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As HFHP evolves and grows, we have been adapting the way we work to better reflect our values and principles. The new Kitchen Table, which replaces the funder steering committee, reflects this.
As HFHP evolves and grows, we have been adapting the way we work to better reflect our values and principles. The new Kitchen Table, which replaces the funder steering committee, reflects this.
As HFHP evolves and grows, we have been adapting the way we work to better reflect our values and principles. The new Kitchen Table, which replaces the funder steering committee, reflects this.
As HFHP evolves and grows, we have been adapting the way we work to better reflect our values and principles. The new Kitchen Table, which replaces the funder steering committee, reflects this.
As HFHP evolves and grows, we have been adapting the way we work to better reflect our values and principles. The new Kitchen Table, which replaces the funder steering committee, reflects this.
As HFHP evolves and grows, we have been adapting the way we work to better reflect our values and principles. The new Kitchen Table, which replaces the funder steering committee, reflects this.
As HFHP evolves and grows, we have been adapting the way we work to better reflect our values and principles. The new Kitchen Table, which replaces the funder steering committee, reflects this.
As HFHP evolves and grows, we have been adapting the way we work to better reflect our values and principles. The new Kitchen Table, which replaces the funder steering committee, reflects this.
As HFHP evolves and grows, we have been adapting the way we work to better reflect our values and principles. The new Kitchen Table, which replaces the funder steering committee, reflects this.
As HFHP evolves and grows, we have been adapting the way we work to better reflect our values and principles. The new Kitchen Table, which replaces the funder steering committee, reflects this.
As HFHP evolves and grows, we have been adapting the way we work to better reflect our values and principles. The new Kitchen Table, which replaces the funder steering committee, reflects this.
As HFHP evolves and grows, we have been adapting the way we work to better reflect our values and principles. The new Kitchen Table, which replaces the funder steering committee, reflects this.
As HFHP evolves and grows, we have been adapting the way we work to better reflect our values and principles. The new Kitchen Table, which replaces the funder steering committee, reflects this.
As HFHP evolves and grows, we have been adapting the way we work to better reflect our values and principles. The new Kitchen Table, which replaces the funder steering committee, reflects this.
When HFHP started helping to weave together the many groups taking steps towards healthy, sustainable and just food systems in Europe two years ago, it was set up as a collaborative initiative between civil society organisations (CSOs) and philanthropies. A Strategic Framework was co-created by hundreds of different voices, but the governance structures were more traditional - a funder steering committee made up of foundations contributing to the HFHP pooled fund and of other funders active in the food space was responsible for approving grant applications from CSOs, submitted through a call for proposals.
As we met and reflected together in 2022, we learnt some important lessons. First, the call for proposals did enable a new initiative like HFHP to make itself known as a new funder and potentially for a wide variety of CSOs from across Europe to apply. However, in practice we noticed that it was mainly larger, more structured CSOs submitting proposals - those that already receive funding from philanthropies, are more embedded in information networks and can devote significant staff time to working on project proposals. And even for these organisations, the application process was lengthy, cumbersome and took time and energy off the actual work to change food systems.
Secondly, calls for applications inevitably create competition between CSOs, rather than the collaboration HFHP seeks to foster.
And thirdly and very importantly, the funder steering committee entrenched power dynamics which a movement of movements like HFHP should be unsettling and challenging.
In May 2023, HFHP therefore launched an open call for proposals to select the members of a new body, the Kitchen Table, to replace the steering committee. The Kitchen Table includes an equal number of CSOs and funders (3 each) to address some of those power dynamics – and the new members are:
Carolina Modena from the Slow Food movement
Chris Gee from Oak Foundation
David Sánchez Carpio from Spanish consumer rights organisation CECU
Louise Johansen from the Danish Vegetarian Society
Marina Mussapi from the Moleskine Foundation and
Thomas Legge from the European Climate Foundation
You can read more about the Kitchen Table and its members here.
When HFHP started helping to weave together the many groups taking steps towards healthy, sustainable and just food systems in Europe two years ago, it was set up as a collaborative initiative between civil society organisations (CSOs) and philanthropies. A Strategic Framework was co-created by hundreds of different voices, but the governance structures were more traditional - a funder steering committee made up of foundations contributing to the HFHP pooled fund and of other funders active in the food space was responsible for approving grant applications from CSOs, submitted through a call for proposals.
As we met and reflected together in 2022, we learnt some important lessons. First, the call for proposals did enable a new initiative like HFHP to make itself known as a new funder and potentially for a wide variety of CSOs from across Europe to apply. However, in practice we noticed that it was mainly larger, more structured CSOs submitting proposals - those that already receive funding from philanthropies, are more embedded in information networks and can devote significant staff time to working on project proposals. And even for these organisations, the application process was lengthy, cumbersome and took time and energy off the actual work to change food systems.
Secondly, calls for applications inevitably create competition between CSOs, rather than the collaboration HFHP seeks to foster.
And thirdly and very importantly, the funder steering committee entrenched power dynamics which a movement of movements like HFHP should be unsettling and challenging.
In May 2023, HFHP therefore launched an open call for proposals to select the members of a new body, the Kitchen Table, to replace the steering committee. The Kitchen Table includes an equal number of CSOs and funders (3 each) to address some of those power dynamics – and the new members are:
Carolina Modena from the Slow Food movement
Chris Gee from Oak Foundation
David Sánchez Carpio from Spanish consumer rights organisation CECU
Louise Johansen from the Danish Vegetarian Society
Marina Mussapi from the Moleskine Foundation and
Thomas Legge from the European Climate Foundation
You can read more about the Kitchen Table and its members here.
When HFHP started helping to weave together the many groups taking steps towards healthy, sustainable and just food systems in Europe two years ago, it was set up as a collaborative initiative between civil society organisations (CSOs) and philanthropies. A Strategic Framework was co-created by hundreds of different voices, but the governance structures were more traditional - a funder steering committee made up of foundations contributing to the HFHP pooled fund and of other funders active in the food space was responsible for approving grant applications from CSOs, submitted through a call for proposals.
