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Burten,Bell,Carr Development Inc.

BBC’s Sub-Site VISTA project for 2013 will be to continue our MC2 Project—Market, Café, and Community Kitchen. MC² is a comprehensive intervention designed to improve access to healthy affordable foods and promote health education. This project is designed around developing a Market, Café and Community Kitchen in the Kinsman neighborhood of Cleveland. Opened in Fall 2012, the Market, Mobile Market and Cafe now provides access to fresh and healthy food for neighborhood residents and the Community Kitchen will provide cooking demonstrations, nutrition education, and farming instruction and training. Ten new permanent jobs have been created and filled by local, low-income residents, which has provided a career pathway for unemployed residents of very poor communities. This is in alignment with Ohio CDC’s VISTA Healthy Futures objective. The VISTA will assist in key components of this project—primarily coordination of the Mobile Market and coordination of the community kitchen activities. The Mobile Market is a truck that will deliver produce for sale throughout the low income Kinsman and Central communities. By building the infrastructure and framework for both activities, the VISTA’s project will allow the organization to continue providing such needed activities through the MC2, thereby building the organization’s capacity to bring residents out of poverty and provide healthy futures, even after the VISTA’s term of service is over. These components of the project should be sustainable in two years.

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Member Duties : The Mobile Market is a truck that will deliver produce for sale throughout the low income Kinsman and Central communities. Coordination will involve: • Working with local government officials to obtain the necessary permits for operation • Working with local vendors to schedule and obtain produce to sell • Building partnerships with neighborhood institutions to develop market sites • Creating a schedule and marketing said schedule for market • Creating a tracking system to monitor sales and low-income resident participation The Community Kitchen will provide nutrition education and cooking demonstrations for low-income residents. The VISTA will assist by: • Working with our many partners to design and schedule nutrition education seminars • Working with our partners to design and schedule cooking demonstrations • Marketing said cooking demonstrations and nutrition education seminars • Developing methods to utilize and track volunteers to assist with project

Program Benefits : Relocation Allowance , Living Allowance , Childcare assistance if eligible , Health Coverage* , Training , Choice of Education Award or End of Service Stipend .


*For details about AmeriCorps VISTA healthcare benefits, please visit https://americorps.gov/members-volunteers/vista/benefits.

Terms : Prohibits paid work outside of the sponsoring agency at any time .

Service Areas : Education , Community and Economic Development , Health , Community Outreach , Neighborhood Revitalization .

Skills : Fund raising/Grant Writing , Community Organization , Conflict Resolution , Communications , Writing/Editing , Computers/Technology , General Skills .



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SUMMARY
Program Type:
AmeriCorps VISTA

Program
Burten,Bell,Carr Development Inc.

Program Start/End Date
06/24/2013 - 06/23/2014

Work Schedule	Full Time

Education level
High school diploma/GED

Age Requirement
Minimum: 18 Maximum: None

Program Locations	OHIO Cleveland/ Akron

Accepting Applications
From 03/20/2013 To 04/22/2013

Contact	Joy Johnson
7201 Kinsman Rd
Cleveland OH 44104
216-341-1455
mhosom@ohiocdc.org

Listing ID	38109


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