[FMC] Now recruiting FMC Fellow for trans•act research

[Stacy Miller]

marketumbrella.org and the Farmers Market Coalition are now accepting
curriculum vitae / résumés from trans•act fellow candidates who are
interested in learning how community economic development, public health and
community building can merge together in a mutually reinforcing way.  The
fellow will coordinate on-the-ground research efforts at eight farmers
markets in Los Angeles this summer. Please see the attached position
announcement for a Farmers Market Coalition Fellow to work with the
trans•act project in Los Angeles starting later this spring. Due to the
accelerated hiring process, some preference will be given to applicants
already living in the Southern California region. Visit
www.marketumbrella.org/transact/ for more information about the project and
a full FMC Fellow description.

The selected trans•act FMC fellow will be sponsored by the Farmers Market
Coalition (FMC), and work three months as full-time equivalent (FTE) with a
competitive stipend for the duration. S/he will work directly with the New
Orleans team (the senior fellow of trans•act, and the management of
marketumbrella.org), the Executive Secretary of the FMC, and the SEE-LA
local team. S/he will have opportunities to interface all of the
participating local farmers markets in southern California – all of the
SEE-LA farmers markets as well as Kaiser Permanente (KP) farmers markets in
the southern California area.

*What is Trans*•*act?*

trans•act tests the hypothesis that public markets in general, and farmers
markets in particular, are not just good for local food producers and
consumers. They, in fact, are good for communities overall because they
build social cohesion, particularly among groups that otherwise have little
reason or opportunity to interact, such as rural farmers and urban
consumers; rich and poor; old and young; black and white. We call this
threefold set of benefits a "triple bottom line" because they have the
capacity to build three types of capital: financial capital, or profits,
benefiting farmers; human capital, or health, happiness, and other benefits
to consumers; and social capital, which we define as community cohesion or
TRUST, benefiting communities as a whole. By understanding these benefits
and how they accrue, we can begin to communicate to various constituencies
why and how they may wish to utilize farmers markets.

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Stacy M. Miller
Executive Secretary
Farmers Market Coalition
stacy at farmersmarketcoalition.org
304-685-2669
www.farmersmarketcoalition.org
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