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- EIN 46-3998218
- info@insightgardenprogram.org
- (415) 854-0067
- 2081 Center Street Berkeley CA 94704 USA
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Nonprofit Overview
Causes: Children & Youth, Crime & Law, Education, Educational Services, Environment, Environmental Education, Inmate Support, Youth Development Programs
Mission: IGP facilitates an innovative curriculum combined with vocational gardening and landscaping training so that people in prison can reconnect to self, community, and the natural world. This “inner” and “outer” gardening approach transforms lives, ends ongoing cycles of incarceration, and creates safer communities.
Target demographics: the environment, youth who are incarcerated, women and men who are incarcerated, people with mental disabilities who are incarcerated
Direct beneficiaries per year: In 2018, more than 1,000 people in prison participated in our program.
Geographic areas served: IGP operates out of eight California prisons, two Indiana prisons, and in a reentry collaborative in New York.
Programs: IGP facilitates weekly classes focused on a holistic curriculum that tends to both the “inner” and “outer” gardener. Our “inner gardener” classes integrate transformational tools such as meditation, emotional process work and ecotherapy. In flower and vegetable gardens, people practice “outer gardening,” where our diverse class participants also learn the basics of organic gardening, human/ecological systems and useful work and life skills. Our transformational approach is based in on learning strategies from neuroscience and action-based learning. When combined with experiential gardening, participants experience big picture shifts that can last a lifetime.