Growing Power scores $5 million to feed our nation’s hungriest cities

Growing Power scores $5 million to feed our nation’s hungriest cities | Grist

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Growing Power scores $5 million to feed our nation’s hungriest cities

Young urban farmers. (Photo by kt_ries .) Food-justice organization Growing Power — with its now-iconic greenhouses, composting worms, fishponds, and multiple generations of graduates — is well-known as a model worth replicating. Now, Growing Power has announced a bountiful $5 million grant from the W.K. Kellogg Foundation to fund “community food centers” aimed at relieving hunger in five of the nation’s poorest areas. Modeled on Growing Power’s Milwaukee farm-headquarters , the centers will be located in Detroit; New Orleans; Forest City, Ark.; Shelby, Miss.; and Taos, N.M. “It’s all wrapped around providing healthy, sustainable, local food to folks, especially our youth,” explains Will Allen, founder and director of Growing Power. “Many of the young people in those communities go to bed hungry every night.” The grant was actually awarded in January 2011, but wasn’t forma...

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@johnsoncenter » 15 Oct '12, 5pm
Growing Power awarded $5 mil from @WK_Kellogg_Fdn to help feed the 5 hungriest cities in America [link] #philanthropy
@CuisineEnLocale » 11 Oct '12, 3am
RT @BostTreeParty: Congrats to @GrowingPower for winning a $5 million grant to expand their great work in relieving hunger in the US! [link]
@BostTreeParty » 11 Oct '12, 12am
Congrats to @GrowingPower for winning a $5 million grant to expand their great work in relieving hunger in the US! [link]
@AnonymousAgri » 26 Sep '12, 7pm
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@FunesMemory » 25 Sep '12, 6pm
RT @SustnblFlatbush: Growing Power scores $5 million to feed our nation’s hungriest cities [link]
@Zelbinian » 25 Sep '12, 6pm
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@Alternativascc » 25 Sep '12, 3pm
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@LivingOrganic1 » 25 Sep '12, 11am
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@salleeyee » 25 Sep '12, 7am
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@taylorwcbrown » 25 Sep '12, 6am
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@ATJGardenSupply » 24 Sep '12, 3pm
RT @WeLiveGreen: $5mil grant to food-justice org to create farm HQs for 5 hungry cities: [link] #HappyMonday
@WeLiveGreen » 24 Sep '12, 3pm
$5mil grant to food-justice org to create farm HQs for 5 hungry cities: [link] #HappyMonday
@e_benjafinn » 24 Sep '12, 12pm
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@MDFarmlink » 23 Sep '12, 12pm
Will Allen, director of Growing Power in Detroit, get $5 M to expand into 5 new areas of the country!... [link]
@Celesta1013 » 23 Sep '12, 1am
Will Allen's Growing Power will spread urban ag to hungry cities in US! [link]
@balanceoffood » 22 Sep '12, 2pm
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@horsehillberry » 20 Sep '12, 2am
sounds like a food hub to me #yegfoodag "@GrowingPower 2 build Community Food Centers w $5 Mill grant @WK_Kellogg_Fdn [link]”
@WK_Kellogg_Fdn » 19 Sep '12, 11pm
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@ccts79 » 19 Sep '12, 9pm
RT @FRESHthemovie: Awesome! @growingpower nabs $5m grant for community food centers in 5 hungry cities: [link]
@JimBarrows » 19 Sep '12, 12pm
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@OrganicDarla » 19 Sep '12, 1am
Growing Power scores $5 million 2 feed nation’s hungriest cities [link] MT @grist @edibleschoolyrd ✮ tremendous win! Congrats
@katie_german » 19 Sep '12, 12am
5 million for Growing Power to set up community food centres? YES! [link]
@RaisingBoychick » 18 Sep '12, 9pm
RT @sesmithwrites: Replicating a successful urban farming initiative nationwide: [link] (cc: @gowanmetal)
@LauraHogan5 » 18 Sep '12, 9pm
Big news from Milwaukee @GrowingPower! MT @grist: $5 million grant for community food centers in 5 of US poorest areas [link]
@edibleschoolyrd » 18 Sep '12, 9pm
A tremendous win! Congrats @GrowingPower! MT @grist: Growing Power scores $5 million 2 feed nation’s hungriest cities [link]
@aKrossTyme » 18 Sep '12, 9pm
@beautecarino check it out. I worked on this project with Tougaloo College in Jackson, MS. [link]
@sesmithwrites » 18 Sep '12, 9pm
Replicating a successful urban farming initiative nationwide: [link] (cc: @gowanmetal)
@aKrossTyme » 18 Sep '12, 9pm
RT @greenforall: YEAH! Model food-justice group Growing Power gets $5M to relieve hunger in 5 of poorest US areas. | [link]
@greenforall » 18 Sep '12, 9pm
YEAH! Model food-justice group Growing Power gets $5M to relieve hunger in 5 of poorest US areas. | [link]
@localfoodhub » 18 Sep '12, 9pm
So amazing! RT @grist @GrowingPower gets $5 million grant to fund “community food centers” in nation’s poorest areas [link]
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@magirck » 18 Sep '12, 8pm
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@grist » 18 Sep '12, 8pm
Growing Power has announced a $5 million grant to fund “community food centers” in 5 of the nation’s poorest areas: [link]
@Ozoshare » 18 Sep '12, 8pm
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@NuriahLaMeiga » 18 Sep '12, 8pm
RT @eatsustainable: Community Food Centers 2 be built by @GrowingPower with $5 Million grant from @WK_Kellogg_Fdn [link]
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@yayayarndiva » 18 Sep '12, 6pm
RT @grist: Growing Power scores $5 million to feed our nation’s hungriest cities [link] -- Mud Baron (@Cocoxochitl)
@DLampo1218 » 18 Sep '12, 6pm
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@CompassionV » 18 Sep '12, 5pm
RT @SlowFoodUSA: Community Food Centers 2 be built by @GrowingPower with $5 Million grant from @WK_Kellogg_Fdn [link]
@SlowFoodUSA » 18 Sep '12, 5pm
Community Food Centers 2 be built by @GrowingPower with $5 Million grant from @WK_Kellogg_Fdn [link]
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@thetroublebaker » 18 Sep '12, 5pm
#EntitledToFood MT @drgrist: Growing Power scores $5 million to feed our nation's hungriest cities [link] Great story.
@drgrist » 18 Sep '12, 5pm
Food-justice organization Growing Power scores $5 million to feed our nation’s hungriest cities [link] Great story.
@GMOFreeUSA » 18 Sep '12, 5pm
Kellogg Foundation grants $5mil to Will Allen Growing Power Foundation [link]
@mtgauger » 18 Sep '12, 5pm
RT @nancyquinn: Growing Power scores $5 million to feed our nation’s hungriest cities | Grist [link]