Community Food Systems Fellowship 2026 (stipend available) – YOA

Deadline: November 10, 2025

Applications are open for the Community Food Systems Fellowship 2026. The Community Food Systems Fellowship is an 18-month management program that goals to extend alternatives for various native meals system leaders to construct their abilities, capability, and networks via a collection of neighborhood design labs on participatory engagement and human centered design approaches, month-to-month studying classes with different meals methods leaders, and individualized technical help.

Through these alternatives, the fellowship hopes to strengthen neighborhood engagement and management of caregivers/households, uplift strengths-based mostly narratives, and foster collaborative management that scales neighborhood recognized options and cross sector partnerships. Emerging leaders who’re dedicated to meals justice and fairness ought to think about making use of to the Community Food Systems Fellowship.

Benefits

• Selected fellows will obtain a stipend and may apply for challenge innovation grants that may whole as much as $5,000.

Eligibility

• The fellow should be based mostly within the United States or one of many US territories.
• The fellow should have a longtime partnership with a nonprofit group, coalition, community, group, cooperative, enterprise, or establishment that has a strategic concentrate on native meals methods.

The Fellowship is an effective match for many who are dedicated to:

• Working to develop resilient and equitable native meals methods
• Community management, engagement, and the management of caregivers and households
• Food justice, diet justice, racial fairness and social transformation
• Developing abilities to measuring influence and success of native meals methods
• Developing collaborative management abilities

Application

As a part of your application, you have to present at the very least one letter of advice. Up to 3 letters of advice could also be submitted. All purposes and proposals are due by November 10, 2025 at 5:00 PM ET. 

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For extra info, go to Community Food Systems Fellowship.