Recognition of the Mayor's Beautification Program, Learning to Grow-Growing to Learn, Mini Grant Program. A Service Learning Initiative (Student Services and Federal Programs Division)

The Mayor's Beautification Mini Grant Program, Learning To Grow-Growing To Learn, was established to help schools, youth service organizations and other nonprofit agencies working with youth in the City of Tampa to become meaningfully involved in real community issues. Funds are used to implement projects that are researched, designed and carried out by the students, giving them a sense of ownership and personal responsibility for the environment. The following schools and organizations (with Hillsborough County students involved) received the 2005-2006 Learning to Grow-Growing to Learn, Mini Grants:

• Broward Elementary - Sandra Lockhart
• Chiles Elementary - Sharon Cutler
• Hillsborough High School, GEAR UP Program - Electra Davis
• Just Elementary - Debbie Gil Leslie
• Lockhart Magnet Elementary - William Talenti
• Muller Elementary - Diane Hignition
• Hyde Park Christian Church's Boy Scout Troop - Wade Rorrer (this was his Eagle Scout project)
• Tampa Federation of Garden Clubs - Kathy Echevarria
• Hillsborough Community College, Environmental Studies Department - Erica Moulton

Goal 3. Student performance on Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test (FCAT) Science will increase a minimum of five percentage points.

This program has no financial cost to the District. The Mini Grant Program is funded by the City of Tampa Solid Waste Department.

Each grantee had to complete an evaluation of their project and submit it to the Mayor's Beautification Program office.