The Band of Environmentally Educated and Employable Teens is a paid internship and hands-on learning experience in which youth gain job skills through learning about environmental justice and gardening with a small group of peers.
Serving youth of color and low income youth ages 14-19, the BEETs Program meets in the Western Addition and holds sessions both indoors in our classroom, and outdoors in our learning gardens. Youth are compensated with a pay increase available if they choose to return as a Leadership Crew member the following year.
Read our program description here: TBD
The 2023 – 2024 school year cohort is underway! Look for our summer 2024 application in May.
Read our frequently asked questions (FAQ) here: tinyurl.com/beets2324faq
If you have any questions, please email kunal@communitygrows.org
"Since my time coordinating the program, I've been focused on bringing in a strong environmental justice and climate justice lens to everything the students learn"
—B, BEETs Educator
“It's not that we're necessarily all going to become environmental lawyers, but that we are going to take the values that we learn here and apply it to whatever career we choose”
—Ahlaya, BEETs Leadership Crew, 2019/2020 school year
July 17th
July 10th
May 2nd
April 27th
April 11th and 13th
April 4th
Spring Break!
March 23rd
March 21st
March 16th
March 14th
March 9th
- Dr. Amber McZeal Bio
- Resources from Dr. McZeal
- The Triangle Trade and the Colonial Table: Sugar, Tea, and Slavery
- From the 1619 Project: Before Cotton, Sugar established American Reliance on Slavery
- “The sugar that saturates the American diet has a barbaric history as the ‘white gold’ that fueled slavery”
- 1619 Project Curriculum Resources (by grade)
- How Banks Made Money from Slavery: Empires of Dirt
March 7th
Feb 28th
Feb 23rd
Feb 21st
Feb 16th
Feb 14th
Feb 9th
Feb 7th
Feb 2nd
January
