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FMPP: Projects Awarded Grants in Fiscal Year 2008
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- North Dakota: $12,500 to Northwest Venture Communities, Inc., Minot, N.D., to enhance and expand the existing eight farmers markets in rural northwest North Dakota and to develop two new markets through a direct marketing campaign, which will include consumer and producer education programs utilizing university specialists, and advertising and marketing materials.
- Ohio: $57,109 to the Corporation for Findlay Market, Cincinnati, Ohio, to recruit, train, and provide start-up resources for approximately five new farmers to grow produce on vacant urban lots to sell at the Findlay Market; create a composting system to recycle food wastes from the market; utilize the compost to fertilize locally-grown fresh produce; and redesign a conventional token dispensing machine to accept EBT-issued cards.
- Ohio: $42,547 to Chillicothe Farmers’ Market Association, Chillicothe, Ohio, to launch a multi-media advertising campaign; implement an EBT, debit, and credit card purchasing system to increase farmers’ incomes; and organize a community clinical assessment, information, and educational health fair to highlight the importance of incorporating healthy eating habits.
- Ohio: $36,500 to Appalachian Center for Economic Networks, Athens, Ohio, to build a new market network that supports the growth of emerging farmers markets in a rural, three-county area by recruiting and training vendors; increasing markets sales viability with the redemption of EBT, WIC, and the Senior Farmers Market Nutrition Program (SFMNP) allotments; and linking the three markets to one another and leveraging the assets and EBT expertise of the Athens Farmers Market, an established regional market.
- Ohio: $23,250 for the Farmers’ Market Association of Toledo, Ohio, to revitalize the Toledo Farmers’ Market through the implementation of a strategic business plan that includes wireless EBT, debit, and credit card technology; and a marketing campaign to promote the use of this new electronic commerce.
- Ohio: $53,636 to the Ohio State University Research Foundation, Piketon, Ohio, to implement a multi-faceted professional development model for farmers’ market managers, their boards, vendors, and farmers that leverages web-based training, social networking, learning forums, coaching, and mentoring.
- Oregon: $35,000 to Central Oregon Intergovernmental Council, Redmond, Ore., to promote and create sustainable farmers markets in the region of Central Oregon by increasing consumer and farmer participation in farmers markets; expanding access to markets by acquiring five EBT terminals; and cultivating a Web-based regional marketplace.
- Pennsylvania: $13,454 to White Dog Community Enterprises, Philadelphia, Pa., to purchase new equipment to increase product shelf-life, storage capacity, and display space for the Fair Food Farmstand at the Reading Terminal Market, a year-round public market.
- Rhode Island: $50,000 to Rhode Island Rural Development Council, North Kingstown, R.I., to conduct educational seminars for new vendors to sell at farmers markets and other direct-marketing venues; and to develop a statewide “Rhode Island Grown” marketing campaign to promote local agricultural products.
- South Carolina: $9,442 to City of Greenville, S.C., to increase participation in the Saturday Market with an educational campaign to inform citizens of Saturday bus routes to the market.
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