Sun Valley Institute for Resilience

Idaho Gives is May 1st to 4th. A gift now helps get local food on every plate in our community. Idaho Gives challenges the residents of Idaho to support the organizations that make our communities strong! Are you ready to make this our most successful Idaho Gives?

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Locally Grown Guide

Published annually, the free Wood River Valley Locally Grown Guide connects residents and visitors to high-quality seasonal food produced in our regional foodshed.

Impact Idaho Fund

The Impact Idaho Fund attracts and mobilizes mission-driven capital for innovative projects advancing community resilience in central and southern Idaho.

5B Resilient

5B Resilient enhances access to climate action resources, increases community and individual skills that promote self-reliance, and increases visibility of existing and new opportunities for resilience related actions.

Open the possibility for resilience at farms and businesses.

Build relationships through collaboration!

Make an investment in our community!

TESTIMONIAL

"As a relatively new farm, we are so grateful for the work SVIR has already done with the Locally Grown Guide and Elevated Table farm-to-table dinner series. But what they're doing with the Impact Idaho Fund is the next level."

Briana Swette, Lookout Farm

TESTIMONIAL

“Community is about people and place. Among our biggest challenges locally and globally is to create stable and sustainable economies while practicing responsible stewardship of our most essential resources like water and energy. This is the nature of resiliency. What we learn and accomplish here can have the broadest applications.”

Larry Schoen, four-term blaine county commissioner

TESTIMONIAL

“We greatly appreciate Sun Valley Institute and Local Food Alliance's unwavering support of local food producers. The Wood River Farmers Market Association is excited to continue our partnership and we look forward to future local food accomplishments."

Katie Zubia, Wood River Farmers Market Board President

TESTIMONIAL

“There may be no greater concern for investors than climate risk, yet very few have begun taking the next step – consideration about resilience. The Sun Valley Institute for Resilience is pioneering this discussion like no other."

Dana Lanza, CEO and Co-founder, confluence philanthropy

TESTIMONIAL

“Everywhere I travel, inside the United States and worldwide, I’m finding small communities struggling to figure out how to meet basic needs of food, energy, water, and so forth in a world that appears more wobbly and uncertain every day. The Sun Valley Institute for Resilience holds the promise of providing them much needed hope, ideas, and guidance.”

Michael Shuman, Director of Local Economy Programs for Neighborhood Associates Corporation

TESTIMONIAL

“Our parents and students both loved the SPROUT Kits you provided. The kids have been coming to school all week to give reports on their bean salsa and planting activities! What a great way for families to interact with our local food system.”

SPROUT Kit Participant

The Problems We Face

52% of our valley's households are below the poverty line and struggling to afford basic household necessities.

In 2021, 57% of Blaine County is in a severe drought and 12% is in an extreme drought.

Home prices between 2016 and 2018 increased by 33% while median income went down.

More than 90% of what Blaine County residents eat is imported while over 90% of what is grown in Blaine County is exported.

Tourism and recreation account for almost 66% of our local economy.

Over 20% of Wood River Valley residents live with some level of food insecurity.