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Empowering our "Green City Youth"
PHS’s Green City Youth program seeks to inspire youth and improve communities through horticulture, by cultivating student appreciation and interest in gardening and nature.
 Based on Philadelphia Green, PHS’s successful urban greening program,
Green City Youth teaches that trees, gardens, parks, green streetscapes,
and other green spaces improve the health and well being of the urban environment.
Green City Youth (GCY) provides students with fun and interesting activities in which community greening is both educationally relevant and integrated across K-12 curricula through a service-learning model.
Green City Youth works directly with Philadelphia school students and their teachers in a limited number of schools each year. Teachers interested in applying to the program must first complete PHS’s Green City Teachers basic training course.
Learn more about GCY's highly successful third year here.
The Green City Youth program was launched in 2005 through a generous two-year grant from the National Recreation Foundation. The program is currently supported by the following grantors:
Anonymous
Bennett Foundation
GlaxoSmithKline Foundation
Hamilton Family Foundation
Lincoln Financial Group Foundation
The Rosenlund Family Foundation
Joseph Kennard Skilling Foundation
To find out how you can support the Green City Youth program, please contact the PHS Development Office at 215-988-8805.
For more details about the Green City Youth program, call at 215-988-8800 or click here.
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