In honor of National Women’s Day, we wanted to recognize a very special and hard-working Davieyell. As an unemployed, single mother of five children, Davieyell was struggling to stay afloat. Without stable housing or a means of transportation, Davieyell was desperately searching for a way out of her rough situation when she came across the […]
Meet our Beaver Street Enterprise Center’s Business of the Month, Preferred Whole Life Coaching! The President and CEO of Preferred Whole Life Coaching, Debra Jones Lewis (pictured) offers motivational, communications, and life coaching to individuals, using her decades of counseling and speaking experience to offer helpful workshops and sessions to individuals, couples, and groups […]
This summer, Fresh Futures, an initiative of Fresh Ministries, Inc. is partnering with Jacksonville’s Police Athletic League to work with over 180 youth across Duval and Nassau County. These students, aged five through 19, are currently on basketball and swim teams that implement a Prevention Plus Wellness curriculum called SPORT. The curriculum incorporates activities and […]
In order to alleviate food insecurity in U.S. Virgin Islands and Africa, FreshMinistries has partnered with the network of Agribusiness Economic Development Centers to create agribusiness functions around state-of-the-art climate controlled greenhouse farming. These programs will combine education and hands-on training and production of farm-raised fish and fresh produce for areas that import nearly all […]
Meet the newest addition to our FreshMinistries’ family – Omar Simmons! Omar became a part of FreshMinistries over a year ago as a Case Manager and mentor of the Fresh Path program, but only recently took on the full-time position as the Fresh Futures’ Program Coordinator. Prior to FreshMinistries, Omar worked with athletes at […]
Before receiving training at the LifePoint Career Institute, Joy was struggling to find employment. She was several months behind on rent, struggling to buy necessities, and didn’t have much hope for the future. After just 10-weeks with the team at LifePoint Career Institute, Joy was taught how to professionally present herself at a job interview, […]
Benjamin Nzabarinda and Erica Ramos, both refugees, joined the Native Fresh team in December of 2017. These two have been an extraordinary part of Native Fresh’s growth. Benjamin and Erica show up to the #greenhouse daily with the drive to work hard and make an impact in the community. Ben and his family moved to […]
“Would you like to volunteer as a tutor?” asked my grandmother. I had no idea how this simple question would be the catalyst that would transform my values and purpose. Up to that point, I did not have very many responsibilities other than schoolwork and after-school clubs. So, being the easily-agreeable person that I am, […]
At the age of 15, Tyrone Morgan enrolled in Fresh Futures after a man from a local church told him about FreshMinistries and their youth employment program. Tyrone was determined to join a program that would lead him to a brighter future and felt that joining Fresh Futures was the perfect path to take. Fresh […]
Jacksonville-based FreshMinistries, Inc. has teamed up with South African Archbishop Desmond Tutu to make the nonprofit’s aquaponics agricultural initiative global in an effort to fight world hunger. FreshMinistries, founded in 1989, aims to end extreme poverty by empowering people living in impoverished and high-crime neighborhoods. Under the direction of Rev. Dr. Robert V. Lee III, FreshMinistries […]