How MIFFS is funded

MIFFS is grateful to the many people who generously donate their time and talents to support our programs and activities. MIFFS could not achieve our mission without your support. Thank you!

MIFFS Funders and Partners
Our funders and partners are the agencies and foundations that provide financial support and/or expertise to achieve
mutually beneficial goals. Our funders and partners for 2008 so far are:

• W.K. Kellogg Foundation
• USDA Risk Management Agency (RMA)
• USDA Farm Service Agency (FSA)
• USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS)
• USDA Rural Development (RD)
• Michigan State University Extension
• MSU College of Agriculture and Natural Resources
• Department of Community, Agriculture, Recreation and Resource Studies, MSU
• Project for Public Spaces
• The Wallace Center at Winrock International
• Michigan Department of Agriculture (MDA)
• West Michigan Strategic Alliance
• The Farm Research Cooperative

MIFFS Activities Sponsors
Our activities sponsors are the agencies, companies and foundations that provide financial support and/or expertise to specific workshops and events. Our activities sponsors since May 2007 are:

• Meijer, Inc.
• GreenStone Farm Credit Services
• Wallace Center at Winrock International
• C.S. Mott Chair of Sustainable Agriculture at MSU
• Whole Foods Market
• Nowlin Chair for Consumer Responsive Agriculture - MSU
• Michigan Farm Bureau
• Morse Marketing Connections, LLC
• Fluid
• Originz, LLC
• MDA Select Michigan Program
• National Agricultural Statistics Service (Michigan)
• Potawatomi RC&D
• Cornerstone Ag, LLC
• Eastern Market Corporation
• Michigan State University Student Organic Farm

MIFFS Donors
Since May 2007, the following donors have supported Michigan Food & Farming Systems. We greatly appreciate their
support and invite you to join them by making a tax-deductible donation to MIFFS. To learn more, please contact MIFFS
at (517) 432-0712.

• Jon and Elaine Bartholic, Laingsburg
• Chad and Emily Beutel, Kalamazoo
• Jan BenDor, Ypsilanti
• Jim Bingen, Lansing
• Morse and Arma Brown, Livonia
• Victoria Campbell-Arvai, Lansing
• Joe Colyn, Battle Creek
• Scott and Jill Corrin, Grand Ledge
• Keith Creagh, Williamston
• Dill’s Best Market, Delton
• Michael DiRamio, Ann Arbor
• Dutcher Farms, Goetzville
• Larry Dyer, Barnesville, OH
• Jason Fligger, Detroit
• John Fisk, Okemos
• June Grabemeyer, Lansing
• Marty Gerencer, Morse Marketing Connections, North Muskegon
• Nancy Guthrie, Sunshine Prairie Farms, Delton
• Lucy Hartlove, Lansing
• Oran Hesterman, Ann Arbor
• Don Iott, Nottawa Fruit Farm, Sturgis
• Thomas Kalchik, East Lansing
• Doug Kirkpatrick, Herron
• Jim and Beth Krenek, Grand Ledge
• John Malcomnson, Davison
• Adam and Dru Montri, Bath
• Ivan Morely, Standish
• Mund Farm, Montague
• Jana Nicol, Lansing
• Terri Novak, Flint
• Lori and Floyd Phalen, Hastings
• Bob and Susan Pigg, Okemos
• Celeste Reed, Williamston
• Scott Reynolds, Vermontville
• Estella Rodriguez, South Haven
• George Shetler, Kalkaska
• Susan Smalley, Lansing
• Ron Steiner, Hart
• Howard Straub, St. Johns
• Wendy Wieland, Ellsworth