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"[The youth] have something to say and they need somebody to listen to what they have to say”

— Famo Musa, an organizers of City Heights Youth for Change and an assistant teacher at the AjA Project

“I’m looking at [the OVGG] as a hub of change, where the community can come in and get whatever information they need to learn about healthy eating and healthy living and building a healthy environment,”

— Karemah Alhark, an active community garden participant

“It’s not going to take just one person to make the change, you have to get everybody involved”

— Sitey, a City Heights Youth for Change member

Academic-Community Partnership in San Diego Awarded CDC Grant to Establish Pandemic Preparedness Cohort and Data Hub

A multi-institutional team led by Dr. Louise Laurent, MD/PhD, including investigators at the University of California San Diego, Scripps Research, San Ysidro Health, and The Global ARC, has been awarded a 5-year grant from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) for “PREVENT: Preparedness through Respiratory Virus Epidemiology and Community Engagement,” with $5.7M of funding for Year 1.

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Berry Good Food Foundation’s 2024 Local Food Leader Award

Ocean View Growing Ground’s Environmental Justice Learning Hub Manager, Thi Vo, was one of the recipients for this years Local Food Leader Award presented by the Berry Good Food Foundation!

SDGE Environmental Champions Award

The Global Action Research Center is happy to share that we are one of the recipients of the SDGE Environmental Champions 2024 Grant to support our Ocean View Growing Grounds & Berry Good Food’s Seeds of the Future program. We are proud to be collaborating with Berry Good Food Foundation on the Seeds of the Future Program, which will provide resources such as trees, raised beds, seedlings, seeds, consultation, and translated workshops to the Southeast San Diego CBOs, communities, and schools.

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