Thank you to everyone who voted for me in the Farm Rich Kids Who Give Contest. Great news…I won. The $1,000 grant to Katie’s Krops will help start two new vegetable gardens to help feed people in need. I couldn’t have done it without you. Your votes are making two new gardens possible. I also want to thank Farm Rich for supporting Katie’s Krops.
Congratulations to Andi, Olivia, Nathan & Anna (the other 4 winners)!
http://www.kidswhogive.com/winners.php
Thank you to everyone who has e-mailed asking where they can purchase a copy of "Katie’s Cabbage". The book is written, the illustrations are complete and now we just need a publisher. As soon as ‘Katie’s Cabbage’ is published we will be sure to let everyone know and if you are a publisher…’let’s talk’!
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Katie’s Krops will be offering a grant to a someone to start a vegetable garden in their community to help feed people in need in other states. If you are between the ages 9 and 16 and would like to apply for the grant please e-mail Katie at LaunchKatiesDream@gmail.com and provide your name, age, address and e-mail address. When the grant applications are available we will forward it on to you.
Thank you.
Katie needs your help to make her dream a reality. Katie is hosting two events in July:
On Thursday, July 15th from 5:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. Katie will be at Aura Lee’s located at 140-C West Richardson Ave. in Historic Downtown Summerville. She is asking for your help in restocking the shelves at Tri County Family Ministries by dropping off donations of canned vegetables, canned meat and peanut butter. Canned goods with pop-tops are preferred so homeless guests of Tri County are able to open them. Everyone who drops off a donation will be given a gift certificate for a percentage off their purchase at Aura Lee’s.
On Saturday, July 17th Katie is asking for your help by bringing vegetables from your home, friends and/or neighbors gardens to Children’s Orchards located at 1580 Old Trolley Rd. to donate to Tri County Family Ministries & The Palmetto House. A few tomatoes, a zucchini, a pepper or two, any vegetable will greatly help people in our community who are struggling to eat. If you don’t have a garden you can still help. Donations of canned vegetables, pork & beans and peanut butter are welcomed. Katie will be at the store from 10:30 to 1:00 p.m. but donations will be welcome all day long. In addition to other store promotions taking place that day Children’s Orchard will provide shoppers that donate food with a 10% off coupon.
Please stop by on Thursday, July 15th or Saturday, July 17th with your donations and help people in the Low Country have a healthy meal. Together we can have a huge impact on helping those in need in our community.
FOOD DRIVE UPDATE!
Day one of the food drive was GREAT! Thank you Ms. Aura Lee, Mr. Bill, Ms. Christine & all of the wonderful people who donated 231 pounds of food! I hope to meet even more great people on Saturday at Children’s Orchard and collect even more canned goods, fresh vegetables and boxed food. Thank you for helping to feed the Lowcountry & thank you to my friends Arrington and Lydia for all of their help last night!
The total is in! With the help of the wonderful people of the Lowcountry Katie’s Krops Collected 535 pounds of food! Thank you everyone!!!!!
Thank you to everyone who voted for me in the Farm Rich Kids Who Give Contest. The announcment will be made by Farm Rich on August 27th if I have been selected to win a $1,000 grant to start two new vegetable gardens. I want you to know I already feel like a winner because of all of your support and kind words.
Thank you!!!!
The vegetable garden at the Palmetto House is in desperate need of a fence. Can you help? If you have a fence company and can help us with a fence that will keep the wildlife away from the vegetables please contact us at LaunchKatiesDream@gmail.com or call 843-327-3366.
The garden at the Palmetto House (the Summerville Homeless Shelter/Soup Kitchen) feeds the residents and guests of the Palmetto House. Thank you!!!!!!
Join Katie at Flowertown Garden Center on
Saturday, July 10th
from 9:30 to 11:00 a.m.
to design and paint your own flower pot with a local art teacher.
Receive a vegetable plant for your pot & then donate the harvest from your plant to your local soup kitchen.
The cost for this event is $10 for 1 person, 2 people $18 or 3 people for $24
To register for this fun event please contact Charlene Sharkey at Flowertown Garden Center
410 East 5th North Street
Summerville, South Carolina
843-725-9383
The Eclectic Chef in Summerville and Katie’s Krops have joined forces to help prevent hunger in the Lowcountry. On Friday, May 14th the Eclectic Chef will be donating a portion of the receipts from the day to Katie’s Krops a not-for-profit organization started by the now 11 year old Summerville girl, Katie Stagliano, who grows large scale vegetable gardens and donated the entire harvest to local soup kitchen and families in need in order to provide nutritious meals. To date she has donated thousands of pounds of healthy food to people in need in the Lowcountry.
The latest project started by Katie has been to grow a vegetable garden at The Palmetto House the only homeless shelter in Summerville that provides three meals a day to the shelter residents and anyone in need. Current and former residents of the shelter with help from Katie and her friends planted the garden and will continue to assist by weeding, watering and fertilizing. The harvest from the garden will feed people at the shelter. In order to protect the garden at Palmetto House a fence is needed. The event on the 14th will help fund not just a fence but fertilizer and everything needed to continue to grow Katie’s gardens.
