CitySprouts is an independent nonprofit school garden program with gardens in 8 Cambridge Public Schools. The organization is funded by individual donations, foundation grants and service fees.

Thank you to the many individuals and local businesses that supported CitySprouts in 2007

And to the following corporate and public sources:

CitySprouts Partners

Cambridge Public Schools

Growing Healthy Collaborative

Sponsors ($5000 or more)

Lowes Outdoor Project Grant

The Llewellyn Foundation

New England Grassroots Environmental Fund

EPA

Ramsey McCluskey Family Foundation

Green Leaf Foundation

$1000 - $4999

Patrick Murray Inaugual Committee

Whole Foods Market

Cambridge Community Foundation

Analog Devices

MIT Community Service Fund

Novartis Institute

Biogen Idec Foundation

Draper Laboratory

Friends of King Open

Friends of Amigos

Friends of Peabody

Paul Newman Foundation

Cambridge Plant & Garden Club

CitySprouts was included in the 10th Anniversary Catalogue for Philanthropy 2007

And why...

When you support CitySprouts, you help your organization with publicity, marketing, relationship building, prospecting for new customers, and forming bonds with the community you serve.

While you are helping your business, please also think about whom else you are helping when you support CitySprouts.

our city's children
Cambridge elementary schools serve a diverse population of children, with approximately 60% students of color, and 45% of students qualifying for free or reduced lunch.  Because of Cambridge's density, most of our school children have no opportunity to learn firsthand about biodiversity, how plants grow, where vegetables come from, and the joys of dirt under your fingernails

our city's teachers
Our city places great demands upon our teachers; their students face more and more rounds of standardized testing, while over 20% of the children require special education intervention.  CitySprouts helps teachers through training and professional development, and the opportunity to add impact and permanence to their lessons through hands-on science, history, and social studies projects.

our community
CitySprouts gardens bring families together around the city, as volunteers join in to maintain gardens, organize events (such as our Harvest Festival), and raise funds to support CitySprouts.  In much the same way that community gardens bring people together to create kinship among neighboring gardeners, CitySprouts brings families and school communities together around the city.

the fight against childhood obesity
CitySprouts is a partner in the Growing Healthy project, a collaboration among several community organizations to promote healthy eating in our school cafeterias.  The Project features the promotion of new fruits and vegetables every month in the school cafeterias, and incorporates CitySprouts' work in health education and nutrition.

Join our fund raising team! Write a check and mail it to:
CitySprouts, 100 Putnam Ave., Cambridge, MA 02139

All donations are tax-deductible.

© Copyright 2008, CitySprouts. All rights reserved.

JaneS. Hirschi, Executive Director, CitySprouts
25 River Street,Cambridge, MA 02139
Email jhirschi@citysprouts.org Phone: 617.876.2436