CLICK HERE TO DONATE In 2017, GrowingGreat hopes to support our 19 new preschool partners with garden and nutrition education. Children attending these schools live in the lowest-income areas of Los Angeles, from Hollywood to Skid Row, a reality in which their parents do not have enough...
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“There’s definitely magic in eating food that you grew and picked yourself. I think all the kids feel it.” -Jennifer Conlon SHE VOLUNTEERS AT: Linwood E. Howe Elementary in Culver City JENNIFER HAS BEEN VOLUNTEERING FOR: 1.5 Years SHE IS BEING RECOGNIZED FOR: Her Outstanding...
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If you are, then you understand that parents will do anything to make sure that their children have happy, healthy futures. And you must also know that when many parents join forces, they can transform whole communities in the name of their children. Seventeen years after three mothers founded...
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Last week, I wrote about how this blog is changing directions. From now on, you can expect to read about two topics: Stories about you – individual volunteers, donors and community partners from the GrowingGreat community Innovative activities and ideas that you, individual volunteers, donors...
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Have you checked out our Facebook or Twitter pages lately? If you have, you might have noticed that there’s new energy bubbling in the GrowingGreat community. Laura Kainsinger, MPH, our Director of Community Outreach, has been merrily posting about pumpkins in La Ballona’s garden, our...
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Laura Hoyos Kainsinger, MPH (right), is our new Director of Community Outreach. She has over 18 years’ experience focusing on increasing health access among lower socioeconomic, Spanish-speaking communities throughout Los Angeles County. She holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Physiological...
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Not for your favorite color apple as pictured here, but for the Best of Manhattan Award.We are delighted to announce that GrowingGreat has been nominated in the Enhancing Manhattan Beach category for “tremendous value and benefit brought to the community by a non-profit organization.”...
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As GrowingGreat finishes up our fiscal year, it is hard to find the words to thank you, our supporters, for all that you have made possible. There are six new programs this year – six! – that were just dreams for us last year at this time. GrowingGreat has now greatly expanded our program...
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GrowingGreat will be celebrating the Manhattan Beach Farmers Market’s 10th Anniversary on July 12. Come, bring your kids, and sing along with us. At 11: 15am and 12:45pm we’ll be singing our new theme song, written by GrowingGreat Docent Deborah Poppink Hirshland! We are very...
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Would you like to help GrowingGreat achieve our mission to empower every child to grow up healthy through science-based garden and nutrition education? The Director of Community Outreach is one of our two full-time senior staff. This individual represents GrowingGreat in both the education and...
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