Check out our Executive Director, Zachary Robinson, being interviewed by AJ and Heather from WCCO | CBS News Minnesota this morning! https://lnkd.in/e9tNZZf2 Youth Empowerment, sustainability, and Art collide this weekend at Art-A-Whirl! 🌿 🛠 🎨 https://lnkd.in/e9brsS7R We will see you there! Shout to AJ, Heather, and Marty Keller for highlighting our important work!
Spark-Y
Education Management
Minneapolis, MN 388 followers
Fresh. Local. Youth-Grown.
About us
Spark-Y is a 501(c)(3) non-profit empowering youth through hands-on education rooted in sustainability and entrepreneurship. We integrate interdisciplinary curriculum with hands-on agriculture systems, such as aquaponics, mushroom growing, and vermiculture into classrooms throughout the Twin Cities metro, where we serve over 1,900 youth annually. Spark-Y serves its mission of youth empowerment through three branches: school programs, an annual internship, and an urban agriculture lab (UAL). These initiatives work together systematically, creating multiple touch points for youth engagement. The end result is a systemically designed organization that empowers youth, provides sustainable professional services that are shifting the education paradigm, and tackles pressing social issues such as the achievement gap, the workforce shortage, and environmental equity.
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http://www.spark-y.org
External link for Spark-Y
- Industry
- Education Management
- Company size
- 11-50 employees
- Headquarters
- Minneapolis, MN
- Type
- Nonprofit
- Founded
- 2009
- Specialties
- Education, Project Based Learning, Sustainability, Aquaponics, Urban Farming, Garden to Cafeteria, STEM, Vermiculture, Professional Development, Urban Agriculture, Education Consulting, and Systemic Design
Locations
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Primary
Get directions
4432 Chicago Avenue South
Minneapolis, MN 55407, US
Employees at Spark-Y
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Sam Menzies
Operations Director at Spark-Y Youth Action Labs
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Zachary Robinson
C.E.O and Executive Director at Spark-Y | 2022 40 under 40 MSPBJ | Organizational Leader | Sustainable Advocate | Compassionate Warrior
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Andrew Hilger
Serve the future.
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Rachel Mazac, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Researcher at Stockholm Resilience Centre (she/her)
Updates
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Check out the growth in the brand new aquaponics system at the Community School of Excellence. So lovely! #sustainability #aquaponics #nonprofit #education
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Check it out: Our Curriculum and Training Apprentice Franci Haeg wrote about her experience interviewing local urban farmers on our blog. Check out the link below for her analysis and access to the interviews. https://lnkd.in/guNjVmP2 #sustainability #nonprofit #minnesota #urbanagriculture
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Looking to kickstart the New Year with a great career opportunity? Spark-Y is hiring youth with a passion for entrepreneurship, sustainability, education, and urban agriculture for our paid apprenticeship program! Interested? Go to: https://lnkd.in/ghzivDXF #nowhiring #internship #sustainability #education #curriculumdevelopment
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This is the last day of Spark-Y's Double Your Impact Donation Drive! Please consider supporting us as we help youth put down new roots in #stemeducation, sustainability, and #entrepreneurship. You can find the link to donate below: https://lnkd.in/eNEdEQ3r #education #donatenow #nonprofit
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DOUBLE YOUR IMPACT THROUGH FRIDAY AT MIDNIGHT! Let's partner for #youthempowerment. If you have considered making a donation for giving week, you can double your impact by donating to Spark-Y, now through Friday, November 17th at midnight, through a matching gift of up to $25,000. Spark-Y has served over 13,000 youth in the #twincities and beyond since 2013. Your generous donation will provide access and opportunity to youth through hands-on education, projects, and employment that encourage personal and professional development, as well as collective care for our communities and environment we all share. Donate below: https://lnkd.in/eNEdEQ3r #nonprofit #localnonprofit #donatenow
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An amazing #virtualreality training session for our staff with Samuel Hightower. Spark-Y is constantly looking for new ways to revolutionize learning as technology improves day by day. How do you think VR will improve education in the future? #nonprofit #educationforall #technology #entrepreneurship
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Our staff got busy taking down the #greenroof at the Mississippi Watershed Management Organization and getting it ready for winter! If you want to learn more about the projects that Spark-Y is taking on this school season, you can sign up for our monthly newsletter here: https://lnkd.in/gugt-7Zw #sustainability #nonprofit #localnonprofit #waterconservation
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