2026 Request for Proposals Submission Form

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Session Information

About the 2026 SAFSF Forum

After reviewing the full Request For Proposals overview, please fill out this form in its entirety to be considered for a session at the 2026 SAFSF Forum. After submitting your form, you will receive a confirmation email, which will include a copy of your submission for your records.

Submission Deadline: November 23, 2025, at Midnight PST

Submission Email: events@safsf.org


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You may refer to the 2026 Forum information page for key themes and supporting elements, as well as the Selection Criteria, which will be used to evaluate submissions. In general, this section should focus on the core idea and its relevance to food systems change. 

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Meal Details
Full Field Day visits must include lunch for attendees, which SAFSF will cover the cost of. All lunches must account for dietary restrictions and allergies.


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Scholarship availability will be dependent on Forum 2026 sponsorship.

Session Topic Areas

Forum Key Themes & Supporting Elements
The following themes will be highlighted at the 2026 Forum. This does not mean these will be the only topics explored, but we encourage applicants to consider and prioritize the following topics. Additionally, we are especially interested in sessions that lift up policy advocacy, movement building, and narrative change as strategies for change.  

Black Agrarianism in the South 
This theme explores Black Agrarianism as a living tradition that centers cultural land stewardship, food sovereignty, cooperative economics, and liberatory organizing in food systems. We examine the historic and current realities of land access, land loss, and land retention for Black land stewards and producers—with particular attention to rural community needs. 

Food and Farmworker Justice and Immigration in the Food System
This theme examines food chain and farm worker justice within U.S. immigration and labor systems, highlighting climate impacts and centering strategies to build equitable food systems with and for workers in our food system. 

Climate, Health, and Food Systems
This theme investigates how climate change and public health intersect across the full food system, guided by equity, resilience, and worker and community well-being. The 2026 Forum will highlight the role of oceans, ports, fisheries, and aquaculture as integral components of our food economy. 

Building Sustainable Food Markets and Infrastructure
This theme is about aligning finance, policy, and practice so regenerative, sustainable, and agroecological producers can thrive—and communities can reliably access good food. This theme will lift up the policy shifts, integrated financing tools (grants, guarantees, patient debt, mission equity) and infrastructure needed to rebalance the system away from corporate capture, inequity, and climate fragility.

Food Access and Food as Medicine
This theme focuses on how funders can strengthen household food security, expand equitable food access, and improve health outcomes through strategies like healthcare partnerships, community-owned grocery stores, and other community-led food access strategies.
Please indicate which themes and elements your proposal aligns with by checking the appropriate boxes. You may check multiple boxes as applicable.


Funding Praxis
If applicable, we also encourage you to address theories and practices related to funding in your submission. 

Participatory and Community Controlled Funding - Participatory and community controlled decision making models in funding. 

Equity Based Funding - Best practices in designing and implementing funding programs rooted in principles of equity, non-extraction, and dismantling systemic racism. 

Integrated Capital Strategies - Incorporation of multiple types of capital across the spectrum of grantmaking, lending and investment.

Please select which of the following funding practices will be addressed in your session, if any. You may check multiple boxes as applicable or add a free response.




For questions, please contact the SAFSF Program Team at events@safsf.org. 

We look forward to working together in building a just and equitable food system.

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