Partnerships and Coalitions Blog Post

Partnerships:

  1. Jawara
    1. What constituted the partnership?
      1. He is an employee of the venture
    2. How did the partner help you? How did you help them?
      1. He runs our day to day activities growing mushrooms and he is our hands on the ground with our experiment.
    3. Was this a symbiotic relationship?
      1. Yes because we paid him.
    4. What would help strengthen this partnership and make it more equitable?
      1. Communication is occasionally hard. We would do better with more time spent training him.
  2. John Pecchia
    1. What constituted the partnership?
      1. We corresponded with him over email about growing mushrooms and visited Penn State
    2. How did the partner help you? How did you help them?
      1. He gave advice on what we were doing wrong and gave us ideas on how to adapt our processes. He got nothing other than a hand in creating impact
    3. Was this a symbiotic relationship?
      1.  No
    4. What would help strengthen this partnership and make it more equitable?
      1. Involve him more as our actual advisor. He could go to Salone. We can give him credit for stuff
  3. Matthew Sicher
    1. What constituted the partnership?
      1. He is a knowledgeable grower in PA
    2. How did the partner help you? How did you help them?
      1. He gave us a lot of knowledge and ideas about how we can improvise with the materials that we have.
    3. Was this a symbiotic relationship?
      1. No, Matthew is just nice.
    4. What would help strengthen this partnership and make it more equitable?
      1. We did buy some spawn from him so that is nice. We can also give him more credit for his help or involve him further.
  4. World Hope
    1. What constituted the partnership?
      1. They support us on the ground. We found them through Khanjan’s relationship with them in Sierra Leone
    2. How did the partner help you? How did you help them?
      1. We help them by bringing technical knowledge/knowhow and they help us with implementation and Sierra Leone specific knowhow
    3. Was this a symbiotic relationship?
      1. Yes
    4. What would help strengthen this partnership and make it more equitable?
      1. Continuing our work and scaling up our venture so that their goal of impact can be met
  5. Sheku
    1. What constituted the partnership?
      1. He was a nearby carpenter.
    2. How did the partner help you? How did you help them?
      1. We employed him and he provided invaluable services for a good price.
    3. Was this a symbiotic relationship?
      1. Yes
    4. What would help strengthen this partnership and make it more equitable?
      1. Sheku wants us to employ his kids after he is too old to help us.

 

What is the larger cause that our project stands for!

Ideal world: Everyone has the tools to create circular ecosystems to create food and have absolutely zero waste. Increasing access to healthy nutritious foods.

EVERYTHING IS MUSHROOMS

everything

Our Coalition

  • Name : Earth Food
  • Stakeholders

Our team, World Hope, SLARI, the malnutrition team, investors

  • Opinion leaders

Us, world hope, community leaders and local farms who we’ve helped, spread the world through personal connections.

  • Policymakers

SLARI, local governments

  • Resource partners

Farmers around Sierra Leone or anyone with the desire to grow, anyone producing waste, WWOOF, Farmers from more privileged areas

  • Signaling partners

Who would add legitimacy: World Hope and SALRI

 

What we do:

We have lots of organizations that we can draw from to help organize sustainable farming. The scope of the coalition is Sierra Leone.

Teach countries (starting in Sierra Leone) how to properly utilize their resources and their countries’ ecosystem to create healthy foods in a sustainable way.

This would be a grassroots movement so to speak. Educating locals and spreading through word of mouth and proximity.

Once we have developed successful practices for farming our organization would grow and develop a strategy to impact regulation.

 

One thought on “Partnerships and Coalitions Blog Post”

  1. Great job – it seems like a lot of your partners are individuals so far, which is okay, but it might be interesting to consider if there are organizations in the area whose missions would align with the project. Also, as a former member of the Cambodia mushroom team, I love that “EVERYTHING IS MUSHROOMS”

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