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The Roots & Shoots Model focuses on best-practices in Service Learning to grow compassion and action in young changemakers. Together, we're growing a movement.
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Howl :: For the Wolves

Well beyond their great beauty, mystery and mysticism, wolves play a critical role in ecosystem balance and diversity and make…
3 members

First Annual Peekskill Garlic Festival

We decided to do this project because we are concerned that as people spend more time in mediated experiences, interacting…
1 member

First Annual Peekskill Garlic Festival

We decided to do this project because we are concerned that as people spend more time in mediated experiences, interacting…
1 member

Collecting Ecobricks – water bottles filled with trash – and then creating something special in the future!

Plastic pollution. There is thousands of plastic dumped into the landfill, and plastic is really bad for the environment. They…
2 members

C.A.R.E. – Junior Advisory Board Framework and Leadership Curriculum

Addressing the lack of youth involved in nonprofit decision making processes.
1 member

Coyote Trail Revitalization

The Coyote Trail, the only natural area on the campus of Calabasas High School, is severely degraded, littered, and unmaintained.…
1 member

Garden of Growth: Sustaining Our Community with Smart Watering

The problem this project will address is food insecurity in our community, which is identified as a food desert. Limited…
1 member

The Baking Team

The Problem we want to fix is that many people around us don't have access to quality healthy food.
1 member

The Women Rebounded Organization’s Hygiene Kits

Hygiene Poverty: the inability to afford everyday basic hygiene needs
1 member
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