Deadline: April 13
Note: BFF is also currently recruiting an Operations Director!
Black Farmer Fund is an emerging community investment fund on a mission to create a thriving, resilient, and equitable food system by investing in black food systems entrepreneurs and communities in New York.
Communicating its work strategically through various platforms helps this startup team connect to its many stakeholders (i.e., Black farmers, food business entrepreneurs, food justice organizers, social impact investors, philanthropic institutions, and others). Accordingly, BFF has created a new position called Communications Lead to plan, implement, manage and monitor BFF’s communication strategy and plan.
You step into this exciting role with a commitment to justice, healing, and collective agency of all Black people, to dismantling systemic racism, and to imagining economies with Black people at the center and have 4+ years of digital marketing and media relations experience OR significant storytelling experience and experience building narrative strategy (among other qualifications). Salary is $65K-$85K plus benefits.
What I love
Co-Founder, Olivia Watkins, is a returning generation farmer, social entrepreneur and current MBA candidate at North Carolina State University. Looking at Olivia’s story and bio, she’s clearly passionate about and committed to the problem she and her team are trying to solve, i.e., the lack of financial assistance available for black farmers.
Like all social enterprises, BFF is defining wealth beyond financial and intellectual capital to include social capital (and, in BFF’s case, ancestral wisdom). Its governance is 100% community driven.
Tip!
Have you considered the power of community capital? If you aren’t familiar with, but are curious about, community investment funds as catalysts for social change, have a look. It might stir your thinking about how you could use this instrument to solve a problem you care about.
In brief, “CIFs help to empower communities by allowing community members, anyone of virtually any economic class, to invest in a community fund which in turns invests in ventures, revitalization projects or other mission driven enterprises. CIFs allow communities to build wealth through a cycle of investment, growth, profit (returned to community investors), and reinvestment.” Such a cool idea!
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