Goals
- To conduct a series of "Vendy Award"-style street food cook-offs
- To give prizes for top vendors in 3-5 cities and towns across US
- To celebrate hard-working vendors and other immigrant entrepreneurs
- To impact US debates about immigration, food, and small business
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Overview
Our project will take our popular Vendy Awards, which celebrate street food culture and immigrant entrepreurship, on a national tour across the U.S. We will crown the "best food vendor" at cook-off festivals in various cities and towns, raising national awareness about immigrant vendors and all they bring to our communities. This will crystallize what has already become a national movement around street food while impacting policy debates about immigration, small business development/the economy, and food culture/sustainability.
Deliverables:
3-5 "Vendy Award" events in cities and regions across the US. 30 participating vendorsminimum 5,000 festival attendeesminimum 50 appearances in local and national media outlets
How will the 25K be Used? |
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| Budget Notes: We expect to defray part of the project costs by taking donations at each of the events. | |
| $ 5,000 | event publicity (posters, local newspaper ads, etc.) |
| $ 10,000 | event planning expenes (permits, tents, sound systems, etc.) |
| $ 5,000 | travel expenses for critical staff |
| $ 5,000 | miscellanous (trophies, video rental, etc.) |
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