Deadline: November 8, 2024
Applications are open for the Vital Village Networks Community Food Systems Fellowship 2025. The Community Food Systems Fellowship is an 18-month leadership program that aims to increase opportunities for diverse local food system leaders to build their skills, capacity, and networks through a series of community design labs on participatory engagement and human centered design approaches, monthly learning sessions with other food systems leaders, and individualized technical assistance.
Emerging leaders who are committed to food justice and equity should consider the Community Food Systems Fellowship. The fellowship is an opportunity to contribute to developing a roadmap for community-powered food systems and to learn how to better capture impact. The Fellowship is a good fit for those who are committed to:
- working to develop resilient and equitable local food systems
- community leadership, engagement, and the leadership of caregivers and families
- food justice, nutrition justice, racial equity and social transformation
- developing skills to measuring impact and success of local food systems
- developing collaborative leadership skills
Benefits
- Community Fellows will receive a $2,500 fellowship stipend to honor time for participating in fellowship meetings and activities, including participation and presentations at Vital Village’s annual National Community Leadership Summit.
- Fellows also have the ability to apply for $2,500 of innovation pilot project funds, which would be dispersed after the first 12-month of the fellowship program, after a proposal development and action planning period that would take place in the first half of the program.
Eligibility
- The fellow must be based in the United States or one of the US territories;
- The fellow must have an established partnership with a nonprofit organization, coalition, network, group, cooperative, business, or institution that has a strategic focus on local food systems.
Application
As a part of your application, you must provide at least one letter of recommendation. Up to three letters of recommendation may be submitted.
For more information, visit Community Food Systems Fellowship.
