Meeting w/ Teddie Brown

Meeting with Teddie Brown:

Largest group coming into Durham - Latino group

Other barriers:

Transportation of women to cooking site – hard to carry food – getting
food to the site –

Shopping/delivery: lots of transportation issues, somewhere that basics could be stored

Take a geographic area – walk to center?

Computer classes - also something to look into

Empowerment of women – nice ideas

Start in a small venue – find a partner, like Emily K Center – Church that Emily K is attached to Immaculate Conception Catholic Church (682-3449) – Project done with this group, called Unidos por Durham – UPD – collaborative relationships – Ankit Shrivastava – great person to contact, ask for his connections, bounce ideas off of

Work with a church, perhaps?

General food – got a problem, try serving Latino food (traditional Latino food) – large site, could be a hospital

Names of people:

- Marleah Rogers – mrogers@emilyk.org, 919-688-3382, 910-603-3200

- Laurie Gardner – lgarder@emilyk.org

- Alba Onofrio, Executive Director of El Centro Hispano – aonofrio@elcentronc.org, 919-687-4635 x 43, 919-308-9919

When talking to people, tell them that we are exploring the possibility of an idea that we have generated in a class

How hard is it to set up a stand – daily at 11 am where people would get used to coming.

Marketing/networking-what’s possible, what makes sense, where would we find the population that we are looking for.

Met at a central location – where they are cooking the food

Chamber of Commerce – any depts. that work with fledgling businesses that have gone through this process, Work First Program

Other resources: www.durhamchamber.org