Congratulations on your grant from the Santa Barbara County Food Action Network (SBCFAN)! We are proud to highlight our corporate partner, Clevr Blends.
Your program is important and worthy of media attention. Publicity and media coverage will help ensure the success of your project, SBCFAN, and, ultimately, our local food system. To help you communicate the impact of your work, we have provided this Grant Recipient Media Kit.
SBCFAN is always interested in capturing the stories of our grantees. Compelling storytelling helps communicate to donors and the general public the importance of supporting projects like yours. The following materials are intended for the use of SBCFAN grantees to announce your project’s grant award:
RECOGNITION
Please acknowledge SBCFAN’s support with our name and logo in publications, programs and signage for any event or presentation funded that received grant funding.
When possible, use our full name—Santa Barbara County Food Action Network (SBCFAN)—when referencing us for the first time. Subsequent mentions can use our acronym only – SBCFAN,
This grant was made possible by the Santa Barbara County Food Action Network (SBCFAN).
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This project was funded (or funded in part) by a grant from the Santa Barbara County Food Action Network (SBCFAN).
Please use the following description when referencing the work of SBCFAN:
The Santa Barbara County Food Action Network (SBCFAN) works to connect, advocate, and build capacity with a network of food system actors to foster an equitable and robust local food economy, a healthy and just community, and a well-stewarded, resilient foodshed.
SBCFAN envisions a future for the California Central Coast where locally grown, nourishing, and culturally relevant food is accessible to all; where equity, sustainability, and wise practices are championed; where both local food businesses and workers thrive; and where our communities share in the responsibility of fostering economic, physical, and environmental resilience.
LOGO USE
- You are welcome to use our logo in any materials or posts discussing the grant award. Click on any of the logos to the right to download a transparent PNG file.
- If you use the SBCFAN logo or Grant Recipient badge, please link back to www.sbcfan.org where possible.
GRANT RECIPIENT BADGE
- Alternatively, you may use your Grant Recipient Badge on your website, social media, or any other marketing or publicity materials. Click on any of the images here for Instagram or Facebook / LinkedIn to download.
- If you use the SBCFAN logo or Grant Recipient badge, please link back to www.sbcfan.org where possible.
FACEBOOK / LINKEDIN
PUBLICITY
- Feature the grant award in newsletters, eblasts, social media, and on your website.
- Press releases: We are happy to co-author a release, or provide a quote for your own press release. Please email us at grants@sbcfoodaction.org to request a quote from SBCFAN.
- Please be sure to like or follow our social accounts (@sbcfoodaction) and we will follow you back.
- Instagram (instagram.com/sbcfoodaction)
- Follow Santa Barbara County Food Action Network and we’ll follow you
- Mention @sbcfoodaction or #sbcfan and @clevrblends or #clevrblends in grant related posts, photos and events
- Facebook (facebook.com/sbcfoodaction)
- Like the Santa Barbara County Food Action Network page and we’ll like your page
- Mention @sbcfoodaction or #sbcfan and @clevrblends or #clevrblends in grant related posts, photos and events
- LinkedIn (linkedin.com/company/sbcfoodaction)
- Follow Santa Barbara County Food Action Network and we’ll follow you
- Mention @Santa Barbara County Food Action Network and @Clevr Blends in grant related posts, photos and events
Sample post:
“We’re so excited to receive a community grant award of $____ from @sbcfoodaction to support our food justice project, ____. Together, we are building a more resilient local food system in Santa Barbara County.”
SHARE YOUR STORY!
SBCFAN would like to hear how this grant is supporting your project. If you would like to share your project progress, please send a message to Rubayi Estes at grants@sbcfoodaction.org
We always want and need compelling images! SBCFAN would love to share photos of you, your project, and project partners on our website and on social media accounts. So please share your images and/or videos with us.
With advance notice, we may also be able to arrange for an SBCFAN photographer or videographer to visit your project location. Contact Andrew Hill at pharos@sbcfoodaction.org to discuss possible dates. If you already have footage of a project to share, please send it to grants@sbcfoodaction.org or pharos@sbcfoodaction.org.