Roots & Shoots Toolkits To Create a Project

Your Official Guide to Creating a Community Project Using the 4-Step Formula

The Toolkits below are your official guide to creating a change-making community project based on the issues YOU care about most using the Roots & Shoots 4-Step Formula.  Whether you’re working on your own or with a group, just remember…every action makes a difference.

Roots & Shoots, a program of the Jane Goodall Institute, is a global movement of youth who are empowered to use their voice and actions to make compassionate decisions, influencing and leading change in their communities. These Toolkits are designed with you in mind – as a young change-maker or group, as an educator, and was a family, these guides will meet you where you are to help you turn your passion into action.

The NEW Roots & Shoots Family Toolkit

Everything you need to create change in your community is right here in the Family Toolkit.
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Roots & Shoots Toolkit for Individuals + Groups

This Toolkit is meant to take you through the steps to get engaged, observe your community, do your project, and celebrate your success!
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Growing Compassionate Traits

As you create your service-learning projects as a Roots & Shoots member, you grow skills and compassionate traits; From empathy to inspiring peers, embodying these traits means being a well-rounded, self-confident individual who makes holistic, sustainable choices for people, other animals and the planet.
Compassionate Traits

STEP 1: GET ENGAGED

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STEP 2: OBSERVE

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STEP 3: TAKE ACTION

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STEP 4: CELEBRATE

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