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Access Deep Food & Ag Intelligence
The opportunities to lead the transformation of our food system are huge, but many so far have failed. The biggest barrier to success is planning a strategy without the full picture - about how the space, players, and landscapes actually work.
Grow Well understands the food system. Our expertise spans the full supply chain from cropping systems to distribution to retail. We bring cutting-edge scientific knowledge, practical experience, and a comprehensive, data-driven approach to providing the kind of holistic, full-stack insight that will help your organization drive its food system vision from inspired to accomplished.
Approach
Deep Alignment
Generic advice yields generic results. At Grow Well, we focus on deeply understanding you and your goals to build a strategy that leverages your organization’s unique position and competencies, allowing you to do work that no one else can.
Powerful Stories
The food system is complex, and we know that great stories are the best way to translate information into action. Our team includes industry-leading storytellers obsessed with making our work (and yours!) accessible, resonant, and inspiring.
Quantified impacts
You can’t impact what you can’t measure. Grow Well’s experts are fluent in cutting edge science and sustainability modeling that will give you the ESG data you and your stakeholders need to have confidence in your strategy and results.
Services
Understand the Landscape
Grow Well offers tools and guidance to help you determine the most effective ways to support regenerative ag and build equitable supply chains within your business, investment portfolio, grantmaking activities, or policy engagement. We’ll collect stakeholder insights, review the latest science and policies, and synthesize insights to bring deep understanding to your team.
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Whether you’ve just started exploring food and ag investments or you’re deep in the weeds of execution, having experts in your corner is critical. Grow Well’s trusted advisors tailor insights to your vision, helping identify unique and impactful opportunities. Offered in hourly contracts in 1 to 12 month increments.
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With our broad expertise in climate, water, and supply chain management, Grow Well can help your team gain a comprehensive understanding of the food and ag landscape. We review and synthesize the latest peer-reviewed literature, regulatory documents, and certification programs (e.g., organic, Certified Humane, etc.) to give you a global view of current trends and issues in whatever format - auditory, written, and/or visual - is most accessible and useful to your team. Offered as single day workshops, or longer engagements to support policy brief development, reports, or learning series for teams.
Evaluate Opportunities
Opportunities to invest in or support food and ag abound - but how to sort the wheat from the chaff? Our rigorous, data-driven approach helps you figure out where and how to engage. We’ll interview key experts and other interested parties, review financial disclosures, run simulation models, facilitate strategic planning, and draft the documentation you need to bring opportunities to reality. Offered in quarterly and annual support packages.
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Grow Well’s diligence process digs into the multiple dimensions of impact opportunities, taking everything from financial viability to ecological performance to community support into account. We are experienced running simulations with COMET Farm, COMET Planner, the Nutrient Tracking Tool (NTT), the Integrated Farm Systems Model (IFSM), among others, and creating ROI calculations for elucidating economic outcomes.
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Successful strategic planning is an active, inclusive process. Grow Well achieves this using a team of facilitators who engage stakeholders, raise difficult and/or uncomfortable questions, and elicit diverse input through both group discussions and deeper 1:1 follow-up dialogue with key individuals. Grow Well’s process enables organizations clarify their Theory of Change, articulate their vision and mission. and develop clear priorities paired with SMART goals and a supporting action plan.
Execute Your strategy
With your strategy in place and opportunities assessed, you’re ready to execute your strategy. Grow Well’s team can help you implement programs while identifying the most meaningful ways to measure and report on your work’s impact with best-in-class data.
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Have a strategy and goals, but need to get tactics aligned? We support organizations in writing and executing RFPs and RFQs for strategic sourcing and regenerative supply chain development. We also offer services to help facilitate projects and initiatives including planning, funding development, and proposal preparation.
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Need to understand the ESG returns of your sustainability commitments and actions? Grow Well can help you with all of the data collection and story telling necessary to report thorougly and beautifully.
RESULTS
Our clients are businesses, investors, NGOs, and foundations tackling climate, water, food waste, traceability, equity, and social justice challenges in the food system.
Ready to Learn More?
We’d love to learn more about your goals and explore how we can support your organization in growing to achieve them.
Team
Grow Well partners with organizations across the food system to envision, plan and achieve a resilient food future. Our clients include start ups, mature multinationals, investors, foundations, and non-profit research and conservation organizations. Our team includes a diverse range of experts with experience in everything from procurement and ecosystem science, to regenerative agriculture and food waste. We rapidly assemble the right group of professionals - economists, ecologists, engineers, and/or nutritionists - as defined by client needs and project scope to efficiently and effectively deliver results.
Alison Grantham, PhD, Principal & founder
Personal Roots: SoCal born and raised… Now raising bagel-loving munchkins in Jersey
Academic Path: Biological Sciences & Environmental Studies @ Mt. Holyoke College
Ecology & Biogeochemistry PhD @ Penn State
Formerly: Research & Policy @ Rodale Institute
Start Farming! @ Penn State Extension
Procurement and Sustainability @ Blue Apron
Professional Passions:
Thinking about, measuring, & trying to modify resource stocks & flows through ecosystems
Relentless pursuit of better balance sheets through goal setting & tracking
Improving social and environmental food system performance & communicating impacts
Spencer Rubino-finn, analyst
Personal Roots: Garden State raised currently exploring life on the Big Apple side of the Bay
Academic Path: Supply Chain Management @ Rutgers University
Sustainability Management @ Stevens Institute of Technology
Formerly: Operations @ a Green Building SaaS start-up
Analysis, Forecasting, and Reporting @ a Cloud Server Manufacturer
Supply Planning and Process Improvement @ L’Oréal
Professional Passions:
Managing end-to-end supply chain operations, strategic supplier agility projects, and database creation for product and climate data
Leveraging digital tools to provide visibility to stakeholders and manage progress towards key operational targets
Sarah Mock, Researcher & Writer
Personal Roots: Raised on my family’s Wyoming farm, now enjoying the Rockies in New Mexico.
Academic Path: Science, Technology & International Affairs @ Georgetown.
Formerly: In agtech, including farm research @ Farmers Business Network
NGOs & government agencies, including USDA, in the U.S., South Africa, India, & Burkina Faso
Local & national news media, including as Washington Bureau Chief @ RFD-TV
Professional Passions: Writing (Author; Farm (and Other F Words), Big Team Farms)
Podcasting (Host/Producer; Field Posts, Escaping 1980, Corn Saves America, Ag Interrupted)
Asking difficult questions around ag history & economics, agtech, and ag’s climate impact
Exploring innovative ag business structures & strategy, especially around logistics & marketing
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Results
Our clients are businesses, investors, NGOs, and foundations tackling climate, water, food waste, traceability, equity, and social justice challenges in the food system.
No One Knows Food and Ag like Grow Well.
We’d love to put our knowledge to work unlocking new opportunities for you and your organization. Get in touch today!