The voting has ended.

Welcome to the 2025 digital ballot for the SOFSA Food Justice Fund. On this website, you can familiarize yourself with the projects seeking funding and cast your vote!

When you cast your ballot, you will be deciding how you want to allocate $26,500 to support food justice initiatives in Syracuse, Onondaga County, and Onondaga Nation. Any resident of this region over the age of 14 is eligible to vote once.

Join us on Thursday April 24th from 5:00-7:00pm for our Gather & Grant Celebration at Beauchamp Branch Library. Voting assistance will be available at this event from 5:00-6:30pm. Following the close of voting, we'll tally the votes and funded projects will be announced! Stop by for some food and celebration!  

This project is jointly supported by a grant from the NY Health Foundation, the Onondaga County Agriculture Council, and individual contributions from our community through the annual Plant A Seed with SOFSA campaign.
For more information on this project, please visit our Food Justice Fund Info Page at: https://bit.ly/2025-FJF-Info.

Syracuse Grows is proud to fiscally sponsor the Syracuse-Onondaga Food Systems Alliance.

Voting Locations

April 14th at 9am through April 24th at 6:30pm

• In-person at any Onondaga County Public Library location during their open hours. Visit https://www.onlib.org/locations to find a location near you. Ask at the circulation desk to receive a unique code.
• Remotely from your phone or personal computer using SMS verification.
• In-person at the Gather & Grant Celebration (Beauchamp Branch Library) - Thursday, April 24th from 5:00-6:30pm. On-site interpretation services available.