1. Accelerating good food

2. Definition of Good Food
Delicious, healthy and accessible food produced as close to home as possible, by family farmers and producers that use sustainable, humane, and fair practices
A rapidly growing movement driven by strong customer demand

3. READY FOR PRIME TIME Getting Good Food Businesses
GOOD FOOD = LOCAL , SUSTAINABLE , HUMANE AND FAIR!

4. GOOD FOOD ACCELERATOR:
BUILDING ON SUCCESS
MISSION AND VISION:
The Good Food Accelerator, founded in 2014 as the nation’s first accelerator focused on building supply chains for sustainable local food, provides competitively selected fellows with mentoring, strategic support, and access to capital to help them scale up, thrive commercially and have a powerful ripple effect in the local economy.

5. Fellows receive an intensive six-month curriculum, are paired with industry-leading mentors, and are connected to potential customers and sources of financing.
Core curriculum focuses on the key components of a well-structured business:
Entrepreneurial Finance
Leadership
Operations
Go-to-Market Strategy
Fundraising
Fellows complete the program with vetted business plans, market development plans, investor pitches, and financing plans. Every Fellow has the opportunity to be showcased at the annual Good Food Financing & Innovation Conference.
By the end of the program, Fellows will be better equipped to run their businesses and implement strategies that will enable them to scale, and to meet with investors and lenders to discuss their offerings.

6. Farms and food businesses are landing financing through FamilyFarmed connections
— $36 million

7. Jenny Yang
Locally Sourced
Transitional and Organic Soybeans
Rapid Growth and Job Creation

8. Megan Klein
Sources local produce for dips and juices
Replicable
HPP processing: Nutrient Dense

9. Jodie & Paul Krumpe
Good Food is Good Medicine
People’s Health
Local Sourcing
Committed to Organic

10. THE POWER OF GOOD FOOD
“You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete” – Buckminster Fuller