Children on Buffalo’s East Side have a wonderful place to learn about gardening and nutrition, thanks to the teenagers on the Green Team, an environmental job training program for high school students run by Groundwork Buffalo. Click here for the whole story.
On Saturday October 15th, Groundwork Dallas brought in 42 students from nearby charter school, Williams Prep High School, to clean out tires from the Trinity Forest and its watershed. Four of GW Dallas’ Board Members and other many other adult volunteers joined the youth and Peter Payton, Executive Director of GW Dallas, in the clean-up. They loaded a rented pick up~truck 27 times with trash and tires! Peter says, “We have a lot more work to do, but we made a very large dent in what was there.” check out www.groundworkdallas.org for more about GW Dallas’ programs.
One of Groundwork Elizaeth’s 2011 Community Gardens, built in the backyard of Sonic Restaurant. Jonathan Phillips, Executive Director of GW Elizabeth notes, ”Each time we work there hundreds of vehicles come by, admire the healthy, locally grown produce, and share their own stories of their own gardens as we all work to build healthier communities!” Check out http://www.groundworkelizabeth.com/ for more about GW Elizabeth’s programs.
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Participating artists receive 2 Glow Tickets and 50% of sale price. For more info, you can also visit GW Lawrence at: www.groundworklawrence.org. Event details: Date: Thursday, November 17, 2011 Time: 6:00 – 10:00 PM Location: Chester’s, 60 Island Street in downtown Lawrence Hosts: The Sidell and Yepez Families
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What is eco-art?
Eco-art can include: lanterns, home furnishings and house-wares, photography, sculpture, paintings, or mixed media pieces. However, it must incorporate at least 1 of the “4 R’s” and at least 1 other item listed above. Submission Deadline: Monday, November 7, 2011, 5:00 PM (no exceptions) Pick-up/drop off location: Groundwork Lawrence, 60 Island Street, Lawrence, MA Artwork will be juried: Nov. 8 – 9; items not selected should be picked up Nov. 10-11 Auction proceeds are split 50/50 between Groundwork Lawrence and the artist. All submissions must include the Eco-Art Registration Form and include a write-up (see form). A minimum sale price for your submission may be set. Items submitted in the past include: artwork made from shredded catalogues, lamps made from “rescued roadside treasures,” paintings on used/discarded furniture, and lanterns made from reclaimed wood. For examples of previous eco-art check out our Flickr Glow collection. We encourage you to use your imagination to help promote Groundwork Lawrence’s environmental mission! How much should I expect my piece to sell for? Items have sold for between $10 and $300. We have included items with a minimum sale price up to $5,000. We encourage pieces with minimum sale prices of $20 – $500. |
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Not able to submit an Eco-Art piece this year? You can buy your Glow tickets online now. Thank you for your support!
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Inner City Outings Expands its Reach in Our Nation’s Capital through Partnership.
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Check out Dennis Chestnut, GWARDC Executive Director, taking FOX 5 on a site visit to show them how trash is now being collected from a stream that flows directly into the Anacostia River. For the whole story and for how the DC ‘bag tax’ is working, click here: http://www.myfoxdc.com/dpp/news/dc/dc-bag-tax-raises-over-2-million-in-revenue-since-implementation-071511#.TiL1yWHN-6k.facebook?CMP=201107_emailshare#ixzz1ST6baeOb
Members of GW Providence’s paid hands-on training program ‘GroundCorp’ joined community volunteers and officials from the EPA to install a free rain garden for the Providence Housing Authority.
GroundCorp provides hands-on training and transitional employment to graduates of GW Providence’s Sustainable Landscaping and Stormwater Management adult job training program. GroundCorp is supported by the U.S. Department of Labor, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the City of Providence and many other generous donors.
For more about GW Providence, click here.
Second and third graders at King School are GW Portland’s first Green Team class in the Schools Uniting Neighborhoods (SUN) Program, co-taught by art teacher Suzy Root and community member Joe Sneed. The class is learning how to grow food using the Emerson Street Garden as the place to enhance their educational experience. Emerson is a community-led garden in the King Neighborhood that GW Portland was instrumental in converting from a vacant, contaminated lot. The students are also learning about the recent history of the N/NE neighborhoods as a once predominantly black community and how to grow food from community elders sharing their stories and advice. Green Team youth will will transform these stories into artwork for the Emerson Street Garden.
Emerson garden volunteer Joanne Greene lives on 9th and Sumner and showed the kids her garden. “I enjoyed the kids and working with them”, Joanne said. “While we were standing outside, some worms started popping up. They were extremely excited about the worms! It helped me to learn, because they new more about worms than I did. I also shared about my mom and what all she planted and how she ate vegetables and lived to be 91. The kids started saying they’d eat their vegetables too.”
King SUN Program Coordinator, Carissa Thomas, is interested in working with partners to continue the class through summer school in July and long-term. This inter-generational exchange should continue through this summer, with many community members interested in sharing their stories and knowledge with the students at King.
Kids from da Vinci Arts Middle School and 8th graders from King School have also been involved in outdoor classroon at Emerson Garden. Science teacher Derek Grant is teaching King School 8th Graders about the design cycle in a new International Baccalaureate Technology and Design course. Student representatives Kevan and Eddie attended the last Emerson Working Group to present their class’ initial ideas for the Using math and science skills, students will work with engineers from the City of Portland Water Bureau to effectively design an outdoor learning center at the Emerson Street Garden that serves people of all ages and can be used for a variety of educational and learning opportunities. Local community members with construction skills will work with the students in the next several weeks to create the final product on site.
Click here for more about GW Portland.
The Arlington School is the recipient of funding for a new playground thanks to the New Balance Foundation, and to guidance and advocacy from KaBOOM!, the Arlington School, the City of Lawrence, Groundwork Lawrence, and The Community Group, who partnered to apply for the new playground. The funding will provide new playground equipment to the existing outdoor space, as well as Imagination Playground in a Cart, a new playspace concept designed by architect David Rockwell to encourage child-directed, unstructured free play through manipulable loose parts and natural elements like sand and water. Playground equipment will be erected at the school by parent and community volunteers guided by GW Lawrence, partners, and hundreds of volunteers on June 9th. For more information, visit GW Lawrence.
GW Denver wins a Champions for Healthy Kids Grant! General Mills Collaborated with the American Dietetic Association and President’s Council and awarded $500,000 in Healthy Lifestyle Grants — $10,000 to each winner. The grants are awarded to community-based organizations across the United States with dedicated programs that equip youth with the tools they need to live healthy, balanced and active lifestyles.
The Champions for Healthy Kids initiative, now in its ninth year, provides 50 grants of $10,000 each to nonprofits, schools and community organizations to develop creative ways to help kids of all ages incorporate physical fitness and good nutrition into their daily lives. In total, the Champions for Healthy Kids initiative has awarded more than $20 million in grants to organizations across the country through its annual grant program and through other youth nutrition and fitness programs serving over five million children nationwide click here for more info.
