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FMPP: Projects Awarded Grants in Fiscal Year 2008
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- Michigan: $1,000 to the City of Ithaca, Mich., for recruiting and training of vendors; and promoting the Ithaca Farmers Market through advertising to increase new vendor awareness and participation.
- Michigan: $13,167 to the City of Allegan, Mich., to revitalize the Allegan Farmers Market by adding facilities and amenities, and promoting the market with an advertising campaign that educates consumers on the benefits of buying locally grown produce.
- Michigan: $25,941 to the Eastern Market Commission, Detroit, Mich., to train 180 vendors at the Eastern Market through a 10-month series of workshops in marketing, insurance, customer service, EBT, and safe food handling practices.
- Michigan: $44,725 to Michigan Food and Farming Systems, East Lansing, Mich., to increase access to farmers markets for low-income and diverse communities by creating a statewide working group to address the issues, develop and assess consumer education strategies; and promote the availability of EBT at farmers markets.
- Michigan: $5,000 to Nature’s Best Farmers Market, Fairview, Mich., a member-owned association, to assist in starting a new farmers market in Fairview, Mich.; and provide signage and promotional materials for the market.
- Minnesota: $49,170 to Farmers Legal Action Group, Inc., St. Paul, Minn., to provide technical assistance, legal education, and resources to assist beginning, immigrant, and minority farmers in conducting direct-to-consumer marketing.
- Mississippi: $31,585 to Indianola Main Street, Inc., Indianola, Miss., to train farmers to sell at a farmers market; to promote the Indianola Open Air Market through a multi-media approach, including the dissemination of consumer information through local schools and agencies; and to assess the results of the promotional campaign with surveys.
- Mississippi: $37,600 to Mississippi Fruit and Vegetable Growers Association, Poplarville, Miss., to conduct workshops and tours for 25 Mississippi farmers to learn about the profit potential of season-extending, high-tunnel production technology; and to purchase 25 high-tunnel production kits.
- Missouri: $59,500 to Friends of the City Market, Kansas City, Mo., to enhance the Wednesday Farmers Market in Kansas City, Mo., through recruitment of new vendors, encouraging an increase in local and ethnic farmer participation, and to promote the market and “Wellness Wednesday” to local seniors, minorities and low-income shoppers.
- Montana: $41,504 to Cascade City-County Health Department, Great Falls, Mont., to facilitate a WIC voucher program, provide education, and distribute promotional materials to encourage WIC consumers to use the vouchers at the Great Falls Farmers Market.
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