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Center Adds Strength to Network | 2022 | Agri-View

New USDA Program Draws Lessons From Food Box Program | 2022 | Food Bank News

The Collective Future of American Agriculture | 2021 | Food & Environment Reporting Network

Faces of Food System Planning: Ellie Bomstein | 2021 | American Planning Association

Northwest Co-op Builds for a Local Food Future Beyond Big Ag | 2020 | High Country News

You Should Know a Farmer | 2020 | Red Canary Collective

Farmers and Funders Get Behind a Push to Reinvent Agriculture | 2020 | Inside Philanthropy

Creating a Resilient Local Food Economy in New Orleans | 2019 | Food Tank

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Wallace Center’s 2020 Impact Report
The Wallace Center is proud to share our 2020 Impact Report. This report highlights the ingenuity, hard work and dedication that we, and more than 25 of our partners in service, demonstrated last year amid COVID-19. Read More
Launch of New Food Systems Practitioner and Educational Resource Database
The Wallace Center, along with eight organizations, has helped develop a national database for food practitioners to connect with others in their geographic area. Led by Iowa State University, this project is supported by a cooperative agreement between the Farm, Food and Enterprise Development program of ISU Extension and Outreach and the USDA’s AMS. Read More
USDA’s Local Agriculture Market Program Releases $92 Million in Funding
This year, USDA grants that support local and regional food systems have received a huge boost in funding through COVID relief bills. The USDA has made $92 million available in grant funding through these grant opportunities--nearly triple the amount that was available last year. Read More
Announcing Institutional Investment Accelerator Teams
The Wallace Center is thrilled to announce the six community-based teams participating in our inaugural Institutional Investment Accelerator, made possible through the generous support of the Kresge Foundation. Read More
Wallace Center’s Path to Anti-Racism and Multi-Culturalism
In the spirit of accountability, vulnerability, and transparency, we want to share the Wallace Center’s Journey Toward Becoming an Anti-Racist and Multicultural Organization. We will never achieve economic, environmental, and social justice without first achieving racial justice. Read More
USDA’s Systems Change Opportunity
The local food sector, along with just about everyone else, has learned some valuable lessons from the pandemic. One such learning came from USDA’s Farmers to Families Food Box Program. Read More
Co-Leadership Transition at the Wallace Center
The Wallace Center is transitioning to a co-directorship model under the shared leadership of Susan Lightfoot Schempf and Pete Huff. Both have been leading Wallace’s programs for the past several years, helping the organization build authentic relationships and championing efforts to center racial equity in our organizational culture and programs. Read More
The Power of Community-based Food Systems
This new multimedia storytelling project is an exploration into how communities across the Northwest are using community-based food systems to catalyze resistance and resilience, self-determination and sovereignty, connection and liberation. Read More
Announcing the Midwest Grazing Exchange
Accessing land to graze, or finding livestock farmers to partner with, can be a barrier to expanding integrated crop-livestock systems. A new website by the Midwest Perennial Forage Working Group – a network of grazing educators in the Upper Midwest that includes the Wallace Center's Pasture Project – seeks to address this challenge. Read More
Collaborating for Native Communities
By the time A-dae Briones joined a late March conference call with national funders and partners about the impact of COVID-19 on food supply chains in the U.S., she had already spent days fielding appeals for food and water from Native American communities across the Southwest. Read More
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