Captain Planet Foundation Inc

Project Giving Gardens

Your contribution will go directly to funding our response to the student feeding crisis caused by COVID-19.

CPF has partnered with dozens of partner organizations in the Metro-Atlanta and San Francisco Bay area to fund urban farmers who will plant, maintain, and harvest school learning gardens and community gardens! 

Summer 2021 Harvest Update

We have already harvested over 4100+ pounds of produce.

Project Giving Gardens leverages school gardens by pairing esteemed gardeners and growers to cultivate, plant, harvest and distribute fresh produce to students and families who need it the most. A school or community garden can play a role in meeting the growing need for fresh food in communities across the U.S. – as CPF learned in 2020 when we employed 10 growers to oversee 100+ Atlanta area school gardens, harvesting over 100,000 pounds of produce for local pantries and the Atlanta Community Food Bank! 

Each school that participates in the program receives:

1. Free Summer Garden Maintenance by a paid grower for 9 weeks. The school garden is planted and harvested all summer long; and still thriving when students return to school. This eliminates the teachers' need to "start from scratch" or clear away summer growth. Which means learning and produce are available to students upon arrival to the 2021-2022 school year.
2. Free irrigation kit with an auto-timer is installed in up to 5 garden beds. A branded metal sign in the school garden stating “This school garden is feeding families!"
3. The school garden is listed on the Captain Planet Foundation website with a map of all participating schools and harvest counter.
4. The school is pitched to be featured in news stories and publications about the Project Giving Garden program.

Project Giving Gardens is currently supporting:

29 school gardens in Oakland Public Schools

22 school gardens and 16 community gardens in Marin County & Marin City

6 schools in West Contra Costa county 

About Captain Planet Foundation

When it comes to empowering the next generation of problem solvers, Captain Planet Foundation is an award-winning leader in the field. Your donation will fund our four key programs: Project Learning Garden, Project Hero, Ocean Heroes Bootcamp, and our Small Grants program for K-12 education.

Your donation to Captain Planet Foundation is 100% tax-deductible.  Captain Planet Foundation Is A Top-Ranked, 4-Star Charity Navigator and Guidestar Platinum 501(c)(3) Charity.     

Captain Planet Foundation works collaboratively to engage and empower young people to be problem-solvers for the planet.

Based on the critically-acclaimed animated series Captain Planet and the Planeteers, CPF was co-founded in 1991 by media mogul Ted Turner and producer Barbara Pyle as a corporate foundation of TBS.  In 2002, Captain Planet Foundation separated from TBS and became a 501(c)3 public charity.

CPF is both a grant-making foundation and a programmatic foundation.  Through its small grant program, it has funded over 2,700 hands-on environmental education projects with schools and non-profits that serve children in all 50 U.S. states and in 35 countries internationally. More than 1.6 million children have directly participated in and benefited from these educational projects.  

In addition to providing small grants, CPF operates the following programs: Project Learning Garden (providing schools with onsite learning laboratories and healthy food access); Project Hero (a web-based and project-based learning platform for students to save locally threatened species & ecosystems); and ChangeMakers (advancing the development of leadership and functional skills that allow students to become changemakers for environmental, social and community impact issues.  Most recently, CPF co-founded the Ocean Heroes Bootcamp with Lonely Whale, an award-winning program for youth campaigners in the fight against single-use plastic pollution.)