SPONSORSHIP INFO

SAAFON’s Agrarian Legacy Funder Education Tour is one of several 20th anniversary activations this year, where we commemorate and advance SAAFON’s collective work of amplifying and resourcing small-scale, rural Black farmers across the South and the Caribbean.
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We invite SAAFON friends and supporters to consider an extra special 20th anniversary “Farmers Are the Fabric” sponsorship and patron level contribution to honor two decades of farmer organizing and strategic movement across the Black land and liberation landscape. Your tax deductible contribution will support collaborative spaces for Black farmers to convene, collaborate and co-create the next 20 years of SAAFON member-driven initiatives that meet their farmer kinship and resourcing goals.Legacy Sponsors ($50,000) help support in-person 20th Anniversary farmer convenings that deepen kinship and propagate Black farming and agrarian culture.
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Legacy Sponsors ($50,000) help support in-person 20th Anniversary farmer convenings that deepen kinship and propagate Black farming and agrarian culture.

Canopy Sponsors ($30,000) undergird farm-to-farm work brigades and mutual aid events throughout the year that increase labor and infrastructure capacity.
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Heartwood Sponsors ($20,000) help cover cultural production materials, installations and documentation of Southern Black agrarianism. 
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Crown Sponsors ($15,000) help support annual SAAFON’s Cynthia Hayes Memorial Scholarship, for young people studying and entering agricultural careers.
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Anchor Sponsors ($10,000) helps  cover lodging and travel costs for Funder Education Tour and Storytelling Popup field organizers.
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Root Sponsors ($5,000) directly support local Mississippi host farmer teams, intrastate Tour organizing expenses, and other funder education tour needs.
 
Whether you decide to give a general unrestricted donation, or choose to support our 20th anniversary events, all gifts help support our continued growth for the next 20 years and include donor listing in our annual report, as well as on related materials, marketing sites, and social media. For more information on our 20 year history of weaving Black Agrarian connections across the region, please click through to our 20th anniversary case statement. 
 
Gifts specifically directed to the Funder Education Tour allow us to offer this unique, immersive event at an accessible “break even” rate, directly supporting local Tour planning and helping to mitigate organizational expenses.
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Feel free to visit saafon.org/donate to give, or you may make sponsorship checks payable to        
Inquiring Systems, Inc. FBO SAAFON, 1275 4th Street #371, Santa Rosa, CA, 95404.
The EIN number is 94-2524840. 
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You may also contact  Director of Development Alisha Johnson Perry at 504-564-5845, development@saafon.org, for more information about making an ACH payment or registering a pledge.