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Outreach Projects, Please Contact the Outreach Staff, Regional Offices Or RMA Web Site United States Dear Outreach Community: Department of Agriculture On behalf of the Risk Management Agency (RMA), we are proud to present “RMA’s Fiscal Year Farm and Foreign 2009 Community Outreach and Assistance Partnership Projects.” This publication provides a Agricultural brief synopsis of seventy-nine diverse outreach initiatives funded by RMA under the Community Services Outreach and Assistance Partnership Program (announced during fiscal year 2009 and delivered throughout fiscal year 2010). Risk Management Agency Program recipients and beneficiaries clearly represent the diversity of the USDA’s underserved population that includes women, African Americans, Asian Americans, Hispanics, Native 1400 Independence Americans and other traditionally underserved farmers and ranchers. Avenue, SW Stop 0801 Washington, DC The 2007 Census of Agriculture shows an increasing number of demographically diverse farm 20250-0801 operators and owners (30 percent more women as principal farm operators; 10 percent more Hispanic operators; and increases in American Indian, Asian, African American and young and beginning farmers and ranchers). In light of this, RMA is placing a strong emphasis to ensure Outreach Partnerships are made available to this growing population and representation of the new American agriculture. RMA’s partnership programs are also reaching out and serving the growing number of small-farm operations focusing on organic, value-added, specialty production, on-farm energy crops and operations, food and farm safety, food deserts (urban and rural), community-supported agriculture, U-Pick and agri-tourism and other agriculture enterprises. Community-Based Organizations were awarded approximately 75 percent of the partnership agreements. Their geographic locations coupled with their cultural knowledge and community credibility make them invaluable partners in RMA’s continued efforts to reach our customers and potential customers. The remaining 25 percent of awardees includes land grant colleges and universities (1862, 1890, 1994), Hispanic Service Institutions, State Department of Agriculture, community colleges and other institutions of higher education. Through our partnerships and outreach, traditionally underserved farmers and ranchers have greater opportunities to increase their understanding and knowledge of risk management tools and programs necessary to achieve economic viability. RMA looks forward to continuing these positive and beneficial collaborations in the coming years. We invite you to visit the partner’s web sites or call them directly to learn more about a specific project. To obtain more information on RMA’s programs and outreach projects, please contact the outreach staff, regional offices or RMA web site: www.rma.usda.gov Sincere appreciation, /s/ William (Bill) Buchanan William (Bill) Buchanan, Director Civil Rights and Community Outreach Risk Management Agency Community Outreach and Assistance Partnership Program November 2010 William Buchanan, Director Eastern Region – States Served Civil Rights & Community Outreach 1400 Independence Avenue, SW, Room 6702-S Jackson Regional Office Washington, D.C. 20250-0805 Arkansas, Kentucky, Louisiana Phone: (202) 690-6068 Mississippi, Tennessee Fax: (202) 720-1585 [email protected] Raleigh Regional Office Connecticut, Delaware, Maine, Maryland, David Wiggins, National Outreach Program Manager Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, (USDA Detail) Civil Rights & Community Outreach New York, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, 1400 Independence Avenue, SW, Room 6714-S Rhode Island, Vermont, Virginia, West Virginia Washington, D.C. 20250-0805 Phone: (202) 690-2686 Springfield Regional Office Fax: (202) 690-1518 Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Ohio [email protected] Valdosta Regional Office Michelle Wert, Management and Program Analyst Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Puerto Rico, Civil Rights & Community Outreach South Carolina 1400 Independence Avenue, SW, Room 6712-S Washington, DC 20250 St. Paul Regional Office Phone: (202) 690-1687 Iowa, Minnesota, Wisconsin Fax: (202) 690-2496 [email protected] Western Region – States Served Ron Brown, Eastern Program Outreach Specialist Billings Regional Office Civil Rights & Community Outreach Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota, 4405 Bland Road, Suite 160 Wyoming Raleigh, NC 27609 Phone: (919) 875-4896 Davis Regional Office Fax: (919) 875-4915 Arizona, California, Hawaii, Nevada, [email protected] Utah Rudy Perez, Western Program Outreach Specialist Oklahoma City Regional Office Civil Rights & Community Outreach New