The Food Initiative Meaningful work is the foundation of The Food Initiative. Every summer we hire and pay diverse young people from all over the city to grow and harvest organic fruits and vegetables for our local hunger relief organizations. A portion of those youth interns are then re-hired to continue on throughout the remainder of the year. We call our summer term the Summer Youth Program (SYP) and we call our fall and spring term the Academic Year Program (AYP). Our teams of youth interns are called Dirt Crews. Our programs have a strong focus on health, service-learning, and leadership. And, because our youth interns are paid, our expectations are very high. In fact, our youth programs incorporate these four fundamental principles in all that we do: rigor, relevance, relationship, and 100% responsibility. We call these the 4-Rs. ___________________________________ Our Programs:
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No one has the right to sit down and feel helpless. There is too much work to do. -- Dorothy Day |