Events
Join Us this Saturday-May 11, 2013—Yale Day of Service in Koshland Park
Join us this Saturday, May 11th for a Koshland Park and Garden Workday from 11:00 A.M. to 2:00 P.M. We will be joined by a great group of Alumni from Yale University and our volunteers from Starbucks and the neighborhood. There will be weeding, planting, mulching, sweeping, pruning, picking up trash and making the park [...]
Fun Wreath Making at Hayes Valley Playground
On Saturday, December 8, 2012 CommunityGrows hosted our annual Wreath and Card Making Event at Hayes Valley Playground. Partners Trash MashUp joined us to make holiday ornaments. Hayes Valley Neighborhood Association and Frances Nealey helped us make holiday cards, and the YMCA Western Addition Beacon Center, Community Partners United, Magic Zone, Hayes Valley Housing and [...]
Wreath and Card Making—December 8, 2012
Please join us on Saturday, December 8, 2012 for our Annual Wreath and Card Making Event. This year the event will be held at the Hayes Valley Playground, corner of Hayes and Buchanan Streets in San Francisco. The time is 1:00 P.M. to 4:00 P.M. We will have branches and boughs to make wreaths, as [...]
Rosa Parks BBQ Fun!
Saturday, September 22, 2012 was a fun back-to-school BBQ for families and friends of Rosa Parks Elementary School. Our BEETS (Band of Environmentally Educated and Employable Teens) helped out by leading the games: hula hoops, clothespin drops, bean-bag tosses, and jump rope. There was great food and lots of community to help start the new [...]
American Community Garden Association Visit
On Saturday, August 11,2012, we had a workday at Koshland Park where we were honored to host the National Conference of the American Community Garden Association. Starbucks employees were there to support us with volunteers as they have many times throughout the year. Our BEETS (Band of Environmentally Educated and Employable Teens) spoke about their [...]
National Night Out with Mayor Lee
August 7, 2012 was the 29th Annual National Night Out, a unique crime/drug prevention event sponsored by the National Association of Town Watch. Folks in the Western Addition came together at Ella Hill Hutch to celebrate all the good work the community has done to support the youth in our neighborhood. The BEETS (Band of [...]
CommunityGrows to be Feature at the ACGA
This coming Saturday, August 11th the American Community Garden Association (ACGA) will be in town in the midst of their four day national conference. They will be offering tours throughout the day Saturday, and one, “Youth Empowerment SF style,” will feature CommunityGrows! The tour will start at June Jordan Middle School (an Urban Sprouts site) [...]
CommunityGrows Garden Party Fund-A-Need
On Saturday, October 15th we had a great Garden Party in Koshland Garden to raise money for our BEETS Program (Band of Environmentally Educated and Employable Teens). Gabe Dominguez band (Shake Your Peace!) performed as well as Diana Gameros, a favorite San Francisco singer/songwriter. Diana mostly performs traditional Latin music but in her own modern, [...]
Koshland Park and Garden Workday-November 12, 2011
We will have a workday in Koshland Park and Garden on Saturday, November 12th from 10 AM to 1 PM. It will be a great day for weeding, planting, sweeping, pruning, picking up trash, and making the park and garden shine. Please were layered, comfortable workclothes and closed-toed shoes. Bring your own water; juice and [...]
CommunityGrows on NEN!
Neighborhood Empowerment Network, (NEN) a collaboration of community and non-profit organizations, city agencies, and academic institutions, empowers neighborhoods to become cleaner, greener, healthier, and more inclusive places to live and work. They have partnered with CommunityGrows and our BEETS Program in 2008, and recently asked us to speak on a panel about Creating School and [...]
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