On 17 March 2021, the TIFS Community discussed: Place-Based Investing to Grow Community Health and Wealth through Food. Through the example of the Fair Food Fund, participants explored financial solutions that support communities that are building their own solutions through just entrepreneur success and broader systems change.

The Fund seeks to integrate multiple stakeholders in a place-based ecosystem approach to creating healthy, local, sustainable food businesses. Leading with an equity lens to catalyze change, the Fund provides catalytic capital—financial, social, and intellectual—alongside holistic support to make investments in mission-aligned food enterprises so communities can thrive.

Mark Watson and Lolita Nunn (Fair Food Fund), Jen Astone (Integrated Capital Investing), Linda Jo Doctor (W.K. Kellogg Foundation) and Kim Fortunato (Campbell Soup Company and Campbell Soup Foundation) shared insights about their transformative work and for their ongoing leadership and inspiration.