2024 FLH CELEBRATION
Join Us At Our Fannie Lou Hamer Legacy Celebration Dec.5th, 2024!
The 13th annual Fannie Lou Hamer Legacy Celebration is the primary fundraising event for Project New Village, and 2024 marks the 30th anniversary of our organization! We’re pulling out all the stops this year, including hosting the event at a new venue – Park & Market downtown. This brand new, modern space is the perfect backdrop for an evening filled with recognition and celebration!
This ticketed event will feature delicious food, drinks, our Food Equity Awards presentation, music, dancing and much more… with 100% of the proceeds going towards our Build The Village campaign!
Buy your tickets now, and reserve your spot at this momentous year-end celebration!
Our North Star
Fannie Lou Hamer was born on October 6, 1917 in Montgomery County, Mississippi, the 20th and last child of sharecroppers Lou Ella and James Townsend. She grew up in poverty, but rose from humble beginnings in the Mississippi Delta to become one of the most important, passionate, and powerful voices in the fight for human rights.
Mrs. Hamer succumbed to breast cancer in 1977, but not before leaving behind a legacy of activism that continues to resonate today. It is her legacy that has inspired and informed Project New Village’s current efforts to create an Equitable Food-Oriented Development project in Southeastern San Diego. Modeled after Mrs. Hamer’s Freedom Farm project, The Good Food District is a place-making effort centered on urban agriculture and creating access to healthy locally-sourced good food throughout our neighborhoods.
OUR FUNDRAISING GOAL
We’re Raising $50,000 Towards Building The Village in SESD
100% of the proceeds from this event will go towards building The Village, an innovative community food hub that will be located in Mt. Hope. The Village will forever improve the food landscape in Southeastern San Diego by uplifting hyper-local food growers, improve access to healthy food, and create a community connection to health and wellness through a revitalized food system that benefits all.
Our 2024 Food Equity Awardees
Delicious Food
Enjoy an assortment of delicious, plant-based plates catered by the Morse High School Culinary Program. Featuring locally-sourced produce, this cuisine is sure to impress both in flavor and in the culinary skills of these chefs-in-the-making!
We’re proud to uplift these students in their culinary journeys and to support such a wonderful program and opportunity that Morse High School provides.
Complimentary Cocktails
We’ll have Tito’s Vodka on hand providing different adult beverage options at their event pop-up bar. Non-alcoholic beverages will also be available at the event.
Come Celebrate 30 With Us!
Not only is this an important fundraising year for us, but 2024 signifies a very special milestone in our history – the 30th anniversary of our organization! This year represents big changes happening within our organization – we’re acquiring more growing spaces in SESD as part of our Rooted Resources, our People’s Produce Mobile Farmers Market truck is now regularly serving twice as many sites as last year with even more on the horizon, and most notably we began predevelopment on building The Village, which will transform our Mt. Hope Community Garden property into a multi story mixed-use community food hub, the first of it’s kind in Southeastern San Diego!
Our 2024 Sponsors
