Mobile Market/Urban Farm Partnership Receives Funding

Written by CommunityEngagement on April 22, 2015. Posted in News.

The mobile market/urban farm partnership that Dr. Marianne LeGreco (Communication Studies) and many of her students work with was just funded by the USDA for almost $100,000. The Guilford County Department of Health and Human Services received a $99,987 National Food Insecurity Nutrition Incentive (FINI) grant. The Mobile Oasis Farmers Market project is a collaboration between Guilford County’s Division of Public Health, Vision Tree CDC, East Market Street Development Corporation, the City of Greensboro’s Parks and Recreation Department, Guilford County Cooperative Extension and the UNCG Department of Communication Studies.

More news is expected about this story, please check www.communityengagement.uncg.edu/news/ for more updates.

Reposted from Campus Weekly

civic engagement, grants