We are hiring three college students to be team leaders/mentors for a total of 935 hours (approximately $14,000). The sites for our Youth Environmental Entrepreneurship programs (Belmont, Cambridge, Newton & Waltham) can accommodate up to 32 high school students, whose salaries are mostly covered by City- or grant-funded summer youth employment programs. Below is what your gift helps us purchase. Any amount is welcome! We also seek in-kind donations of new or used (in good shape) gardening tools, including wagons, hoses, shovels, trowels, bird houses, bird feeders, or super soil (50% compost, 50% topsoil) etc. Call 781-209-0052 to make arrangements. Thanks!

$10 Four energy bars

$15 1 hour of a college student team leader/mentor’s salary 

$35  1 educational sign installed at a customer site

$45  1 100 ft. durable hose

$50  3 - 4 native plants donated to YEEP business inventory, public park or cemetery (where allowed)

$75  1 student field kit: sun hat, gardening gloves, t-shirt, field journal, 

clippers, suntan lotion, water bottle.

$80  3 native plants and 1 native shrub donated to a public park or cemetery (where allowed)

$90  1 sturdy bird bath for a native-plant garden/wildlife habitat

$150 12 native plants for YEEP students’ business inventory, public park or cemetery (where allowed)

$175 275 gal. water cube for water storage (used in Yr 1 to establish meadow garden that is a far distance from water)

$300 24 native plants for YEEP business inventory, public park or cemetery (where allowed)

$500 40 native plants for YEEP business inventory, public park or cemetery (where allowed)

$1,500 Mini-meadow (100 sq. ft.) -- 35 native plants, 20 native shrubs 5 native grasses for YEEP business inventory, public park or cemetery (where allowed)

$5,000 1 college intern/team leader/mentor full summer salary