Durham, NC
About Us:
Toxic Free NC advances environmental health and justice by advocating for safe alternatives to harmful pesticides and chemicals. We believe that everyone deserves healthy air, soil, and food, and that’s why we’ve spent the past 39 years fighting pesticide pollution in North Carolina. We focus on reducing exposures for the people whose health is most at risk from toxic chemicals — including low-income communities, migrant farmworkers, children, and pregnant people — while working alongside these communities to address the root causes of pesticide pollution. Through community engagement, organizing, and targeting corporate and legislative policies, we’re working to achieve our vision of just and sustainable agriculture in North Carolina. where human and environmental health are valued, respected and enjoyed by all.
Our Anticipated Grant Activities:
We will support impacted eaters and farmers, including the Women of Color Farmers Network, to advocate for healthy and equitable food policies, oppose efforts to pre-empt community rights to restrict pesticides, participate in the NC Food Systems Advocacy Coalition, and ensure decision makers hear the perspectives of under-served farmers. We will be looking at how resources are directed toward North Carolina in the upcoming Farm Bill, and our focus will be on encouraging people, especially farmers of color and those who have been historically disinvested in, to leverage programs and access resources. We will also advocate to ensure access issues are acknowledged and addressed, barriers are removed, and that resources are equitably dispersed. We will host a virtual advocacy training series, with simultaneous English / Spanish interpretation, to help participants build skills in calling their legislators, providing public comments, and telling their stories to advocate for change, using the narrative story-of-self approach of Marshall Ganz.
Learn More:
www.toxicfreenc.org
Facebook: @toxicfreenc
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