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When fully funded, the Growing Hope Center will operate year round, both making our programs and services more accessible and serving as an anchor of revitalization by providing indoor and outdoor gathering and learning spaces.

The Center will set a visible and undeniable example of progress and success in an urban setting, by:

• Dramatically increasing our ability to demonstrate and provide hands-on training for gardening, urban farming, healthy eating, and garden-based entrepreneurship.
• Making food production more accessible and affordable to community members by creating a center for storing, lending, selling and donating tools, books, equipment and building materials.

• Providing space where volunteer labor can be utilized to grow thousands of seedlings and build hundreds of raised bed kits and rain barrels that can be utilized both for donations and providing a sustaining revenue stream.
• Nurturing local businesses through garden-based enterprises including growing herbs for wholesaling to local restaurants, producing vegetables for sale online and at the farmers’ market, and training local under-employed workers for jobs in urban agriculture and local food industries.
• Increasing the locally grown supply of fresh foods available for sale and donation by further integrating our hoophouse and its 10-month growing capacity into our operations.
• Enhancing our internal capacity and organizational sustainability by providing new revenue streams and providing space for fee-based programs.
• Solidifying Growing Hope as a hub for urban agriculture and training for Washtenaw County and Southeast Michigan.

• Building upon our existing media and community relationships to showcase the successful rebirth of Ypsilanti and our region.

Support the campaign today with a pledge of any amount!  Click on "Donate Now" above, and specify when you make your gift that it is designated for the Growing Hope Center.