2022-459-E-Health-Transplanting Traditions-Outside agency agreement

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Program information Page 10 of 33 AGENCY INFORMATION Please provide the following information about your agency: 1. Date of Incorporation (Month/Year): February 2018 2. Agency’s Purpose/Mission (no more than a few sentences): Transplanting Traditions Community Farm (TTCF) works with refugees from Burma to foster a healthier community and maintain agricultural traditions as they build new lives in North Carolina. The heart of TTCF is an eight-acre farm in Orange County where refugee families grow food, build farm businesses, celebrate culture, and create a sense of home. The farm is at the core of TTCF’s Youth Leadership programs, providing space for refugee youth ages 5-17 to explore identity, leadership, culture, and community, and also supports TTCF’s hunger reduction programs including “Share a Share”, an innovative model that provides food insecure refugee families a share of the culturally appropriate traditional produce grown by TTCF farmers. Founded in 2009 as a project of the Orange County Partnership for Young Children, TTCF became an independent 501(c)(3) in August 2018 to focus more deeply on serving refugees through the lens of food, agriculture, and social justice. TTCF provides resources and support for refugee families to come together to foster a healthier community, gaining income while maintaining valuable agricultural traditions as they build new lives in the Piedmont of North Carolina. 3. Please provide a brief description of your organization’s past achievements in carrying out similar projects and evidence of successful record of meeting proposed budgets and timetables (no more than 100 words). Since 2011, refugee farmers in TTCF’s business and leadership development programs, collectively earned $987,000 in income. More than 97,000 pounds of produce grown by TTCF farmers reaches approximately 650 community members and 1,751 food insecure refugees bi-monthly through the “Share a Share” food access program. TTCF began its refugee teen leadership program in 2013 and since then has overseen the program’s growth and national recognition by providing educational opportunities and leadership support for refugee teenagers. In addition, the refugee Children Education Program works two-fold providing childcare and summer learning enrichment through tutoring and camps for refugee children. 4. Living Wage: Does this agency pay permanent employees a minimum living wage? (Yes / No) Yes If yes, is this agency an Orange County Living Wage Certified Employer? No If no, please briefly explain. Transplanting Traditions has not completed the certification process; however we pay all employees and contractors a minimum of $18 p/hr EXHIBIT A: PROVIDER'S OUTSIDE AGENCY APPLICATION DocuSign Envelope ID: F38AEFE6-1D08-4C4C-8C40-AA9F3F782631