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What’s needed always?

Donations: Please click here if you are able to donate funds to support our work.

Volunteers: We try to find meaningful ways in which you can help us, given your interests and skills.  Come for a visit, eat some good food, get to know our youth leaders and we’ll see what interests you! rootdownla [AT] g mail

What’s needed now?
Support for our new youth leader program, healthy food for student, parent and community activities, bus rides for farm trips and a little dinero for the farmer!
Help us lay the ground work for a healthier food community in South Los Angeles.

It’s year two.  Thanks to private donations and a grant from Annenberg, we have made it through year one and have hired a new Youth Coordinator to launch our youth leader training program at Jefferson High this year.  We’ve stripped down our programmatic costs for ’09/’10 and know we can pull off this second year with just $40,000.  Your donations are tax deductable and every donation helps.

• A student gains invaluable skills as a paid Youth Leader for just $1,188.
• A bus for a farm trip for 40 people costs $400.
• $75 provides healthy food for 50 people at our Youth Leader cooking demos and healthy food tasting community events.
• $25 let’s us purchase a new chef’ knife so our kids can work like pros.

For more details on what donations support, see what we accomplished in year one:

Planting seeds for future farm-school connections and urban farm stands. In year one, RootDown LA brought over 600 students and teachers to McGrath family farms where they got to experience the healthy land/food connection and share a farm fresh meal.  Kids ALWAYS leave these trips asking when they can return and get more of this farm food!

Taking innovative and actionable nutrition, cooking and food systems education into the classroom. In year one, Root Down LA took its chef’s tools, fresh foods and stealth nutrition lessons to over 400 Manual Arts High School students.

Mentorship connecting youth with opportunities that increase their engagement and employability within a healthy food community. At the end of year one, we were able to launch our Youth Leaders program at Jefferson High School.  Our Youth Leaders are now taking action to increase their own and their peers’ preferences for healthy foods by preparing and promoting healthy food at student, parent and community events.

Root Down LA is a project of Community Partners, Inc. of Los Angeles, California.  Online contributions are possible, though more fees are taken out of your donation then.
A check for your tax-deductible contribution can be sent to

“Community Partners FBO Root Down”
1000 N. Alameda Street, Suite 240, Los Angeles, CA 9001.
For more information on contributions please visit: www.communitypartners.org.

For more information, email us at rootdownla [AT] g mail
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