January 2025
This report presents year 1 evaluation results for the initiative, including grantee progress and areas of impact and grantee evaluation activities.
The Food Justice Initiative aims to advance food justice in Minnesota by ensuring community access to healthy, affordable, and culturally relevant foods without barriers. It is a multi-year funding initiative of the Center for Racial and Health Equity.
This report presents year 1 evaluation results for the initiative, including grantee progress and areas of impact and grantee evaluation activities.
Part of Sharing Our Roots farm, the Community Connector Program was started in 2019 as a strategy to engage the community to improve food security and sovereignty for immigrant families in the Northfield-Faribault area. It is a grantee of the Food Justice Initiative. This summary presents results of focus groups with gardeners and interviews with Community Connectors. Questions focused on understanding the experiences of gardeners and Connectors, learning what motivated them to become involved in the garden, and what challenges or feedback they had about the program.
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