How We Partner

Accelerating the Plant-Based Food Movement

We’re part of a growing network of experts, advocates, and changemakers who are making plant-based foods the norm across many different food service industries and sectors.

Here’s what we can offer:

• Training resources, including webinars, emailed tips and guides, and one-on-one guidance, complement and support the programs of organizations that recruit, equip, and organize people to achieve food systems change, whether they’re students, employees, or volunteers.
• Data and educational tools that help advocates connect the dots between various social causes—such as public health, climate change, environmental justice, inclusivity, and animal protection—and the shift to a plant-centered diet, enabling them to articulate how food is integral to their own social change mission.
• Strategic referrals to organizations that can help you achieve large-scale change in dining services.
• Project management and facilitation between multiple organizations, including conceiving, applying for, and managing collaborative grants.
• Public awareness projects involving storytelling and narrative change that prioritize success stories of our partners through media pitches, campaigns, presentations at conferences, and other media channels.
• Data collection and reporting about the use and impact of plant-based defaults and nudges to inform and improve the plant-based diet-change advocacy movement-wide.

If you’re interested in partnering, reach out to our team. If you are an NGO interested in creating a more plant-centered food system, we invite you to join our Plant-Based Defaults NGO Network. Email [email protected] to learn more.

Funding community-led diet change

We observe that many of the most promising strategies for plant-based diet change are being developed and carried out by community-based advocates. These forms of dietary advocacy benefit from the cultural insights and knowledge these leaders have about their communities, as well as the trust and connections they are able to build.

Community-based diet change initiatives may be based on geographic location, religion, race or ethnicity, or other types of communal identity, and their strategies are unique, diverse, and challenge assumptions about what “effective” diet change activism looks like.

They are also deeply underfunded as a result of systemic inequity in philanthropy at large, combined with the lack of resources available for diet change work more broadly. The Better Food Foundation has helped raise more than $2.5M in grants to community-based advocates who advance dietary change and provide mentorship, technical assistance and fiscal sponsorship services to grassroots organizations.

Through this support, we also strive to spread awareness about community-based diet advocacy and offer consultation and guidance to philanthropists to facilitate greater funding for impactful yet under-resourced projects. Learn more about the groups we have supported:

• AfroVegan Society
• CreatureKind
• The Cypher
• Center for Jewish Food Ethics
• Liberum
• Shamayim
• Vegan SoulFest
• Vegans of LA

If you would like to fund these groups, you can do so directly through their own websites. If you’re interested in partnering with the Better Food Foundation to facilitate funding other groups in alignment with our mission, please reach out to our Executive Director, Jennifer Channin.