The Primerica Foundation Awards $10K Grant to Gwinnett Clean & Beautiful for Plant It Forward Program

Learning Garden Program at 11 Gwinnett County Public Schools Enters Its Second Year with Plans to Expand to Five Additional Schools

 

Lawrenceville, Ga. – September 27, 2018 – Representing a collaborative effort between Gwinnett Clean & Beautiful (GCB), Gwinnett County Public Schools (GCPS), Monarchs Across Georgia, and the Captain Planet Foundation, the Plant It Forward Program is responsible for the creation of edible and pollinator “learning gardens” at 11 schools throughout the county. Today, Gwinnett Clean & Beautiful is pleased to announce that a $10,000 grant from The Primerica Foundation will allow GCB to expand the program to five additional schools in Gwinnett.

 

“Primerica is an incredible partner to Gwinnett Clean & Beautiful,” said Schelly Marlatt, GCB Executive Director. “Their teams often volunteer for cleanup and recycling events and – most recently – they were the Presenting Sponsor for our 2018 Governor’s Environmental Address. We are truly grateful to The Primerica Foundation for awarding us with this grant. It will allow us to expand our school-based learning garden program even further. Following its first year of operation, Plant It Forward witnessed some truly awesome results. To date, over 5,100 volunteers putting in more than 10,500 volunteer hours to build, plant, maintain and harvest the gardens. Since the project launch in September 2017, more than 1200 pollinators – including bees, butterflies, moths, beetles, and wasps – were recorded in the gardens at the initial 11 campuses, and over 86 pounds of edible produce were collected. Through Plant It Forward, not only are we teaching students the important role that pollinators play in our eco-system and how cool it is to be sustainable by growing your own food, we are literally fostering the next generation of environmental stewards right here in our own backyard.”

 

Participating schools in the Plant It Forward program since its inception include: Grayson and Meadowcreek High, Couch and Radloff Middle, Pharr, Grayson, Trip, Starling, Ferguson, Nesbit and Rockbridge Elementary Schools. Five schools are being added to the Plant It Forward program this school year thanks to The Primerica Foundation Grant Program. Pollinators attracted to the gardens are recorded and produce from the edible gardens are harvested, weighed and tasted by the students. Any excess produce is donated to the local food co-op.

 

To learn more about Gwinnett Clean & Beautiful and its programs, please visit www.GwinnettCB.org.

 

About Gwinnett Clean & Beautiful:  Gwinnett Clean & Beautiful Services, Inc. (GCB) is a Keep America Beautiful affiliate and award-winning 501(c)(3) charitable organization. It boasts an expansive community-based network dedicated to finding long-term solutions to environmental and quality of life issues through individual action. The organization is guided by a Citizens Advisory Board that represents all sectors of the Gwinnett County community. A nationally recognized leader in creating cleaner, greener and more livable communities throughout Gwinnett, GCB involves more than 100,000 volunteers annually to clean and restore public places, recycle more, protect watersheds and develop the next generation of environmental stewards. To learn more about Gwinnett Clean & Beautiful and its mission of “Connecting People and Resources for a Sustainable Gwinnett,” please visit www.GwinnettCB.org.

 

About Primerica, Inc.: The Primerica Foundation is the charitable arm Primerica, Inc., the Georgia-based financial services company. Headquartered in Duluth, GA, Primerica is a leading distributor of financial products to middle income households in North America. Primerica representatives educate their clients about how to better prepare for a more secure financial future by assessing their needs and providing appropriate solutions through term life insurance, which we underwrite, and mutual funds, annuities and other financial products, which we distribute primarily on behalf of third parties. We insured approximately 5 million lives and have over 2 million client investment accounts at December 31, 2017. Primerica stock is included in the S&P MidCap 400 and the Russell 2000 stock indices and is traded on The New York Stock Exchange under the symbol “PRI”. To learn more about Primerica please visit www.primerica.com.

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