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Growing Gardens for Growing Minds

My students need two garden beds to start a school garden where they can learn and develop responsibility.

  • $499 goal

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Celebrate Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month

This project is a part of the Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month celebration because it supports a Latino teacher or a school where the majority of students are Latino.

My Students

Marcus Tullius Cicero said, "If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need." Luckily, my students have a wonderful supply of books, but no garden to call their own.

The students in my class are 9-11 years old.

They are the oldest grade in school. They are excited about school and a good group of them show potential to be leaders. Some of them come from difficult family situations including parents who have left or who have died. Most of them, as well as the school they attend, come from low socioeconomic circumstances.

My Project

These gardens will have so many positive outcomes: Students will meet science standards by learning about photosynthesis and the life cycle of a plant. They will learn responsibility by caring for something that is theirs. We are hoping to build community by welcoming family and neighbors to be a part of it. Most of these students don't have gardens at home. Some of them cannot even afford enough food for their family. Through planting, cultivating, and eating this garden, students will get to experience first hand what it is like to grow your own food and be a farmer like many of their parents.

"Give a man a fish and feed him for a day.

Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime." This project will benefit not only the students, but their families. Through this project we hope that students will get excited and encourage their families to start gardens at home. Valley Verde can do this for many families in our community for free.

Ms. Aldridge Glen View Elementary School Grades 3-5

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This project will directly impact historically underfunded classrooms.

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Gilroy, CA View local requests

More than three‑quarters of students from low‑income households Data about students' economic need comes from the National Center for Education Statistics, via our partners at MDR Education. Learn more

102 students impacted 11donors

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Where Your Donation Goes

Where your donation goes
Materials Cost Quantity Total
Raised Garden Bed • Valley Verde $178.00 2 $356.00

Materials cost

$356.00

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $32.57

3rd party payment processing fee

$5.34

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$423.91

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$74.81

Total project goal

$498.72

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $498.72

5 Donors

-$231.71

Donations toward project cost

-$211.95

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$19.76

match offer

-$249.36

Match offer toward project cost

-$211.96

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$37.40

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$17.64

Still needed View calculationHide calculation

 $0.00

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