Organizational Restructuring
This summer time, resulting from inside and exterior monetary pressures and the conclusion of a number of main grants, Georgia Organics made the troublesome determination to considerably restructure the group. This meant parting with a number of long-serving workforce members who’ve been instrumental in our success. I’m profoundly grateful to those gifted people who’ve given a lot of themselves to advance our mission and to serve you. Their contributions strengthened Georgia Organics and the farmers and communities we serve.
Although now a workforce of 5, we’re devoted to creating this reorganization significant—supporting the group and farmers alike via this time of change.
Management Transition
As a part of this restructuring, the Georgia Organics Board of Administrators appointed me as Interim Govt Director. As a long-time worker of the group and most just lately the Director of Packages, I hope to carry a gentle hand, a collaborative mindset, and mission-driven management to the group. I’m captivated with serving to farmers thrive via collective motion and care. With deep roots in Georgia’s meals neighborhood, I’m devoted to guiding the group via this transition and into our subsequent chapter. I’m holding this place on an interim foundation, and the Board is engaged on a long-term management plan to roll out in 2026.
Program Transitions
As we transfer to a leaner construction, we’re reorganizing our workers to concentrate on Georgia Organics’ core mission of investing in natural farmers for the well being of our communities and the land. We’re taking inventory of our sources and our communities’ must see how they greatest match collectively. With this refocus comes the necessity to pull again from a few of our current applications. So, by the top of 2025, we plan to pause 4 long-running programmatic initiatives whereas we strengthen our foundations:
I do know that these applications have touched 1000’s of lives–and remarkably, within the case of Farm to College and Early Care, tens of millions of Georgia’s youth. I’m assured every initiative has left a long-lasting impression throughout Georgia’s farming and meals communities that may dwell on via our community of companions. This pause is barely a mirrored image of our diminished capability in the interim. And the aim that animated these applications, to champion natural and sustainable farming, will proceed to information our efforts over the approaching years as we adapt and develop.
Wanting Ahead
Change isn’t simple, but it surely brings the prospect to resume and refocus. Georgia Organics stays deeply dedicated to supporting and championing natural, sustainable, and regenerative farmers. Within the months forward, we’ll share extra about how we’re shaping the group’s future—with resilience, sustainability, and neighborhood on the middle.
Your assist makes this doable. Due to you, we are able to present farmers with local weather catastrophe reduction grants, infrastructure mini-grants, enterprise teaching, natural transition help and certification cost-shares, healthcare protection, and threat administration sources. Thanks for standing with us throughout this season of transition.
With gratitude,
Suzanne Girdner
Interim Govt Director
Georgia Organics
