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Southern Black Farmers Community-Led Fund

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The Southern Black Farmers Community-Led Fund (SBFCLF), a Community Advised Fund housed at RSF Social Finance (RSF), invests in the realization of self-determining and healthy Southern rural Black communities through their control of land, local and regional food systems, water, energy, cultural narratives, and legacy extension.

Our Goal

The goal of the fund is to invest in self-determining rural Black communities. The strategy is anchored around farmers and reweaving of local and regional food systems that center Black ownership and access.

Our Mission

To serve by putting financial resources into the hands of leaders dedicated to catalyzing the region’s rich Black agrarian heritage and culture.
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"If you give a hungry man food he will eat it. If you give him land, he will grow his own food."
-Fannie Lou Hamer

Strategy

  • Community Revitalization
  • Food System Infrastructure
  • Farmer Support
  • Legacy Extension

The fund Invests in its anchor organizations, their partners, and collaborations through the following areas of focus: 

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Community Revitalization
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Food System
 Infrastructure
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Farmers
Support
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Legacy
Extension

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The fund now welcomes funding from a broad array of donors to continue to support rural Black community self determination throughout the Black Belt region.

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