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N. Diane Moss Receives ‘Leaders in Belonging’ Award From Prebys Foundation

March 1, 2024

Prebys Foundation, the largest private foundation in the San Diego region, announced the recipients of its new Leaders in Belonging initiative. The effort provides unrestricted awards of $100,000 each to five community advocates working to advance inclusion, justice, and sustainability in the greater San Diego region. This annual award is designed to provide leaders with vital support that will allow them to continue their work and help them build movements for change.

N. Diane Moss, Managing Director of Project New Village is one of the five awardees. The award fund will be used to support organizational capacity building to create and operationalize “The Village”, which is our equitable food oriented development project. The Village will serve as a resiliency center for Southeastern San Diego. It will contain a neighborhood grocery store, healthier food eateries, a commercial kitchen, community garden and more.

As we make way for the future, we invite you to join our efforts to embrace food sovereignty and food justice in our neighborhoods!  Much gratitude to the Prebys Foundation!

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Expanding the Growers Collective

February 21, 2024

Izzy Rosado, Program Assistant, Project New Village

The Grower’s Collective is a network of neighbors that are passionate about gardening and growing food for our Southeastern communities. The goal of this project is to create health and wellness in the region, to form a community of practice through urban agriculture. 

How exactly do we do this? Project New Village hosts meetings for growers to share information and resources – demonstrating the power in learning from one another. To support our hyper-local food production, we purchase produce from neighborhood growers and provide financial and technical support to those that want to expand their growing efforts (or start growing!).

Karen Wynn found that her macadamia nut trees were producing more than she could harvest. In turn, dozens of pounds would go wasted every season. Now, we are purchasing these macadamia nuts to be sold on the Mobile Farmer’s Market truck, where customers get to put a name to a locally grown food source.

Another proud moment for the grower’s collective includes the expansion of WenMor Urban Farm, where PNV provided support for a tree planting event. Ian Moreland and Nichelle Wentz put 26+ bareroot trees in their backyard to start a food forest in the heart 

of Southeastern San Diego. 

If you would like to learn more on joining our Good Food District map, everyone is welcome to attend our meetings on the 2nd Saturday of the month at the Mt. Hope Community Garden from 9:00 a.m. to 10:30 a.m.

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