Western Region Agricultural
Stress Assistance Program (WRASAP)
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
Oregon Law Center
Oregon Law Center represents all low-income Oregonians. They also provide information, advice, brief service and representation on a number of issues that are important to farmworkers, including wage claims, working conditions, housing and health care. The Indigenous Project provides services to farmworkers who speak indigenous languages from Mexico and Guatamala, including Mixteco, Zapoteco, Triqui, Kanjobal and other languages. The Project Against Workplace Sexual Assault, part of the Indigenous Project, supports, educates, informs and helps farmworkers regarding sexual harassment and assault at their place of work.
Service areas: Oregon
Go to Website | Phone: (503) 981-0336 or 1-800-973-9003
Core Services: Legal Help & Mediation Services, Resources for Farmworkers / Migrant Workers, Resources for Women Farmers
General Services: Resources for BIPOC Farmers
O’ahu Resource Conservation & Development Council
The O’ahu Resource Conservation & Development Council is an independent non-profit entity that works to improve the quality of life in the communities we serve. While our mission and mandate are broad, recent work has focused on assisting rural enterprises and farmers, while fostering education and adoption of sound conservation practices on rural lands. Several current projects engage farmers in imperiled watersheds, supporting their efforts to reduce soil erosion, improve water quality, increase productivity of the land through the use of regenerative farming and ranching practices, and rehabilitate ecological services and habitat through the restoration of native species. We have provided training, fiscal sponsorship support, and a network to cultivate the growth of rural businesses, particularly focusing on those owned and operated by women.
Service areas: Hawaii
Go to Website | Phone: 1-808-622-9026
Core Services: Conservation Programs, Research, Technical Assistance, & Education, Resources for Beginning Farmers
General Services: Organic/Sustainable/Regenerative Transition & Support, Resources for BIPOC Farmers, Resources for Women Farmers
Not Our Farm
Not Our Farm (NOF) is a project and community of farmers who have chosen farming as a career but do not have their own farm business or land. We are farm workers, farm employees, members of farm crews, farm managers, apprentices and interns.
Service areas: National
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Core Services: Activism & Organizing, Resources for Farmworkers / Migrant Workers
General Services: Farm Land Access & Succession Planning, Resources for BIPOC Farmers, Resources for LGBTQIA Farmers
North American Traditional Indigenous Food System
North American Traditional Indigenous Food Systems (NĀTIFS), founded by James Beard award winners The Sioux Chef, is dedicated to addressing the economic and health crises affecting Native communities by re-establishing Native foodways. We imagine a new North American food system that generates wealth and improves health in Native communities through food-related enterprises.
Service areas: International, Minnesota, National
Go to Website | Phone: 612-356-2813
Core Services: Resources for Tribal Farmers & Ranchers
General Services: Research, Technical Assistance, & Education, Resources for BIPOC Farmers
Kitchen Table Advisors
Kitchen Table Advisors fuels the economic viability of sustainable small farms and ranches through practical business advising and trusted relationships.
Service areas: California
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Core Services: Financial & Business Planning, Resources for Beginning Farmers
General Services: Resources for BIPOC Farmers, Resources for Farmworkers / Migrant Workers, Resources for LGBTQIA Farmers, Resources for Women Farmers
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
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
Agricultural Finance, Tax and Asset Protection Education Program (AgFTAP)
AgFTAP Seeks to enhance farmer and rancher ability to understand and navigate the farm business tax and asset protection decisions for their operations, as well as the important relationships between federal income taxes and USDA farm programs. This mission is carried out through an online portal of educational trainings and resources
Service areas: National
Go to Website | Phone: 501-671-2175
Core Services: Financial & Business Planning
General Services: Farm Land Access & Succession Planning, Legal Help & Mediation Services, Resources for BIPOC Farmers
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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.