Charity Spotlight | NY Sunworks

This month’s Charity Spotlight shines on NY Sunworks, a non-profit organization dedicated to improving K through 12 environmental science education in urban schools. Since 2004, NY Sunworks has been busy inspiring a generation of environmental innovators and empowering them to create solutions to global resource challenges. They have created over 120 green classrooms for NYC students through their Greenhouse Project. In addition, they have been operating teacher training workshops, and publishing school curriculum that is now taught across the city.

The greenhouse classroom labs offer students the opportunity to grow food, while learning hands-on about nutrition, water resource management, efficient land use, climate change, biodiversity, conservation, contamination, pollution, waste management, and sustainable development. The lab operates as an integrated part of the school’s curricula and prepares children to exceed NYC’s science standards. In addition to enhancing a school’s science curriculum, the greenhouse lab greatly enriches arts and social studies by connecting nature to culture. Students learn the relationship between humans and the environment and gain a greater appreciation of sustainable development and its direct relationship to cultural diversity.

We encourage you to learn more about the work being done by NY Sunworks and welcome you to join us in supporting their green programs that are inspiring our youth to not only understand the issues facing the health of our planet, but also what actions they can take today to make a difference tomorrow. Those interested can make a donation on their website or head over to their site to learn about upcoming events. You can also follow them on Facebook, Instagram, or Twitter to help spread the word!