The following groups are presenting the 2009 World on Your Plate Food Forum:

• The World on Your Plate, a coalition of individuals and groups who work together to restore the earth by promoting sustainability for farmers, farm workers, and consumers alike; to advance education and action on issues of food safety, security, and sovereignty; and to create a table where all are welcome.

• Daemen College Center for Sustainable Communities and Civic Engagement, whose mission is to partner faculty and students with communities in order to promote civic responsibility that leads to communities that are healthy, safe, and vital, and that will remain so for future generations.

• Indigenous Women’s Initiatives, which seeks to empower Native women of all ages who reside within the Haudenosaunee or Six Nations/Iroquois territory and which seeks to educate the public about Indigenous Peoples.

• The Massachusetts Avenue Project (MAP), which seeks to nurture the growth of a diverse and equitable community food system to promote local economic opportunities, access to affordable, nutritious food, and social-change education. The “EAT-UP” Youth Conference is a project of MAP and Growing Green, its youth urban agriculture program.

• Riverside-Salem United Church of Christ/Disciples of Christ, which has this motto: Our faith is rooted in the ancient struggle for social justice and Jesus' law of love in social relationships. We believe in the integrity of creation, justice, and peace; in the dignity and value of labor; in working in interfaith networks and coalitions. We are an Open and Affirming congregation. We work for sustainable development. We give thanks for heaven and earth, the diversity of species, the song of hope, the beauty of being, the dynamic of love.

• Western New York Peace Center, a non-profit group dedicated to responding on urgent local and global peace-related crises throughout the world and in our communities. Commitment to peace through justice at home and abroad.