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The Growing Project FoCo Café Intern
Internship Description
The Growing Project’s FoCo Cafe Intern will work with the FoCo Cafe to assist the Kids Feeding Kids breakfast program. In this role, the intern will support the Kids Feeding Kids intern in guiding kids and their families through activities at the café three times a week. These activities include sessions in The Growing Project garden. As a team member of The Growing Project, this internship also provides to opportunity to learn community listening and strategic planning for small nonprofits.
This is a 6 week internship from July 1st—August 14th
Title
The Growing Project FoCo Café Intern
Dates of Internship
July 1st - August 14th, 2020
Schedule
8:30am-11:00am Wednesday, Thursday and Friday
Location
The FoCo Café and FoCo Commons Garden
225 Maple Street
Fort Collins, CO 80521
Compensation
Internship is paid $13/hour every two weeks.
Qualifications
We are looking for someone with demonstrated interest and skill in working with youth to help coordinate daily activities and serve as a mentor to the kid’s program participants. The ideal candidate is confident, personable, enthusiastic about making relationships with young families, and speaks Spanish. Must be able to provide their own transportation.
The Growing Project FoCo Café Intern
Descripción del trabajo
La pasantía de The Growing Project en el Foco Café es una oportunidad de trabajar con niños en nuestra comunidad y aprender sobre nuestro sistema alimentario local. El/la intern@ trabajará con el FoCo Cafe en ayudar con el programa de desayuno: “Niños Alimentado a Niños” (Kids Feeding Kids). La persona en este puesto apoyará a la coordinadora de Kids Feeding Kids en guiar a los niños y sus familias a través de actividades en el café cada los miércoles, jueves, y viernes. Estas actividades incluyen lecciones en el jardín de The Growing Project. Como un miembro integral del equipo de The Growing Project, la pasantía también proporciona una oportunidad de aprender escucha comunitaria y planificación estratégica para pequeñas organizaciones sin fines de lucro. Esta es una pasantía de 6 semanas del 1 de julio al 14 de agosto.
Título
The Growing Project FoCo Café Intern
Fechas del puesto
1 de julio – 14 de agosto, 2020
Horario
8:30am-11:00am miércoles, jueves and viernes
Ubicación
The FoCo Café and FoCo Commons Garden
225 Maple Street
Fort Collins, CO 80521
Sueldo
$13/hora
Calificaciones
Estamos buscando a alguien con el interés y la habilidad demostrada para trabajar con los jóvenes y ayudar a coordinar las actividades diarias y servir como mentor para los participantes del programa para niños. El/la candidato ideal es confiado, agradable, entusiasta de establecer relaciones con familias jóvenes, y habla español. Debe poder proporcionar su propio transporte.
(versión en español a continuación)
The Growing Project FoCo Café Intern
Internship Description
The Growing Project’s FoCo Cafe Intern will work with the FoCo Cafe to assist the Kids Feeding Kids breakfast program. In this role, the intern will support the Kids Feeding Kids intern in guiding kids and their families through activities at the café three times a week. These activities include sessions in The Growing Project garden. As a team member of The Growing Project, this internship also provides to opportunity to learn community listening and strategic planning for small nonprofits.
This is a 6 week internship from July 1st—August 14th
Title
The Growing Project FoCo Café Intern
Dates of Internship
July 1st - August 14th, 2020
Schedule
8:30am-11:00am Wednesday, Thursday and Friday
Location
The FoCo Café and FoCo Commons Garden
225 Maple Street
Fort Collins, CO 80521
Compensation
Internship is paid $13/hour every two weeks.
Qualifications
We are looking for someone with demonstrated interest and skill in working with youth to help coordinate daily activities and serve as a mentor to the kid’s program participants. The ideal candidate is confident, personable, enthusiastic about making relationships with young families, and speaks Spanish. Must be able to provide their own transportation.
