We hope you and your families are doing well during this difficult time. Here’s a quick update on how the COVID-19 closures are affecting GrowingGreat programs. We are here to support parents and children learning at home together. Let us know how we can help by emailing...
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GrowingGreat is thrilled to announce a comprehensive, national partnership with Del Monte Foods, Inc. Del Monte is sponsoring GrowingGreat Veggies & Fruit: a National STEM Education Program, expanding our hands-on science and nutrition activities from Southern California to science centers...
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GrowingGreat is empowering teens to take the lead in growing their own sustainable garden.
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Many young students like Emily only experience living, growing things — like the smell of rosemary — in the tiny garden at her preschool. Please check out our year-end giving campaign here: https://charity.gofundme.com/o/en/campaign/growinggreatfundraiser. With your support, GrowingGreat can...
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GrowingGreat began working with us, Leuzinger High School Environmental Careers Academy Green Alliance Club (ECAGA), in mid-September. We typically meet with Sharon Cohen, our lovely GrowingGreat Garden Educator, every week. Our club members dedicate their Wednesday afternoons to the garden with...
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It is growing in a very small front yard here in Los Angeles. We aren’t the only ones who love pumpkins. One of our colleagues from Exploration Place, a science center in Kansas, shared her pumpkin dissection activity with GrowingGreat. If you would like to try it with your kids, please email...
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In July and August GrowingGreat staff is hosting nutrition education booths at Caruso Head Start ,W.M. Keck Primary Center Head Start and other Para Los Niños sites’ Parent Orientation programs, in both Spanish and English. Parents and students participate in GrowingGreat’s hands-on activity...
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On June 7, Deloitte Consulting volunteers rolled up their sleeves and joined us at two GrowingGreat partner sites for their annual Impact Day. Twenty volunteers came to Maple Primary Center in South Los Angeles where they helped kindergarten and first graders paint the two murals pictured above...
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On April 27, GrowingGreat shared our program with Maple Primary Center in South Los Angeles with our supporters, as we celebrated our 20th anniversary at a delicious Farm to Table dinner under the stars. We recognized the Association of Science-Technology Centers with our leadership award for...
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We are thrilled to share all of our exciting programs from this past year in our annual report. Please click here to read a copy. And, if you would like to celebrate our anniversary with us on April 27, we still have a few tables left. Please click here for all the details about Farm
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