{"id":306,"date":"2013-12-18T14:51:04","date_gmt":"2013-12-18T21:51:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lowercolumbiaschoolgardens.org\/blog\/?p=306"},"modified":"2013-12-18T14:59:21","modified_gmt":"2013-12-18T21:59:21","slug":"what-are-you-people-doing-with-my-money-anyway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lowercolumbiaschoolgardens.org\/blog\/what-are-you-people-doing-with-my-money-anyway","title":{"rendered":"\u201cWhat are you people doing with my money anyway?\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As of October 2013,<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>LCSG has helped create and sustain twelve school gardens (totaling over 100,000 square feet) in Cowlitz County, as well as smaller projects at 4 other schools.<\/li>\n<li>2920 students engaged in past 12 months<\/li>\n<li>280 volunteers engaged in past 12 months.<\/li>\n<li>9,540 volunteer hours in past 12 months.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>October 2013 Harvest Festivals:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>5 schools<\/li>\n<li>1530 students<\/li>\n<li>1,600 pounds of apples pressed for cider<\/li>\n<li>1,100 ears of Willow Grove corn shucked and roasted<\/li>\n<li>300 pounds roasted vegetables (potatoes, carrots, peppers, onions, beets)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>LCSG also facilitated gardening &amp; cooking activities for kids in six Youth &amp; Family Link programs and 9 Longview Parks and Recreation camps in 2013.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Staff:\u00a0 one full time program director; one full time Cowlitz AmeriCorps member.<\/li>\n<li>2012 budget: $85,000.\u00a0 All revenue comes from private donations from community members and local businesses as well as grants from foundations and corporations &#8211; no school district or government funding.<\/li>\n<li>In-kind donations for school gardens \u2013 seeds, tools, equipment, building materials, excavation and construction services, administrative &amp; technology support \u2013 total over $150,000 since 2010.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\" align=\"center\">\u00a0<span style=\"color: #000000;\"><em><strong>Thank you \u2013 it\u2019s working!<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As of October 2013, LCSG has helped create and sustain twelve school gardens (totaling over 100,000 square feet) in Cowlitz County, as well as smaller projects at 4 other schools. 2920 students engaged in past 12 months 280 volunteers engaged<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lowercolumbiaschoolgardens.org\/blog\/what-are-you-people-doing-with-my-money-anyway\">Read more <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">\u201cWhat are you people doing with my money anyway?\u201d<\/span><span class=\"meta-nav\"> &#8250;<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-about"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lowercolumbiaschoolgardens.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lowercolumbiaschoolgardens.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lowercolumbiaschoolgardens.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lowercolumbiaschoolgardens.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lowercolumbiaschoolgardens.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=306"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.lowercolumbiaschoolgardens.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":308,"href":"https:\/\/www.lowercolumbiaschoolgardens.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306\/revisions\/308"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lowercolumbiaschoolgardens.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lowercolumbiaschoolgardens.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lowercolumbiaschoolgardens.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}