Elizabeth Ü

Elizabeth Ü is executive director of Finance for Food, a nonprofit that educates food-system entrepreneurs in the United States about the full range of financing options available to support them. Elizabeth has extensive experience at the intersection of sustainable food systems and social finance-helping food-based business owners identify appropriate-and mission-aligned-financing opportunities based on their unique situations and values.

Elizabeth previously served as manager of strategic development at RSF Social Finance, helping launch a loan fund to support high-impact, sustainable food ventures. She has served on staff at the Business Alliance for Local Living Economies (BALLE), and spent two years as program officer of Slow Money, then a project of Investors' Circle. Elizabeth regularly speaks and gives workshops on the topics of impact investing, social finance, and sustainable food systems at conferences geared toward foundations, financiers, investors, philanthropists, nonprofits, and social entrepreneurs.

A Food and Community Fellow of the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy, Elizabeth holds a BS in geography from McGill University and an MBA in sustainable management from Presidio Graduate School. She lives in San Francisco, California.

Elizabeth's Upcoming Events

• Elizabeth Ü in New York City
  
  , New York NY
  June 11, 2013, 12:00 pm

  Elizabeth will be giving a private workshop for food funders and investors in NYC on June 11th. Contact elizabeth@financeforfood.com for an invitation.

• Elizabeth Ü at the 2013 BALLE Conference
  
  , Buffalo NY
  June 12, 2013, 12:00 am

  Elizabeth will be a speaker at the 2013 BALLE Conference, to be held in Buffalo, NY June 12th - 14th.

• Elizabeth Ü FREE Webinar
  
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  June 20, 2013, 3:00 pm

  Elizabeth will be offering a free "Raising Dough: Financing for Food" webinar on June 20, designed for people working with food entrepreneurs. Sign up, here: http://ngfn.org/resources/ngfn-cluster-calls/ngfn-cluster-calls?utm_source=Finance+for+Food+subscribers&utm_campaign=952faa65c3-May16FFFenews&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_8cd14cd827-952faa65c3-331964481#june-20-2013-raising-dough

• Elizabeth Ü at Hack//Meat
  
  , Palo Alto
  June 21, 2013, 12:00 pm

  Elizabeth will be one of the mentors at the 2013 Hack//Meat: Reimagine the Future of Meat on June 21-23 in Pal Alto, California. Food+Tech Connect, in partnership with the GRACE Communications Foundation and Applegate, is bringing together technologists, entrepreneurs, creatives, policy experts, non-profit leaders and industry executives to develop technologies and tools that help create a better future for meat. Over the course of the weekend, teams will work with design-thinking facilitators and industry “steakholders” to rapidly prototype innovative solutions to the way meat is produced, processed, distributed, sold and consumed.

• Elizabeth Ü at Food Craft Institute
  
  65 Webster St, Oakland CA
  June 24, 2013, 12:00 pm

  Elizabeth will be one of three instructors for the Food Craft Institute's Business Intensive, June 24-28 in Oakland, CA. For more information, and to register, visit: http://www.foodcraftinstitute.org/courses/business-intensive

• Elizabeth Ü at Food Craft Institute
  
  65 Webster St, Oakland CA
  July 20, 2013, 9:00 am

  Elizabeth will give a workshop at the Food Craft Institute in Oakland, CA on July 20th. This will be a part of the Jams, Sauces & Condiments Master Class.