Today we celebrate Lizette who has single-handedly delivered 100,000 pounds of food since March. This newsletter is dedicated to her and all of you who have helped make it happen. Lizette is our Shero! Day by day, week by week, month by month, snow and rain, summer and fall, Lizette […]
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BIG NEWS – our award-winning documentary – GENERATION GROWTH – is FINALLY HERE!!! After two years of working with schools, teachers, students, and families across America, we are thrilled and beyond excited to share our passion, purpose, hope, and impact with you! This film – dedicated to teachers, students, families, and communities […]
For all of you who joined us for our world premiere of Generation Growth, we thank you! Simply put: it was awesome to see so much love and support for the film! Generation Growth continues to garner awards and accolades. For those yet to see the trailer, sign up for updates, exclusive […]
Patients with cancer in the South Bronx receive fresh produce every week, thanks to a partnership between MSK and The Green Bronx Machine, a program that helps students grow veggies in their classroom.
Atlanta, Georgia: On June 16, 2018, the long-running Sustainability Television Program Growing a Greener World® received a Daytime Emmy Award® for its breakthrough episode The Green Bronx Machine. This is the broadcast’s first Emmy win. The honor comes on the heels of Growing a Greener World receiving the coveted 2017 Pioneer Taste Award® […]
With results like these and waitlists of children to serve, now more than ever we need your support! We remain a volunteer program and are seeking funds to hire two local dedicated after school tutors – academic specialists so we can bridge the performance gap for our students. Given increasing […]
Our after-school program held in the National Health Wellness & Learning Center is making epic happen daily! Serving the most at-risk children in the school from 2:30 – 5 PM daily, we: have helped solve 1,914 math problems analyzed 514 reading passages completed 272 outstanding assignments and cooked 26 gourmet meals […]
We are thrilled to report that Green Bronx Machine made the COVER story of TIME for KIDS Magazine. We’re delighted to share the story of our impact!
Input equals output! Last week we fed all 750+ students in the school a healthy, locally grown meal via our School Garden to School Cafeteria Program. Clean plates and healthy smiles are our signature, but most importantly as these pictures show, the children LOVED the meal eating healthy food across the rainbow. […]
As we are well into Back to School mode, we just wanted to catch you up on our amazing summer, powered by Sodexo! Over six weeks, our scholars: Logged 5,579,532 steps Rescued 1,769 meals Acquired 108 new vocabulary words Wrote over 100 letters to people, businesses, and visitors Grew over […]
October 4, 2017: Green Bronx Machine, the non-profit organization building healthy, equitable, and resilient communities through inspired education, local food systems, and 21st Century workforce development, has been announced by global education non-profit HundrED, as one of its 100 innovative education projects across the world, all of which have been […]
We were so honored to feature our experience, strength, and hope to grow something greater in the beautiful city of Atlanta where El Capitan talked about what it meant to be Georgia Grown, keynoting the first ever Aglanta Conference to a standing ovation and speaking to a focus group at […]