2. Our Mission
Refuge Gardens works with refugee families in the Portland area who wish to improve their lives by accessing land to grow healthy, nutritious food for their families and create economic opportunity by marketing their produce in the community.

3. Impact Model Refuge Gardens Economic Opportunity Food Security
Social Participation
Skill Development
Food Security

4. Green Yellow Red Farm Workplan Goals
Increase Sales and develop marketing outlets
Improve program visibility and branding
Green
Enhance experience for returning growers
Improve data collection for community impacts
Yellow
Find stable funding source
Eliminate chokepoints and bottlenecks that threaten long-term program health
Red

5. We are helping families and communities find connection and purpose
Strength
We are helping families and communities find connection and purpose

6. Strength
We are strong in our direct marketing and continue to see growth in sales

7. Challenge
We are creating ways for people to connect with nutrition resources but how can we track that impact?

8. Challenge
We are helping to build skills and confidence but how do we form connections to opportunity?

9. Obstacle
We are struggling to find stable funding for the program and will have difficulty addressing persistent weaknesses with inadequate resources

10. Obstacle
During the growing season when most of our improvement projects can be implemented, management time, bandwidth, and geographical spread are major chokepoints to our success.

11. What’s it all mean?
Refuge Gardens in is a beautiful mess creating really good things in the world but struggling to address some of the persistent structural challenges that threaten it. It is not a sustainable situation but creates a lot of value.

12. Thanks Y’all!