As we met and reflected together in 2022, we learnt some important lessons. First, the call for proposals did enable a new initiative like HFHP to make itself known as a new funder and potentially for a wide variety of CSOs from across Europe to apply. However, in practice we noticed that it was mainly larger, more structured CSOs submitting proposals - those that already receive funding from philanthropies, are more embedded in information networks and can devote significant staff time to working on project proposals. And even for these organisations, the application process was lengthy, cumbersome and took time and energy off the actual work to change food systems.
Secondly, calls for applications inevitably create competition between CSOs, rather than the collaboration HFHP seeks to foster.
And thirdly and very importantly, the funder steering committee entrenched power dynamics which a movement of movements like HFHP should be unsettling and challenging.
In May 2023, HFHP therefore launched an open call for proposals to select the members of a new body, the Kitchen Table, to replace the steering committee. The Kitchen Table includes an equal number of CSOs and funders (3 each) to address some of those power dynamics – and the new members are:
Carolina Modena from the Slow Food movement
Chris Gee from Oak Foundation
David Sánchez Carpio from Spanish consumer rights organisation CECU
Louise Johansen from the Danish Vegetarian Society
Marina Mussapi from the Moleskine Foundation and
Thomas Legge from the European Climate Foundation
You can read more about the Kitchen Table and its members here.
When HFHP started helping to weave together the many groups taking steps towards healthy, sustainable and just food systems in Europe two years ago, it was set up as a collaborative initiative between civil society organisations (CSOs) and philanthropies. A Strategic Framework was co-created by hundreds of different voices, but the governance structures were more traditional - a funder steering committee made up of foundations contributing to the HFHP pooled fund and of other funders active in the food space was responsible for approving grant applications from CSOs, submitted through a call for proposals.
As we met and reflected together in 2022, we learnt some important lessons. First, the call for proposals did enable a new initiative like HFHP to make itself known as a new funder and potentially for a wide variety of CSOs from across Europe to apply. However, in practice we noticed that it was mainly larger, more structured CSOs submitting proposals - those that already receive funding from philanthropies, are more embedded in information networks and can devote significant staff time to working on project proposals. And even for these organisations, the application process was lengthy, cumbersome and took time and energy off the actual work to change food systems.
Secondly, calls for applications inevitably create competition between CSOs, rather than the collaboration HFHP seeks to foster.
And thirdly and very importantly, the funder steering committee entrenched power dynamics which a movement of movements like HFHP should be unsettling and challenging.
In May 2023, HFHP therefore launched an open call for proposals to select the members of a new body, the Kitchen Table, to replace the steering committee. The Kitchen Table includes an equal number of CSOs and funders (3 each) to address some of those power dynamics – and the new members are:
Carolina Modena from the Slow Food movement
Chris Gee from Oak Foundation
David Sánchez Carpio from Spanish consumer rights organisation CECU
Louise Johansen from the Danish Vegetarian Society
Marina Mussapi from the Moleskine Foundation and
Thomas Legge from the European Climate Foundation
You can read more about the Kitchen Table and its members here.
When HFHP started helping to weave together the many groups taking steps towards healthy, sustainable and just food systems in Europe two years ago, it was set up as a collaborative initiative between civil society organisations (CSOs) and philanthropies. A Strategic Framework was co-created by hundreds of different voices, but the governance structures were more traditional - a funder steering committee made up of foundations contributing to the HFHP pooled fund and of other funders active in the food space was responsible for approving grant applications from CSOs, submitted through a call for proposals.
As we met and reflected together in 2022, we learnt some important lessons. First, the call for proposals did enable a new initiative like HFHP to make itself known as a new funder and potentially for a wide variety of CSOs from across Europe to apply. However, in practice we noticed that it was mainly larger, more structured CSOs submitting proposals - those that already receive funding from philanthropies, are more embedded in information networks and can devote significant staff time to working on project proposals. And even for these organisations, the application process was lengthy, cumbersome and took time and energy off the actual work to change food systems.
Secondly, calls for applications inevitably create competition between CSOs, rather than the collaboration HFHP seeks to foster.
And thirdly and very importantly, the funder steering committee entrenched power dynamics which a movement of movements like HFHP should be unsettling and challenging.
In May 2023, HFHP therefore launched an open call for proposals to select the members of a new body, the Kitchen Table, to replace the steering committee. The Kitchen Table includes an equal number of CSOs and funders (3 each) to address some of those power dynamics – and the new members are:
Carolina Modena from the Slow Food movement
Chris Gee from Oak Foundation
David Sánchez Carpio from Spanish consumer rights organisation CECU
Louise Johansen from the Danish Vegetarian Society
Marina Mussapi from the Moleskine Foundation and
Thomas Legge from the European Climate Foundation
You can read more about the Kitchen Table and its members here.
When HFHP started helping to weave together the many groups taking steps towards healthy, sustainable and just food systems in Europe two years ago, it was set up as a collaborative initiative between civil society organisations (CSOs) and philanthropies. A Strategic Framework was co-created by hundreds of different voices, but the governance structures were more traditional - a funder steering committee made up of foundations contributing to the HFHP pooled fund and of other funders active in the food space was responsible for approving grant applications from CSOs, submitted through a call for proposals.
As we met and reflected together in 2022, we learnt some important lessons. First, the call for proposals did enable a new initiative like HFHP to make itself known as a new funder and potentially for a wide variety of CSOs from across Europe to apply. However, in practice we noticed that it was mainly larger, more structured CSOs submitting proposals - those that already receive funding from philanthropies, are more embedded in information networks and can devote significant staff time to working on project proposals. And even for these organisations, the application process was lengthy, cumbersome and took time and energy off the actual work to change food systems.
Secondly, calls for applications inevitably create competition between CSOs, rather than the collaboration HFHP seeks to foster.
And thirdly and very importantly, the funder steering committee entrenched power dynamics which a movement of movements like HFHP should be unsettling and challenging.
