.00 | For program support |
| Park Foundation Inc | 2006 | $25,000.00 | For Poultry Collaborative for Clean Water Project |
| Park Foundation Inc | 2006 | $10,000.00 | For Just Foods Program |
| Smith Richardson Foundation Inc | 2006 | $35,000.00 | |
| The John Merck Fund | 2006 | $50,000.00 | To promote food security and justice by opposing spread of genetically engineered foods and creating sustainable alternatives |
| The Mary Lynn Richardson Fund | 2006 | $10,000.00 | |
| The New York Community Trust | 2006 | $250.00 | For general support |
| The Winthrop Rockefeller Foundation | 2006 | $65,000.00 | To enable Arkansas Hmong and Hmong-American poultry farmers to move from crisis to financial stability |
| Tides Foundation | 2006 | $5,000.00 | |
| Triangle Community Foundation | 2006 | $500.00 | |
| Z Smith Reynolds Foundation Inc | 2006 | $40,000.00 | To strengthen NC family farmers by supporting stewardship, contract fairness and diversification |
| Compton Foundation Inc | 2005 | $15,000.00 | For 3G Sustainable Living Program |
| Cornerstone Campaign | 2005 | $35,000.00 | |
| Cornerstone Campaign | 2005 | $5,000.00 | |
| Educational Foundation of America | 2005 | $75,000.00 | For public plant and animal breeding, and to extend on-farm research model |
| Jessie Smith Noyes Foundation Inc | 2005 | $1,800.00 | For travel, registration and related support for four-person delegation, including two Hmong farmers, to attend 10th annual Hmong National Conference, in order to educate Hmong growers about problems associated with contract poultry |
| Lawson Valentine Foundation | 2005 | $20,000.00 | For general support |
| Lawson Valentine Foundation | 2005 | $2,000.00 | For general support |
| Mary Reynolds Babcock Foundation Inc | 2005 | $10,000.00 | For Hurricane Katrina Relief |
| Park Foundation Inc | 2005 | $10,000.00 | For Just Foods Program, Contract Agriculture Reform and Farm Preservation |
| Park Foundation Inc | 2005 | $5,000.00 | |
| The F B Heron Foundation | 2005 | $100,000.00 | For general support |
| The F B Heron Foundation | 2005 | $10,000.00 | |
| The Falcon Charitable Foundation | 2005 | $3,000.00 | |
| The John Merck Fund | 2005 | $50,000.00 | To oppose genetically engineered agriculture and promote sustainable alternatives |
| The New York Community Trust | 2005 | $300.00 | |
| The Wildwood Foundation | 2005 | $25,000.00 | |
| Triangle Community Foundation | 2005 | $1,000.00 | |
| Z Smith Reynolds Foundation Inc | 2005 | $40,000.00 | To improve economic conditions and prospects of NC farms by reforming farm contracts |
| Boston Foundation Inc | 2004 | $250.00 | |
| Compton Foundation Inc | 2004 | $10,000.00 | For 3G Sustainable Living Program |
| Lawson Valentine Foundation | 2004 | $25,000.00 | For general support |
| Park Foundation Inc | 2004 | $10,000.00 | For Just Foods Program, Contract Agriculture Reform and Farm Preservation |
| Park Foundation Inc | 2004 | $10,000.00 | For Just Foods Program, Contract Agriculture Reform and Farm Preservation programs |
| The F B Heron Foundation | 2004 | $30,000.00 | For project support for Tobacco Communities Reinvestment Fund to assist farmers in developing enterprises other than tobacco farming |
| The John Merck Fund | 2004 | $50,000.00 | To prevent commercialization of genetically engineered rice in North America and promote food security by opposing spread of genetically engineered foods and creating sustainable alternatives |
| The Mary Lynn Richardson Fund | 2004 | $20,000.00 | |
| The New York Community Trust | 2004 | $300.00 | |
| The North Pond Foundation | 2004 | $5,100.00 | For general support |
| Triangle Community Foundation | 2004 | $1,000.00 | |
| Triangle Community Foundation | 2004 | $1,000.00 | |
| Z Smith Reynolds Foundation Inc | 2004 | $40,000.00 | For initiatives in NC, On-farm Research and Contract Agriculture Reform |
| Educational Foundation of America | 2003 | $75,000.00 | For public plant and animal breeding, and to extend on-farm research model |
| Park Foundation Inc | 2003 | $10,000.00 | For Eco-Labels, Social Justice Standards, and Seed Summit projects |
| Park Foundation Inc | 2003 | $10,000.00 | For Eco-Labels, Social Justice Standards, and Seed Summit projects |
| The John Merck Fund | 2003 | $50,000.00 | To prevent commercialization of genetically engineered wheat in North America |
| The New York Community Trust | 2003 | $300.00 | |
| Z Smith Reynolds Foundation Inc | 2003 | $50,000.00 | For on-farm Research and Contract Agriculture Reform |
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Address 1:
274 Pittsboro Elementary School Road
City:
Pittsboro
State:
NC
Zip:
27312