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Dear <<First Name>>,

This holiday season, we want to say thank you. 

This year has been unprecedented. For our students, teachers, schools and parents alike.

It’s been quite a year for us here at Green Our Planet too. 

We’ve faced challenges and hardships. But, with your support, we overcame many of those obstacles and created stronger, more effective programs that continue to impact students across the nation. 

This year has been hard, no doubt. But it’s shown us what we can do together:

We created more than 120 videos for the Green Our Planet Virtual Academy so students could continue to learn nature-based STEM, nutrition and more through gardens and hydroponics—even at home. Our video lessons have been viewed at least 100,000 times on YouTube.
Above: Green Our Planet films STEM lessons in the garden for the Virtual Academy.

We continued to bring school garden programming to Nevada schools. With virtual coordinator meetings, 35 live online chef demos and video garden tours, students have continued to learn through their school gardens.

We brought our Hydroponics STEM Program to 36 schools from Pennsylvania to New Mexico to Michigan. And helped 265 teachers expand their STEM content knowledge and learn how to use school gardens and hydroponics through online teacher training.
Above: Students in Venetie, Alaska harvest and wash fresh lettuce from their school hydroponics unit.

Together, we helped an Alaskan school district bring hydroponics education to one school, and fresh vegetables, to their Arctic Circle community. Bob Pymn, the Principal at John Frederson School in Venetie, says he has ordered 25 kits to give to each family so they can continue the work at school and show that vegetables can be grown at any time of the year!

In addition, the Yukon Flats School District, which serves 250 K-12 students, will have five more hydroponics systems early next year. This area is in the northeast of the state between the Arctic Circle and the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. 

Here in Nevada, we donated hundreds of pounds of fresh fruits and vegetables from the school gardens to feed families in need. 

Together, we inspired more children than ever before. 

Thank you! 

We’re proud of what we’ve accomplished together this year. 

Without your help, none of this would have been possible.

But our organization will be impacted by the effects of the pandemic for the next couple of years.

With your generosity, we can continue our mission and do more to improve the lives of students across the country and now above the Arctic Circle!

With that in mind, we are asking you to give as much as you can to support this movement that’s making an impact in STEM education across the nation.
 
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Once again, thank you for your support.

 

Wishing you and your families a wonderful and safe holiday season,

Ciara Byrne                        Kim MacQuarrie

          Co-CEOs and Co-Founders

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