Goals
- Provide an agriculture-based day program for adults with autism.
- Produce organically grown vegetables, meat and eggs for our community.
- Build an activity center and farm office to support our operations.
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Overview
The Hiram Farm Living and Learning Community is off to a great start. We are one of only a handful of programs in the country that provide an agricultural work setting for adults with autism. Our program opened in June, 2009 with 6 participants with autism and has more than doubled in size since then. But we have no building that can provide a base of operations for our program activities or our administrative office.
Our beautiful 120-acre farm has pastures, a large garden and two greenhouses. But our program and office space is now housed a half-mile from the farm. We don't even have basic facilities such as restrooms and drinking water on the farm. We must have a building on site in order to provide a quality program for adults with autism and make the farm as productive as it can be.
We plan to build a 2000sq ft energy efficient straw bale building. Much of the work will be done by volunteers. We have received many donations but we need this grant to complete the project.
How will the 50K be Used? |
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| Budget Notes: Will not be used for administrative overhead, marketing or additional fund raising. | |
| $ 50,000 | Purchase building materials, supplies and construction labor |
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