Earthlinks, Inc.
How you can Help:
Help us make a differnce in the lives of people and the planet.
Description:
We connect homeless and at-risk, low-income persons with nature, offering innovative programs, and support toward empowering life changes.
Programs and Projects:
GreenFingers is a micro-economic development project and "First Steps towards
Employment" program created by EarthLinks to benefit homeless and low-income
persons. Participants grow the plants in a local GreenFingers Peace garden, then use
the garden’s abundance to create products available for sale. These project artists earn a modest wage and acquire job skills, plus an enhanced ability for socialization. Through such activity, they gradually develop self-esteem, find opportunity to appreciate natural beauty and enjoy a sense of accomplishment.
Garden Project
Our Garden Projects work with people at risk to cultivate gardens, providing an
essential grounding experience that confers a sense of place and self-worth to lives that are often fragmented. Our gardens range from community gardens in downtown Denver, to plots in the backyards of residential programs. The external activities in the garden mirror the transformation happening within participants’ inner lives.
NatureTrips
Day Trips into Nature offer time away from everyday struggles and concerns by
providing experiences in the city parks and in the mountains. Their vision of the world
and their part in it can grow, renewing their energy, their sense of connection, and their
dignity. These revitalizing trips can help to enable participants to return refreshed and
better able to face some of the chaos and challenges of life.
Help us make a differnce in the lives of people and the planet.
Description:
We connect homeless and at-risk, low-income persons with nature, offering innovative programs, and support toward empowering life changes.
Programs and Projects:
GreenFingers is a micro-economic development project and "First Steps towards
Employment" program created by EarthLinks to benefit homeless and low-income
persons. Participants grow the plants in a local GreenFingers Peace garden, then use
the garden’s abundance to create products available for sale. These project artists earn a modest wage and acquire job skills, plus an enhanced ability for socialization. Through such activity, they gradually develop self-esteem, find opportunity to appreciate natural beauty and enjoy a sense of accomplishment.
Garden Project
Our Garden Projects work with people at risk to cultivate gardens, providing an
essential grounding experience that confers a sense of place and self-worth to lives that are often fragmented. Our gardens range from community gardens in downtown Denver, to plots in the backyards of residential programs. The external activities in the garden mirror the transformation happening within participants’ inner lives.
NatureTrips
Day Trips into Nature offer time away from everyday struggles and concerns by
providing experiences in the city parks and in the mountains. Their vision of the world
and their part in it can grow, renewing their energy, their sense of connection, and their
dignity. These revitalizing trips can help to enable participants to return refreshed and
better able to face some of the chaos and challenges of life.
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