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

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Program information P a g e 11 o f 32 outline what we seek to achieve. following highlight the organizational goals that outline our racial equity work most explicitly. The goals are outlined at the end of this response. In addition to working towards increased racial equity through our organizational goals, we also promote racial equity through direct representation in our organization’s makeup. We focus on TTCF’s inclusive organizational structure and culture, and the strategic steps we’ve been taking to ensure our work, internally and externally, is actively anti-racist. At present, seven of TTCF’s 11 staff and AmeriCorps members are from the community of ethnic minority Southeast Asian refugees we work with. They span business development, farm management and design, greenhouse management, food distribution, youth education, and media and communications. Our Executive Director, Ree Ree Wei, is the daughter of two of our longest-standing partner farmers, Zar Ree and Lion Wei, who resettled in the U.S in 2006. We are thrilled to be working as a team on increasing refugee representation across TTCF’s decision-making roles and on our board. Three of our current staff are former TTCF Youth Program participants, and the staff for our Children’s Summer Camp as well as our tutoring program are current and former Youth Program participants. Moreover, five staff members are also individuals that have active farm businesses at TTCF, or previously were active farmers. TTCF is accountable to refugee farmers in our community and to the larger refugee population across the state. By aligning our organization’s leadership and internal structuring with the values and culture of the farmers and farming families we work alongside, we aim to help advance long-term racial and refugee justice. Accordingly, our project is setting up new systems, including training, mentorship, and other support, so that rising leaders in our community are well-equipped to steward a financially and programmatically successful operation, far into the future. We are also redesigning how we fund both projects and people, and plan to incorporate more sustainable funding models, for instance, increased funding of TTCF leadership by direct farm sales. For your reference, Transplanting Traditions’ current organizational goals are included here. A number of these we have already accomplished and others are already underway. • Be an organization whose culture, values, and mission support the leadership and vision of the refugee community from Burma o Objectives 1a: Increased & shared understanding and awareness of harmful and oppressive power dynamics that are visible and hidden and the impacts they have to TTCF and each person individually o Objective 1b: Increased anti-racist and non-oppressive practices as an organization and individually for all staff o Objective 1c: To have a mission, vision and programming that is anti-racist and is defined by the needs of the participants and the larger refugee community from Burma • TTCF to be led by and decisions made predominantly by the refugee community and participants from Burma. o Objective 2a: Define a culturally appropriate governing/board structure that supports the Executive Director, farmers and programming by end of 2022 o Objective 2b: Develop and form the new group of governance leaders/members by July 2023 o Objective 2c: Led by an Executive Director that identifies as a refugee from Burma and increased diversity throughout the staff. EXHIBIT A: PROVIDER'S OUTSIDE AGENCY APPLICATIONDocuSign Envelope ID: D2C31311-1A1A-4A30-9007-2F17D64E6227