Browse Ambrook’s collection of funding programs by Community Foundation Sonoma County

Complete this application form, which includes:
- Eligibility screening
- Project questions 
- Selection of grant tier:
    - SEED: $10-25k for individuals or early-stage ideas
    - MOMENTUM: $75-90k for established ventures
- A pitch deck (details provided in the form)


Recipients will be notified by February 15, 2026 and invited to join us at a presentation at the Natural Products Expo in Anaheim on March 5, 2026. Travel stipends may be available though in-person attendance is not required to be selected.

The mission of the Greg Steltenpohl Pragmatic Visionary Award is to support early-stage entrepreneurs working to create a more positive, plant-centric food system.

The Greg Steltenpohl Pragmatic Visionary Award seeks to encourage and support innovators, entrepreneurs, and change makers building a more positive, plant-centric food system. With a $100,000 annual prize, the award celebrates vision in action and values manifested through businesses that generate personal, community, and planetary health. 



The mission of the Greg Steltenpohl Pragmatic Visionary Award is to support early-stage entrepreneurs working to create a more positive, plant-centric food system.
The Greg Steltenpohl Pragmatic Visionary Award seeks to encourage and support innovators, entrepreneurs, and change makers building a more positive, plant-centric food system. With a $100,000 annual prize, the award celebrates vision in action and values manifested through businesses that generate personal, community, and planetary health. 

- Be an established for-profit business or intend to use business as a means for change.
- Operate in the broader food-system. Ventures at any stage of the supply-chain are welcome, this not limited to consumer-facing products.
- Be plant-centric. Companies need not explicitly identify as a vegan or plant-based, though a more plant-centric food system should be a result of their work.
- Be early-stage. The award committee will seek to support ventures for which $100,000 will be of material difference to the team’s success.

A lump sum of money for a specific purpose that does not need to be paid back.

Grant

Local Food

Farmers Market

Food Systems

Historically Underserved

Applications will be evaluated using the following four core values:
- Systems Entrepreneurship: A holistic understanding of the food system that leads to purposeful engagement with one or any number of interconnected issues of the food system such as personal well-being, environmental health, equity and access, inherent at the core of the enterprise and its design.
- Pragmatic Vision: The ability to define a more positive future while maintaining a bias for action; recognition that positive transformation is an ongoing process free from perfection.
- Ethical Leadership: A values driven mindset that benefits a broad and diverse group of stakeholders (consumers, employees, producers, mission participants) particularly in the areas of diversity, inclusion, justice, and security.
- Creative Transformation: Working to evolve commerce and culture from ego-centric to community and eco-centric organization.

List of Community Foundation Sonoma County Funding Opportunities