Our Vision — Kitchen Sync Strategies

We envision a system where Public, philanthropic, and private sector leaders invest in the food suppliers and food buyers who are the engines of a fair food economy.

By focusing our energy on connecting these stakeholders and building strong, short, smart value chains from farm to fork, we will create a smarter, healthier way to nourish people and the planet.

Private businesses, policymakers, public-sector leakers, and philanthropists have an enormous influence on the ways our communities eat.

We believe that to have integrity, each of these stakeholders must lead with values of fairness, care for people and the planet, and an understanding that we truly are what we eat. Our vision for this work brings together public health, public policy, business development, and systems change thinking and draws on our national network movement leaders.

At Kitchen Sync Strategies, we are no strangers to silos: we’ve had to work within them, we’ve worked across them, and we understand that influencing systems requires breaking them down. We help our clients make strategic decisions and high impact changes that will bring better food to more people and better care to our planet. And we see that institutions- hospitals, universities, local governments, and K-12 schools- have a particularly important role to play in bridging the demand for “good” food with a sustainable, diverse supply of farmers and food businesses.

We’re committed to the work of building relationships, we walk with our clients through the changes. After all, the more people who feel like they belong in this work- and in a healthier, fairer, more generative food economy- the better!

So whether it’s a choice about how your institution purchases food, how to interpret the systematic impacts of the policy you want to advance, or even how your business practices can bring about change in the food system, Kitchen Sync Strategies is here for you.