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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 [...]
Thanks for your Support of CommunityGrows
Please consider donating to CommunityGrows to keep our wonderful programs going. We depend on your support. Thank you from everyone at CommunityGrows! Fall-2012 Appeal Ltr
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) [...]
Fall 2012 BEETS Applications Ready!
We have begun recruiting for our Fall 2012 BEETS (Band of Environmentally Educated and Employable Teens) cohort, which will begin on September 10th and go through December 15, 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 [...]
Roasted Pepper Marinara and Homemade Pasta
We cook a lot at CommunityGrows. After all, there are a lot of vegetables in our gardens and the kids love to eat! So one Monday afternoon in July, Kennard Smith, a terrific personal chef, came back to help kids at Hayward Rec Center make roasted pepper tomato marinara and fresh pasta. Kennard currently works [...]
BEETS Host Teen Scholars from Around the Country
On Thursday, July 5, 2012, the BEETS hosted a group of youth from the Civic Education Project (CEP) of Northwestern University’s Center for Talent Development. CEP is a service-learning immersion program for outstanding middle and high school students from throughout the country. These youth participated in a Civic Week program in San Francisco, and visited [...]
BEETS Go Camping!
“I got to put up a tent. I got to make a fire. I’ve never done that before–I’m a City boy.”- Chris, 19 years old. On Saturday morning June 16, 2012, the BEETS embarked on a weekend camping trip. For most, it was their first time overnight in the outdoors. And believe it or not, [...]
Summer Science Begins with Trips to Green Gulch Farm
The summer is a busy time for CommunityGrows, working with twelve partner groups, taking their youth to our learning gardens and on field trips. We started the fun on June 22, 2012 with a trip to Green Gulch Farm in Marin County, with youth from the African American Arts and Culture Complex and the YMCA [...]
Cooking with Ms. Gaino
We are happy to introduce Ms. Adrian Gaino, our cooking instructor. She has been cooking with us on staff for over two years, leading the classes every Monday afternoon at Hayward Recreation Center and during the summer at Hayes Valley South, with Adrian Almquist, CommunityGrows Garden Educator. Ms. Gaino has been a long time participant [...]
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