The vision for Regional Outreach Training Centers is to provide Growing Power’s technical training support at the local level as an expansion of Our Vision: Inspiring communities to build sustainable food systems that are equitable and ecologically sound, creating a just world, one food-secure community at a time. A Regional Outreach Training Center, or ROTC, will be able to host an annual Growing Power, “From the Ground Up” type workshop for the region and will receive support to plan and develop a Community Food Systems project inspired by Growing Power’s Community Food Center and Projects.

ROTC components:

• provide workshops and education
• create green jobs
• Improvements to the environmental health of the area
• Compost and worms for community projects/residents
• House and operate working Aquaponics systems
• Develop other programs and initiatives that move community food systems forward
• Host an Annual Growing Power “From the Ground Up Training”
• ROTC will be able to use GP name to advertise trainings
• Ability to fundraise to pay for Growing Power’ s fee for services; Includes staff day rate; travel, hotel, and per diem; and Materials for workshops, systems construction, printing of curriculum (detailed lists provided by GP)

Growing Power will:

• assist in developing partner’s ability to provide local trainings
• provide community food systems project planning and site plan and assessments
• contribute to the development of growing infrastructure (compost/vermicompost systems, hoop greenhouse construction, aquaponics, food distribution program design, and logistical development-transportation of produce
• establish five year Memorandum of Understanding that clarifies expectations for ROTC host partner and Growing Power’s role in evaluating the ROTC’s progress toward achieving benchmarks identified in the project plan
• provide an annual 1-2 day training hosted by ROTC partner and offered to the community at large for a reasonable “market rate” fee; advertise event on our web site and e-newsletter
• assist ROTC leaders to train staff to farm and manage systems in Milwaukee, WI via intensive training program (Fee for training)

Want to become an ROTC site? Pre-requisite for ROTC site:

• attend all five months Commerical Urban Agriculture Training
• strong leadership in place
• organization must own the land they will be farming on

If you meet all three criteria, please complete ROTC application and return to will-at-growingpower.org.

We are working nationally in conjunction with the following organizations:

Seven Harvest, Inc.
http://7harvest.org/about/
Forrest City, Arkansas
Barry & Diane Colley: barrycolley-at-sbcglobal.net OR diannecolley-at-sbcglobal.net

Breaking New Grounds
http://www.breakingnewgrounds.org/
Louisville, Kentucky
Sarah Fristchner sfritschner-at-gmail.com
Gary Heine: garyh-at-heinebroscoffee.com

Detroit Black Community Food Security Network
Detroit, Michigan
http://detroitblackfoodsecurity.org/
Eugene Barnes: amenra628-at-aol.com
  
Lynchburg Grows
Lynchburg,VA
http://www.lynchburggrows.org/
Michael Van Ness: michaelv-at-lynchburggrows.org

Feed Denver
Denver, CO 
http://www.feeddenver.com/
Lisa Rogers: info@feeddenver.com
Phone: 303-513-7548

Women’s Environmental Institute

Almelund, MN

http://www.w-e-i.org/
Contact: wei [at] w-e-i.org

Mississippians Engaged in Greener Agriculture (MEGA)
Mound Bayou and Shelby, Mississippi
Dorothy Grady and Cornelius Toole North South Institute Davie

Fort Valley State University
Fort Valley, Georgia
Dr. Mark Lattimore

South Madison Market http://www.southmadisonfarmersmarket.com/ Wisconsin Partner: Robert Pierce

North South Institute
Davie, Florida
Dr. Samuel Scott

Milwaukee Headquarters:  5500 W. Silver Spring Drive, Milwaukee, WI 53218

Store &Market Basket Hotline: 414.527.1930 Office Tel. 414.527.1546 l Fax 414.527.1908

Chicago Projects Office:  1741 N. Western Avenue, Chicago, IL 60647

Tel. 773.486.6005