featured projects
White Boot Brigade
Go Fish on Film
Crescent City
Farmers Market
We encourage anyone interested in the field of public markets to attend the 7th International Public Market Conference. First class speakers from the Bay Area, the US, and around the world will be on hand to deliver lectures, workshops, and breakout sessions, share wisdom gained from their years dedicated to the movement, and encourage participants to creatively respond to today’s and tomorrow’s emerging challenges.
A unique coalition of artists, community groups, churches and business owners will celebrate Louisiana shrimpers Saturday, December 13th at the Sankofa Marketplace, a monthly event that helps spur restoration, community development and economic growth in the Lower 9th Ward. The White Boot Brigade is one of marketumbrella.org's Peak Season Brigades.
Executive Director of marketumbrella.org, Richard McCarthy, and Director of Research and Evaluation, Emily Schweninger, attended the 2008 Funders Forum on Sustainable Gulf Coast Transformation in Mobile, Alabama this November. The forum provided an opportunity for national funders to learn about the needs of the Gulf Coast region through a three-day dialogue with each other and practitioners in the field. This year’s forum focused on the themes of sustainability and innovation, ideas at the core of marketumbrella.org’s work.
Learning, sharing and growing, marketumbrella.org cultivates community markets that utilize local resources to bolster authentic local traditions. We believe that ambitious social, health, environmental and financial goals are achieved if trust and respect are present. We envision communities of market umbrellas, like flowers in the field, opening all over the world for the public good.