Support Mountain Farm Community Grocery

Your support for Mountain Farm Community Grocery
reduces hunger
increases food security
supports work, agricultural, and entrepreneurship training
and creates
Mountain Farm Community Grocery as a community reinvestment project.

Your donation toward $20,000 enables Mountain Farm Community Grocery to:

-complete the full purchase of  a building for the grocery to be able to open a pilot by this fall.

-pay for flood and liability insurance and legal services to acquire the full grocery space

Mountain Farm Community Grocery is a project of Economic Development Greater East (EDGE)--www.edge-us.org, an all-volunteer nonprofit. 

EDGE is reaching out to corporations, foundations, and writing grants for additional funding toward full completion of this site. It currently recently has raised $8k in private donations toward a $30k reimbursement fund to use for its $134k grant from the USDA that can only be used for site renovation and grocery store equipment. 

Learn more about Mountain Farm Community Grocery at the following links:
https://www.wvnstv.com/top-stories/volunteer-organization-trying-to-create-community-grocery-in-mcdowell-county/

https://youtu.be/b8tN4e9482k

https://www.herald-dispatch.com/opinion/gazette-mail-editorial-effort-to-bring-fresh-food-to-mcdowell-a-huge-step/article_043fcfb9-7a95-514d-af12-64b98d0fa112.html

https://www.wvgazettemail.com/news/group-works-to-open-community-grocery-in-food-insecure-mcdowell-county/article_782a57e9-5e3e-5ec4-95d1-f2a988c5210e.html

https://www.bdtonline.com/news/non-profit-seeks-to-bring-new-grocery-to-longtime-food-desert-in-kimball/article_42770644-8aac-11eb-ac39-17c11afad5ec.html?fbclid=IwAR1KoAPshJHk_7UwgaXd2I-KcX764gALicY4d1QyBLP_o-nqFhN6kONlO-4#utm_campaign=blox&utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social







Organizer

Atlas (Amelia) Charles
Organizer
Berwind, WV
Economic Development Greater East Edge Incorporated
 
Registered nonprofit
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