The Growing Project FoCo Café Intern
Descripción del trabajo
La pasantía de The Growing Project en el Foco Café es una oportunidad de trabajar con niños en nuestra comunidad y aprender sobre nuestro sistema alimentario local. El/la intern@ trabajará con el FoCo Cafe en ayudar con el programa de desayuno: “Niños Alimentado a Niños” (Kids Feeding Kids). La persona en este puesto apoyará a la coordinadora de Kids Feeding Kids en guiar a los niños y sus familias a través de actividades en el café cada los miércoles, jueves, y viernes. Estas actividades incluyen lecciones en el jardín de The Growing Project. Como un miembro integral del equipo de The Growing Project, la pasantía también proporciona una oportunidad de aprender escucha comunitaria y planificación estratégica para pequeñas organizaciones sin fines de lucro. Esta es una pasantía de 6 semanas del 1 de julio al 14 de agosto.
Título
The Growing Project FoCo Café Intern
Fechas del puesto
1 de julio – 14 de agosto, 2020
Horario
8:30am-11:00am miércoles, jueves and viernes
Ubicación
The FoCo Café and FoCo Commons Garden
225 Maple Street
Fort Collins, CO 80521
Sueldo
$13/hora
Calificaciones
Estamos buscando a alguien con el interés y la habilidad demostrada para trabajar con los jóvenes y ayudar a coordinar las actividades diarias y servir como mentor para los participantes del programa para niños. El/la candidato ideal es confiado, agradable, entusiasta de establecer relaciones con familias jóvenes, y habla español. Debe poder proporcionar su propio transporte.
A letter from the new Executive Director:
(traducción en espańol)
(traducción en espańol)
Dear Friends and Family of The Growing Project,
Last week I wrote a press release introducing myself as the new Executive Director of The Growing Project, effective March 2020. Thrilled and filled with gratitude, it was my intention to send it to our partners, sponsors, and Larimer County news sources as soon as possible. However, today I am grateful for the never-as-fast-as-you-planned nature of nonprofit organizing. As each day our lives shift with such velocity and unpredictability, I am grateful for waiting, for listening.
In light of the COVID-19 pandemic, it is more clear than ever that we need socially just and regenerative systems to support our communities. We acknowledge that what all residents in the United States are now facing, many residents have lived with every day: insecurity. Fewer public goods, fewer safeguards, less insurance, more uncertainty. Now there is even less access to markets, food supplies are compromised, jobs are disappearing, healthcare is limited, and certain groups will be disproportionately affected. Pandemics decode inequalities. This crisis reveals that our economic and political systems are unfit to protect the people.
But in this time of fear I have also seen how people are capable of beautiful acts of camaraderie and generosity.
The past teaches us that pandemics change history. While The Growing Project has been evolving for over a decade, let us again take this opportunity to broaden our perspective and practice of food justice. We entered 2020 with a plan to restructure our organization to build a new model of food justice that empowers, educates, and nourishes our community, while also adapting quickly and radically. In response to increasing physical isolation, we are redefining community with new social interactions that foster the longevity of our ecosystems and peoplesystems.
We regret that we must cancel our annual Seed Swap, an event that brings together hundreds of folks around growing a community food system. That said, we are excited to launch a Virtual Seed Swap: an online seed matching forum and mobile seed library. Seize the moment to converse and lend a figurative hand to fellow growers! Hold on to a sense of place (and out in the garden is a great place to be right now). In continuation with this virtual theme, we call upon you to volunteer your time and creativity to help us come up with online education, discussions, and campaigns. This is a call to arms with more communications to come!
In the meantime, let us focus on what we can do for ourselves and others to prevent spread—for our hourly workers, for our families, for our vulnerable and high-risk neighbors. Let us feed not only our tangible needs, but the spiritual. Cherish one another. Worship the outdoors. Grow food. Make art. And let us help you to do so--The Growing Project wants to know how we can re-common resources and organize together. As we design new tools to advance food justice, we need your help—be it a donation, a skill, a friendly note.
I feel privileged to join The Growing Project community. Thank you always for your voices and commitment to resilience.
