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Saving Mile Marker 4 – AKA Skinny!
It is with great pleasure and anticipation that I get to announce Growing Change will be spearheading the protection and control of one of our favorite hotsprings near Banks, ID. We are currently in collaboration with Wildlands Defence, The III%er’s (3 percenters), the Boy Scouts of America and other community members to help make this dream come … Continue reading
Stay tuned for new things coming!
We have a new project debuting and it is just around the corner. It consists of a vast community effort and the preservation of natural resources. We will disseminate more information when available. Things are getting exciting around the Growing Change office!
Picking Up!
When we had our Metal 4 the Mountains concert last year, I believe the team became a little worn out by the end of the event. We didn’t make as much money as we planned, and it was a ridiculous amount of work putting on a concert of this magnitude. In fact, we struggled to break even. Although … Continue reading
Trees For Change 2013
We have done it again folks! For our second year in a row we have teamed up the with National Wildlife Federation to help spread awareness and education to the lovely people of Boise, Idaho about the importance of planting trees. Since combining forces with the NWF last year we will have introduced over 500,000 … Continue reading
METAL 4 the MOUNTAINS
SEPTEMBER 21 2012 5PM – 945PM Idaho Old Penitentiary YES… it is official. We are having Metal 4 the Mountains. Growing Change Inc a 501c(3) non profit will be holding Metal For the Mountains at the Old Idaho Penitentiary. This 150 year old sand stone prison set amongst the Boise Foot Hills is going to be … Continue reading
208 Tattoo Fest
Yes… that is right! We have been invited to attend this years 208 Tattoo Festival, a two day event held at the Idaho Fair Grounds off Chinden in Boise, ID. We are excited to have this opportunity to mingle and bring awareness to our organization and we will have a variety of things to keep … Continue reading
Trees, Trees and more Trees!!!!!! (Part 1 of 2)
As mentioned in one of the previous communications, we have recently worked with the National Wildlife Federation to be the care taker of 300 fruit trees. We are so grateful to have this opportunity and I can tell you this, it truly brought people together. During the distribution of the trees we meet with … Continue reading
Raised Garden Boxes – It takes a community…
As every Executive Director finds out at some point, events don’t always go as planned, even when the best of intentions are set forward. Recently Growing Change tried to facilitate a new community garden between a youth group and a retirement community.The idea was for the exchange of knowledge to occur between young and older. … Continue reading
Many Upcoming Activities….
The winter gets long when you want to plant trees and get outside and there is only cold in sight. I know at Growing Change we cant wait to get out and get the activities we have been planning all winter going…. we have plenty to tell you about. Seeing that Arbor Day 4/27/2012 and … Continue reading
Funky Good Time…at the Funky Art Fest
It has been a long winter and at Growing Change we have been spending a lot of time indoors planning our next events. We can not wait to get out in the spring and start our new projects (more to come in following posts) . We have had several events planned that just didn’t come … Continue reading