By Tiffany Leung | Development Associate
Just a quick announcement to all of our GlobalGiving supporters--we will be closing out our Little Green Fingers project on the GlobalGiving platform at the end of this month.
We cannot thank our GlobalGiving supporters enough for the $1,890 raised since we created this GlobalGiving project in 2013. To date, the funds have been spent on critical ongoing programming for our gardeners throughout the seven Little Green Fingers community gardens. It has helped us provide gardening classes taught by master gardeners and hands-on cooking and nutrition classes for parents and children to enjoy together. The funds have also gone toward leadership development trainings where gardeners from each of our gardens meet quarterly to build their skills in garden management, conflict resolution, grant writing, etc. with the goal of eventually independently sustaining and operating the gardens themselves.
Although we are leaving GlobalGiving, our Little Green Fingers program still lives on! After building seven beautiful community gardens from Koreatown to Lancaster to Pasadena, we are in the midst of developing our eighth and final garden in Los Angeles County and hope to announce more details soon. Please continue to follow our progress and support the Little Green Fingers family through our website www.littlegreenfingersla.org or on facebook.com/littlegreenfingersla.
Thank you all once again for your incredible support! Your donations have made a huge impact in guiding our community gardeners and their young children toward healthier eating habits and food choices! If you have any questions or would like to learn more, please contact our Marketing and Special Projects Director, Kea Duggan at kduggan@lacorps.org.
Little Green Fingers is an innovative community garden initiative especially designed for young children and their families to help fight the growing obesity epidemic. The project is funded by First5 LA and being led by the LA Conservation Corps.
Links:
Project reports on GlobalGiving are posted directly to globalgiving.org by Project Leaders as they are completed, generally every 3-4 months. To protect the integrity of these documents, GlobalGiving does not alter them; therefore you may find some language or formatting issues.
If you donate to this project or have donated to this project, you can receive an email when this project posts a report. You can also subscribe for reports without donating.
