PRAXIS – Building Knowledge for Action – works with organizations and groups to help them find and create the knowledge they need to improve their services and projects, to envision and develop new ones, and to take informed action to address change. We achieve these goals through program evaluation, community-based research, educational workshops, and other specialized services.
PRAXIS acts on the truest meaning of education -- to nourish and bring up. PRAXIS has drawn out my strengths as an educator, organizer, and social justice advocate and provided me with the support and tools to organize my community in Fremont County, Wyoming in our ongoing community food work.

Karl Sutton, Principal Investigator - USDA Community Food Projects Grant, Fremont County, Wyoming

Specialized Services

Sometimes the needs of community groups and organizations do not fit neatly into prescribed approaches such as program evaluation, educational training, and so on. We provide specialized services tailored to meet the unique needs of community groups and organizations. For example, PRAXIS worked on the following projects:

  • Grant writing to support research on a worker-model food cooperative, travel to site, data collection and analysis and presentation of finding to support the information and development needs of a newly forming food cooperative.
  • Consultation on a community food assessment to include steering committee meeting facilitation, narrowing down research questions, deciding on research methodology, and report review and editing.
  • Planning and facilitating town hall meetings to envision a sustainable local food system, discuss and identify resources, and recruit participants in action planning.

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A Community Food Assessment in Fremont County, Wyoming

Although more food is produced today, food security continues to be a problem and many farmers struggle to survive while a small percentage of large multinational corporations reap the benefits. A community food assessment seeks to address problems in the food system on a local level and to initiate a conversation among consumers, producers, and retailers to identify solutions that benefit the local community.

Fremont County, Wyoming initiated a community food assessment in 2007. A steering committee of community food system stakeholders conducted county-wide surveys, focus groups, individual interviews with farmers and ranchers, and facilitated a photovoice project with seniors and youth.

PRAXIS helped community organizers with the initial planning efforts and research methodology. Fremont County has now compiled useful information that will inform solutions for revitalizing the local food system.