2024 Join/Renew Individual Black Farmer/Landowner $50 Annual Membership

Membership dues support our mission-based work around cooperative development, land retention, and advocacy.

Our members are low and moderate-income families interested in self-help economic development activities like credit unions, housing, and worker cooperatives.

Active members are members whose dues were paid via check or online within the last year.

Individual Membership Dues are paid annually.

Contact [email protected] with questions or call 1-888-322-2985.

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Please note when filling out the form:

**Home address = billing address for renewals

**Work address = farm address, land or coop address

**For any question with an unknown answer please put N/A

For assistance filling out this online form, please contact: [email protected]

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MEMBERSHIP

The Federation has been successfully working since 1967 to provide Black farmers, landowners, and cooperatives in the Southern region with land retention assistance, cooperative development assistance, and advocacy.

The Federation's strengths are its structure and governance. We are a member-owned and operated organization born out of the Civil Rights Movement to do the unique work of empowering our members with racial and economic equity. Black farmer, landowner & cooperative ownership is a driving force behind all that we do.

BENEFITS

*Stay informed about issues impacting you as a Black farmer, landowner, or coop

*Member-only discounts on USDA program sessions

*Comped ticket to attend 3-day Annual Meeting every August

*Coop Development

*Advocacy Institute

*Network with Black farmers, landowners & coops

*Heirs Property Assistance (Mediation Guidance)

*Cooperative Regional Marketing Support

*State Association Technical Assistance with Business Plans, Estate Planning, Forestry Management

Host or Publisher The Federation of Southern Cooperatives | LAF