Grant Programs
Good Food Policy Program
Grant Overview
The Good Food Program is administered by invitation only.
The Lumpkin Family Foundation supports organizations working toward a more equitable, healthy, and environmentally sustainable food system. The Good Food Policy Program makes grants to advance policies that encourage and promote regenerative farming practices across the United States.
We will support efforts aimed at federal policy changes, whether place-based and grassroots or top-down and national in approach. Informed by and connected to our local and regional programs, we will invite applications aligned with our vision and mission that offer learning opportunities and strengthen grantee organizations, their networks, and the good food movement overall.
Program Focus
This program focuses on federal policy and advocacy, empowering organizations and people to affect their communities and the food system. In particular, grantee efforts will:
- Align with the Foundation’s mission, especially in supporting people working together in collaborations across sectoral, organizational, or community boundaries;
- Use communication tools to change or create a new narrative that can be used to influence policymakers and broader public understanding of the issues;
- Empower citizens and a range of stakeholders at a grassroots level in equal fairness;
- Represent a judicious and effective allocation of resources (human and capital) that meets the Foundation’s particular needs and goals with the size of that investment.
A post grant report is a requirement of nearly all grants. It is an opportunity to share what worked well, and what did not, and to what degree the project accomplished its goals. The date will vary, but the majority of reports are due 11 or 12 months from approval. This will be communicated to you when your grant is awarded.
We believe that it is important to measure the success of our grantmaking strategy. While we have our own internal strategy that we use to measure our own progress towards our programmatic goals, we allow our grantees to report metrics that are most relevant to their unique context.
We recognize that the measurement of success (and failure) is only valuable when it is done based on the specific and context-based parameters established by our grantees. We work in tandem with them to ensure that what is measured has meaning to both their work and our overall goals as a Foundation.This will allow evaluation flexibility while helping The Lumpkin Family Foundation learn about what Outcomes and Metrics are most useful to our grantees. Please contact staff with any questions about Outcomes and Metrics.
Your report template will be accessible through our Apply/Report here portal. Most post grant reports are similar to the following example for the Land, Health, Community program:
Please feel free to contact Foundation staff with any questions about your reporting date or details.
Please Direct Inquiries To:
Christina Krost
Program Officer
Phone: 217-334-2076
Email: christina@lumpkinfoundation.org
