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Provides a summer camp that features a community garden, trails, presentations and promotes the wise use, enhancement and understanding of natural resources.
Promotes a healthy neighborhood by providing activities and advocacy that engage adults and children in positive experiences. Children's activities include self-esteem and conflict resolution, art and crafts, environmental education and theme-based activities. Adult activities include cooperation with local agencies, neighborhood assessment, referrals, English as a Second Language (ESL) home tutoring, educational mentoring, computer assistance, beautification programs and collaboration with the Burton Diehl Neighborhood Organization.

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Tutoring Services
English as a Second Language
Community Gardening
Community Garden
Provides after school programming covering four core areas: education and career development, health and life skills, the arts, and fitness and recreation. Activities and services include homework help, digital literacy training, mentoring, sports and games, nutrition education, gardening, and more.

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Nutrition Education
Recreational Activities/Sports
Youth Enrichment Programs
Tutoring Services
Extended Child Care
Community Gardening
Mentoring Programs
Provides gardening education, seedlings, and construction support to volunteer-run gardens. Harvests are gathered and distributed to local food cupboards where, along with non-perishable food items, residents who are hungry or food insecure can get the food they need.
Container Garden
Grows fresh fruits and vegetables that are donated to the community, affiliated pantries, and mutual aid networks. Also provides volunteer opportunities.

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Volunteer Opportunities
Community Gardening
Offers numerous events to build the community and allow neighbors to meet one another such as community gardens, outdoor movie nights and participate in National Night Out which features live music and a large picnic for all neighbors.

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Community Gardening
Cultural Heritage Groups
Community Garden
Cultivates a community garden. Distributes produce to community members in need. Provides volunteer opportunities.
International Refugee Community Garden
Teaches people how to grow food and promote the benefits gardens bring to neighborhoods.
Engages high school youth in a variety of art forms including painting, drawing, sculpture, and filmmaking, and provides instruction about urban agriculture, harvesting, and cooking nutritious meals. Includes a stipend through the Philadelphia Youth Network.

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Summer Camps
Youth Employment Programs
Community Gardening
Youth Enrichment Programs
Extended Child Care
Day Camps
Plants, oversees, and harvests organically grown vegetables that are given to our food center families and used in preparation of some of the meals for our Westside Brunch.

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Fresh Food
Community Gardening
Provides educational information, literature on gardening and related topics, and master gardener program.

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Recreational/Leisure/Arts Instruction
Community Gardening
Supports the outreach mission of Penn State Extension by utilizing unbiased research-based information to educate the public and communities on best practices in sustainable horticulture and environmental stewardship.

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Community Gardening
Offers comprehensive horticultural training to become knowledgeable gardeners.
Provides safe spaces and enriching activities for youth after school that support critical thinking, social skills, and academic achievement. Located at these schools: George W. Childs, Newlin Fell, Southwark Elementary, Vare-Washington Elementary, and Horace Howard Furness High - 21st Century Community Learning Center. Also located at Mamie Nichols Center.
Community garden that provides fresh produce and garden plots to community members

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Community Gardening
Fresh Food
Provides food, nutritional education program (Fulton County Super Cupboard), gardening program each Spring, Summer school lunch program, school backpack program, and budget/lifestyle counseling.

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Food Pantries
School Supplies
Nutrition Education
Personal Financial Counseling
Summer Food Service Programs
Community Gardening
Provides safe spaces and enriching activities for youth after school that support critical thinking, social skills, and academic achievement. Located at these schools: George W. Childs, Newlin Fell, Southwark Elementary, Vare-Washington Elementary, and Horace Howard Furness High - 21st Century Community Learning Center. Also located at Mamie Nichols Center.
Provides opportunities to participate in and benefit from urban farming and gardening, community-led food distribution, health and wellness education, and neighborhood land stewardship.

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Community Gardening
Nutrition Education
Neighborhood Improvement Groups
Redevelopment Programs
Community Garden
Community Garden
Provides safe spaces and enriching activities for youth after school that support critical thinking, social skills, and academic achievement. Located at these schools: George W. Childs, Newlin Fell, Southwark Elementary, Vare-Washington Elementary, and Horace Howard Furness High - 21st Century Community Learning Center. Also located at Mamie Nichols Center.