This initiative is a three-year partnership between the Jessie Smith Noyes Foundation and the W. K. Kellogg Foundation to build the capacity of organizations, led by people of color, to advocate for more equitable food policies. Based on the recommendation of a nationally known evaluator and funder, the Noyes Foundation engaged Community Science to evaluate the extent to which the initiative is building the capacity of ten organizations across the country to advocate for the communities of color that they serve and to effect food-related policies at the local, state, and national levels. The evaluation includes pre- and post-advocacy capacity assessments, interviews with key staff and leaders in each community, and review of the ten grantees’ progress reports. The evaluation also examines the benefit of the partnership between the Noyes Foundation and the Kellogg Foundation. The evaluation findings and lessons learned to date about the supports required to build the advocacy capacity of people-of-color-led organizations were published in The Foundation Review, vol. 1, issue no. 3. (2006-present)
