EcoRise Youth Innovations

Austin, TexasEcoRise Youth Innovations

$9,836

Raised of $8,750 USD

Successfully funded on May 19, 2012
111 supporters
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About This Project

Through our solutions-based programming, EcoRise empowers youth to tackle real-world challenges by teaching environmental literacy, social innovation and hands-on design
skills.

EcoRise partners with high school teachers to infuse environmental literacy, social innovation and hands-on desing skills into the daily curriculum supporting science
and technology. Over the past three years, EcoRise has had an incredible impact on the lives of over 500 students in six schools in Austin. As a result, we are facing more demand than we can keep up with. The only way we can reach more youth in more
schools is to FORMALIZE AND PACKAGE OUR CURRICULUM and train more teachers so they have the capacity to implement our unique program in their own classrooms. Your support is crucial so that we may double the number of schools we serve this fall.

Use Of Funds

$8,750 Tipping Point Goal

$15,000 will allow us to FULLY LAUNCH our program at SEVEN SCHOOLS this fall.  Your donations will fund teacher training workshops held in August-October at these schools
serving economically-disadvantaged students in Austin.  


Where the money will go when we reach our tipping point:


$3,250 – Developing a stellar curriculum! (60+ unique lesson plans, activity sheets & comprehensive teacher's guide)


$4,500 – Creating a beautiful EcoRise Toolkit! (colorful 200+ page package, videos & multi-media materials)


$1,000 – Toolkit Production (hard copies for all seven schools + design/build kits)


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$8,750 (=$1,250 per school)


And if we reach our total goal then we'll be able to FULLY IMPLEMENT:


$6,000 – Train-the-Teacher Program (organize & facilitate teacher training workshops and offer on-going teacher support)


$250 – workshop materials


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$15,000 TOTAL





A special THANK YOU to our supporter TreeHouse, a new kind of home improvement store in Austin. Check out their website to learn new ways to improve the efficiency, health
and sustainability of your home! http://www.treehouseonline.com/

$15,000 Stretch Goal


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Rewards

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$15.00

GROUNDBREAKER: Every dollar makes a difference. For your contribution, we will give a heartfelt shout out to you on our Facebook page and in our newsletter. You will also receive a suite of green lifestyle apps and resources to help you live a more sustainable lifestyle.

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$30.00

TRENDSETTER: A heartfelt shout out on our Facebook page, a suite of green lifestyle apps and resources. Plus, a limited edition Treehouse tote bag or limited edition Treehouse water bottle, so you can be the fashionable trendsetter of your neighborhood, carrying sustainable ideas with you everywhere you go. Plus, a coupon for 10% off your next purchase at Treehouse - up to $2,000.

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Select Reward
$55.00

ARCHITECT: A "seeded" EcoRise postcard with a personalized note from an EcoRise student. When you're done enjoying the postcard, plant it in your backyard and watch the flowers bloom, knowing that your contribution has also helped plant new, empowering ideas in the minds of EcoRise students.

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Select Reward
$100.00

INNOVATOR: Limited edition artwork from the EcoRise Youth Solutions Showcase, a limited edition Treehouse water bottle and a coupon for 10% off your next purchase at Treehouse - up to $2,000.

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Select Reward
$250.00

DESIGNER: Upcycled product created by students to reuse discarded materials such as billboards, plastic bags, clothing and seatbelts. An Interactive VIP pass to the EcoRise Youth Solutions Showcase. Meet the judges. Meet the students.

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Select Reward
$500.00

TRAILBLAZER - With a contribution at this level, you're helping to pave the way for our EcoRise teacher training program. The more teachers we train, the more students they can reach. For your generous contribution, you will receive an upcycled product created by students to reuse discarded materials such as billboards, plastic bags, clothing and seatbelts. An Interactive VIP pass to the EcoRise Youth Solutions Showcase and a limited edition DVD featuring the students' projects.

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Select Reward
$1,250.00

PIONEER - A contribution at this level would single-handedly sponsor an entire school. For your pioneering efforts, your name will be included as a premier sponsor on all promotional material related to the EcoRise Youth Solutions Showcase. You will also be invited to join as a celebrity judge at the showcase. Additionally, you will also receive a limited edition DVD featuring the students' projects.

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