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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: |
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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: |
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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. |
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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 |
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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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