Growing Opportunities: Marketing Outreach and Business Development

Growing Opportunities Farm Community Cooperative is a non-profit community service cooperative. The organization’s objectives are to alleviate poverty, provide nutritious fresh produce to people in need, provide employment for people with barriers and challenges, build community resilience, and mitigate climate change.

Growing Opportunities provides inclusive skills training, work experience and employment for people with barriers to employment including diverse abilities (disabilities) at their Community Farms. We partner with other organizations that offer skills training and work experience for people with challenges and barriers. Growing Opportunities provides nutritious, fresh, local produce to low income individuals and families.

The MiTacs funded marketing and communications and administration intern will be working with the Growing Opportunities management team to:

Develop and implement business marketing strategies to promote Growing Opportunities, the Community Farms Project and special events via conventional media, social media, the website, press releases, videos, images, memes, and blogs.

Contribute to the creation of a summer series of fundraisers, festivals and celebrations at the Cline Agri-Health farm, to bring a wide cross-section of community members from varying backgrounds to the farms so they can see the scope of the work and the programs and enjoy the farm as a community space.

Faculty Supervisor:

Selena Martin

Student:

Partner:

Growing Opportunities Farm Community Cooperative

Discipline:

Business

Sector:

Agriculture

University:

Vancouver Island University

Program: