Toro Announces Grant Recipients for ‘Green Spaces Make Great Places’ Program

2m Zo H8 ZWith nearly 4,000 votes cast by the public, Toro has announced its grant recipients for the second annual ‘Green Spaces Make Great Places’ program.

The program awards funds to communities and non-profits seeking to improve outdoor environments across America.

The recipient with the most votes and the $7,000 first-place grant is Wonder Workshop, a Children’s Museum in Manhattan, Kansas.

Wonder Workshop is working to create an outdoor garden space that is healthy and green. The program’s goal is to teach kids how to grow healthy foods and give them a safe and fun place to play outdoors.

The second place, $4,000 grant recipient is Unity Charter School in Morristown, New Jersey.

The school recently located to a larger building in a semi-industrial area with a lack of green space.

Using funds raised by the parents in the community, the group created a playground and a small turf field.

Additionally, the school has plants to transform an additional area to serve as an outdoor classroom for students.

The two remaining finalists, Growing Solutions and the Irmo Arbor Day Commission, each will receive a $2,000 grant.

The Julie+Michael Tracy Foundation and Growing Solutions Farm, located in Chicago, took a barren 1.5-acre city plot and are converting it into a vocational therapeutic garden to help young adults with autism learn life and career skills.

The Irmo Arbor Day Commission is raising funds to complete major beautification projects at local schools and in other areas around the town of Irmo, South Carolina. In addition to creating green areas for kids, funds raised by the organization have helped beautify a new veteran’s park and facilitated the planting of crepe myrtles along the railroad tracks that run through the town.

The four finalist organizations each submitted a video explaining their proposed initiative and how the grant would help further efforts to improve green spaces. Public voting determined the grant level awarded to each group. 

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