In May 2023, HFHP therefore launched an open call for proposals to select the members of a new body, the Kitchen Table, to replace the steering committee. The Kitchen Table includes an equal number of CSOs and funders (3 each) to address some of those power dynamics – and the new members are:
Carolina Modena from the Slow Food movement
Chris Gee from Oak Foundation
David Sánchez Carpio from Spanish consumer rights organisation CECU
Louise Johansen from the Danish Vegetarian Society
Marina Mussapi from the Moleskine Foundation and
Thomas Legge from the European Climate Foundation
You can read more about the Kitchen Table and its members here.
When HFHP started helping to weave together the many groups taking steps towards healthy, sustainable and just food systems in Europe two years ago, it was set up as a collaborative initiative between civil society organisations (CSOs) and philanthropies. A Strategic Framework was co-created by hundreds of different voices, but the governance structures were more traditional - a funder steering committee made up of foundations contributing to the HFHP pooled fund and of other funders active in the food space was responsible for approving grant applications from CSOs, submitted through a call for proposals.
As we met and reflected together in 2022, we learnt some important lessons. First, the call for proposals did enable a new initiative like HFHP to make itself known as a new funder and potentially for a wide variety of CSOs from across Europe to apply. However, in practice we noticed that it was mainly larger, more structured CSOs submitting proposals - those that already receive funding from philanthropies, are more embedded in information networks and can devote significant staff time to working on project proposals. And even for these organisations, the application process was lengthy, cumbersome and took time and energy off the actual work to change food systems.
Secondly, calls for applications inevitably create competition between CSOs, rather than the collaboration HFHP seeks to foster.
And thirdly and very importantly, the funder steering committee entrenched power dynamics which a movement of movements like HFHP should be unsettling and challenging.
In May 2023, HFHP therefore launched an open call for proposals to select the members of a new body, the Kitchen Table, to replace the steering committee. The Kitchen Table includes an equal number of CSOs and funders (3 each) to address some of those power dynamics – and the new members are:
Carolina Modena from the Slow Food movement
Chris Gee from Oak Foundation
David Sánchez Carpio from Spanish consumer rights organisation CECU
Louise Johansen from the Danish Vegetarian Society
Marina Mussapi from the Moleskine Foundation and
Thomas Legge from the European Climate Foundation
You can read more about the Kitchen Table and its members here.
When HFHP started helping to weave together the many groups taking steps towards healthy, sustainable and just food systems in Europe two years ago, it was set up as a collaborative initiative between civil society organisations (CSOs) and philanthropies. A Strategic Framework was co-created by hundreds of different voices, but the governance structures were more traditional - a funder steering committee made up of foundations contributing to the HFHP pooled fund and of other funders active in the food space was responsible for approving grant applications from CSOs, submitted through a call for proposals.
As we met and reflected together in 2022, we learnt some important lessons. First, the call for proposals did enable a new initiative like HFHP to make itself known as a new funder and potentially for a wide variety of CSOs from across Europe to apply. However, in practice we noticed that it was mainly larger, more structured CSOs submitting proposals - those that already receive funding from philanthropies, are more embedded in information networks and can devote significant staff time to working on project proposals. And even for these organisations, the application process was lengthy, cumbersome and took time and energy off the actual work to change food systems.
Secondly, calls for applications inevitably create competition between CSOs, rather than the collaboration HFHP seeks to foster.
And thirdly and very importantly, the funder steering committee entrenched power dynamics which a movement of movements like HFHP should be unsettling and challenging.
In May 2023, HFHP therefore launched an open call for proposals to select the members of a new body, the Kitchen Table, to replace the steering committee. The Kitchen Table includes an equal number of CSOs and funders (3 each) to address some of those power dynamics – and the new members are:
Carolina Modena from the Slow Food movement
Chris Gee from Oak Foundation
David Sánchez Carpio from Spanish consumer rights organisation CECU
Louise Johansen from the Danish Vegetarian Society
Marina Mussapi from the Moleskine Foundation and
Thomas Legge from the European Climate Foundation
You can read more about the Kitchen Table and its members here.
When HFHP started helping to weave together the many groups taking steps towards healthy, sustainable and just food systems in Europe two years ago, it was set up as a collaborative initiative between civil society organisations (CSOs) and philanthropies. A Strategic Framework was co-created by hundreds of different voices, but the governance structures were more traditional - a funder steering committee made up of foundations contributing to the HFHP pooled fund and of other funders active in the food space was responsible for approving grant applications from CSOs, submitted through a call for proposals.
As we met and reflected together in 2022, we learnt some important lessons. First, the call for proposals did enable a new initiative like HFHP to make itself known as a new funder and potentially for a wide variety of CSOs from across Europe to apply. However, in practice we noticed that it was mainly larger, more structured CSOs submitting proposals - those that already receive funding from philanthropies, are more embedded in information networks and can devote significant staff time to working on project proposals. And even for these organisations, the application process was lengthy, cumbersome and took time and energy off the actual work to change food systems.
Secondly, calls for applications inevitably create competition between CSOs, rather than the collaboration HFHP seeks to foster.
And thirdly and very importantly, the funder steering committee entrenched power dynamics which a movement of movements like HFHP should be unsettling and challenging.
In May 2023, HFHP therefore launched an open call for proposals to select the members of a new body, the Kitchen Table, to replace the steering committee. The Kitchen Table includes an equal number of CSOs and funders (3 each) to address some of those power dynamics – and the new members are:
Carolina Modena from the Slow Food movement
Chris Gee from Oak Foundation
David Sánchez Carpio from Spanish consumer rights organisation CECU
Louise Johansen from the Danish Vegetarian Society
Marina Mussapi from the Moleskine Foundation and
Thomas Legge from the European Climate Foundation
You can read more about the Kitchen Table and its members here.
When HFHP started helping to weave together the many groups taking steps towards healthy, sustainable and just food systems in Europe two years ago, it was set up as a collaborative initiative between civil society organisations (CSOs) and philanthropies. A Strategic Framework was co-created by hundreds of different voices, but the governance structures were more traditional - a funder steering committee made up of foundations contributing to the HFHP pooled fund and of other funders active in the food space was responsible for approving grant applications from CSOs, submitted through a call for proposals.
