Festival Partners
The Sustainable Business Network is enthusiastic about working closely with organizations that have agreed to support the growth and development of Boston Local Food Festival. SBN is grateful for the program planning and marketing support of our Collaborative Partners:
Boston Children’s Museum
Boston Children’s Museum has a mission of helping children understand and enjoy the world in which they live with a focus on engaging children and families and building communities around five outcome areas for children: Creative, Curious, Global, Green and Healthy Kids.
Friends of Fort Point Channel
Friends of Fort Point Channel is a nonprofit organization committed to making the Fort Point Channel an exciting and welcoming destination for all of Boston’s residents, workforce and visitors. Incorporated in 2004, it is led by a Board of Directors consisting of neighborhood residents, advocates, public agencies and private landowners, and its efforts are funded by voluntary contributions. The Fort Point Channel is home to residents, artists, offices, well-known cultural and Harbor destinations, a growing Harborwalk and South Bay Harbor Trail and much more. Though still undergoing a dramatic change, the Channel is already emerging as a virtual “Boston Common on the Water” and one of Boston’s best places to live, work and play.
Massachusetts Convention Center Authority
The Massachusetts Convention Center Authority owns and oversees the operations of the Boston Convention & Exhibition Center, the John B. Hynes Veterans Memorial Convention Center, the MassMutual Center in Springfield, and the Boston Common Parking Garage. In 2009, the MCCA hosted 208 events at the BCEC and the Hynes with 714,128 attendees, generating 521,556 hotel room nights and $420 million in economic impact for Greater Boston. The authority is currently examining a possible expansion, with more information available at www.t5boston.com In June 2010, the MCCA welcomed Chicago-based Levy Restaurants as its new food and beverage partner. Levy has pledged to purchase 50 percent of its products from local sources.
Northwest Atlantic Marine Alliance
The Northwest Atlantic Marine Alliance’s (NAMA) mission is to restore and enhance an enduring marine system supporting a healthy diversity and an abundance of marine life and human uses through a self-organizing and self-governing organization. Recently it has organized Seafood Throw Downs as a fun, educational and community driven activity that promotes the ecological and economic benefit of locally caught seafood.
Somerville Local First
Somerville Local First is building a sustainable local economy by supporting and promoting locally owned and independent businesses, artists and nonprofits.
Cambridge Local First
Cambridge Local First Cambridge Local First is a network of locally owned and independent businesses formed in 2005 to build a strong economy and a vibrant community. Our one-of-a-kind businesses are an integral part of the distinctive character in Cambridge. Our mission is to support, promote, and celebrate a “Local Economy Community” by educating the public and government about the significant environmental, economic, and cultural benefits of a strong local economy.
Massachusetts Farmers Market Association
The mission of Massachusetts Farmers Market Association is to partner with farmers, consumers, and communities to foster, enhance and sustain farmers markets in Massachusetts to improve regional farm viability, consumer nutrition, and community social and economic development. It envisions a future in which small family farms and local communities thrive because a significant percentage of residents have access to and choose to consume local food whenever possible. Consumers should know the people who grow their food, and that when they do, communities, both rural and urban are strengthened. A strong connection between MA’s consumers and producers contributes to a healthy society in three important arenas: family nutrition and food security, agricultural viability and open space preservation, and the economic and social revitalization of neighborhoods.
The Food Project
The Food Project (TFP) has built a national model of engaging young people in personal and social change through sustainable agriculture. Each year, it works with over a hundred teens and thousands of volunteers to farm on 37 acres in eastern Massachusetts in the towns and cities of Beverly, Boston, Ipswich, Lincoln and Lynn. TFP considers its hallmark to be its focus on identifying and transforming a new generation of leaders by placing teens in unusually responsible roles, with deeply meaningful work.
Seaport TMA
The Seaport Transportation Management Association(“Seaport TMA”) is a non-profit consortium of businesses, employers, developers, and property managers in the South Boston Waterfront dedicated to easing commutes, reducing local traffic congestion and advancing the use of alternative transportation options.
Save the Harbor / Save the Bay
Save the Harbor / Save the Bay is a non-profit public interest harbor advocacy organization. We are made up of thousands of citizens, as well as scientists, and civic, corporate, cultural and community leaders whose mission is to restore and protect Boston Harbor, Massachusetts Bay, and the marine environment and share them with the public for everyone to enjoy.
Massachusetts Water Resources Authority (MWRA)
MWRA is a Massachusetts public authority established by an act of the Legislature in 1984 to provide wholesale water and sewer services to 2.5 million people and more than 5,500 large industrial users in 61 metropolitan Boston communities.
Boston Global Investors
Boston Global Investors (BGI) is a leading real estate development and consulting firm headquartered in Boston. Led by John Hynes and a team of experienced real estate professionals, BGI has decades of experience developing commercial, residential and mixed-use projects from landmark towers to city-scale development. Current projects include Seaport Square, a 6.3 million square foot urban neighborhood on Bostons waterfront, One Franklin, a 39-story, 1.25 million square foot mixed-use tower in the heart of Boston and the redevelopment of United Technology Corporation’s 47-acre Rocketdyne facility within LA Warner Center in Los Angeles, California.
Massachusetts Department of Agricultural Resources
The Division of Agricultural Development fosters the sustainability of Massachusetts’ agriculture through innovative marketing, business, educational and environmentally sound initiatives implemented through the Agricultural Fairs, Land Use, and Marketing Programs. The Division staff work closely with the Divisions of Crop and Pest Services and Agricultural Technical Assistance to coordinate improved environmental sustainability and the economic viability of the agricultural resources within the Commonwealth. The Division staff collaborate with the over 50 agricultural and commodity organizations as well as other state agencies within the Secretariat of Executive Office of Energy and Environmental Affairs as well as numerous other agencies across the state on both regional and state wide projects.
Media Partners
Local In Season
Local In Season is a website that celebrates local foods, the people that produce and use them, and what the home cook can do with them. Started in September 2009 by Patrick Kent and Jon Ross-Wiley, Local In Season has cultivated a national readership. Internationally known chefs, Ming Tsai, Jody Adams, and Tony Maws have sat down to the table with us at Local In Season, and have been featured on the site. Through our relationships with local bloggers, and our Twitter following, we promote and empower New England consumers and local purveyors. We recognize and appreciate that eating locally is about community, conservation, sustainability, and even health. Better food is the reason. Local In Season.
The Dig
Digboston.com is a product of Boston’s Weekly Dig, Boston’s always witty and never dull guide to nightlife, opinion and events. Find it in orange or black boxes around the city and inside your favorite places to go to. Dig Publishing founded the alternative weekly in 1999.
