
Western Region Agricultural
Stress Assistance Program (WRASAP)
Steward
Our mission is to promote environmental and economic stewardship through regenerative agriculture. We do this by providing flexible loans to human-scale farms, ranches, fisheries, and food producers looking to propel their operations forward. But we don’t do it alone. Steward gives qualified lenders the opportunity to purchase loan participations, advancing our mission by helping to fund the growth of regenerative agriculture in their community or across the country.
Service areas: National, Puerto Rico, Tribal Nation, Virgin Islands
Go to Website | Phone: 503-868-0400
Core Services: Funding Opportunities for Farmers
General Services: Organic/Sustainable/Regenerative Transition & Support
Pacific Gateway Center
The mission of Pacific Gateway Center is to empower low-income residents, immigrants, refugees and other vulnerable populations to achieve self-sufficiency through skill-building and access to opportunities while respecting cultural heritages. As the majority of our immigrant clients are farmers from their respective home countries, leading self-sufficient lives means returning to the farm. Currently we lease 206 acres of farmland to refugee and immigrant families in Kunia.
Service areas: Hawaii
Go to Website | Phone: 808-851-7010
Core Services: Financial & Business Planning, Funding Opportunities for Farmers
General Services: Resources for Beginning Farmers, Resources for BIPOC Farmers, Resources for Farmworkers / Migrant Workers
Mad Capital
Funding for regenerative organic or transitioning to organic producers. Includes traditional loans such as operating loans, equipment loans, mortgages and infrastructure loans as well as transition loans, down payment loans and succession/transfer loans.
Service areas: National
Go to Website | Phone: 312-914-1578
Core Services: Funding Opportunities for Farmers
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Mad Agriculture
Our work begins with farm planning. We dream big about what the land wants to be and how to implement regenerative principles and practices. Putting ideals into action is hard to do. We use a combination of community support, capital and markets to activate regenerative agriculture on the land. Our work learns from and contributes to an emerging and diverse community of funders, practitioners and purchasers. We focus on the Midwest and High Plains of the United States. Exceptions can and will be made.
Service areas: Arkansas, Colorado, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Montana, Nebraska, New Mexico, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Texas, Utah, Wisconsin, Wyoming
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Core Services: Funding Opportunities for Farmers, Organic/Sustainable/Regenerative Transition & Support, Research, Technical Assistance, & Education
General Services: Direct Marketing Assistance, Financial & Business Planning, Institutional & Wholesale Markets
Feed the Hunger Fund
Feed The Hunger Fund works side-by-side with our borrowers, primarily women, immigrants, and people of color, to build a more equitable food system. As a certified Community Development Finance Institution (CDFI), we provide critical loans in Hawaii and California to help farmers and food entrepreneurs to start and grow businesses.
Service areas: California, Hawaii
Go to Website | Phone: 1 (415) 432-8202
Core Services: Funding Opportunities for Farmers
General Services: Financial & Business Planning, Resources for BIPOC Farmers, Resources for Farmworkers / Migrant Workers, Resources for Women Farmers
Farm Credit
We serve every part of agriculture from the smallest operations to the largest and everything in between. Whether helping a young farm family begin, supporting our veterans as they return home and take up farming or financing U.S. agricultural exports around the globe, Farm Credit is committed to the success of American agriculture. Our loans and related financial services support farmers and ranchers, farmer-owned cooperatives and other agribusinesses, rural homebuyers and companies exporting U.S. ag products around the world.
Service areas: National
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Core Services: Funding Opportunities for Farmers
General Services: Disaster Relief/Resilience, Financial & Business Planning, Resources for Veteran Farmers
Chimacum Center
The Chimacum Center works in partnership and collaboration with land and farming partners and with grassroots and organizational allies around the Jefferson County region to nurture creative, collaborative and restorative rural projects in the arts, community-building, healing, housing, food justice and land access.
Service areas: Washington
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Core Services: Farm Land Access & Succession Planning, Funding Opportunities for Farmers
General Services: Conservation Programs, Financial & Business Planning, Research, Technical Assistance, & Education, Resources for Beginning Farmers, Resources for BIPOC Farmers
Business Impact NW
Business Impact NW is a nonprofit Community Development Financial Institution (CDFI) dedicated to serving underbanked entrepreneurs. We provide coaching, classes, and access to capital to community small businesses, with an emphasis on working with traditionally underserved populations, entrepreneurial low/moderate income earners, women, BIPOC, veterans, immigrants or members of the LGBTQ+ community. We have been serving the community since 1997. We promote long-term positive economic change through financial services, business advice and training. We serve startups as well as existing businesses and are dedicated to helping underserved entrepreneurs at every stage in their business growth.
Service areas: Alaska, Idaho, Oregon, Washington
Go to Website | Phone: 206-324-4330
Core Services: Financial & Business Planning, Funding Opportunities for Farmers
General Services: Resources for BIPOC Farmers, Resources for LGBTQIA Farmers, Resources for Veteran Farmers, Resources for Women Farmers
Ambrook
Ambrook’s mission is to make sustainability profitable in natural resource industries. We are starting in agriculture, building financial management tools for farms including bookkeeping, analytics, cards, and funding.
Service areas: National
Go to Website | Phone: 303.554.6845.
Core Services: Funding Opportunities for Farmers
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California Department of Food and Agriculture
California state’s Department of Agriculture; information about pest, disease control; animal health and food safety, funding/grants, plant health, marketing, and environmental issues.
Service areas: California
Go to Website | Phone: 916-654-0466
Core Services: Funding Opportunities for Farmers, Research, Technical Assistance, & Education
General Services: Direct Marketing Assistance, Institutional & Wholesale Markets, Organic/Sustainable/Regenerative Transition & Support, Resources for Beginning Farmers, Resources for BIPOC Farmers, Resources for Farmworkers / Migrant Workers
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The Western Region Agricultural Stress Assistance Program is supported by the USDA Farm and Ranch Stress Assistance Network, under agreement number: 2020-70028-32731 proposal number: 2020-07631
The Western Region Agricultural Stress Assistance Program is an equal access/equal opportunity program.