As we met and reflected together in 2022, we learnt some important lessons. First, the call for proposals did enable a new initiative like HFHP to make itself known as a new funder and potentially for a wide variety of CSOs from across Europe to apply. However, in practice we noticed that it was mainly larger, more structured CSOs submitting proposals - those that already receive funding from philanthropies, are more embedded in information networks and can devote significant staff time to working on project proposals. And even for these organisations, the application process was lengthy, cumbersome and took time and energy off the actual work to change food systems.
Secondly, calls for applications inevitably create competition between CSOs, rather than the collaboration HFHP seeks to foster.
And thirdly and very importantly, the funder steering committee entrenched power dynamics which a movement of movements like HFHP should be unsettling and challenging.
In May 2023, HFHP therefore launched an open call for proposals to select the members of a new body, the Kitchen Table, to replace the steering committee. The Kitchen Table includes an equal number of CSOs and funders (3 each) to address some of those power dynamics – and the new members are:
Carolina Modena from the Slow Food movement
Chris Gee from Oak Foundation
David Sánchez Carpio from Spanish consumer rights organisation CECU
Louise Johansen from the Danish Vegetarian Society
Marina Mussapi from the Moleskine Foundation and
Thomas Legge from the European Climate Foundation
You can read more about the Kitchen Table and its members here.
When HFHP started helping to weave together the many groups taking steps towards healthy, sustainable and just food systems in Europe two years ago, it was set up as a collaborative initiative between civil society organisations (CSOs) and philanthropies. A Strategic Framework was co-created by hundreds of different voices, but the governance structures were more traditional - a funder steering committee made up of foundations contributing to the HFHP pooled fund and of other funders active in the food space was responsible for approving grant applications from CSOs, submitted through a call for proposals.
As we met and reflected together in 2022, we learnt some important lessons. First, the call for proposals did enable a new initiative like HFHP to make itself known as a new funder and potentially for a wide variety of CSOs from across Europe to apply. However, in practice we noticed that it was mainly larger, more structured CSOs submitting proposals - those that already receive funding from philanthropies, are more embedded in information networks and can devote significant staff time to working on project proposals. And even for these organisations, the application process was lengthy, cumbersome and took time and energy off the actual work to change food systems.
Secondly, calls for applications inevitably create competition between CSOs, rather than the collaboration HFHP seeks to foster.
And thirdly and very importantly, the funder steering committee entrenched power dynamics which a movement of movements like HFHP should be unsettling and challenging.
In May 2023, HFHP therefore launched an open call for proposals to select the members of a new body, the Kitchen Table, to replace the steering committee. The Kitchen Table includes an equal number of CSOs and funders (3 each) to address some of those power dynamics – and the new members are:
Carolina Modena from the Slow Food movement
Chris Gee from Oak Foundation
David Sánchez Carpio from Spanish consumer rights organisation CECU
Louise Johansen from the Danish Vegetarian Society
Marina Mussapi from the Moleskine Foundation and
Thomas Legge from the European Climate Foundation
You can read more about the Kitchen Table and its members here.
When HFHP started helping to weave together the many groups taking steps towards healthy, sustainable and just food systems in Europe two years ago, it was set up as a collaborative initiative between civil society organisations (CSOs) and philanthropies. A Strategic Framework was co-created by hundreds of different voices, but the governance structures were more traditional - a funder steering committee made up of foundations contributing to the HFHP pooled fund and of other funders active in the food space was responsible for approving grant applications from CSOs, submitted through a call for proposals.
As we met and reflected together in 2022, we learnt some important lessons. First, the call for proposals did enable a new initiative like HFHP to make itself known as a new funder and potentially for a wide variety of CSOs from across Europe to apply. However, in practice we noticed that it was mainly larger, more structured CSOs submitting proposals - those that already receive funding from philanthropies, are more embedded in information networks and can devote significant staff time to working on project proposals. And even for these organisations, the application process was lengthy, cumbersome and took time and energy off the actual work to change food systems.
Secondly, calls for applications inevitably create competition between CSOs, rather than the collaboration HFHP seeks to foster.
And thirdly and very importantly, the funder steering committee entrenched power dynamics which a movement of movements like HFHP should be unsettling and challenging.
In May 2023, HFHP therefore launched an open call for proposals to select the members of a new body, the Kitchen Table, to replace the steering committee. The Kitchen Table includes an equal number of CSOs and funders (3 each) to address some of those power dynamics – and the new members are:
Carolina Modena from the Slow Food movement
Chris Gee from Oak Foundation
David Sánchez Carpio from Spanish consumer rights organisation CECU
Louise Johansen from the Danish Vegetarian Society
Marina Mussapi from the Moleskine Foundation and
Thomas Legge from the European Climate Foundation
You can read more about the Kitchen Table and its members here.
When HFHP started helping to weave together the many groups taking steps towards healthy, sustainable and just food systems in Europe two years ago, it was set up as a collaborative initiative between civil society organisations (CSOs) and philanthropies. A Strategic Framework was co-created by hundreds of different voices, but the governance structures were more traditional - a funder steering committee made up of foundations contributing to the HFHP pooled fund and of other funders active in the food space was responsible for approving grant applications from CSOs, submitted through a call for proposals.
As we met and reflected together in 2022, we learnt some important lessons. First, the call for proposals did enable a new initiative like HFHP to make itself known as a new funder and potentially for a wide variety of CSOs from across Europe to apply. However, in practice we noticed that it was mainly larger, more structured CSOs submitting proposals - those that already receive funding from philanthropies, are more embedded in information networks and can devote significant staff time to working on project proposals. And even for these organisations, the application process was lengthy, cumbersome and took time and energy off the actual work to change food systems.
Secondly, calls for applications inevitably create competition between CSOs, rather than the collaboration HFHP seeks to foster.
And thirdly and very importantly, the funder steering committee entrenched power dynamics which a movement of movements like HFHP should be unsettling and challenging.
