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PRESS INFO for Project Roots AZ
About Dionne Washington
Dionne Washington is a local Arizona native with a background in business administration, event planning, and fundraising. She went back to school after having her three children and completed her undergraduate degree in Business Management and her Masters' Degree in Business Administration at Grand Canyon University.
Dionne is passionate about feeding the community and is responsible for all community relationships, grants and fundraising as well as serving as a local food purchaser on behalf of Project Roots in Arizona. Last year Dionne along with the help of the PR Team distributed over 50,000 pounds of food during the pandemic to those with food insecurities. Many of the food banks that Dionne helped distribute food to, were the same food banks she and her siblings ate from when they were younger.
About Project Roots AZ
Project Roots” is a 501(C)3 nonprofit is addressing food hunger in Arizona by offering fresh locally grown food to those with food insecurities. Project Roots grows food for local food banks, agencies, veteran centers, senior centers and schools. They also offer produce online and deliver (to certain locations) or you can pick up your produce or flowers at the Downtown Phoenix Farmers Market. The nonprofit seeks to provide and promote a healthier, natural, and more sustainable way of living in urban areas where there is a need. www.projectrootsaz.org
About The Project Roots Wellness Collective
The Project Roots Wellness Collective offers access to yoga practice, workshops, and training to the Phoenix community. The mission of this collective project is to co-create a welcoming, community-rooted wellness collective that supports diversity and inclusiveness and the integration of people, practices, and principles. The focus is creating a space for yoga practices dedicated to supporting the wellbeing of underserved and special populations. More info here.
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Video Interview with two of our Board Members!
Gov. Hobbs passes $300,000 tree-planting bill
How south Phoenix groups want to use state marijuana dollars for 'justice reinvestment'
Phoenix Nonprofit Rooted In Gardening-Based Holistic Health
Phoenix nonprofit plans to seek grant from fund created by marijuana legalization.
-Matthew Casey
Proposition 207 authors carved out money from the legalization and regulation of recreational marijuana for what they called a justice reinvestment program.
A local nonprofit is asking people to tell them how cash from a namesake fund should be spent.
Project Roots plans to seek a grant once government officials send out a request for proposals.
State law says justice reinvestment programs can be an effort to address the underlying causes of crime or a push to reduce the prison population.
Right now the nonprofit’s Executive Director Dionne Washington is inviting people to voice their thoughts at listening sessions scheduled for each Thursday in September.
“We want to know, what does community justice reinvestment look like to them?” said Washington.
State law breaks down how money from the justice reinvestment fund gets divided.
Seventy percent is supposed to finance grants to nonprofits from state and county health departments.
The rest is to be spent on public health issues affecting Arizona
Phoenix fellowship cultivating the next generation of urban farmers
Phoenix fellowship cultivating the next generation of urban farmers.
One city is offering fellowships to encourage young people to farm - WPTV- News
