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The Health Trust
The
Health Trust is a charitable foundation with the vision to transform
Silicon Valley into the healthiest region in America. Expanding and
enhancing community and school gardens is one of its strategies under
its Healthy Living Initiative; one of three Initiatives that The Health Trust focuses on. | |
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AmeriCorps
AmeriCorps
is a program of the federal government that supports the engagement of
nearly 75,000 Americans in service each year to meet critical needs in
education, the environment, public safety, homeland security, and other
areas. AmeriCorps awarded Silicon Valley HealthCorps a $1.2 Million
grant over three years to support this project. | |
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Collective Roots
The
mission of Collective Roots is to educate and engage youth and
communities in food system change through sustainable programs that
impact health, education, and the environment. Collective Roots
achieves its mission through three program areas: garden-based
education, food systems change, and environmental action. | |
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Community Alliance with Family Farmers (CAFF)
Community Alliance with
Family Farmers (CAFF) advocates for family farmers and sustainable
agriculture. CAFF cultivates strong partnerships between family farmers
and their communities by building on shared values around food and
agriculture and working together in practical, on-the-ground programs.
These relationships create local economic vitality, improved human and
environmental health, and long-term sustainability. CAFF’s Farm to
School Initiative and the Buy Fresh Buy Local Campaign connect and
educate communities about local food and local farming. CAFF also works
with distributors to bring from produce from California family farms to
institutions like schools and hospitals. | |
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Conexions
Conexions'
mission is to advance regenerative social, ecological, and business
practices that enable Earth to thrive. Our project Getting Going
Growing partners with schools to provide gardens as a living lab for
students to enhance their understanding of concepts outlined in the
CA-based curriculum standards, while learning important life skills
such as healthy eating habits, environmental literacy and cooperative
behavior.
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Friends of Guadalupe River Park & Gardens
Friends
of Guadalupe River Park & Gardens provides community leadership for
the development and active use of San Jose’s 200-acre central park
through education, advocacy, and stewardship. Its field trip program
serves over 3,000 elementary school students each year, and it also
offers a variety of hands-on gardening classes for adults. Friends of
Guadalupe River Park & Gardens value stewardship, displayed by the
coordination of more than 10,000 volunteer hours to maintain the
250-tree Historic Orchard and the Heritage Rose, Courtyard, and Rock
Gardens. | |
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Friends of Master Gardeners of Santa Clara County
UCCE
Santa Clara County Master Gardener Program extends to the public UC
research based information about home horticulture and pest management.
These include a telephone/walk-in Hotline; field research/demonstration
gardens; plant sales; classes and seminars; speakers for community
groups; and monthly newsletters. | |
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Full Circle Farm
Full
Circle Farm is an 11-acre organic, educational farm that will put fresh
food in Santa Clara Unified School District cafeterias while helping
local youth experience success while they develop job and life skills
through the growing, harvesting and marketing of fruit & vegetable
crops. | |
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HEAL (Health Environment Agriculture Learning) Project
The
HEAL Project is dedicated to developing, implementing and supporting a
comprehensive, California science standards-based program with a
hands-on curriculum focused on Health, the Environment, Agriculture,
and Learning for the school children and youth of the San Mateo County
Coastside. | |
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La Mesa Verde Project
La
Mesa Verde is a project put on by Sacred Heart Community Service and
will cultivate organic home gardens at 100 low and very low income
households in San Jose. La Mesa Verde Project will improve healthy
eating and well-being of low-income families and increasing
self-sufficiency through home organic vegetable gardens. Sacred Heart
Community Service was founded in 1964 by anti-poverty activist Louise
Benson, and has grown over 44 years from providing food and clothing to
those in need into Santa Clara County’s largest community pantry and
multi-service agency. Its mission is to change lives and impact poverty
by providing essential services, offering tools for self-sufficiency,
and ministering with dignity, compassion and respect. Sacred Heart
engages the community and inspires volunteers to love, serve and share. | |
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Bronco Urban Gardens (BUG)
Santa Clara University,
founded in 1851, is California’s oldest operating institution of higher
leaning. The Bronco Urban Gardens (BUG) Program is a new environmental
justice initiative lead by SCU’s Environmental Studies Institute. BUG
increases community food security, sustainability, and environmental
literacy in Santa Clara County through the co-creation and technical
support of urban gardens and garden education programs. The BUG Program
is building a new education and training garden at SCU and is working
with several community partners and schools in the Gardner, Washington,
and Alma neighborhoods of San Jose. | |
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Veggielution
Veggielution
is a nonprofit seeking to create a sustainable food system in San Jose.
Veggielution currently farms about 1 acre at Emma Prusch Farm Park in
East San Jose. Workdays on Wednesdays and Sundays are a chance for
people to come and get their hands dirty, while learning about
agriculture and building community. | |
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Food and Agribusiness Institute
Food
and Agribusiness Institute offers educational training through Santa
Clara University’s MBA degree and executive training program to prepare
students for management positions in the food and agricultural
industries. The Concentration in Food and Agribusiness Management is
one of the few programs in the nation that combines a fully accredited
MBA degree with an emphasis on food and agribusiness management. The
Institute was founded in 1973 and now has more than 550 alumni working
in the food and agribusiness industries throughout the world. | |
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The Ignation Center for Jesuit Education
The
Ignatian Center for Jesuit Education seeks to preserve and extend the
Catholic identity and Jesuit mission of Santa Clara University.
Dedicated to advancing the University’s strategic vision of “educating
citizens and leaders of competence, conscience, and compassion” on the
campus as a whole, the Center serves students, faculty, staff, and
community partners. It does this by facilitating a pedagogy of
engagement through community-based learning and immersion experiences,
encouraging faculty and staff participation in the Jesuit higher
educational mission, supporting faculty teaching and scholarship that
advances the University’s Catholic and Jesuit character, and promoting
Ignatian spirituality within an interreligious context. In so doing the
Center seeks to create opportunities for global conversation about
Jesuit higher education and to share its best practices with other
universities. | |
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| Santa Clara University's Office of Sustainability
As a Jesuit and Catholic University, they have the responsibility to
provide leadership in developing a more sustainable way of living. By
embracing sustainability, the University furthers its mission to act as
a voice of reason, conscience, and service to society. |
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| The Michael Lee Environmental Foundation
Michael Lee Environmental Foundation was established by Michael Lee
in 1999 to assist in environmental efforts and progress. They are
dedicated to the concept that environmental quality is everyone's
responsibility. They deliver on this commitment through funding
community-based
projects and activities in the Greater San Francisco Bay Area. Through
their efforts and those they support, they strive to provide examples
of
environmental integrity and public awareness through action and
education. Through funding projects for environmental education they
are able to
promote school gardens & Life Labs, outdoor experiential youth
camps, and support for the development of curriculum and training for
garden developers, educators and non-profit organizations.With this
manner of support they find these endeavors meet our
mission to increase awareness through programs for continued
conservation, environmental justice and sustainable education. |
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Justice and the Arts Initiatve
The
Justice and the Arts Initiative (JAI) began in the Fall of 2007 as an
incubator for the arts and social justice on campus and in the
community. The purpose of the JAI is to create an intellectual frame of
reference for examining and fostering artistic processes that are
critically bound to issues of social justice, and to support practices
and methods of developing artist-activists at SCU. To this end, the
Justice and the Arts Initiative engages artists of the highest caliber,
both locally and internationally, who work in all mediums, including
film, visual art, literary arts, spoken word, music, theatre and dance,
and who have dedicated their lives to issues of social justice.
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