Update
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 [...]
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 [...]
Koshland Park and Garden Workday-5.14.11
Please join us this coming Saturday, May 14, 2011 for a workday in our home-based park and garden, Koshland Park. We will be working from 10:00 AM to 1:00 PM weeding, planting, sweeping, pruning, picking up trash, mulching and making the park and garden shine. Please wear layered, comfortable workclothes and closed-toed shoes. Juice and [...]
Partnership with STARBUCKS!
Building upon its long-term commitment to community involvement, Starbucks Coffee Company recently awarded more than $1 million in Starbucks™ Shared Planet™ Youth Action Grants in the U.S. The company’s goal is to engage 50,000 young people to innovate and take action in their communities by 2015. CommunityGrows was selected as a grant recipient in order [...]
Support CommunityGrows Today!
Your contribution to CommunityGrows is greatly appreciated! You can make your donation at the Tides Center Donation page. Please select CommunityGrows from the list of projects on the donation page. CommunityGrows is fiscally sponsored by the Tides Center, 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization and the nation’s largest fiscal sponsor.
New Facebook Page for CommunityGrows
CommunityGrows now has a Facebook page! There will be updates on the latest events and news regarding CommunityGrows. In addition, there will be photos posted to the wall from the latest garden workshops and other related events. Feel free to like us on Facebook and invite your friends and family to join as well. Thanks!
A CommunityGrows in San Franciscio
Check out Maureen Futtner’s article in the San Francisco Examiner on November 19, 2009: A community grows in San Francisco Excerpt: Continuing our monthly feature profiling an emerging San Francisco nonprofit, following is a Q&A with Barbara Wenger of Community Grows (formerly Hayes Valley Neighborhood Parks Group). If your organization is interested in being featured, [...]
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