In May 2023, HFHP therefore launched an open call for proposals to select the members of a new body, the Kitchen Table, to replace the steering committee. The Kitchen Table includes an equal number of CSOs and funders (3 each) to address some of those power dynamics – and the new members are:
Carolina Modena from the Slow Food movement
Chris Gee from Oak Foundation
David Sánchez Carpio from Spanish consumer rights organisation CECU
Louise Johansen from the Danish Vegetarian Society
Marina Mussapi from the Moleskine Foundation and
Thomas Legge from the European Climate Foundation
You can read more about the Kitchen Table and its members here.
When HFHP started helping to weave together the many groups taking steps towards healthy, sustainable and just food systems in Europe two years ago, it was set up as a collaborative initiative between civil society organisations (CSOs) and philanthropies. A Strategic Framework was co-created by hundreds of different voices, but the governance structures were more traditional - a funder steering committee made up of foundations contributing to the HFHP pooled fund and of other funders active in the food space was responsible for approving grant applications from CSOs, submitted through a call for proposals.
As we met and reflected together in 2022, we learnt some important lessons. First, the call for proposals did enable a new initiative like HFHP to make itself known as a new funder and potentially for a wide variety of CSOs from across Europe to apply. However, in practice we noticed that it was mainly larger, more structured CSOs submitting proposals - those that already receive funding from philanthropies, are more embedded in information networks and can devote significant staff time to working on project proposals. And even for these organisations, the application process was lengthy, cumbersome and took time and energy off the actual work to change food systems.
Secondly, calls for applications inevitably create competition between CSOs, rather than the collaboration HFHP seeks to foster.
And thirdly and very importantly, the funder steering committee entrenched power dynamics which a movement of movements like HFHP should be unsettling and challenging.
In May 2023, HFHP therefore launched an open call for proposals to select the members of a new body, the Kitchen Table, to replace the steering committee. The Kitchen Table includes an equal number of CSOs and funders (3 each) to address some of those power dynamics – and the new members are:
Carolina Modena from the Slow Food movement
Chris Gee from Oak Foundation
David Sánchez Carpio from Spanish consumer rights organisation CECU
Louise Johansen from the Danish Vegetarian Society
Marina Mussapi from the Moleskine Foundation and
Thomas Legge from the European Climate Foundation
You can read more about the Kitchen Table and its members here.
When HFHP started helping to weave together the many groups taking steps towards healthy, sustainable and just food systems in Europe two years ago, it was set up as a collaborative initiative between civil society organisations (CSOs) and philanthropies. A Strategic Framework was co-created by hundreds of different voices, but the governance structures were more traditional - a funder steering committee made up of foundations contributing to the HFHP pooled fund and of other funders active in the food space was responsible for approving grant applications from CSOs, submitted through a call for proposals.
As we met and reflected together in 2022, we learnt some important lessons. First, the call for proposals did enable a new initiative like HFHP to make itself known as a new funder and potentially for a wide variety of CSOs from across Europe to apply. However, in practice we noticed that it was mainly larger, more structured CSOs submitting proposals - those that already receive funding from philanthropies, are more embedded in information networks and can devote significant staff time to working on project proposals. And even for these organisations, the application process was lengthy, cumbersome and took time and energy off the actual work to change food systems.
Secondly, calls for applications inevitably create competition between CSOs, rather than the collaboration HFHP seeks to foster.
And thirdly and very importantly, the funder steering committee entrenched power dynamics which a movement of movements like HFHP should be unsettling and challenging.
In May 2023, HFHP therefore launched an open call for proposals to select the members of a new body, the Kitchen Table, to replace the steering committee. The Kitchen Table includes an equal number of CSOs and funders (3 each) to address some of those power dynamics – and the new members are:
Carolina Modena from the Slow Food movement
Chris Gee from Oak Foundation
David Sánchez Carpio from Spanish consumer rights organisation CECU
Louise Johansen from the Danish Vegetarian Society
Marina Mussapi from the Moleskine Foundation and
Thomas Legge from the European Climate Foundation
You can read more about the Kitchen Table and its members here.
On 4th July 2023, the new Kitchen Table came together at the socially inclusive organic Nos Pilifs farm in Brussels to get to know each other, blend experiences and expertise, decide how to work together and help guide HFHP on its journey towards more participatory grant-making. With Diana and Giulia from the HFHP coordination team and Peggy Saïller from NEF (HFHP’s host organisation), members of the Kitchen Table discussed how to structure HFHP grant-making for the second half of 2023 and the beginning of 2024 (more information on that topic soon!), and how to make the first HFHP campaign co-creation meeting successful.
This meeting will take place in September and will focus on the retail space. With funding from HFHP, CSOs, experts, workers’ rights advocates and investigative reporters will travel to Switzerland to brainstorm and finetune idea for collaborative campaigns targeting the actors that currently wield the greatest power – alongside governments – in shaping food environments (check out this recent report by HFHP funded members Eurogroup for Animals, BEUC and EPHA on who decides what you eat, or what food environments are). The Kitchen Table will then provide inputs on the proposals and give the go-ahead to the grants.
The first meeting of the Kitchen Table was intense, messy at times, fun at others – and led to much food for thought on how grant-making can become more participatory and on whether HFHP’s pilot approach will indeed upend some of the power unbalances, help civil society groups to collaborate more and enable different and more diverse voices to be represented in the movements for food system change. Having sampled the first get-together, I think it may well do so…
On 4th July 2023, the new Kitchen Table came together at the socially inclusive organic Nos Pilifs farm in Brussels to get to know each other, blend experiences and expertise, decide how to work together and help guide HFHP on its journey towards more participatory grant-making. With Diana and Giulia from the HFHP coordination team and Peggy Saïller from NEF (HFHP’s host organisation), members of the Kitchen Table discussed how to structure HFHP grant-making for the second half of 2023 and the beginning of 2024 (more information on that topic soon!), and how to make the first HFHP campaign co-creation meeting successful.
This meeting will take place in September and will focus on the retail space. With funding from HFHP, CSOs, experts, workers’ rights advocates and investigative reporters will travel to Switzerland to brainstorm and finetune idea for collaborative campaigns targeting the actors that currently wield the greatest power – alongside governments – in shaping food environments (check out this recent report by HFHP funded members Eurogroup for Animals, BEUC and EPHA on who decides what you eat, or what food environments are). The Kitchen Table will then provide inputs on the proposals and give the go-ahead to the grants.
