2023-544-E-Health Dept-Transplanting Traditions -Outside Agency Agreement

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Program information P a g e 10 o f 32 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) facilitates resources and support for refugees and immigrants to foster a healthier community, improve livelihoods, and maintain agricultural traditions as they build new lives in North Carolina. The heart of TTCF is an eight-acre farm in Chapel Hill, 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 5-18 to explore identity, leadership, culture, and community, and also supports TTCF’s hunger reduction programs including the Health Food Access Program, an innovative model that provides food insecure refugee families a share of the culturally appropriate traditional produce grown by TTCF refugee farmers. Founded in 2009 as a project of the Orange County Partnership for Young Children, TTCF became an independent 501(c)(3) in 2018 to focus more deeply on serving refugees and immigrants through the lens of food, agriculture, and social justice. 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). TTCF has worked with 100+ refugee families throughout the area for more than a decade, providing food access, land access, training, infrastructure, administrative support, businesses development, child and youth education, and more to the refugee community. Through this work, TTCF refugee farmers have developed successful businesses, generating more than 1 million dollars in income and producing over 100,000 pounds of food per year, reaching more than 10,000 individuals, 20% of which are food insecure. TTCF youth and children program has worked with 121 participants since 2011, ensuring academic success, cultivating culture and leadership, many participants becoming leaders throughout the state. 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? Yes If no, please briefly explain. Schedule of Positions: # of FTE – Full-Time Paid Positions: 5 # of FTE – Part-Time Paid Positions: 4, 2 AmeriCorps VISTA positions Race & Equity Consistent with our commitment to equity and inclusion, the Towns of Chapel Hill and Carrboro and Orange County Government are taking steps together to center racial equity in the Human Services Funding Program. We are requesting basic information about your organization’s racial equity work. 5. How has your organization incorporated racial equity goals into your organizational goals? Each year, TTCF review and updates organizational goals based on input from participants, community members, board members, staff members and volunteers. In 2022, the goals were updated and while racial, cultural, economic, environmental and language equity and justice are embedded in all of our goals, our goals EXHIBIT A: PROVIDER'S OUTSIDE AGENCY APPLICATIONDocuSign Envelope ID: D2C31311-1A1A-4A30-9007-2F17D64E6227