Good Roots

Good Roots helps farmers and food entrepreneurs build solid foundations to achieve financial sustainability. Their offerings include services in accounting, business planning and consulting, and marketing.

Good Roots

Good Roots helps farmers and food entrepreneurs build solid foundations to achieve financial sustainability. Their offerings include services in accounting, business planning and consulting, and marketing.

Angel City Advisors

Angel City Advisors offers a broad portfolio of advisory services, that spans from financial, operational, market access, community engagement, racial equity, and other strategic issues. Their services include preparing early stage farms, food businesses, and social enterprises for launch, growth, and capital attraction.

New England Food Business Advisors

New England Food Business Advisors specializes in personalized consulting services to food businesses. Their offerings include strategic planning, business planning and coaching, shared kitchen operations, and program development and evaluation.

Sustainable Economies Law Center

Sustainable Economies Law Center works to create a legal landscape that supports community resilience and grassroots economic empowerment. They provide legal tools such as education, research, advice, and advocacy to help communities develop sustainable sources of food, housing, energy, jobs, and other essential elements of a thriving community.

Project Equity

Project Equity guides businesses and communities through the process of employee ownership. Their services include feasibility assessments, and support at every stage of transitioning to employee ownership.

California Center for Cooperative Development

The California Center for Cooperative Development (CCCD) promotes cooperatives as a solution to California’s economic and social challenges. They provide support for agricultural, housing, worker-owned, and other cooperatives, offering assistance with start-up, management, and technical guidance.

CoFed - Cooperative Food Empowerment Directive

Cooperative Food Empowerment Directive (CoFed) works to make cooperatives more accessible and appealing as alternatives to capitalism. They provide technical, financial, and educational resources to support cooperatives, offering programs, training, and consultation with a focus on decolonizing and building more equitable cooperative models.

Farmer Mai

Farmer Mai Nguyen is a humanistic problem solver who works for climate and social justice through farming, actions, and advocacy. They offer consulting services in areas such as integrating grains into farm systems, strategic planning, organizational restructuring, cooperative business development, and executive coaching for leaders of color.

Tuttle Law Group 

Tuttle Law Group offers comprehensive legal services for cooperative enterprises throughout their lifecycle. They assist with entity selection, transitioning to cooperatives, expanding access to capital, governance issues, and cooperative dissolution.

Stepwell Strategies

Stepwell Strategies offers grant writing, project development, and project management services to small family farms, food system nonprofits, and regenerative agriculture businesses. They provide tailored grant writing and strategic advising to help organizations secure resources for growth and impact, focusing on USDA and state agricultural funding.

Stewards Unlimited

Stewards Unlimited provides agricultural organizations with resources for grants, funding, and strategic initiatives. Their services include USDA grant writing, grant management, feasibility studies, marketing, branding, strategic planning, and funding identification.

Más Allá

Más Allá is a fundraising consulting firm focused on raising revenue for and with BIPOC communities across the U.S. Their fundraising initiatives include fundraising research, analysis, strategy, implementation support, and narrative change.

The Philanthropy Coach

The Philanthropy Coach is a consulting firm that supports nonprofits with fundraising strategy. Their services include strategic development plans, development assessments, marketing and communications, leadership retreats, coaching, and campaign planning and management.

Harmonize

Harmonize offers coaching, training, and stewardship services to help businesses and organizations improve collaboration and address key areas such as organizational development, power dynamics, belonging, justice, and embodied awareness. They provide 1:1 guidance, teach tools for personal and organizational growth, and partner with leaders to design targeted interventions for lasting impact.

Akitso

Akitso supports restaurants with concept development, branding, business strategy, and operations to reflect cultural identity and contribute to economic resilience. Their services include market analysis, menu development, SEO, social media management, interior design, and operational support like POS system setup, performance tracking, and HR assistance.

Stacey Uy

Stacey Uy specializes in branding strategy, web design, research, and illustration. They create cohesive brand identities, design functional and visually compelling websites, and provide custom illustrations to enhance branding materials.

Four Fin

Four Fin is a branding and web design agency that works to support sustainability focused companies. Their services include brand strategy, design, web development, creative assets, team engagement, branded templates and collateral, environmental graphics, and ongoing brand maintenance to help companies amplify their impact.

Luckque M.

Luckque is a social media content creator who supports small businesses and local eateries in San Diego and Los Angeles.

Inscriptu

Inscriptu is a print shop in San Diego offering custom laser engraving and cutting, product personalization, digital reproductions, large-format printing, and custom design services.

Tuttle Law Group 

Tuttle Law Group offers comprehensive legal services for cooperative enterprises throughout their lifecycle. They assist with entity selection, transitioning to cooperatives, expanding access to capital, addressing governance issues, and navigating cooperative dissolution.

Sustainable Economies Law Center

Sustainable Economies Law Center provides education, research, advice, and advocacy to support community resilience and grassroots economic empowerment. Through their Resilient Communities Legal Cafe, SELC offers donation-based, first-come, first-serve legal advice sessions about starting a worker-owned cooperative, converting an existing business into a cooperative, organizing a housing cooperative, founding a nonprofit or other social enterprise, and more.

Movement Law

Movement Law is dedicated to supporting artists, changemakers, and mission-driven organizations. Led by licensed California attorney Hope Mohr, the firm offers services in organizational consulting, leadership transition, nonprofit incorporation and compliance, intellectual property, contracts, entity selection and formation, fiscal sponsorship, and more.

Land and Liberation

Land and Liberation is dedicated to supporting historically-excluded family farmers, land stewards, and their communities. Founded by Dãnia Davy, Esq., the firm offers expert services in funder relations, government relations, public relations, and risk mitigation.

Farm Commons

Farm Commons is a nonprofit organization working to empower agricultural communities to resolve their own legal vulnerabilities, within an ecosystem of support. Farm Commons provides legal workshops, a resource library, and an online community for farmers, ranchers, and service providers.

Better

Better is a law firm dedicated to supporting both small businesses and nonprofit organizations. Their services include agreement drafting and review, employment and HR support, intellectual property protection, LLC and Corporate formation and compliance, nonprofit formation and compliance, estate planning, notary services, and educational resources.