The first meeting of the Kitchen Table was intense, messy at times, fun at others – and led to much food for thought on how grant-making can become more participatory and on whether HFHP’s pilot approach will indeed upend some of the power unbalances, help civil society groups to collaborate more and enable different and more diverse voices to be represented in the movements for food system change. Having sampled the first get-together, I think it may well do so…
On 4th July 2023, the new Kitchen Table came together at the socially inclusive organic Nos Pilifs farm in Brussels to get to know each other, blend experiences and expertise, decide how to work together and help guide HFHP on its journey towards more participatory grant-making. With Diana and Giulia from the HFHP coordination team and Peggy Saïller from NEF (HFHP’s host organisation), members of the Kitchen Table discussed how to structure HFHP grant-making for the second half of 2023 and the beginning of 2024 (more information on that topic soon!), and how to make the first HFHP campaign co-creation meeting successful.
This meeting will take place in September and will focus on the retail space. With funding from HFHP, CSOs, experts, workers’ rights advocates and investigative reporters will travel to Switzerland to brainstorm and finetune idea for collaborative campaigns targeting the actors that currently wield the greatest power – alongside governments – in shaping food environments (check out this recent report by HFHP funded members Eurogroup for Animals, BEUC and EPHA on who decides what you eat, or what food environments are). The Kitchen Table will then provide inputs on the proposals and give the go-ahead to the grants.
The first meeting of the Kitchen Table was intense, messy at times, fun at others – and led to much food for thought on how grant-making can become more participatory and on whether HFHP’s pilot approach will indeed upend some of the power unbalances, help civil society groups to collaborate more and enable different and more diverse voices to be represented in the movements for food system change. Having sampled the first get-together, I think it may well do so…
On 4th July 2023, the new Kitchen Table came together at the socially inclusive organic Nos Pilifs farm in Brussels to get to know each other, blend experiences and expertise, decide how to work together and help guide HFHP on its journey towards more participatory grant-making. With Diana and Giulia from the HFHP coordination team and Peggy Saïller from NEF (HFHP’s host organisation), members of the Kitchen Table discussed how to structure HFHP grant-making for the second half of 2023 and the beginning of 2024 (more information on that topic soon!), and how to make the first HFHP campaign co-creation meeting successful.
This meeting will take place in September and will focus on the retail space. With funding from HFHP, CSOs, experts, workers’ rights advocates and investigative reporters will travel to Switzerland to brainstorm and finetune idea for collaborative campaigns targeting the actors that currently wield the greatest power – alongside governments – in shaping food environments (check out this recent report by HFHP funded members Eurogroup for Animals, BEUC and EPHA on who decides what you eat, or what food environments are). The Kitchen Table will then provide inputs on the proposals and give the go-ahead to the grants.
The first meeting of the Kitchen Table was intense, messy at times, fun at others – and led to much food for thought on how grant-making can become more participatory and on whether HFHP’s pilot approach will indeed upend some of the power unbalances, help civil society groups to collaborate more and enable different and more diverse voices to be represented in the movements for food system change. Having sampled the first get-together, I think it may well do so…
On 4th July 2023, the new Kitchen Table came together at the socially inclusive organic Nos Pilifs farm in Brussels to get to know each other, blend experiences and expertise, decide how to work together and help guide HFHP on its journey towards more participatory grant-making. With Diana and Giulia from the HFHP coordination team and Peggy Saïller from NEF (HFHP’s host organisation), members of the Kitchen Table discussed how to structure HFHP grant-making for the second half of 2023 and the beginning of 2024 (more information on that topic soon!), and how to make the first HFHP campaign co-creation meeting successful.
This meeting will take place in September and will focus on the retail space. With funding from HFHP, CSOs, experts, workers’ rights advocates and investigative reporters will travel to Switzerland to brainstorm and finetune idea for collaborative campaigns targeting the actors that currently wield the greatest power – alongside governments – in shaping food environments (check out this recent report by HFHP funded members Eurogroup for Animals, BEUC and EPHA on who decides what you eat, or what food environments are). The Kitchen Table will then provide inputs on the proposals and give the go-ahead to the grants.
The first meeting of the Kitchen Table was intense, messy at times, fun at others – and led to much food for thought on how grant-making can become more participatory and on whether HFHP’s pilot approach will indeed upend some of the power unbalances, help civil society groups to collaborate more and enable different and more diverse voices to be represented in the movements for food system change. Having sampled the first get-together, I think it may well do so…
On 4th July 2023, the new Kitchen Table came together at the socially inclusive organic Nos Pilifs farm in Brussels to get to know each other, blend experiences and expertise, decide how to work together and help guide HFHP on its journey towards more participatory grant-making. With Diana and Giulia from the HFHP coordination team and Peggy Saïller from NEF (HFHP’s host organisation), members of the Kitchen Table discussed how to structure HFHP grant-making for the second half of 2023 and the beginning of 2024 (more information on that topic soon!), and how to make the first HFHP campaign co-creation meeting successful.
This meeting will take place in September and will focus on the retail space. With funding from HFHP, CSOs, experts, workers’ rights advocates and investigative reporters will travel to Switzerland to brainstorm and finetune idea for collaborative campaigns targeting the actors that currently wield the greatest power – alongside governments – in shaping food environments (check out this recent report by HFHP funded members Eurogroup for Animals, BEUC and EPHA on who decides what you eat, or what food environments are). The Kitchen Table will then provide inputs on the proposals and give the go-ahead to the grants.
The first meeting of the Kitchen Table was intense, messy at times, fun at others – and led to much food for thought on how grant-making can become more participatory and on whether HFHP’s pilot approach will indeed upend some of the power unbalances, help civil society groups to collaborate more and enable different and more diverse voices to be represented in the movements for food system change. Having sampled the first get-together, I think it may well do so…
On 4th July 2023, the new Kitchen Table came together at the socially inclusive organic Nos Pilifs farm in Brussels to get to know each other, blend experiences and expertise, decide how to work together and help guide HFHP on its journey towards more participatory grant-making. With Diana and Giulia from the HFHP coordination team and Peggy Saïller from NEF (HFHP’s host organisation), members of the Kitchen Table discussed how to structure HFHP grant-making for the second half of 2023 and the beginning of 2024 (more information on that topic soon!), and how to make the first HFHP campaign co-creation meeting successful.
