Sponsor Spotlight
One Cool Earth works with school districts, nonprofits, government agencies, businesses and other organizations to give children a place to grow. Our partners contribute more than funding support, they create school garden programs with their ideas, volunteer power, and in-kind support.
The Sage Garden Project is a program that brings gardens, cooking classes, and nutritional science, physical activity and exercise to targeted elementary schools. The goal of the program is to reduce the incidence of diabetes. Since the disease is developing at an epidemic rate in the Hispanic/Latino population, schools with a large percentage of these students are targeted for participation.
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The Harold J. Miossi Charitable Trust has sponsored multiple Garden Build projects with One Cool Earth. Mr. Miossi was a firm believer that individuals shape the world in which they live and was motivated to have a positive effect on the environment of his community.
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Since 2015, Atascadero Unified School District has lead the way with district support for our programming. One Cool Earth's school garden program is now in each school site in their district. They have implemented composting and recycling programs, created food forests, and won CA Green Ribbon School Awards at a few school sites.
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What Our Sponsors Think
One Cool Earth is such a wonderful program for the students. Classroom lessons in science and math mean more when students have had hands-on experience in the outdoors! One Cool Earth is a wonderful resource for our schools to make a richer learning experience for our children!
School District Partnerships
Over the years, we've found our programs are most successful when schools are bought in--both in terms of teachers, parents, and administrators to host the program, and by sharing in the cost of the program. These districts partner with us to make sure our Earth Genius program is available to their students.
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Paso Robles
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Lucia Mar
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Atascadero
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What Our Partners Think
Over the past few years it has been such a gift to have a garden at our school with the added gardeners that have created and nurtured not only the garden but our students. I work in the kindergarten class directly in front of the garden location and get to witness first hand the excitement and learning taking place.
