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California Charitable Organizations

Charitable Organizations in California to connect with and donate fresh garden produce and saved seeds:

 

Cathedral City, CA

S.C.R.A.P. Gallery - delivers innovative art and environmental education programs to kids and adults throughout the Coachella Valley. Through a hands-on effort stressing the Four R's - Reduce, Reuse, Recycle, Responsibility the S.C.R.A.P. Gallery actively engage youth as stewards of their environment. Among their many programs, they also distribute seeds to students and schools as part of their Seeds For Bees Mobile Seed Library.

 

Glendora, CA

Plants 4 the People - Founded on the idea that food has the power to heal, educate, and connect people their mission is to educate, promote, and sustain a strong community through engaging with what is in their garden and on their plates. This organizations aims to connect the community and schools to engage with their food, and equip the local community to enjoy the process of growing their own food. They donate to local food pantries, as well as local community organizations. Their primary focus is to help youth engage in the planning and process of growing their own produce and creating healthy dishes with the items they grow.

 

Los Angeles, CA

Growing Hope Gardens - works to empower people of small means and those experiencing homelessness, by creating regenerative, organic, urban resident gardens at affordable housing and homeless shelters. They maintain 9 resident gardens and hold workshops at various affordable housing properties and homeless shelters in the area.
 

Northridge, CA 

California State University Northridge Foundation: Institute for Sustainability - works with stakeholders across campus to integrate sustainability into all aspects of the university from operations and infrastructure to outreach, education, and research. They maintain a 1/4 acre organic food garden that grows food for the on campus student food pantry, and serves as an education space for campus and the surrounding community. 

 

Porter Ranch, CA

Black Thumb Farm - provides a space to teach children and young adults to fight food injustice through hands-on training and experience, all while providing communities with access to healthy, quality produce. Their mission is to educate young people on sustainable farming methods that will aid them in the fight against food injustice in their communities as well as provide them with a trade that they can utilize throughout their lives. They aim to give children and young people of color, particularly BIPOC, access to a safe, green space where they can explore their own passions and connection to the land.

 

Salinas, CA

Community Bridges/Nueva Vista Community Resources - is part of a collective of four family resource centers that provide programming for youth, family support including counseling, parenting classes, linkage to services and benefits, and run food pantries. The community center is located in a working class and under-resourced neighborhood primarily compromised of Latine residents. They recently acquired a plot in the community garden to use as a teaching and learning garden for youth and their families, and to supplement their food pantry.
San Diego, CA
Paradise Gardeners - partnered with the San Diego Public Library to create a Seed Library at several branches in their diverse, lower income community of Southeast San Diego. Paradise Gardeners provides the catalog drawers, seeds and free, ongoing gardening classes.

 

Topanga, CA

Growing Hope Gardens - Aims to empower residents of affordable hosing and homeless shelters by helping them grow urban food gardens where they live. Seeds, seedlings, supplies, support and growing workshops are provided to help residents successfully grow their own healthy food.

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