Experience

Fair Finance Fund

• Canada
• Financial Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Project Manager

  • Apr 2018 - Present

• Project Manager

  • Jun 2018 - Present

  The Fair Finance Fund was developed in 2018 as a social finance fund for the local food and farm sector. We provide affordable loans to entrepreneurs in the local food and farm sector who can show clear social and environmental benefits.



Sally Miller Consulting

• Owner/ manager

  • May 1996 - Present

  Sally Miller Bio Sally Miller (BA Princeton, MA, PhD Cornell University, MES York University) has worked in co-op management and co-op development for almost twenty years both in Canada and in the U.S. She has extensive experience as a researcher, consultant and manager in a variety of organic and natural food and agriculture co-operatives and enterprises, as well as other non-profit sectors. She has been designing and facilitating workshops and trainings for over twenty years for community groups, non-profits and co-ops. She was a founder of the Fourth Pig Worker Co-op in 2007, a co-op dedicated to the design and installation of alternative energy, and to natural home-building. From 2009-2012, she worked with Toronto’s West End communities to develop one of Canada’s first non-profit multi-stakeholder co-ops, the West End Food Co-op. She has also published a book on innovative approaches to achieving a more equitable and sustainable food system (Edible Action, Fernwood Publishing, 2008), and serves on various co-op and ENGO boards. Most recently she was named a Metcalf Innovation Fellow to research farmland protection. She has worked on farm financing research for FarmStart, and as a Project Coordinator for the Local Organic Food Co-ops Network. She worked from 2015 as Toronto Research Coordinator for an international research project on city region food systems. Most recent publications include a book on the culture of property relations in North America (Belongings: The Fight for Land and Food, Fernwood Publishing 2016). Show less



City Region Food Systems Project

• Toronto Research Coordinator

  • Sep 2015 - Present

  Toronto’s City-Region Food System Assessment (CRFS) project (2015-2017) examines the flows, impacts, barriers, opportunities and policies in the food system across the Greater Golden Horseshoe. Toronto’s City-Region Food System Assessment (CRFS) project (2015-2017) examines the flows, impacts, barriers, opportunities and policies in the food system across the Greater Golden Horseshoe.


Local Food and Farm Co-op
• Canada
• Non-profit Organizations
• Project Manager

  • Jun 2014 - Feb 2019

West End Food Co-op
• Financial Coordinator

  • Jan 2009 - 2012


Fourth Pig Worker Co-op

• Founder/ worker

  • Nov 2008 - Jan 2010

  Provided fund-raising, basic construction work, co-op development and governance support, communications and strategic planning Provided fund-raising, basic construction work, co-op development and governance support, communications and strategic planning