Past projects, reports and related publications.
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Building Capacity
for Change
Central Valley Leaders Effectively Addressing the Drought (2016-2017).
Open Mind worked with the Central Valley Community Foundation and their funding partners to design, deliver and manage a targeted capacity-building initiative to help generate long-term solutions to persistent, recurring drought in rural, under-served communities. The initiative included three components: leadership development, organizational capacity building, and storytelling in partnership with local artists.
Read More: Central Valley Leaders Effectively Addressing the Drought
Fund for
Rural Equity
Capacity building for nonprofits serving diverse rural regions of California (2014-2015).
Provided coaching, capacity building guidance, and grant portfolio management to deepen the impact of organizations serving low-income communities of color in the San Joaquin Valley and Central Coast of California. Supported by the Community Leadership Project.
Growing Hunger
Land Reform, Food Sovereignty and Latin American Rural Development (2003-2006).
Photos Courtesy of Jennifer Tong
A collaborative research effort to document, analyze and explore the contradictions of economic policies, persistent hunger and land distribution in rural societies.
Read More: Promised Land, Competing Visions of Agrarian Reform Food First Books