Mexico, Oklahoma, Texas 430 G Street, Suite 4168 Davis, CA 95616-4168 Spokane Regional Office Phone: (530) 792-5875 Alaska, Idaho, Oregon, Washington Fax: (530) 792-5893 [email protected] Topeka Regional Office Colorado, Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska Jay Howard-Brock, National Outreach Assistant Civil Rights and Community Outreach 1400 Independence Avenue, SW, Room 6714-S Washington, DC 20250 Phone: (202) 690-4789 Fax: (202) 690-1518 [email protected] i Regional Outreach Coordinators Tara Beley George Montgomery Billings Regional Office Diane Eggleston 3490 Gabel Road, Suite 100 St. Paul Regional Office Billings, Montana 59102 30 East Seventh Street, Suite 1450 Phone: (406) 657-6447 St. Paul, Minnesota 55101-4937 Fax: (406) 657-6573 Phone: (651) 290-3304 [email protected] Fax: (651) 290-4139 [email protected] Sandy Sanchez [email protected] Davis Regional Office 430 G Street, Suite 4168 Jo Lynne Seufer Davis, California 95616 Spokane Regional Office Phone: (530) 792-5870 11707 E. Sprague Avenue, Suite 201 Fax: (530) 792-5893 Spokane Valley, WA 99206-6125 [email protected] Phone: (509) 228-6320 Fax: (509) 228-6321 Roddric Bell [email protected] Helen Ward Jackson Regional Office Jennifer Dammerman 803 Liberty Road Springfield Regional Office Flowood, MS 39232 3500 Wabash Avenue, Suite B Phone: (601) 965-4771 Springfield, Illinois 62707 Fax: (601) 965-4517 Phone: (217) 241-6600 [email protected] Fax: (217) 242-6618 [email protected] [email protected] LaShaun Smith Mary Lynch Donna Reynolds Topeka Regional Office Oklahoma City Regional Office 3401 S.W. Van Buren Street 205 NW 63rd Street, Suite 170 Topeka, Kansas 66611 Oklahoma City, Oklahoma 73116 Phone: (785) 228-5525 Phone: (405) 879-2700 Fax: (785) 228-1456 Fax: (405) 879-2741 [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Janice Moore Valdosta Regional Office Warren L. Hawkins (Team Leader) 106 South Patterson Street, Suite 250 Sandra Strayhorn Valdosta, Georgia 31601 Warte Moore Phone: (229) 219-2200 Mary Staak Fax: (229) 242-3566 Raleigh Regional Office [email protected] 4405 Bland Road, Suite 160 Raleigh, North Carolina 27609 Phone: (919) 875-4880 Fax: (919) 875-4915 [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] ii Risk Management Agency Civil Rights and Community Outreach FY 2009 Project Directory PAGE PROJECT NAME PROJECT PROJECT DIRECTOR NO. and RECIPIENT AREA Deliver Risk African American Melvin Bishop Management Training Family Farmer, Inc 706-485-0004 or 706-473-2768 to socially 347 Milledgeville Rd. [email protected] disadvantaged Eatonton Ga. 31024 1 Farmers and Ranchers; to increase their survivability and sustainability An Innovative Alcorn State University Dr. Gregory Reed, PI Financial Risk Mississippi Small Farm 601.877.3933 Management Program Development Center [email protected] 3 for Small-Scale and 1000 ASU Drive #1080 Ms. Velma Oliver, Co-PI Limited-Resource Alcorn State, MS 601.877.6570 Farmers 39096-7500 [email protected] American Indian American Indian Beverly Colllins-Hall Mothers, Inc. Risk Mothers Inc. 910-843-9911 5 Management Program 1211 Wagonwheel Rd. [email protected] Shannon, NC 28386 Appalachian Grown: Appalachian Charlie Jackson Risk Management thru Sustainable 828-236-1282 Capacity Building and Agriculture Project [email protected] 7 Marketing Initiatives 306 West Haywood St. Asheville, NC 28801 Increase Markets and Appalachian Denise Ann Barrett Profitability for Sustainable 276-623-1121 Limited Resource Development [email protected] 9 Farmers in Appalachia P.O. Box 791 Abingdon, VA 24212 Year 2: Building Local Arkansas Land and Dr. Calvin King, Sr & Regional Marketing Farm Development 870 734 1140 Capacity with Corporation [email protected] 11 Resource Produce P O Box 743 Growers Brinkley, AR 72021 Facilitating California Farmlink Bruce Shimizu Mentorships for P O Box 2224 (707) 829-1691 x 103 Young Beginning and Sebastopol, CA 95473 [email protected] Underserved 13 Farmers: Managing Risk through Peer Relationships iii Risk Management Agency Civil Rights and Community Outreach FY 2009 Project Directory PAGE PROJECT NAME PROJECT PROJECT DIRECTOR NO. and RECIPIENT AREA Food Safety and Community Food Andrew Fisher Liability Insurance Security Coalition 503-954-2970 Voice Mail Box 1 Issues for Limited 3830 SE Division [email protected] 15 Resource Farmers Portland, OR, 97202 Kristen Markley Marketing to 717-240-1361, Ext 2 Institutions [email protected] Maximizing Success Community Involved in Kelly Coleman in the Marketplace as Sustaining Agriculture, 413-665-7100 a Risk Management Inc. [email protected] 17 Tool 1 Sugarloaf Street, South Deerfield, MA 01373 Exploring Horizons, Community Teamwork, Jennifer Hashley Growing New Farmers Inc c/o New Entry 617-636-3793
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