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Our Partners

Seeds of Hope partners with numerous churches and agencies to help achieve our mission of cultivating wellness in Los Angeles County and farming the Diocese of LA through edible garden installation, nutrition education, and fitness programming.  We are so thankful to work in close partnership with such amazing and diverse individuals, churches, and agencies. 

Garden-Based Nutrition Education

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Los Angeles Department of Public Health | http://publichealth.lacounty.gov/nut/
The Department of Public Health is implementing community-based nutrition education by partnering with schools, community, and faith-based organizations, public agencies, worksites, and small and large grocery stores. Working collectively across sectors, this multi-level intervention focuses on helping shape individuals’ food and physical activity choices by reaching them in appropriate settings to deliver effective nutrition education and obesity prevention programming.” Then we can say, “Under contract with the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health, Seeds of Hope provides garden-based nutrition education at the following sites: 
LADPH Sites
  • All Saints Episcopal Church – Highland Park
  • Episcopal Church of the Epiphany – Lincoln Heights
  • First Church of the Nazarene – Koreatown
  • Good Samaritan Hospital – Downtown LA
  • Laundry Love – East Hollywood
  • Laundry Love – Echo Park
  • Laundry Love – Lincoln Heights
  • Pico Union Project – Pico Union
  • Rio Vista Community Housing – Glassel Park
  • Selma Community Housing – Hollywood
  • St. Mary's Episcopal Church – Koreatown
  • St. Stephen's Episcopal Church – Hollywood
  • Temple Beth Israel – Highland Park
  • The Wellness Center at LAC+USC – Boyle Heights
  • The Center at Blessed Sacrament – Hollywood
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Kaiser Permanente | https://healthy.kaiserpermanente.org 
Kaiser Permanente is working in numerous ways to strengthen the connection between where people get care and where they live, work, and play. Creating healthy communities is central to their mission and critical to individual health and wellness. In Southern California alone, they invested almost $948 million in 2017 to help make this happen. The bulk of this investment has gone directly to programs in one of three categories: Healthy People, Healthy Environments, & Sharing Knowledge. With generous funding from Kaiser, Seeds of Hope is able to provide garden-based nutrition education at the following sites:
Kaiser Foundation Sites
  • Christ the Good Shepherd Episcopal Church – Leimert Park
  • Friendly Friendship Baptist Church – Watts
  • Ivy Terrace Community Housing – Van Nuys
  • Laundry Love – Pomona
  • Our Saviour Center – El Monte
  • St. Agatha's Catholic Church – South LA
  • St. John's Cathedral – West Adams
  • St. Luke's Episcopal Church – Long Beach
  • St. Luke's Episcopal Church – Monrovia
  • St. Mark's Episcopal Church – Altadena
  • St. Paul's Episcopal Church – Pomona
  • St. Simon’s Episcopal Church – San Fernando
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LA Care | http://www.lacare.org
L.A. Care’s mission is to provide access to quality health care for Los Angeles County's vulnerable and low-income communities and residents and to support the safety net required to achieve that purpose. They are committed to the promotion of accessible, high quality health care  and healthy communities that have access to the care they need.
LA Care Supported Sites
  • St. Barnabas' Episcopal Church - Eagle Rock
  • Church of the Epiphany - Lincoln Heights
  • The Wellness Center LA 

Additional Church Partners

  • Church of the Ascension – South LA
  • Metropolitan Baptist Church – South LA
  • People's Independent Church – South LA
  • St. Clements Episcopal Church – Huntington Park
  • St. Philip's Episcopal Church – South LA
  • St. Timothy's Episcopal Church – Compton
  • Unity Christian Fellowship – Compton   

