Sun Valley Institute for Resilience

Local food alliance embraced regional thought leadership,co-leading the right-sized investment & infrastructure team for the northwest and rocky mountain regional food business center. The organization's staff also participated in the nrcs locally led working group and served on the university of Idaho blaine county extension advisory committee. Staff members also continued developing blaine county's climate action plan, including chairing the land & water conservation taskforce and participating in the circular economy taskforce. Local food alliance published the fourth annual locally grown guide, with 140 listings, distributed to 2,500 individuals in the community. Additionally, the local alliance published a mobile-first website version of the locally grown guide, which had over 10,000 views in 2023. The local food alliance began launching two new programs, ther local food procurement policy program, which facilitated over 2,700 of local food purchased for local events, and the Idaho regional food systems asset map, which will be a digital public gis mapping tool for all food systems stakeholders in Idaho.

5b resilient, a new program of the Sun Valley Institute for Resilience, hosted 4 in-person workshops with 190 total participants, and published 12 bilingual digital resources making climate action accessible and resilient for all. Through ongoing and new composting programs at three youth-program sites, 5b resilient diverted over 3,000 pounds of food from our regional landfill. 5b resilient facilitated the planting of 1,000 douglas fir seedlings at a wildfire forest restoration site.

The impact Idaho fund activates mission-driven capital to invest in the buildout of regenerative, renewable, and sustainable practices related to food and agriculture, land, water, and energy use in the southern Idaho Valley region. By the end of 2023,407,000 in philanthropic capital had been administered across six regional businesses contributing to community Resilience through regional food and regenerative agriculture. Capital recipients expend the monetary amount: (i) generally in furtherance of the grantor's mission and charitable purpose to advance community Resilience in Idaho's wood river Valley region by educating, investing, and collaborating to ensure that the economy, environment, and people thrive; (ii) in alignment with grantor's implementation of the impact Idaho fund, which mobilizes mission-driven capital to invest in the buildout of regenerative, renewable, and sustainable practices related to food and agriculture, land, water, and energy use; and (iii) only in such ways that will not compromise grantor's tax-exempt status. In 2023, the impact Idaho fund offered its second interest-based loan to a mushroom cultivation company, ironwood mycology and a zero-interest recoverable grant to a startup corn milling company, koborewa corn meal. We analyzed huge increases in impact from agricultural pilot projects related to carbon emissions and food produced and sold into the regional market.