What This Work Does

This work helps organizations and coalitions:

• Recognize when inherited coordination tools are failing

• Ground action in shared material realities rather than ideological alignment

• Design cooperation that functions under constraint

• Clarify boundaries without collapsing into antagonism

• Stabilize capacity so harm does not cascade downward

This orientation emerged through food and land-based governance work, where collaboration was necessary despite deep difference and rising material strain. It has since been applied across domains including public health, governance, environmental coalitions, infrastructure, and institutional leadership.

Who This Work Serves

It is oriented toward people already working inside complexity, including:

• those carrying decision-making responsibility within strained institutions

• funders, strategists, and conveners navigating polarization and legitimacy loss

• practitioners working on food, water, land, health, housing, or care

• facilitators encountering the limits of dialogue-only approaches

• communities seeking cooperation without collapsing difference

This work is for those willing to engage power, limits, and loss without retreat or moral performance.

How the Work Takes Shape

Food For Us supports this field of practice through:

• Learning & Capacity Building
  Courses, workshops, and talks that strengthen discernment, collaboration, and adaptive capacity.

• Strategy & Accompaniment
  Long-term thinking partnership with organizations navigating governance, transition, or cross-worldview work.

• Facilitation & Convening
  Structured spaces grounded in shared material reality rather than ideological debate.

• Writing & Public Scholarship
  Essays and frameworks that offer orientation when dominant narratives no longer explain lived reality.

About the Work’s Origins

Food For Us is founded by Nicole Negowetti, a practitioner-scholar whose work spans food law, policy, community organizing, and regenerative practice.

Her book, Feeding the Future: Restoring the Planet and Healing Ourselves (Georgetown University Press, 2026), explores food as a diagnostic lens for understanding ecological collapse, democratic strain, and the deeper stories shaping how societies organize care and responsibility.

Food For Us is one expression of that larger inquiry, focused on practice, orientation, and collaboration in real conditions.

An Orientation

This work offers orientation to notice what is being normalized, discern where cooperation is possible or harmful, and remain accountable to life when certainty is unavailable.

The field is emergent, the conditions are uneven, and no one holds the full map.

What exists is practice, relationship, and the willingness to learn together.

Welcome. We’re glad you’re here.