CURRENT COLLABORATORS AND SUPPORTERS
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We recognize that creating enduring change takes time, and involves much more than granting, including strategic convening across sectors, and solutions finance. The Foundation is working under three focus areas: climate, reconciliation and communities. We're especially interested in the NMFCCC because of the way that it combines community development including in indigenous communities, sustainable food and food security, health and social enterprise. We value the approach taken by the collaborative and the opportunity it provides to learn with community partners. |
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The Province of Manitoba is grateful for the opportunity to participate as a collaborative member. Our participation has enabled us to meet mutual goals of increasing access to healthy food and create opportunities for community economic development. We are looking forward to continued learning from the communities and from the diverse group of individuals who also participate in this important work. |
Jasmine Chubb
Senior Policy Analyst, Northern Healthy Foods Initiative |
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rSeedChange, formerly known as USC Canada, is a non-profit founded in 1945 and rooted in the notions of human dignity and equality. The mission of SeedChange is to build food sovereignty by working with partners to enhance biodiversity, promote ecological agriculture, and counter inequity. SeedChange is excited to support the strong leadership of communities across Northern Manitoba to build healthy food systems. We are committed to listening and learning in order to be a good partner, standing in solidarity with the local leaders doing the important work on the ground.
"Being part of the NMFCCC has taught me how important it is to listen. I have learned that when you really try to listen, that's when you can begin to have relationships and being to understand how to work together. I have been very lucky to visit with several communities in Northern Manitoba, who have all generously shared their stories, knowledge, and experiences. From this sharing, I learned about history, language, the land, growing food, community, challenges, hardships, and strengths. I am very grateful for being part of the NMFCCC." Iris Vaisman, Bauta Family Initiative on Canadian Seed Security (a project of SeedChange). |
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The Bauta Family Initiative on Canadian Seed Security is a program of SeedChange, and its mission is to build a national movement to protect seed biodiversity, keep seed widely available to the public, and promote ecological farming. In the Prairies, the Bauta Initiative works with different regional food and farming organizations to support seed conservation and on-farm research.
We are honoured to be working with Indigenous farmers in Northern Manitoba to help them save and adapt varieties of grains and vegetables that work well on their farms and gardens and support the strong leadership of communities across Northern Manitoba to build healthy food systems. We are committed to listening and learning in order to be a good partner, standing in solidarity with the local leaders doing the important work on the ground. |
Iris Vaisman
Organic Production Optimization Program Manager, Prairie Organic Grain Initiative Regional Program Coordinator (Prairies) |
Anonymous Donor
An Anonymous Donor with a vision of people in our communities being healthy, educated and economically self-sufficient.
Anonymous Donor
An Anonymous Donor with a vision of people in our communities being healthy, educated and economically self-sufficient.
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MakeWay (formerly Tides Canada) is a national charity that builds partnerships and solutions to help nature and communities thrive together. MakeWay is a member of the NMFCCC and the administrative host. We provide human resources and communications support, legal oversight, and fund development while linking and promoting this work through our networks and donor communities. We participate in the NMFCCC because we believe in the power of collective action, the wisdom of communities and the need for reconciliation in Canada. It is a privilege to learn with the partner organizations, the Northern Advisors and the communities. |
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The Sprott Foundation is excited to support Northern Manitoba Food, Culture and Community Collaborative because testing innovative ideas to find solutions to food insecurity, and partnering with the local community fits perfectly with my family’s philanthropic values. |
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The Maple Leaf Centre for Action on Food Security is a registered charity that works collaboratively across sectors to reduce food insecurity in Canada. They are seeking to raise the profile of this pressing social issue to support systems change, invest in programs that advance sustainable progress, and work to increase our collective capacity to drive change. The Centre partners with organizations, such as NMFCCC, that support communities to overcome barriers to food security and have the potential to be scaled to increase impact. It also supports research, networking, knowledge sharing, and measurement to understand what works and what doesn’t, for whom. The Centre joined NMFCCC in 2017 and since then, has been privileged to be able to learn from and with communities, other members of the Collaborative, and the Northern Advisors. |
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We at Harbinger are so inspired with the determination of northern peoples to be self-sufficient and to recover from years of damage due to colonization. Sometimes a little support from outside funders, at the right time, with the right leaders, enables positive change. We have learned as funders that it is not about the money - it is more about the relationships which involves listening and respect. |
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The Lawson Foundation is a Canadian family foundation that invests in and engages with ideas, people and organizations that contribute to the healthy development of children and youth. We invest in four inter-related strategic areas that we believe will have a significant impact on the healthy, optimal development of children and youth: Early Child Development, Outdoor Play, Child and Youth Diabetes including food security and independence; and Youth Action and the Environment. In addition to these primary areas of focus, we also support initiatives that strengthen philanthropy and support the charitable sector.
The Lawson Foundation has three broad means of supporting the work of Canadian registered charities in our areas of interest.
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The Donner Canadian Foundation supports organizations across Canada and believes that it has a responsibility to build respectful and reciprocal relationships with Indigenous peoples. In our work, we aspire to uphold the core values of trust, patience, respect, honesty, clarity, understanding, communication, presence, transparency, flexibility, and reciprocity.
The foundation is honoured to be a member of the Northern Manitoba Food, Culture, and Community Collaborative and to have the opportunity to listen and learn from NMFCCC’s staff, advisors, and community partners. We’re excited to be collaborating to support community-developed initiatives that promote food security, community health, community economic development, and environmental sustainability. |
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The Arrell Family Foundation’s mission is to improve human and planetary health through food. We have supported NMFCCC for several years as we have much confidence in its collaborative approach to improving access to healthy foods and the development of resilient local economies.
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Laura Arrell
Managing Director |
PREVIOUS COLLABORATORS AND SUPPORTERS
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