Community Involvement
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
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
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
Giving back…
We have been graciously accepting donations of all types over the last couple months. They have come in the forms of money and physical property and are very happy to receive them. It helps us grow! In some cases things get donated that we have no use for, so we find the right organization to … Continue reading
Occupy Boise
As Boise settles in for the Occupy, we at Growing Change decided to check out the activies at the old court house in downtown. As it is getting cold we also decided it might be nice to donate some food. We aren’t quite sure all the facts, but we do know people need healthy nutrients. In total … Continue reading