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ORGANIZATION: Urban Sprouts

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Volunteers have the opportunity to:

Work with young people during the school day and after school.
Support youth as they learn how to create and maintain edible garden beds, harvest and cook fresh food, propagate seeds, and make compost in the school garden.
Define professional goals for yourself while working with Urban Sprouts.
Work closely with Urban Sprouts' Garden Educators.
Help plan and staff special events.
Assist with research study evaluations.
Organize, plan and help with garden building and expansion projects.
Maintain the garden during the summer and school vacations.

Volunteers are needed almost every week day at seven middle and high school sites in San Francisco. Please contact us for specific locations and schedules. Classes last one hour, and we have up to three classes each day.

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About Urban Sprouts

Location:

451 Hayes St., San Francisco, CA 94102, US

Mission Statement

Urban Sprouts is a school garden program that serves low-income youth from San Francisco's under-served neighborhoods. Urban Sprouts teaches youth to grow, harvest, prepare and eat vegetables from the school garden, in order to help youth become more engaged in school, learn to eat better and exercise more, and connect with the environment and each other.

Description

Urban Sprouts uses garden-based education to:

Improve students' learning in science and their ecoliteracy (environmental awareness and responsibility)
Improve students' nutrition and physical fitness
Promote youth development and community involvement in urban schools.
Help schools, students and families improve access to healthy and sustainable food through school food and the larger food system.

This year we'll work with over 700 youth at six San Francisco public schools: Aptos Middle School, International Studies Academy, June Jordan School for Equity, Martin Luther King, Jr. Middle School, SF Community School, and Ida B. Wells Continuation High School.

History
Urban Sprouts grew out of a doctoral thesis project conducted at Luther Burbank Middle School during the 2003-04 school year. At the end of the study, teachers asked the research team to stay on and help make the school garden a sustained program at the core of the school's curriculum. In our first year, 100 youth worked in the school garden, and we have since expanded to support school garden programs at two middle schools and two high schools. Since 2003, over 2,400 youth have benefited from hands-on garden learning by growing, harvesting and eating their own vegetables.

CAUSE AREAS

Children & Youth, Education & Literacy, Environment

WHEN

We'll work with your schedule.

WHERE

451 Hayes St2nd FloorSan Francisco, CA 94112

(37.776756,-122.423836)

DATE POSTED

September 22, 2005

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