Sustainable Economies Law Center (SELC)

“Sustainable Economies Law Center cultivates a new legal landscape that supports community resilience and grassroots economic empowerment. We provide essential legal tools – education, research, advice, and advocacy – so communities everywhere can develop their own sustainable sources of food, housing, energy, jobs, and other vital aspects of a thriving community. ”

Funding purpose: The Law Center crafts legal, financial, and governance structures to support a more democratic economy, allowing farmers and land stewards to have greater sovereignty over how they work with and manage land. Funds are used to sustain long-term client relationships, provide culturally relevant legal services, develop unique educational materials, and coordinate peer communities to bolster capacity for those BIPOC land stewards transforming the food and farm system.

Learn more: 

• View: SELC’s Project Gallery
• View announcement: Strategic Growth Council Appoints Inaugural California Agricultural Land Equity Task Force Members\
• Read blog: A Life (un)Determined by Borders: Healing with the Land and with Each Other by Dorian Payán

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