Urban Sustainability Solutions Inc

Orange Countys Community Climate Action This funding is crucial to helping implement our Growing More Than Rain Gardens program, which aims to assist 10 Orange County teachers in running an after-school program for up to 50 students. This green infrastructure workforce development program is designed to administer and obtain after-school green-jobs training by job shadowing with environmental contractors. Students will be installing rain-gardens, rain-harvesting cisterns, riparian buffers, and other sustainable stormwater best management practices on underserved/low-income properties suffering from flooding and erosion issues in Orange County.

Independent Contracting - installation of cisterns, rain gardens and enviromental landscaping projects to help support the overall mission of the organization

Burts Bees Foundation-The money will support a teacher training program in August 2023, in which teachers from Durham Public Schools will train Orange County teachers on how to integrate the North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics (NCSSM) stormwater curriculum into their classrooms.

Funding from this grant will help train teachers in Raleigh on how to implement the stormwater management curriculum into the classroom and fund a pilot after-school STEM apprenticeship program for youth.

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