FoodHub is made possible by the generous support and contributions of many.
Ambassadors
You’ll find official FoodHub ambassadors throughout the region who can answer your questions or refer you to members in your area who have used FoodHub to make connections. Ambassadors include:
- Columbia Blue Mountain RC&D
- Edible Seattle
- Gorge Grown Food Network
- Northwest Cooperative Development Center
- Oregon Farm Bureau
- Sound Food
- Willamette Farm & Food Coalition
Does your organizational work plan already include a mandate to connect food buyers and sellers? Perhaps including FoodHub in your on-going activities will help you reach your goals.
Do you represent a university department, extension agency or economic development bureau already tasked with helping producers strengthen their marketing capacity? Perhaps FoodHub can be another tool in your tool belt.
Are you someone who interacts with a wide variety of food buyers and/or sellers and hopes to see them succeed? FoodHub can strengthen your efforts.
Consider joining the team as a FoodHub Ambassador.
Underwriters
FoodHub enjoys support from several corporate allies that generously underwrite FoodHub scholarships. Current scholarships include:
Eugene Water and Electric Board will underwrite 75 percent of the FoodHub membership fee for food buyers and sellers located in the McKenzie River watershed now through April 2011, thanks to a grant from the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation, Oregon Governor’s Fund for the Environment.
Food Services of America (FSA) will underwrite 50 percent of the FoodHub membership fee for the first 100 FSA restaurant or school customers to register.
New Seasons Market will underwrite 50 percent of the cost of FoodHub membership for regional ranchers, dairies, fishermen and makers of processed products.
Organic Valley will underwrite 80 percent of the annual FoodHub membership fee for public K-12 schools, school districts and childcare centers to encourage school food buyers to source regionally produced foods.
SYSCO will underwrite 50 percent of the FoodHub membership fee for any fruit or vegetable producer in Oregon and Washington, up to 100 producers.
Additional support
Ecotrust works in close consultation and collaboration with a wide range of individuals and organizations. We offer FoodHub as a tool that can be widely adopted by all those who seek to nurture a robust regional food system in the greater Northwest, including extension agents; trade associations; commodity commissions; local, county and state agencies; certification bodies; NGOs; university personnel; economic development entities; and many others.
Would you like to discuss ways FoodHub can support your efforts? Please don’t hesitate to be in touch with Amanda Oborne at amanda@food-hub.org.
Financial support
Ecotrust received financial support for FoodHub from: the Annenberg Foundation, Collins Foundation, Eugene Water & Electric Board, Farm Aid, Bill Healy Foundation, Kaiser Permanente Community Fund at the Northwest Health Foundation, Newman's Own Foundation, Oregon Community Foundation, Oregon Department of Agriculture, Russell Family Foundation, Spirit Mountain Community Fund, TomKat Charitable Trust, USDA's Rural Business Enhancement Grant program and the Washington State Department of Agriculture, along with several individual donors.