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How We Work

The Wallace Center, through its programmatic work, is building toward:

Healthy Farms: Agricultural and other working lands must be managed regeneratively to achieve the balanced environmental, economic, and social solutions needed for our current challenges. Healthy farms, thriving rural communities, and varied ecosystems are the foundation of food system resiliency. The Wallace Center works with farmers, land managers, and those that support them to develop and scale innovative farming solutions. Connecting regenerative farming and land management practices to value chains helps the Wallace Center build lasting solutions for ecosystem health.

Fair Economies: Democratized, regional food systems – rooted in multi-generational strategies for community ownership – create vibrant and diverse economies that build wealth. The Wallace Center has long supported local food hubs and radiating value-chains as ways to build these economies. As we evolve to meet the needs of our communities, our work is leveraging tools and strategies in finance and innovation to build and uplift food systems change.

Resilient Food Systems: The Wallace Center works across food value chains to build resilient food systems where all people have access to culturally appropriate food, health, and opportunity. We take a systems approach to facilitating networks, building relationships, and nurturing community-based leadership. We cultivate relationships of trust and solidarity among food systems leaders – at the local, regional, and national level – and provide platforms for sharing knowledge and skill, building collective power, and acting collaboratively to transform the food system.

Our work to advance our mission is guided by eight overarching strategies, informed by our values, our human-centered cultural agreements, and the leadership of our predecessors, peers, and emerging leaders. 

Foster authentic partnerships and collaborations
We develop and maintain long-term, trusted, reciprocal relationships with strategic partners across sectors and geographies through servant leadership and followership.
Nourish and amplify community leadership
We offer opportunities to individuals and organizations to cultivate and strengthen their capacities for advancing transformational systems change.
Strengthen fields of practice through targeted support
We develop and deliver technical assistance, trainings, mentorship opportunities, and resources that build the skills and capacities necessary for successful farms, food businesses, and community-based organizations.
Change the narrative on farming and food systems
We engage broad and diverse audiences to raise awareness of critical issues, challenge prevailing narratives, and ensure the needs and assets of practitioners are understood, represented, and included.
Link funders to on-the-ground work
We partner with funders and investors to champion cutting edge trends, disseminate best practices, and regrant private and public funding to accelerate systems change.
Advance new ideas through applied research
We generate knowledge, tools, and actionable frameworks that empower practitioners, catalyze new relationships, and drive progress.
Cultivate peer-to-peer learning networks and communities of practice
We connect public and private practitioners to transform individual efforts into shared intellectual and social capital to scale impact.
Identify and share emerging innovations and best practices
We cultivate shifts in thinking and practice by lifting up and normalizing strategies and solutions that build healthy economies and ecosystems.
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