In addition to delicious food the event will have live music for diners to enjoy at different times during the day and door prizes for a lucky few who come to support the worthy cause. The Eclectic Chef is located at 125 Central Ave (on Short Central) in Summerville and offers indoor and outdoor dining as well as take out.
“I hope everyone will come eat at one of my very favorite restaurants on May 14th. By eating a delicious meal you will help to provide a healthy meal to someone in need. Please bring your friends for lunch, dinner or dessert, enjoy the music and you may even win a prize. By eating at the Eclectic Chef on May 14th you will be supporting not just my gardens but you will also be supporting a great local business” Katie said.
The Eclectic Chef opens at 9:00 a.m. We hope everyone will come out of May 14th and support this event.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Local Contact: Kristen McMullen
Director of Communications & Alumni Relations
Pinewood Preparatory School
1114 Orangeburg Road
Summerville, SC 29483
Office: (843) 376-0142 ext 2002
KMcMullen@PinewoodPrep.com
Youth Service America Contact
Brandon Gryde
202-296-2992 x 128
bgryde@ysa.org
KATIE STAGLIANO AWARDED DISNEY’S FRIENDS FOR CHANGE GRANT TO ADDRESS ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES
Grant supports environmental initiatives that culminate on Global Youth Service Day
SUMMERVILLE, SOUTH CAROLINA – Katie Stagliano, a Pinewood Prep 5th grade student, was one of 75 successful applicants around the world to receive a $500 Disney’s Friends for Change grant supporting youth-led environmental initiatives for Global Youth Service Day (GYSD), the largest service event in the world, April 23-25. Disney’s Friends for Change: Project Green (www.disney.com/projectgreen) is a program that encourages young people to take steps together with their friends to help the planet. The grants, administered by Youth Service America (YSA), offer youth the resources they need to bring environmental initiatives to life for their local communities.
Each Disney’s Friends for Change grant recipient participating in GYSD will join the thousands of projects and millions of youth who work to make their communities a better place. The funded service projects will address a broad range of environmental issues including clean water, creating community gardens, and raising awareness about renewable energy.
In Katie’s project, Growing for the Greater Good, Katie along with her Pinewood Prep classmates will plant 14 rows of vegetable seedlings in a large scale vegetable garden located on the school grounds. Everything that is harvested from this vegetable garden will be donated to local soup kitchens to help feed families in need in our community. This garden was started and is run by the young Pinewood student. The garden will be planted on Friday, April 23, 2010. Local elected officials will be invited to Pinewood Prep to help support Katie and her classmates on Global Youth Service Day.
“Over 12 million people in the United States alone go to bed hungry. Many of them are right here in South Carolina. I am very excited that Disney and Youth Service America selected me to receive this grant that will help me provide fresh vegetables to people in need in my community. The generous donation of vegetable seedlings for the garden from Bonnie Plants will help make a huge impact in my fight against hunger too. It is the best feeling to be able to help families who are struggling have a healthy meal,” said 11 year-old Katie Stagliano.
“Youth around the world care a great deal about the environment,” said Steve Culbertson, YSA president and CEO. “Disney’s Friends for Change grants are providing thousands of young people an opportunity to address those environmental issues that are the most pressing in their communities. And participating in Global Youth Service helps raise awareness of how children and youth are working towards creating a healthier planet.”
For more information about the Disney Friends for Change Grants, visit Disney.com/projectgreen. To learn more about Global Youth Service Day, visit www.GYSD.org.
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Disney’s Friends for Change: Project Green is a multiplatform initiative that helps kids help the planet. Through the program, kids can learn practical ways to help the environment, get their friends involved, track their collective impact and have the opportunity to help Disney decide how $1 million in donations to various environmental causes will be made over the course of a year. Kids can join online at www.Disney.com/projectgreen, where they’ll commit to taking simple everyday actions, such as turning off the lights and switching to reusable water bottles, and find out more about why these actions matter. To date, kids have taken 1.5 million pledges that stand to prevent more than 70,000 tons of carbon emissions per year, save nearly 122 million gallons of water per month and prevent close to 200,000 pounds of trash from entering landfills every month.
Youth Service America (YSA) improves communities by increasing the number and the diversity of young people, ages 5-25, serving in substantive roles. Founded in 1986, YSA supports a global culture of engaged youth committed to a lifetime of service, learning, leadership, and achievement. The impact of YSA’s work through service and service-learning is measured in student achievement, workplace readiness, and healthy communities. For more information, visit www.YSA.org.
Global Youth Service Day is an annual campaign that celebrates and mobilizes the millions of children and youth who improve their communities each day of the year through service and service-learning. For more information, visit www.GYSD.org.
CONTACT: Lily Bedrossian
818-553-7292
The Walt Disney Company
Brandon Gryde Youth Service America
202-296-2992 x 128