Health and Wellness Partners

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Food Forward
Food Forward rescues fresh local produce that would otherwise go to waste, connecting this abundance with people in need, and inspiring others to do the same.  Food Forward is a volunteer-powered, grassroots group of Southern Californians who are passionate about reconnecting to their food system, promoting issues of food justice, and making change around hunger in the community.
http://foodforward.org
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Big Citizen Hub
Big Citizen HUB is the "little league" of civic engagement. Its mission is  to build a community of Big Citizens, expanding the social capital of youth through curiosity, gratitude, team and adventure. Big Citizen HUB convenes on Saturdays between January and July with students ages 11-26 forming diverse teams and serving a minimum of 100 hours to complete team-based projects that benefit the community.
http://bigcitizenhub.org
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Pico Union Project
The Pico Union Project is dedicated to the Jewish principle to "love your neighbor as yourself." It elevates this teaching into practice in a historic building by bringing diverse cultures together through song, story, art, food, planting trees and prayer. Pico Union Project is a multi-faith cultural arts center and house of worship founded in 2013. They aim to help invigorate the community of Los Angeles and reflect the Jewish value of being a light to all nations. Seeds of Hope partners with Pico Union Project by providing nutrition and cooking education, thousands of pounds of fresh produce and gardening to the Pico Union community through the Vida Sana program as well as its cultural and gardening projects.
http://picounionproject.org
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The Wellness Center LA
The Wellness Center's mission is to inspire and empower residents and patients to take control of their own health and wellbeing by providing culturally sensitive wellness and prevention services and resources that enable prevention, address the root cause of disease and improve health outcomes. 
http://thewellnesscenterla.org
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Jubilee Consortium
A Los Angeles based non-profit working to empower underserved communities through health justice and leadership development.  Jubilee provides low cost or free fitness programming in communities across Los Angeles as well as providing wellness opportunities from nutrition eduction to fitness instruction training. Jubilee's mission is to Transform Bodies, Shape Minds, and Change Lives.
http://jubileeconsortium.org
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Abundant Table
The Abundant Table is a grassroots, nonprofit organization that seeks to change lives and systems by creating sustainable relationships to the land and local community. Our 5-acre farm in Santa Paula, CA is the land that supports our farm-to-school, agricultural and nutrition education, youth development and faith-rooted initiatives.
http://theabundanttable.org
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Los Angeles Food Policy Council
The Los Angeles Food Policy Council is a collective impact initiative working to build a Good Food system for all Los Angeles residents — where food is healthy, affordable, fair and sustainable. Support a grassroots solution to food deserts.
http://goodfoodla.org/
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Community Health Council
For more than a decade, Community Health Councils has been at the forefront of advocacy to eliminate health disparities by expanding healthcare coverage, increasing  access to quality healthcare and improving the environment for under-resourced communities. CHC engages, supports, and gives voice to marginalized, low-income and under-served populations through coalition building and community mobilization.
http://www.chc-inc.org
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LA Community Garden Council
The Los Angeles Community Garden Council’s works to strengthen communities by building new and supporting existing community gardens where every person in Los Angeles County can grow healthy food in their neighborhood. LACGC manages 32 community gardens and offers advice, workshops, and community organizing assistance to more than 125 community gardens in Los Angeles County, serving more than 6,000 families.
http://lagardencouncil.org/
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Solutions for Urban Ag
Solutions for Urban Agriculture (SFUA) is a non-profit farming organization that seeks to offer innovative solutions to some of the pressing food security, public health, ecological, workforce and educational needs facing urban environments today. SFUA seeks to implement innovative and scalable agricultural systems that enable urban land to be sustainably managed to produce food while protecting and improving critical environmental resources.
http://sfua.org
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Open Silo
Open Silo is an innovative non-profit model that seeks to support growth and foster community in the urban agriculture sector. The Open Silo website is an online resource for all things urban agriculture in LA: information, events, research, etc. We also host regular social and educational events to advance the conversation around growing food in our city, and generally find creative ways to support the farmers, gardeners, and organizations doing the good work of growing food. 
https://www.opensilo.org/
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Environmental Change Makers
Environmental Change-Makers helps people discover the joys, skills, connections and fulfilment of the new future.  We are one of the groups that are putting in place positive solutions to today’s most pressing issues.
http://envirochangemakers.org
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M.E.N.D
MEND– Meet Each Need with Dignity, serves an average of 38,500 and as many as 49,000 poverty –level clients each month, while remarkably keeping operating costs to less than 6%. It is the largest, most efficient and most comprehensive poverty-relief organization in the San Fernando Valley.  MEND takes a holistic approach to relieve the effects of poverty by providing basic human needs while giving their clients the tools, education, training, support and opportunities that foster self-reliance.
http://mendpoverty.org/about-us/mend-at-a-glance/
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Camp Stevens
A peaceful place apart in a beautiful natural setting, Camp Stevens serves as a point of contact between human beings and the natural world as well as serving as an environment for  nurturing, planning, reflection, exchange of ideas, and sharing in Christian community. Camp Stevens seeks to help individuals of all ages deepen their sense of reverence and respect for themselves, and their fellow human beings, the creation, and God.
http://campstevens.org

