Friends of the Mississippi River

**JOB ALERT** Regenerative crops. 🌱 New partnerships. 🤝 Compelling stories. 📰 Clean water.🚰 Healthy soil. 🐞 Rural communities. 👩🏭 👨🌾 The Forever Green Initiative (FGI) at the University of Minnesota is hiring a Director of Partnerships and Outreach. We're looking for a connector, systems thinker, and storyteller who is passionate about driving positive change for agriculture, society, and the environment. 🌟 Drive progress toward broad-based systems change through  collaborations with farmers, agricultural commodity groups, rural communities, the private sector, and advocacy groups. 🌟 Build awareness of exciting new crops like Kernza® perennial grain, winter camelina, Midwest hazelnuts, and perennial flax through strategic communications and outreach. 🌟 Work to ensure that continuous-living-cover (CLC) agriculture benefits all farmers, both beginning and established, regardless of race, ethnicity, gender, and other factors. 🌟 Help shape the future of FGI by serving on the leadership team and contributing to strategic thinking, planning, and fundraising. We will begin reviewing applications on April 1st. If you have questions in the meantime, please contact FGI Co-Director Nick Jordan at jorda020@umn.edu. Link is below, or search for job ID  359896 on the UMN job site. https://lnkd.in/g4wP7yK6