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LATE <br /> <br />PROGRAM INFORMATION 2/16/2018 1:09:05 PM Page 13 of 20 <br />• PORCH <br />• Refugee Community Partnership <br />• RSI <br />• IFC <br />• Homestart (IFC) <br />• PORCH <br />• TABLE <br /> <br />Program Description <br /> <br />Please provide the following information about the proposed program: <br /> <br />d) Summarize the program services proposed and how the program will address a <br />Town/County priority/goal? <br /> <br />The Donation Station program addresses the Human Services Priority Area #3: <br />Improving the health and nutrition of needy residents. <br />The Donation Station program meets this aim by collecting fresh, local food gleaned <br />from farmers at farmers markets and/or purchased from those farmers with funds <br />donated by shoppers. Each farmers market is paired with a partner organization of <br />their choice. Oftentimes, organizations are chosen by the market, because the <br />organization serves the most urgent hunger needs of the lowest income or <br />disadvantaged populations in the immediate community. The fresh food is delivered <br />the day it is donated. <br />The Donation Station Program is based on requests from the participants of our <br />partner organizations themselves. The project is also intended to support the <br />livelihoods of our local farmers. <br />e) Describe the community need or problem to be addressed in relation to the Chapel Hill <br />Human Services Needs Assessment, Orange County BOCC Goals and Priorities, Town of <br />Chapel Hill Council Goals, Carrboro Board Priorities, or other community priorities (i.e. <br />Council/Board Goals). <br /> <br />The Donation Station program provides fresh, healthy food to Chapel Hill residents <br />who cannot afford or who do not have access to nutritious food. This program is <br />designed to meet this significant human need identified by community stakeholders <br />in the Chapel Hill Human Services Needs Assessment. <br />The Donation Station Program invests in the Orange County economy by making <br />fresh food purchases from local farmers present at farmers markets. This program <br />helps build a healthy, sustainable food system by creatin g partnerships between <br />farmers and recipient agencies specifically outlined in Goal 3 of the Orange County <br />BOCC Goals and Priorities. Our organization also adheres to the values outline in <br />OC BOCC Goals and Priorities: Farmer Foodshare works to support loc al farmers, <br />while creating community through the practice of healthy eating.