Yours,
Megan Gross
Executive Director of The Growing Project
Last week I wrote a press release introducing myself as the new Executive Director of The Growing Project, effective March 2020. Thrilled and filled with gratitude, it was my intention to send it to our partners, sponsors, and Larimer County news sources as soon as possible. However, today I am grateful for the never-as-fast-as-you-planned nature of nonprofit organizing. As each day our lives shift with such velocity and unpredictability, I am grateful for waiting, for listening.
In light of the COVID-19 pandemic, it is more clear than ever that we need socially just and regenerative systems to support our communities. We acknowledge that what all residents in the United States are now facing, many residents have lived with every day: insecurity. Fewer public goods, fewer safeguards, less insurance, more uncertainty. Now there is even less access to markets, food supplies are compromised, jobs are disappearing, healthcare is limited, and certain groups will be disproportionately affected. Pandemics decode inequalities. This crisis reveals that our economic and political systems are unfit to protect the people.
But in this time of fear I have also seen how people are capable of beautiful acts of camaraderie and generosity.
The past teaches us that pandemics change history. While The Growing Project has been evolving for over a decade, let us again take this opportunity to broaden our perspective and practice of food justice. We entered 2020 with a plan to restructure our organization to build a new model of food justice that empowers, educates, and nourishes our community, while also adapting quickly and radically. In response to increasing physical isolation, we are redefining community with new social interactions that foster the longevity of our ecosystems and peoplesystems.
We regret that we must cancel our annual Seed Swap, an event that brings together hundreds of folks around growing a community food system. That said, we are excited to launch a Virtual Seed Swap: an online seed matching forum and mobile seed library. Seize the moment to converse and lend a figurative hand to fellow growers! Hold on to a sense of place (and out in the garden is a great place to be right now). In continuation with this virtual theme, we call upon you to volunteer your time and creativity to help us come up with online education, discussions, and campaigns. This is a call to arms with more communications to come!
In the meantime, let us focus on what we can do for ourselves and others to prevent spread—for our hourly workers, for our families, for our vulnerable and high-risk neighbors. Let us feed not only our tangible needs, but the spiritual. Cherish one another. Worship the outdoors. Grow food. Make art. And let us help you to do so--The Growing Project wants to know how we can re-common resources and organize together. As we design new tools to advance food justice, we need your help—be it a donation, a skill, a friendly note.
I feel privileged to join The Growing Project community. Thank you always for your voices and commitment to resilience.
Yours,
Megan Gross
Executive Director of The Growing Project
Mission
The Growing Project promotes an environmentally and socially just local food system through direct agricultural experiences, education, economic opportunities, and advocacy.
The Growing Project promotes an environmentally and socially just local food system through direct agricultural experiences, education, economic opportunities, and advocacy.
Values
Food justice
Encompassing term that seeks to advance equity and intersectionality (environmental, racial, economic,
gender and social) in relationship to food for all
Regenerative systems
Empowering communities to restore and reproduce thriving economic and ecological relations
Recommoning
Redistribution and reclaiming collective access to resources for community nourishment
Community empowerment
Organizing and fostering inclusive and leaderful communities
Restorative relationships
Accountability, transparency, and commitment to communal repairing and eliminating harm through a
communitarian process.
Food justice
Encompassing term that seeks to advance equity and intersectionality (environmental, racial, economic,
gender and social) in relationship to food for all
Regenerative systems
Empowering communities to restore and reproduce thriving economic and ecological relations
Recommoning
Redistribution and reclaiming collective access to resources for community nourishment
Community empowerment
Organizing and fostering inclusive and leaderful communities
Restorative relationships
Accountability, transparency, and commitment to communal repairing and eliminating harm through a
communitarian process.
Get Involved!
Want to get involved in Community Gardening, Food Justice and Urban Agriculture? Volunteering is easy - contact volunteer@thegrowingproject.org! Sign up for our regular newsletter to hear about events and volunteer opportunities or donate a little seed money with your PayPal account.
Want to get involved in Community Gardening, Food Justice and Urban Agriculture? Volunteering is easy - contact volunteer@thegrowingproject.org! Sign up for our regular newsletter to hear about events and volunteer opportunities or donate a little seed money with your PayPal account.
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