This meeting will take place in September and will focus on the retail space. With funding from HFHP, CSOs, experts, workers’ rights advocates and investigative reporters will travel to Switzerland to brainstorm and finetune idea for collaborative campaigns targeting the actors that currently wield the greatest power – alongside governments – in shaping food environments (check out this recent report by HFHP funded members Eurogroup for Animals, BEUC and EPHA on who decides what you eat, or what food environments are). The Kitchen Table will then provide inputs on the proposals and give the go-ahead to the grants.
The first meeting of the Kitchen Table was intense, messy at times, fun at others – and led to much food for thought on how grant-making can become more participatory and on whether HFHP’s pilot approach will indeed upend some of the power unbalances, help civil society groups to collaborate more and enable different and more diverse voices to be represented in the movements for food system change. Having sampled the first get-together, I think it may well do so…
On 4th July 2023, the new Kitchen Table came together at the socially inclusive organic Nos Pilifs farm in Brussels to get to know each other, blend experiences and expertise, decide how to work together and help guide HFHP on its journey towards more participatory grant-making. With Diana and Giulia from the HFHP coordination team and Peggy Saïller from NEF (HFHP’s host organisation), members of the Kitchen Table discussed how to structure HFHP grant-making for the second half of 2023 and the beginning of 2024 (more information on that topic soon!), and how to make the first HFHP campaign co-creation meeting successful.
This meeting will take place in September and will focus on the retail space. With funding from HFHP, CSOs, experts, workers’ rights advocates and investigative reporters will travel to Switzerland to brainstorm and finetune idea for collaborative campaigns targeting the actors that currently wield the greatest power – alongside governments – in shaping food environments (check out this recent report by HFHP funded members Eurogroup for Animals, BEUC and EPHA on who decides what you eat, or what food environments are). The Kitchen Table will then provide inputs on the proposals and give the go-ahead to the grants.
The first meeting of the Kitchen Table was intense, messy at times, fun at others – and led to much food for thought on how grant-making can become more participatory and on whether HFHP’s pilot approach will indeed upend some of the power unbalances, help civil society groups to collaborate more and enable different and more diverse voices to be represented in the movements for food system change. Having sampled the first get-together, I think it may well do so…
On 4th July 2023, the new Kitchen Table came together at the socially inclusive organic Nos Pilifs farm in Brussels to get to know each other, blend experiences and expertise, decide how to work together and help guide HFHP on its journey towards more participatory grant-making. With Diana and Giulia from the HFHP coordination team and Peggy Saïller from NEF (HFHP’s host organisation), members of the Kitchen Table discussed how to structure HFHP grant-making for the second half of 2023 and the beginning of 2024 (more information on that topic soon!), and how to make the first HFHP campaign co-creation meeting successful.
This meeting will take place in September and will focus on the retail space. With funding from HFHP, CSOs, experts, workers’ rights advocates and investigative reporters will travel to Switzerland to brainstorm and finetune idea for collaborative campaigns targeting the actors that currently wield the greatest power – alongside governments – in shaping food environments (check out this recent report by HFHP funded members Eurogroup for Animals, BEUC and EPHA on who decides what you eat, or what food environments are). The Kitchen Table will then provide inputs on the proposals and give the go-ahead to the grants.
The first meeting of the Kitchen Table was intense, messy at times, fun at others – and led to much food for thought on how grant-making can become more participatory and on whether HFHP’s pilot approach will indeed upend some of the power unbalances, help civil society groups to collaborate more and enable different and more diverse voices to be represented in the movements for food system change. Having sampled the first get-together, I think it may well do so…
On 4th July 2023, the new Kitchen Table came together at the socially inclusive organic Nos Pilifs farm in Brussels to get to know each other, blend experiences and expertise, decide how to work together and help guide HFHP on its journey towards more participatory grant-making. With Diana and Giulia from the HFHP coordination team and Peggy Saïller from NEF (HFHP’s host organisation), members of the Kitchen Table discussed how to structure HFHP grant-making for the second half of 2023 and the beginning of 2024 (more information on that topic soon!), and how to make the first HFHP campaign co-creation meeting successful.
This meeting will take place in September and will focus on the retail space. With funding from HFHP, CSOs, experts, workers’ rights advocates and investigative reporters will travel to Switzerland to brainstorm and finetune idea for collaborative campaigns targeting the actors that currently wield the greatest power – alongside governments – in shaping food environments (check out this recent report by HFHP funded members Eurogroup for Animals, BEUC and EPHA on who decides what you eat, or what food environments are). The Kitchen Table will then provide inputs on the proposals and give the go-ahead to the grants.
The first meeting of the Kitchen Table was intense, messy at times, fun at others – and led to much food for thought on how grant-making can become more participatory and on whether HFHP’s pilot approach will indeed upend some of the power unbalances, help civil society groups to collaborate more and enable different and more diverse voices to be represented in the movements for food system change. Having sampled the first get-together, I think it may well do so…
On 4th July 2023, the new Kitchen Table came together at the socially inclusive organic Nos Pilifs farm in Brussels to get to know each other, blend experiences and expertise, decide how to work together and help guide HFHP on its journey towards more participatory grant-making. With Diana and Giulia from the HFHP coordination team and Peggy Saïller from NEF (HFHP’s host organisation), members of the Kitchen Table discussed how to structure HFHP grant-making for the second half of 2023 and the beginning of 2024 (more information on that topic soon!), and how to make the first HFHP campaign co-creation meeting successful.