EDLA Food Ministry Church Partners

Churches across the 6 counties of the Episcopal Diocese of Los Angeles are engaged with and alongside Seeds of Hope as we seek to cultivate wellness. The following is an extensive but not comprehensive list of EDLA churches with Gardens, Orchards, Food Pantries, Meal Programs

​Campbell Hall
St. Alban's - Yucaipa
St. Clement's - Huntington Park
St. Francis of Assisi -
San Bernardino
St. George's - Hawthorne
St. Joseph's - Buena Park
St. Luke the Physician -
Monrovia
St. Luke's of the Mountains -
La Crescenta
St. Martin in the Fields -
Winnetka
St. Peter's - San Pedro
St. Simon's - San Fernando
St. Stephen's - Hollywood
St. Thomas' - Long Beach
Holy Family - North Hollywood
St. John the Divine -
Costa Mesa
St. Mark's - Downey
St. Mary's - Laguna Beach
St. Michael the Archangel -
El Segundo
All Saints - Beverly Hills
All Saints - Pasadena
St. Thomas' - Hacienda Heights
Chapel of St. Francis -
Atwater Village
Church of St. Andrews and St.
Charles - Granada Hills
Church of the Blessed
Sacrament - Placentia
Church of the Messiah -
Santa Ana
Grace Church - Glendora
St. Alban's - Westwood
St. Andrew's - Torrance
St. Augustine by the Sea -
Santa Monica
St. Barnabas' - Eagle Rock
St. Bede's - Mar Vista
St. Clare of Assisi -
Rancho Cucamonga
St. Columba's - Camarillo
St. Francis' - Palos Verdes
St. Gregory's - Long Beach
St. James' - South Pasadena
St. John & the Holy Child -
Wilmington
St. John's - La Verne
St. Luke's - Fontana
St. Margaret of Scotland -
San Juan Capistrano
St. Margaret's - South Gate
St. Nicholas' - Encino
St. Mark's - Altadena
St. Martha's - West Covina
St. Mary in Palms
St. Matthias' - Whittier
St. Michael & All Angels -
Corona del Mar
St. Michael & All Angels -
Studio City
St. Paul's - Barstow
St. Peter's - Rialto
St. Peter's - Santa Maria
St. Stephen's Church/St. Agnes'
Beaumont
St. Thomas' - Hollywood
St. Paul's - Lancaster
St. Paul's - Santa Paula
All Saints - Highland Park
All Saints - Oxnard
Trinity Church - Santa Barbara
Church of Our Saviour -
San Gabriel
Church of the Ascension -
Sierra Madre
​Church of the Epiphany -
Lincoln Heights
Cathedral Center of St. Paul/
St. Athanasius
Church of the Epiphany -
Oak Park
Church of the Holy
Communion - Gardena
Christ Church - Redondo Beach
Christ the Good Shephard -
Leimert Park
Church of the Holy Nativity -
Westchester
Church of the Transfiguration -
Arcadia
Emmanuel Church - Fullerton
Faith Church - Laguna Niguel
Grace Church - Moreno Valley
Immanuel Church - El Monte
Prince of Peace -
Woodland Hills
St. Aidan's - Malibu
St. Andrew's - Fullerton
St. Andrew's - Irvine
St. Andrew's - Ojai
St. Anselm's - Garden Grove
St. Clement's - San Clemente
St. Cross - Hermosa Beach
St. George's - Riverside
St. James in the City - L.A
St. John Chrysostom -
Rancho Santa Margarita
St. John's - San Bernardino
St. John's Pro Cathedral
St. Luke's - Long Beach
St. Mark's - Glendale
St. Mark's - Upland
St. Mark's - Van Nuys
St. Mary's - Koreatown
St. Mary's - Lompoc
St. Michael's - Isla Vista
St. Michael's - Riverside
St. Patrick's - Thousand Oaks
St. Paul's - Pomona
St. Paul's - Tustin
St. Paul's - Ventura
St. Philip the Evangelist - L.A
St. Stephen's - Santa Clarita
St. Timothy's - Apple Valley
St. Timothy's - Compton
St. Wilfrid of York -
Huntington Beach
Trinity Church - Filmore
Trinity Church - Melrose
Trinity Church - Orange
Trinity Church - Redlands
St. Ambrose's - Claremont
St. Matthew's - Pacific Palisades
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