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==Current initiatives==
FreshMinistries works to achieve the [[United Nations]]' [[Millennium Development Goals]] (MDG) to eliminate poverty through a number of initiatives. Current projects include: 

*'''Fresh Futures Youth Program''', helping more than 100 young people each year to gain life skills and summer employment. Fresh Futures is a year-round educational and youth employment initiative for youth ages 14–19. The program focuses on using education and social outreach to help adolescents set healthy goals, succeed in school and work, and improve their mental and physical well-being.  Qualified students are placed in summer jobs through partnerships with employers throughout the community.
*'''Fresh Path Youth Program''' supports young adults that have come into contact with the criminal justice system. The mission of this program, funded with a grant from the U.S. Department of Labor, is to address the educational and employment barriers of court-involved youth and young adults. The program assists court-involved youth in finding work and economic mobility.
*'''Life Point Career Institute''' has trained more than 900 unemployed and underemployed individuals for employment in the hospitality and healthcare fields. The Institute provides training in nursing, hospitality and aquaponics farming, as well as job search assistance, personal development and a computer learning center. Eighty-seven percent of program graduates gain employment and retain their jobs for more than 9 months.
*'''Beaver Street Enterprise Center''' is the only business incubator in the Jacksonville region, launched as an initiative of FreshMinistries with support from the Jacksonville Economic Development Corporation in 2003. Located in the City's northwest quadrant in both State Enterprise and Federal Empowerment Zones, the Center has helped launch more than 100 new businesses, created more than 2000 new jobs and generated more than $300 million in economic impact. BSEC was voted International Business Incubator of the Year by the National Business Incubator Association in 2010.
*'''Native Fresh Aquaponics''': FreshMinistries opened a 6,000-square-foot aquaponics training center in Jacksonville in 2017, raising fish and marketable produce. In 2015, FreshMinistries received a $1.98 million grant from the U.S. [[Economic Development Administration]] to launch an aquaponics training center in the U.S. Virgin Islands, which is under development.