Join Grassroots Fund staff for a Webinar about accessing resources in your community, and in the funding world, to support your work.

Understanding the community context of the place where grassroots work is being done, and engaging the community meaningfully, is something the Grassroots Fund finds very important. We aim to support projects that offer innovative, community-based solutions or new approaches that are founded in an understanding of the existing community context. Join us and two of our past grantees, Emily Nink from the Everett Community Growers, and Jasmine Folster from Katahdin Collaborative, to hear about their community engagement work.

This webinar is for those applying for funding from the New England Grassroots Environment Fund. You can find out about our grant programs and what kind of work we fund here: https://grassrootsfund.org/dollars

In this webinar, we will be covering our issue areas, eligibility criteria, types of grants, how to apply, our application review process, and other opportunities for ongoing support, tools, and collaboratives! 

Join Grassroots Fund staff and guest speakers (soon to be announced) to talk about what Just Transition means and how it is showing up in projects across the Northeast.  This interactive webinar will both give an overview of key concepts and insights in to how community organizers are applying ideas in their neighborhoods and communities.

Speaker:  Tyler Kidder, GrowSmart Maine 
Learn how you can better communicate, and translate knowledge into action, around the issue of climate change. This webinar will include current social and behavioral science research, Maine-specific messaging research findings, New England-specific communications approaches, and ideas on how communicators can apply this information in their work.

During this webinar, we will be joined by speakers from three Boston-area organizations, Nuestra Comunidad Development, City Life / Viva Urbana, and Right to the City, who are organizing to resist gentrification efforts in and around the city. Representatives from these organizations will share their experiences with gentrification and how they are organizing to preserve our communities' culture, character, and residents.

With numerous environmental challenges facing our communities, it can be hard to know which issue to address first. But by identifying integrated, holistic solutions we can find ways to address multiple challenges at the same time. Join us on September 19th to learn about the creative projects that communities are developing that not only provide clean energy, but also create additional environmental and social benefits for agriculture, clean water, health and even pollinators!

Like many other small businesses, farmers and food entrepreneurs face numerous challenges in their day-to-day operations, and often cannot afford legal representation when important legal issues arise. The Conservation Law Foundation started the first-in-the-nation Legal Food Hub to provide free legal services to income-eligible farmers and food entrepreneurs facing legal issues in Maine, Rhode Island and Massachusetts. This presentation will explain how the Legal Food Hub works, describe the legal issues it seeks to solve and provide real-life success stories of how it has helped famers and food entrepreneurs navigate their legal challenges.

During this webinar, attendees will receive an overview of an approach to doing economic development in a different way.