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Volunteer

We need your help with set up, take down, lunch, registration, and more. Volunteers attend the conference for free, lunch is included, and you’ll meet some incredible people!

Become a Sponsor

Through sponsorship, you can be part of making this valuable opportunity available to farmers.

 

Donate

Your support helps build a stronger food system. Make sure to select “Emerging Farmers Conference” as your designation.

 

Become a Sponsor

The Emerging Farmers Conference is a two-day event that serves to advance the success and sustainability of farmers who traditionally face barriers to building agricultural businesses. The conference focuses primarily on the education, needs, and interests of immigrant farmers and farmers of color. Sessions are interpreted into over nine languages, and are led primarily by farmers themselves. The EFC is hosted by a collaborative of local and statewide organizations that are run by and/or work with farmers of color. Through sponsorship, you can be part of making this valuable opportunity available to farmers.

We are stronger together!

Step 1: Make Your Donation by August 1

Make sure to select “Emerging Farmers Conference” as your designation.

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Mail your check with a printed copy of this sponsorship form to: The Food Group, Attn: Emerging Farmers Conference, 8501 54th Ave N, New Hope, MN 55428.

Step 2: Complete the Sponsorship Form

Complete the sponsorship form by September 1st to take full advantage of your benefits.

Attention Nonprofits & Community Partners!

Looking for a creative way to fund your sponsorship? Consider including the conference in your upcoming grant applications. Click below to learn from Latino Economic Development Center on best practices.

Sponsor Benefits

We know that supporting emerging farmers is important to you. We are honoring your commitment in a variety of ways leading up to and during the event, including exhibit tables to network with farmers at the conference, space for ads in the conference program, online recognition, and more–please see full list of sponsor benefits. Your gift makes you part of a network of 40+ other sponsors who help make this conference possible every year.

Thank you for your sponsorship!

Questions about becoming a Sponsor? Contact Laura Mirafuentes, Associate Director of Development.