User:INA REBECCA CHAPMAN DOSS/sandbox

Ina Rebecca Doss Chapman was born November 15, 1956 in Buffalo, New York and attended Buffalo Public schools. She is the youngest of six siblings the late Oria Bee, Inez Elizabeth, the late Duane Monroe, Shirley Elaine, Joyce Ann, born to the late Elizabeth and Monroe Doss. Minister Ina is Director of Health Initiatives for Gethsemane Missionary Baptist Church and St. John Baptist Church, two churches, two campuses and one village, and seventeen Corporations. Along with serving as Assistance to the Overseer she shares 48 years and five children, Kenyatta, Mikeyta (William), Tiffany, Tera & Michael II; thirty grandchildren, and 8 great grandchildren with her Soulmate, Overseer Michael Chapman, Pastor and CEO, and she is also the Chair and Co-Founder of the Buffalo’s Black Billion Dollar Initiative in Buffalo, New York a Comprehensive, Collaborative, Urban National Model that will bring a Billion Dollars in economic development, ministry, and programs in the Fruit Belt neighborhoods of the City of Buffalo over the next 10 years! This faith based, GOD driven initiative has been, and continues to be an economic engine for church based community development with 160 million dollars in assets on the ground, that includes: ●	400 units of housing ●	77 town-homes at a cost of 22.3 million dollars ●	4 Million dollar building owned by WECGOD II, housed a Preceding 8 bed, 2.8 million-dollar Hospice facility, which at the time of its construction, was the 1st in the US, connected to a church facility. Now converted to New Crisis Center also the first-of-its-kind respite and recovery model with focus on mental health. •	2 employment services ●	5 single family homes, where families received $80,000 apiece in subsidies. ●  30 Million Dollar renovation of 150 units St. John Senior Citizens Towers ●  57 Million Dollar renovation 150 units McCarley Gardens 3,4,5, bedroom units. Under the leadership and direction of Overseer Pastor Michael Chapman, Co- Founder and CEO of the Buffalo Black Billion Initiative. She has a long career in the health sciences and has several certifications from programs such as the American Society of Clinical Pathologists in Contemporary Issues in Flow Cytometry, the Beckman/Dickinson Immunocytometry Systems, Basic Radiation Safety from the University at Buffalo and the Baylor College of Medicine in Health Education. Believing that one should have balance in their lives, she also has certification as a fitness instructor and lifeguard.

For thirty-four years, Ina worked at Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center as a Medical Research Technician in Flow Cytometry, Radiation Medicine, and Cancer Control and Epidemiology. In 2002, she was appointed Executive Director of a National Breast and Cervical Cancer Project in Erie, Niagara, Chautauqua, Cattaraugus, Allegany, a cancer education replication and dissemination project, originating at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock. This project was one of thirty-two sites across the country in 2004. The primary goal of the project is to educate the African American community about breast and cervical cancer as well as emphasizing the importance of early detection of Breast and Cervical Cancer.

As Director, she worked with a dedicated team of over thirty staff and volunteers and is responsible for supervising training, conducting seminars and workshops for other organizations, and recruiting lay health advisors and role models. She also works with members of the community through businesses, churches, and community centers to teach women about breast self-exams and cervical cancer screening. During her employment was a member of the Roswell Park Alliance Annual Fund Committee and is a much sought after public speaker.

In 2003 and 2017, she began a new roles as the Pastor's Wife of the St. John Baptist Church and Gethsemane Missionary Baptist Church consecutively and succeeds in managing a delicate balance between work and church.

She has convened an exciting collaboration to develop The Garden of Gethsemane Urban Orangery and Agricultural Center within Buffalo’s Fruit Belt Neighborhood, to be established on property of Gethsemane Missionary Baptist Church. This project will include the installation of a 1,800 sq. ft. orangery greenhouse and will feature a fish hatchery, urban agriculture, butterfly and pollinator gardens, bee farm, and small scale fruit tree orchard. The remediation of contaminated soil with clean soil will be the first of its type in the Fruit Belt Community. In addition to the orangery, a partnership with Sam Van Aken artist and horticulturist Professor at Syracuse University, and his Tree of 40 Fruit is the first tree in our small scale fruit tree orchard in the Fruit Belt Neighborhood. See video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ik3l4U_17bI) from National Geographic.

This project is designed as a youth initiative for our young people to teach them the importance of healthy eating as well as getting them involved in entrepreneurship. By doing so, these students will then become productive members of our neighborhoods and society.

These students were involved in the Mayors’ Summer Youth Program in concert with God’s Farm’acy free food truck where they provided fresh fruits and vegetables to the Buffalo Medical Corridor illegible employees as well as the residents in the East Buffalo with emphasis on the Fruit Belt Community. This Project is Multi-Generational and provides opportunities to the following: •	Students, 8-12 years of age •	Young Adults, 13-18 years of age •	Adults 18 and older This is a great opportunity for our young adults as it involves students from Buffalo Public Schools and the Fruit Belt community as well as individuals and organizations outside the community. It provides part time positions for students ages 13 to 18 years of age and full-time jobs are offered to those individuals over the age of 18. The students will be offered educational support through tutoring, remediation, real estate, banking, human resources, hiring and the purchasing of products. They will be afforded the opportunity to learn how to manage a market. This facility is in a high-profile area. The market will be in the vicinity of the medical campus and will be servicing individuals between the hours of 8am – 4pm as well as servicing the neighborhood with extended hours.

We are in consultation with the Rid-All Green Partnership for their expertise, and are actively working with local community partners to implement this plan. This partnership was motivated by Minister Ina and the late Damien Forshe, one of the original partners of Rid-All Green Partnership, urban farmers of Cleveland, OH. Part of the Health and Wellness Initiative Garden to Table Intergenerational Program, founded by Minister Ina. that will provide greatly needed access to nutritious, healthy, and affordable food for this food desert community and a Food Market that will allow young people to have part-time employment, learn management skills, budgeting, human resources, educational training, and the growing of foods and through environmental stewardship.

In addition to production, the orangery will be a demonstration project with our Collaborative partners, St John Fruit Belt CDC & WECGOD, LLC (We Educate Communities Globally On Disparities) whose mission is to decrease the disproportionate burden of disease among medically under-served communities through community partnerships, education, empowerment, and intervention strategies that impact behavioral, environmental and community determinants of health and disease.

The Garden to Table Inter-generational Program will be run by a part-time Program Coordinator and part-time Program Instructor. Hands-on learning, workshops, and shared healthy meals will engage the community in reclaiming their roots and learning about farming, food production, composting, aquaponics, hydroponic, grafting, and environmental stewardship. The Garden to Table Inter-generational Program will work with area schools to engage students, as well as local residents, to learn about food systems together. It is hoped that additional fallow urban fields will be able to be reclaimed and transformed into productive plots of land that offer healthy local food. Together the community will grow, process, market and distribute food in a sustainable manner.