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Summer BEETS Applications Ready
We have begun recruiting for our summer BEETS (Band of Environmentally Educated and Employable Teens) cohort, which will begin on May 29th and go through August 11, 2012. If you know of any teens between the ages of 15-19 years old who would be interested in this stipend program, please have them submit an application [...]
Koshland Park and Garden Workday-April 14, 2012
Come join us for a great day of exercise, fresh air and meeting new friends on Saturday, April 14, 2012 from 11-2 PM in Koshland Park and Garden. This event is sponsored by our wonderful friends at Starbucks and Kaiser Permanente. Please come out and show your support! 4.14.12.KP Wkday Flyer
CA Academy of Sciences
On January 28, 2012 the new 2012 spring cohort of the BEETS (Band of Environmentally Educated and Employable Teens) spent the day at the California Academy of Sciences. They started up on the living roof and had a tour by an academy docent, then took a quiz to find many flora and fauna living up [...]
Koshland Park & Garden Workday – February 11, 2012
Join us for a day of fun and exercise on Saturday, February 11, 2012 from 11-2 PM in Koshland Park, corner of Page and Buchanan Streets in San Francisco. This is always a great way to get some fresh air and exercise while meeting terrific people. Hope to see you there! Feb. 11, 2012 Koshland [...]
Video of the 2011 BEETS Year!
The BEETS (Band of Environmentally Educated and Employable Teens) is an environmental education and green-jobs training program of CommunityGrows. The BEETS is a stipend training program serving 18-24 at-risk teens a year, aged 15 to 19, and is located in San Francisco, California. The program supports youth to: acquire a core set of job readiness [...]
Cooking for the Holidays!
On Monday, December 12th, the youth from Hayward Recreation Center in San Francisco, joined CommunityGrows to bake Ginger Snaps for the holidays! It was a great afternoon with about ten youth getting a chance to prepare the ingredients, shape the dough and drop rounds on to baking sheets. While the cookies baked in the oven [...]
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, [...]
Meet our Fall 2011 BEETS!
On September 13th we welcomed our new fall BEETS (Band of Environmentally Educated and Employable Teens). Three youth stayed on from the summer: Anija Gaino, Lyric Lewis and Ezekikel McCarter. Our new additions are: Chris Collier, Jasmine Dean, Erika Espinosa, Mayra Fuentes, Dwayne Hodges, Shawnee Johnson, and Richard Lopez. A great group of youth leaders! [...]
Cooking with Kennard Smith from Firefly Restaurant
On Thursday afternoon our last summer CommunityGrows Seed-to-Mouth cooking class at Hayes Valley South community room, featured Kennard Smith, chef from Firefly Restaurant in San Francisco. Chef Smith brought his friend Nathan Serrano, food truck chef with Off-the-Grid, to prepare Chinese dumplings with the students. Youth from the African American Arts and Culture Complex summer [...]
BEETS build new garden at the African American Arts and Culture Complex
On July 21st and July 26th the BEETS (Band of Environmentally Educated and Employable Teens) built a garden at the African American Arts and Culture Complex on Fulton Street. Everyone had a sense of accomplishment as the weeds were uprooted, lumber measured and laid out, and soil and compost mixed in. This native garden will [...]
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