Fair Food Fund Q2 2024 Impact Report
Explore our Q2 2024 impact report for a message from our team and spotlights on our recent projects with Lakeshore Depot, District 4 Mini Market, and Tree-Range Farms.
Explore our Q2 2024 impact report for a message from our team and spotlights on our recent projects with Lakeshore Depot, District 4 Mini Market, and Tree-Range Farms.
At Fair Food Network, we believe that food can be a unifying force for positive change. Explore our latest impact report where we outline the many ways our programs, partnerships, and investments work together to create local food and agriculture systems that benefit us all.
Explore our Q1 2024 impact report for an outlook on the year and spotlights on our recent projects with Three River Farmers Alliance, Soldadera Coffee, More Life Foods, and Soul 2 Go.
Dig into our Q4 2023 impact report for a recap of the year, including our latest investments and a spotlight on Lakeshore Depot, a farm stop in Michigan's Upper Peninsula.
Dig into our Q3 2023 impact report for a letter from our team, an overview of Fair Food Fund's portfolio, and an investment spotlight on Milk & Froth.
Dig into our Q2 2023 impact report for a letter from our team, an overview of Fair Food Fund's portfolio, and an investment spotlight on metro Detroit's Egg Roll Diva.
2022 was a transformative time for our organization. Kate Krauss prepared to step in as CEO, we focused on deepening our partnerships with stakeholders in Michigan and beyond, explored new approaches to evaluating our impact, and set the stage for advocacy in the 2023 Farm Bill.
Dig into our Q1 2023 impact report for a letter from our team, an overview of Fair Food Fund's portfolio, and an investment spotlight on The Chef's Special in Flint, Mich.
In addition to learning about two exciting new investments in Superfrau and Simply Spanish, dig into this report to meet Aaron Jackson, the new director of Michigan Food Fund, and learn more about Kate Krauss, our CEO.
Learn about four investments we made this quarter and dig into a new report about shifting from a capital- to community-first mindset in impact investing.
In this report, we explore the difference between capital-first and community-first impact investing and see this approach in action through two place-based impact investing collectives, Michigan Good Food Fund and Camden Food Fund.
Dig into our 2021 interactive Fair Food Fund Impact Report to read stories of our place-based work across the country, highlights from our business assistance support, and our vision for the next chapter of work and impact.
Dig into our Q1 2022 Fair Food Fund Impact Report to see how we are working with a new Stakeholder Board for the Michigan Good Food Fund and investments in stores like Argus Farm Stop that help small, local farms succeed while improving healthy food access in the community.
With a produce-first focus and a commitment to low prices, Daily Table is on a mission to make healthy food affordable for families across Massachusetts and beyond. We were thrilled to expand our partnership with Daily Table, which launched Double Up Food Bucks in 2018, to now include financing through the Fair Food Fund
We teamed up with Nourish Colorado to explore the impact of Denver's explosive growth & gentrification on neighborhood grocers and identify policy & partnership solutions to help these grocers retool and adapt.
Dig into our Q4 2021 Fair Food Fund Impact Report to see how we are investing in community-rooted grocery stores like Daily Table and Supermercado Mexico to be engines of healthy food access, job creation, and local economic development.
Black Farmer Fund is a new community-governed investment fund exclusively devoted to Black farmers and food businesses. Learn about the incredible farmers, collectives, and herbalists it is investing in for its pilot phase, which we've been honored to support, as well as its work practicing collective decision-making with a community-led investment committee.
Download the Fair Food Fund overview to learn how we’re growing healthier, wealthier, more equitable communities.
See how we teamed up with Michigan Good Food Fund partner Detroit Development Fund to de-risk this investment and help Detroit Soul's business grow.
Dig into our latest story from the field to see how Pastor Reginald Flynn’s tenacity and grit brought this store to life, to not only feed the people of Flint, but to serve as a blueprint for food sovereignty across the country.
Dig into this quarterly report to hear about the reimagined healthy food financing helping bring a community-owned grocery store to Flint, learn about our Collateral Initiative investment in Detroit Soul in partnership with Michigan Good Food Fund lender Detroit Development Fund, and more.
Dig into this quarterly report to learn about our partnership with Black Farmer Fund, a new Collateral Initiative investment in Boston Public Market in partnership with CEI of Maine, and more.
Dig into our 2020 interactive Fair Food Fund Impact Report to see how our food financing work continued to meet entrepreneurs where they are with holistic, integrated support as the COVID crisis exploded.
In this quarterly report, we're excited to announce a new investment in Forty Acres Soul Kitchen, the only full-service, sit-down, 100% African American-owned restaurant in Grand Rapids, Michigan, and share spotlights from other businesses in our portfolio — Radicle Farms, DAH!, and Pemaquid Mussel Farms.
This past quarter has seen the translation of our vision into on-the-ground impact with two new investments supporting women-led food businesses in Detroit and Maine.
2019 was an important transition year for the Fair Food Fund. Take a look at our 2019 Fair Food Fund Annual Report.
As an organization dedicated to health and wealth equity, the COVID-19 pandemic has put Fair Food Network’s impact investing work in greater relief than ever.
Our investments in good food are getting great results. Take a look at our 2016 Fair Food Fund Annual Report.
Download the Fair Food Fund brochure to learn how we’re growing the good food economy.