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Catapult launches new crowdfunding project to support expansion of the Fair Food Program…

Earlier this year, the Fair Food Program won the support of Catapult, a pioneering crowdfunding platform that works with groups around the globe to advance the rights of women and girls. And today, we have the great pleasure of announcing the launch of the Catapult online campaign, “Ensure dignity and respect for farmworkers” — an effort to raise $25,000 in 150 days to help pay for a new auditor for the Fair Food Standards Council (FFSC), the Fair Food Program’s indispensable third-party monitoring body. Now you can help support the FFSC’s crucial, day-to-day human rights work in the fields by checking out the online fundraising campaign here.

The FFSC’s auditors are the women and men who do the necessary, behind-the-scenes work of conducting audits in the fields of participating growers, fielding and resolving complaints, and monitoring the passage of the Penny per Pound premium as it moves from buyers to growers, and from growers to workers. These much-needed funds will fuel not only the Program’s current operations, but also the expansion of workers’ rights under the Program beyond Florida’s fields.

Here’s a little bit more about the newest supporter of the Fair Food Program: