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Read all about EPNI’s community meetings, educational programming, ownership model development efforts, fundraising and more in our 2024 growth report, linked here.

🌻 Sign up to get updates and event announcements through EPNI’s email list

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🌻 Volunteer with EPNI Our volunteer teams continue to work on:

• Raising awareness and sharing about the journey toward community-led, sustainable development

• Shutting down other public health threats to the neighborhood (like Bituminous Roadways and Smith Foundry)

• Organizing events that build and support community.

• Growing and teaching people how to grow nourishing food

• and much more!

We always appreciate help with translating and interpreting, flyering, tabling, grant-writing, mentoring, consulting, and maintaining solidarity with other local Environmental Justice movements. Sign up here.

🌻 Donate to EPNI

In September of 2024, EPNI secured a one year extension of our purchase agreement deadline with the City of Minneapolis.

Now EPNI expects to complete our purchase by September 2025. (Until then, the City of Minneapolis retains control of the site)

Getting the building ready for commercial tenants could cost as much as $20 million. That money will come from a mix of grants, foundations, public agencies, investors, and loans. You can chip in here!

Based on ongoing community input over the past 10 years, we prioritize organizations and businesses with plans to bring fresh food, green jobs, clean energy and financial equity to East Phillips. We’ve received 70+ inquiries from interested tenants. Here are some of the emerging plans.

• An indoor urban farm, fertilized in part by a large-scale aquaponics operation

• A local print shop

• The largest epicentral solar array in the country, build in collaboration with Cooperative Energy Futures

• A cafe

• Cultural markets

• Collaborative art-making spaces

• Have an idea? Email our program director, Joe Vital, at joe@epnifarm.org

You bet!