Garden+Grant+in+Progress

The Brown Rudnick Center for the Public Interest =

** The Application **

The Brown Rudnick Charitable Foundation Corp.

** COMMUNITY GRANTS **

c/o The Brown Rudnick Center for the Public Interest

One Financial Center, Boston, MA 021111

(617) 856-8119

awallis@brownrudnick.com

Online Grant Application Top of Form
 * Your Proposal for a Community Grant» **

During the 2010-11 school year we established a garden curriculum through the combined efforts of parents, teachers, and our administration. We currently have five raised garden beds with sub-irrigation systems and are working to expand the program with the ultimate goal of giving each of our students' families the opportunity to share plots in our school community garden. Our students' work in the garden will span the entire school year. Having limited access to storage space, we are in need of a garden shed to store all of our garden supplies and equipment. We have been able to acquire some supplies and equipment but are also in need of basic gardening tools.

We believe that the establishment of Public School 32K’s community garden program is an essential component in leading our students (we are a Title I school where 70% of our students receive free or reduced cost lunch), their families and our staff into the 21st century equipped with the skills, dispositions and responsibilities of life long learners through our garden curriculum. Our aspiration is to create a thriving community garden for our entire school and neighborhood community: students, their families, and staff, eventually offering access to the general community, which would allow us to be on the forefront of the national movement of creating schools that are community centers. We will expose our students to a spiraling curriculum, from Pre-K to Fifth Grade, which includes the scientific, social, cultural, economic and global impacts of agriculture in society, with a specific focus on the need for and creation of an urban edible garden.

The purpose for our grant request is to offer our community, the opportunity to participate in a hands-on applied learning experience through the creation and preservation of a school community garden center, aided by having the appropriate facilities to authenticate our efforts.

P.S. 32 serves a population predominately comprised of inner-city families in Brooklyn, New York. This grant request fits the Community Grant mission due to our garden program's potential positive impact on our school community and neighborhood. Started through the collaboration of a group of parents and teachers, our garden program establishes real-life connections to learning to facilitate the growth of our students, both academically and socially. Many of our students have never experienced food outside of a super market. The benefits of providing our students and their families with a hands on, applied learning opportunity through a garden curriculum, have been detailed in a 2004 study done by the York College of Pennsylvania. The gains highlighted in the study align with the mission of our school and include: improvements in aggregate academic performance and achievement, strengthening of the school community, greater parental involvement in school, improved nutritional intake, and a sense of ownership and attachment to the school for all stakeholders.


 * Grant Amount» **

The total amount requested is $1998.52.

Budget: 1 Lifetime 15 ft. x 8 ft. Outdoor Garden Shed $1,599.00

5 Vertex 4 Piece Pivot Tool Starter Set (Includes: cultivator, transplanter, trowel, and weeder @ $49.97 for each set. For a total of $249.85

30 Various Seed Packets @ $1.99 or each set. For a total of $59.70

1 Solar Lighting for the shed: Gama Sonic 24 in. Light My Shed 2 Solar Powered Shed Light with 24 LED Bulbs $ 89.97

Total Budget: $1,998.52


 * Recipient» **

What is the exact name of the non-profit or tax-exempt organization that would be the actual recipient of the grant funds? P.S. 32 Samuel Mills Sprole School
 * Street Address || 317 Hoyt Street ||
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 * City || Brooklyn ||
 * State/Province || New York ||
 * Zip/Postal Code || 11231 ||
 * Country || USA ||
 * Home Phone || 917-207-0330 ||
 * E-mail || arm285@optonline.net ||
 * Website || ps32.org ||
 * Tax-Exempt» **


 * Is the recipient a tax-exempt organization? **
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 * Someone Else's Approval Required?» **

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 * Is there someone whose approval is needed to make/receive this grant (e.g. superintendent if grant is made to a school; teacher if grant is made to a particular classroom; supervisor if time off is required to implement the grant, etc.)? If yes, please include names, addresses, phone numbers and why approval may be needed. **

We can ask Brad Lander or Joan Millman??? I put a call into Brown Rudnick re: what the letter entails.
 * Optional Letter of Support» **


 * Will a letter of support be provided? **


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 * If yes, from whom? **


 * Agreement to Provide Report» **


 * In the event that the grant you seek is awarded, do you agree to cooperate in publicizing the award and in providing a timely follow-up report evaluating whether/how well the grant achieved the objectives you hoped that it would? **


 * Yes **


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 * Your Education-Related Work» **


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we need to talk about our goals for the students and the community.

**we need to write how we will report, what assessment will we use to see gains???**