“America is not a pile of goods… America is a dream of greater justice and opportunity for the average man and, if we can not obtain it, all our other achievements amount to nothing.” ― Eleanor Roosevelt

“Ecological agriculture allows us to make peace with the earth, soil and the society.” ― Vandana Shiva

The river moves from land to water to land, in and out of organisms, … you cannot separate the land from the water, or the people from the land. ― Lynn Noel

The 21st Century will be the era of nurture capital, built around principles of carrying capacity, care of the commons, sense of place and non-violence. ― Slow Money Principle III.

“When people, land, and community are as one, all three members prosper; when they relate not as members but as competing interests, all three are exploited. …” ― The Land Institute

“The soil is the great connector of lives, the source and destination of all. It is the healer and restorer and resurrector, by which disease passes into health, age into youth, death into life.” ― Wendell Berry

Grants 2025

American Friends Services Committee

Philadelphia, PA
$19,000
Project: For the People of the Land program of the American Friends Service Committee..

Chef Empowerment

Gainesville, FL
$27,000
Project: General operating support for the youth seed to table internship program for farm to table culinary learning.

CISA

So. Deerfield, MA
$33,333
Project: Growing Resilience Fund.

CISA

So. Deerfield, MA
$8,500
Project: To support the continued effort to provide local, sustainable food and food system infrastructure improvements and diversity in Hampden and Hampshire Counties in Massachusetts, including increasing SNAP opportunities.

Cultural Arts Coalition

Gainesville, FL
$3,000
Project: To support solar pilot project community investment development meetings

Cultural Arts Coalition

Gainesville, FL
$20,000
Project: General operating support for the Cultural Arts Coalition bookkeeping and payroll services.

Farm to Table

Santa Fe, NM
$20,000
Project: General Operating Grant to help build a local, healthy, equitable and sustainable food system throughout the state of New Mexico.

Fibershed

San Geronimo, CA
$66,000
Project: General support for continued development of regional fiber systems through co development of leadership and affiliate capacity to implement equity centered values and principles.

Forage, Inc. d/b/a Working Food

Gainesville, FL
$68,000
Project: Project: General operating support for operating expenses and Reserve Fund.

Forage, Inc. d/b/a Working Food

Gainesville, FL
$70,000
Project: General operating support for operating expenses of Working Food programs.

Franklin County CDC

Greenfield, MA
$62,500
Project: To support the funding of PV Grows.

Franklin County CDC

Greenfield, MA
$8,338
Project: To support the funding of a new Community based loan fund in the Pioneer Valley of western Massachusetts.

Franklin County CDC

Greenfield, MA
$44,055.95
Project: To support PV Grows guarantee fund.

Gaining Ground

Concord, MA
$5,000
Project:  General Operating with focus on volunteer workforce training.

Greater Duval Neighborhood Association

Gainesville, FL
$21,600
Project: General operating support for the Greater Duval Neighborhood Association administrative expenses necessary to build and expand programs for youth and seniors in the Duval Neighborhood.

Grow Food Northampton

Florence, MA
$25,000
Project: The Community Roots Fund.

Health Care Without Harm

Reston, VA
$333,333
Project: Development of Food Is Medicine Northeast Food Project.

Metafoundation dba Post Carbon Institute

Corvallis, OR
$10,000
Project: General operating support for development of educational programming within the Resilience Institute and Community Resilience Framework for further development of educational content and communications for navigating the Great Unraveling.

National Young Farmers Coalition

Hudson, NY
$25,000
Project: Project: General support for coalition building, and general support for young farmers to address key issues of land access that protect land and conserve water, address climate resilience and public health, and develop leadership capacity.

New Mexico Farmers Marketing Association

Santa Fe, NM
$40,000
Project: General Operations Grant, which will promote the Association’s work with their Food as Medicine program as well as support farmers growing and marketing their produce to various institutions and grocery stores across the state of New Mexico.

Planned Parenthood of the Rocky Mountains

Denver, CO
$20,000
Project: To support the completion of their new project in Albuquerque, NM, which will help increase patient access to reproductive healthcare services while ensuring increased financial sustainability.

Quivira Coalition

Santa Fe, NM
$15,000
Project: General operating support.

Quivira Coalition

Santa Fe, NM
$2,500
Project: Sponsor 2025 Regenerate Conference.

Rebuilding Together North Central Florida

Gainesville, FL
$16,900
Project: General support for a community fund pilot project, engaging leaders in 3 targeted neighborhoods to develop criteria and a process for determining weatherization and home upgrades in the 3 neighborhoods, and implementing the upgrades.

Rebuilding Together North Central Florida

Gainesville, FL
$35,000
Project: General support for continued expansion of the CWC’s organizational capacity and core operations (energy surveys, energy upgrades, training, recruitment, and outreach) as they undertake an ambitious agenda implementing their Best Practices Manual, continuing research on effective energy efficiency measures and partnering with IFAS extension for county and state-wide outreach.

Rebuilding Together North Central Florida

Gainesville, FL
$4,750
Project: General support for a one-day Board of Directors engagement and fundraising training workshop for CWC, Rebuilding Together, and Working Food Board members.

Rebuilding Together North Central Florida

Gainesville, FL
$17,130
Project: General support for a community fund pilot project, engaging leaders in 3 targeted neighborhoods to develop criteria and a process for determining weatherization and home upgrades in the 3 neighborhoods, and implementing the upgrades.

Western Landowners Alliance

Denver, CO
$80,000
Project: General operating support.

Western Landowners Alliance

Denver, CO
$290,000
Project: General operating support for capacity building to manage expansion of the organization’s operations and scope.

The Lydia B. Stokes Foundation is committed to the Quaker philosophy of peace and justice. The Foundation supports building resilient, healthy communities by focusing on social and economic justice, regenerative organic agriculture, viable, healthy ecosystems, quality of life issues, development of local food systems, local energy security and peace initiatives.

This vision of interconnected Life and Living Values directs our grant making and drives our investment decisions