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FMPP: Projects Awarded Grants in Fiscal Year 2008
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- Indiana: $56,680 to Indiana Cooperative Development Center, Inc., Indianapolis, Ind., to conduct a series of five seminars for market vendors focused on business planning, record keeping, demographic trends and consumer purchasing patterns, food safety and handling, and WIC and EBT payments. Additionally, a Market Master Boot Camp will be offered as part of the seminars to assist managers in providing market rules, strategies, and guidelines.
- Indiana: $42,130 to the Clinton County Economic Advancement Foundation, Inc., Frankfort, Ind., to develop and implement special programs focusing on education, strategic planning, recruitment of new market partners and stakeholders, waste removal via composting, and equipment and market outlets for new farmers and vendors. Additionally, the project will implement diverse marketing strategies and provide low-income seniors weekly transportation to the Clinton County Farmers Market.
- Indiana: $2,455 to City of Kendallville, Ind., to promote the Kendallville farmers market through signage and local TV, newspaper, and radio advertisement.
- Indiana: $35,625 to Eagle Creek Nature Conservancy and Preservation, Inc., Zionsville, Ind., to develop an education and promotional campaign; pilot a transportation and delivery system for farmers at the Green Market at Traders Point, which will include a direct-marketing campaign with advertising and promotional events; and purchase low-cost, hot houses for winter and organic production for farmers.
- Iowa: $42,280 to Buy Fresh Buy Local—Siouxland, Inc., Sioux City, Iowa, to extend the outreach of the market to underserved WIC and SCFMP participants by improving accessibility and visibility through advertising, an interactive Web site, and market enhancements; and by creating a bilingual educational program to inform customers about availability of foods, how it can be purchased, and which vendors accept WIC and SCFMP vouchers.
- Kansas: $66,100 to the Kansas Rural Center, Inc., Whiting, Kan., to train the managers of the 70 Kansas farmers markets through statewide conferences and workshops, follow-up teleconferences, and a Web site and booklets giving information on aspects of managing markets. Training will include practical aspects of market management, including production, promotion, and business management.
- Kansas: $62,372 to Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kan., to support CSA farms in the Kansas City area. The program will train farmers to run CSA operations, survey local consumers to assess interest in CSA’s, and educate and organize consumers. The project will also emphasize, but not be limited to, organic farmers and consumers.
- Kentucky: $49,346 to Jackson Purchase Resource Conservation and Development Foundation, Inc., Paducah, Ky., to increase consumer and vendor participation in the Farmers Market of Murray-Calloway County by surveying interest and consumer demand, training market vendors in crop diversification and best management practices, and developing an advertising and promotional campaign to inform the large local Hispanic, student, and senior population about the benefits of the market.
- Kentucky: $63,050 to The Kentucky Farmers’ Market Association, Sparta, Ky., to develop a step-by-step guide for farmers markets to help them decide whether the technology for EBT and debit card acceptance is cost-effective, and to implement a successful food safety and Good Agricultural Practices program at the market.
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