REED Next provides job training, employment support and community integration for adults with autism. REED Next will offer a variety of jobs in and around the Mobile Food Lab, and at the Meadowlands Environment Center.
REED Next and Greens do Good are initiatives of the REED Foundation for Autism.
EcoSpaces Education brings food literacy programs to schools, communities and educators. EcoSpaces Education is a co-curricular program designed to give students the tools to make good decisions to lead to healthy lives. By linking food-based interactive activities to core curriculum in learning environments that include the school dining room, garden, teaching kitchen and indoor growing labs, EcoSpaces teaches kids to build healthy, lasting relationships to real food and our food system.
Philip’s Education Partners is a non-profit organization whose purpose is to support the education of urban youth and to provide resources to institutions dedicated to helping urban youth to develop the intellectual competence and values necessary to live healthy, productive lives filled with options and choice. PEP, giving children the foundation to take life on!
The Meadowlands Environment Center, under the management of Ramapo College, has a mission to develop and implement programs and projects designed to engage students, teachers and the community in meaningful dialog about the environment including healthy lifestyles.
Ramapo College of New Jersey is the state’s premier public liberal arts college. Ranked among the top colleges in the region by College Choice and recognized by, among others, U.S. News & World Report, Princeton Review, Colleges of Distinction and, also designated by Victory Media as a “Military Friendly College,” Ramapo College is committed to academic excellence through interdisciplinary and experiential learning, and international and intercultural understanding.
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A charitable organization created by Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey in 2004. Its mission is to improve the health of New Jersey residents by promoting health prevention and education programs. It strives to increase access to quality health care for all New Jersey residents while increasing and enhancing the arts and cultural opportunities.
Through its Meadowlands Environment Center, the NJSEA provides environmental science programs to schoolchildren through a contract with Ramapo College. Approximately 15,000 students participate in field trips to DeKorte Park throughout the school year.
Orange & Rockland has funded our project – Mobile Food Lab – STEM Activities in four Bergen County school districts for the 2019-2020 school year; Allendale, Mahwah, Oakland and Ramsey. The project has a goal of improving student understanding of experimental science; human physiology; plant science; and the chemistry and biology that are the basis of nutrition. The Mobile Food Lab (MFL) brings the “field trip” to schools allowing students to take part in STEM activities without travelling. The grant is supporting visits from the Mobile Food Lab to schools in these districts. In one day we provide instruction for 60-70 students. The MEC staff has delivered activities focused on discovery through hands-on learning to students from Joyce Kilmer school in Mahwah in November. We are looking forward to meeting the students in Ramsey’s Hubbard and Tisdale schools in January.