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Mrs. Meyer’s comes to Rosa Parks!
The big lime green Mrs. Meyer’s van showed up at Rosa Parks Elementary School on Friday, June 14th, and out popped four ambassadors to help with our CommunityGrows Summer Science Program. They came because we won a grant from the American Community Gardening Association (ACGA), which promotes community gardening and greening across the United States [...]
Job Opening-BEETS Program Manager
BEETS Program Manager Job_Description 2013 by Barbara Wenger
Bi-Rite Creamery for CommunityGrows
Bi-Rite Market and Creamery, operating out of their new store on Divisadero is featuring CommunityGrows in their creamery for the month of April, by collecting tips for us. If you’ve never been to Bi-Rite Grocery on 18th Street, or the new Divisadero Store, or you’ve never tasted their award-winning ice cream, you are in for [...]
Birds Bees Flowers Trees
This afternoon, Thursday, April 11, 2013, lesson plans were the name of the game! Our current BEETS (Band of Environmentally Educated and Employable Teens) tried out their lesson plans of birds, bees, flowers and trees. It involved weeks of gathering information and gearing their lessons to K-5 students they will soon be mentoring. Today was [...]
Cooking with the San Francisco Foundation
Today, Monday, April 8, 2013, our Seed to Mouth Cooking Class of CommunityGrows had three visitors from the San Francisco Foundation. Mark Cloutier, Program Director, Shalini Iyer, Community Health Program Fellow; and Emily Rosenberg, Program Assistant, all from the Public Policy, Community Health and Civic Engagement Initiative joined us to see the program in action. [...]
Fillmore Farmers Market with Oasis for Girls!
On Saturday, April 6, under cloudy skies and drizzle, eight BEETS joined seven young women from Oasis for Girls at the Fillmore Farmers Market for a day of learning and fun. Kicking off the day with an ice-breaker game to get to know each other, they then broke into groups and went on a scavenger [...]
Recruiting for Summer 2013 BEETS
CommunityGrows is now taking applications for our Summer 2013 BEETS (Band of Environmentally Educated and Employable Teens) Program. This is a four-month green jobs training program for youth 15-19 years old, primarily living in the Western Addition of San Francisco. The session runs from June 11-August 8, 2013, and candidates should be available Mondays-Fridays from [...]
John Muir Teachers on Microscopes
On Tuesday, March 19th, 2013, CommunityGrows staff Nora Brereton and Adrian Almquist lead a professional development workshop on microscopes for John Muir Elementary School teachers. These microscopes were purchased for the garden/science program of CommunityGrows at John Muir School. Teachers received instruction on how to work with the microscopes for their students in K-5th grade. [...]
Koshland Garden Workday and much more…
On Saturday, March 16th, we had a great workday in Koshland Garden. CommunityGrows staff Adrian Almquist, Nora Brereton, Ezekiel McCarter and Barbara Wenger were joined by our fantastic Starbucks partners who came out in force and brought refreshments as well. Julien Lundh, one of our BEETS (Band of Environmentally Educated and Employable Teens) pitched in, [...]
BEETS Expand Horizons at Skyline College
On Saturday, March 16th four female BEETS (Band of Environmentally Educated and Employable Teens) joined Lisa Drogin, BEETS Coordinator, for a day at Skyline College in San Bruno. Jennifer Rodriguez, Julianna Echeverria, Sydni Walker and Shontay Vessell spent the day meeting women who use science and math in their careers, as well as women in [...]
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