Khuba International Funder Data Room

Land as the organizing infrastructure

Khuba International’s strongest funder-facing position is as a land-centered community infrastructure organization rooted in Tompkins County and connected to broader Black, Indigenous, immigrant, and diaspora land stewardship networks. Its work begins with land: a 16-acre teaching farm in Ithaca connected to hands-on youth education, community agriculture, forest stewardship, and practical pathways for producers seeking access to land, markets, and technical support. The organization’s value is not limited to one program. Khuba convenes farmers, landowners, youth, educators, foresters, public agencies, and community partners around the daily work of growing food, caring for land, sharing cultural knowledge, and building cooperative forms of ownership and stewardship. For funders, the opportunity is to strengthen an operating anchor that already has local trust, program evidence, and a clear land-based strategy.

This language should be reviewed by Khuba leadership and refined with local detail, participant voice, and current program documentation before sharing with funders.