2025 IRSG Rural Equity Summit

SAVE THE DATE!

NFG’s Integrated Rural Strategies Group (IRSG) is excited to invite you to join us for our fifth annual flagship event – the 2025 Rural Equity Summit!

Launched in 2020, this annual gathering has become a vibrant space for building connections, sparking action, and deepening our commitment to rural equity.

Set to take place over two afternoon, March 4th-5th 2025, we're diving into planning the powerful discussions and experiences that will shape the 2025 Summit.

That being said, if you’d like to help shape the program or have ideas for what you'd love to see, please reach out—we’d love your input as we bring this Summit to life! Maybe you:

• Have a grantee or two that you'd love to see featured as a speaker;
• Hope to organize other funders to invest in a specific place, campaign, or issue; or
• Seek space for peer learning around moving money to local-level rural organizing.

Reach out to Lindsay at lindsay@nfg.org so we can hear your thoughts and discuss how to plug you in to the Summit.

This event takes place over two adjacent afternoons, we encourage you to register for both afternoons if able, but you are welcome to join for whatever portion(s) align best with your interest and schedule!

**Please note that you must register separately for each day on the tabs above**

The Summit will offer opportunities to connect with peer funders, as well as key IRSG stakeholders including:

IRSG's Coordinating Committee:

• Hester Dillon, 11th Hour Project
• Olivia Trabysh, Philanthropic Consultant
• Vickie Walsh, Mertz Gilmore Foundation
• Sade Dumas, Borealis Philanthropy

And IRSG's Movement Advisors:

• Jaime Arredondo, Capaces Leadership Institute
• Eowyn Corral, National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition
• Angel Garcia, Californians for Pesticide Reform & CAPS (Coalition Advocating for Pesticide Safety)
• Juli Ray C Joy, Black Joy Oregon
• Brandi Mack, The Butterfly Project
• Fabiola Ortiz Valdez, Food Chain Workers Alliance