$10,000 towards the Brigade of Environmentally Educated Teen Rangers (BEET Rangers), a new environmental leadership program targeting undeserved youth in the Western Addition, offering a stipended opportunity for 15 ethnically diverse 13 to 15 year olds to become stewards of local parks and community leaders who educate and inspire hundreds of other youth and adults. Fostering appreciation and ownership of the urban outdoors through training in gardening and park maintenance, the BEET Rangers project increases the involvement of neighborhood youth in the limited green space available in their inner-city locale.

$10,000 towards The BEET Rangers program, which inspires and educates teens to be environmentally engaged and to develop practical and personal skills to become environmental leaders and future green collar workers through the training of fifteen at-risk teens each year who in turn have opportunities to continue internships and job placement in the green field, as well as reach out and engage their community in environmental stewardship and ownership of neighborhood parks.