This meeting will take place in September and will focus on the retail space. With funding from HFHP, CSOs, experts, workers’ rights advocates and investigative reporters will travel to Switzerland to brainstorm and finetune idea for collaborative campaigns targeting the actors that currently wield the greatest power – alongside governments – in shaping food environments (check out this recent report by HFHP funded members Eurogroup for Animals, BEUC and EPHA on who decides what you eat, or what food environments are). The Kitchen Table will then provide inputs on the proposals and give the go-ahead to the grants.
The first meeting of the Kitchen Table was intense, messy at times, fun at others – and led to much food for thought on how grant-making can become more participatory and on whether HFHP’s pilot approach will indeed upend some of the power unbalances, help civil society groups to collaborate more and enable different and more diverse voices to be represented in the movements for food system change. Having sampled the first get-together, I think it may well do so…
On 4th July 2023, the new Kitchen Table came together at the socially inclusive organic Nos Pilifs farm in Brussels to get to know each other, blend experiences and expertise, decide how to work together and help guide HFHP on its journey towards more participatory grant-making. With Diana and Giulia from the HFHP coordination team and Peggy Saïller from NEF (HFHP’s host organisation), members of the Kitchen Table discussed how to structure HFHP grant-making for the second half of 2023 and the beginning of 2024 (more information on that topic soon!), and how to make the first HFHP campaign co-creation meeting successful.
This meeting will take place in September and will focus on the retail space. With funding from HFHP, CSOs, experts, workers’ rights advocates and investigative reporters will travel to Switzerland to brainstorm and finetune idea for collaborative campaigns targeting the actors that currently wield the greatest power – alongside governments – in shaping food environments (check out this recent report by HFHP funded members Eurogroup for Animals, BEUC and EPHA on who decides what you eat, or what food environments are). The Kitchen Table will then provide inputs on the proposals and give the go-ahead to the grants.
The first meeting of the Kitchen Table was intense, messy at times, fun at others – and led to much food for thought on how grant-making can become more participatory and on whether HFHP’s pilot approach will indeed upend some of the power unbalances, help civil society groups to collaborate more and enable different and more diverse voices to be represented in the movements for food system change. Having sampled the first get-together, I think it may well do so…
On 4th July 2023, the new Kitchen Table came together at the socially inclusive organic Nos Pilifs farm in Brussels to get to know each other, blend experiences and expertise, decide how to work together and help guide HFHP on its journey towards more participatory grant-making. With Diana and Giulia from the HFHP coordination team and Peggy Saïller from NEF (HFHP’s host organisation), members of the Kitchen Table discussed how to structure HFHP grant-making for the second half of 2023 and the beginning of 2024 (more information on that topic soon!), and how to make the first HFHP campaign co-creation meeting successful.
This meeting will take place in September and will focus on the retail space. With funding from HFHP, CSOs, experts, workers’ rights advocates and investigative reporters will travel to Switzerland to brainstorm and finetune idea for collaborative campaigns targeting the actors that currently wield the greatest power – alongside governments – in shaping food environments (check out this recent report by HFHP funded members Eurogroup for Animals, BEUC and EPHA on who decides what you eat, or what food environments are). The Kitchen Table will then provide inputs on the proposals and give the go-ahead to the grants.
The first meeting of the Kitchen Table was intense, messy at times, fun at others – and led to much food for thought on how grant-making can become more participatory and on whether HFHP’s pilot approach will indeed upend some of the power unbalances, help civil society groups to collaborate more and enable different and more diverse voices to be represented in the movements for food system change. Having sampled the first get-together, I think it may well do so…
On 4th July 2023, the new Kitchen Table came together at the socially inclusive organic Nos Pilifs farm in Brussels to get to know each other, blend experiences and expertise, decide how to work together and help guide HFHP on its journey towards more participatory grant-making. With Diana and Giulia from the HFHP coordination team and Peggy Saïller from NEF (HFHP’s host organisation), members of the Kitchen Table discussed how to structure HFHP grant-making for the second half of 2023 and the beginning of 2024 (more information on that topic soon!), and how to make the first HFHP campaign co-creation meeting successful.
This meeting will take place in September and will focus on the retail space. With funding from HFHP, CSOs, experts, workers’ rights advocates and investigative reporters will travel to Switzerland to brainstorm and finetune idea for collaborative campaigns targeting the actors that currently wield the greatest power – alongside governments – in shaping food environments (check out this recent report by HFHP funded members Eurogroup for Animals, BEUC and EPHA on who decides what you eat, or what food environments are). The Kitchen Table will then provide inputs on the proposals and give the go-ahead to the grants.
The first meeting of the Kitchen Table was intense, messy at times, fun at others – and led to much food for thought on how grant-making can become more participatory and on whether HFHP’s pilot approach will indeed upend some of the power unbalances, help civil society groups to collaborate more and enable different and more diverse voices to be represented in the movements for food system change. Having sampled the first get-together, I think it may well do so…
On 4th July 2023, the new Kitchen Table came together at the socially inclusive organic Nos Pilifs farm in Brussels to get to know each other, blend experiences and expertise, decide how to work together and help guide HFHP on its journey towards more participatory grant-making. With Diana and Giulia from the HFHP coordination team and Peggy Saïller from NEF (HFHP’s host organisation), members of the Kitchen Table discussed how to structure HFHP grant-making for the second half of 2023 and the beginning of 2024 (more information on that topic soon!), and how to make the first HFHP campaign co-creation meeting successful.
This meeting will take place in September and will focus on the retail space. With funding from HFHP, CSOs, experts, workers’ rights advocates and investigative reporters will travel to Switzerland to brainstorm and finetune idea for collaborative campaigns targeting the actors that currently wield the greatest power – alongside governments – in shaping food environments (check out this recent report by HFHP funded members Eurogroup for Animals, BEUC and EPHA on who decides what you eat, or what food environments are). The Kitchen Table will then provide inputs on the proposals and give the go-ahead to the grants.
The first meeting of the Kitchen Table was intense, messy at times, fun at others – and led to much food for thought on how grant-making can become more participatory and on whether HFHP’s pilot approach will indeed upend some of the power unbalances, help civil society groups to collaborate more and enable different and more diverse voices to be represented in the movements for food system change. Having sampled the first get-together, I think it may well do so…
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