Greenworks: New Cohort Fund

Greetings all,

It's been a busy second half of the year for the Greenworks program.  Read on to see all the Greenworks updates

In August, we conducted teacher training in Ternate, Indonesia.  30 teachers at Khairun University completed a week-long workshop on active learning, how to utilize the Greenworks project design curriculum in their classrooms, and networked with our international partners in Brazil, Ukraine, and the US.

A few weeks later, we conducted the same workshop with 10 teachers at Lviv Polytechnic University in Lviv, Ukraine.  We now have over 50 teachers certified in the basics of active learning and using project-based learning in their classrooms.

Additionally, we have translations of the curriculum available in English, Spanish, Portuguese, Indonesian, and Ukrainian for our partners, and their partners, to use.  We're looking forward to working with these partners in the upcoming year.

The Greenworks spin-off projects, Beeworks and Clean Rivers, have also been making good progress.

In Brazil, Beeworks saw the delivery of beehives to communities in Guapiruvu and Tekoa Nhanderu Porã (an indigenous Tupi-Guarani village close to Guapiruvu).  Gabriela, an expert on native bees, has been working closely with the members of the Guapiruvu community in teaching them how to manage and multiply the hives, which students from Campinas University were able to see last month as part of their studies on extension education.

We also helped Khairun University inaugurate Beeworks Indonesia, which will be coordinating activities with Beeworks in Brazil to share knowledge about native bees.

For Clean Rivers, students in Ukraine continued working on their projects and we visited the Sukel' River communities in September to observe the work that has been done and talk with the locals about the project, the history of the villages, and the war.  It was a very moving experience both for us and for our university partners.

As the year winds down and you look at end-of-year giving, I hope you consider supporting Greenworks for another year.  Your contributions help our partners around the world and with more funds, we will be able to support more partners in 2026 and beyond.

With gratitude,

Lev

Greetings all,

The Greenworks program has been busy over the past few months.  Our Beeworks (Brazil) and Clean Rivers (Ukraine) projects have been moving along well.  Although work has slowed down over the past few months (summer vacation for Ukrainian colleages and winter holidays for Brazilian colleagues), it will pick back up in the coming months.  You can follow their updates on their respective pages.

For the core Greenworks program, we're happy to report that we now have English, Portuguese, Spanish, Indonesian, and Ukrainian translations of the core project design curriculum, which helps students conceptualize projects through their entire lifecycle.  The Ukrainian edition was most recently used at Lviv Polytechnic with students in geosciences and tourism to help them conceptualize and propose projects focusing on the geoheritage of the Carpathian mountains.

Meanwhile, we are currently in Ternate, Indonesia, deep in a week-long teacher training workshop with our partners at Khairun University.  We are working with 30 teachers who are learning about active learning methodologies, extension education and projects, and how to adapt the Greenworks curriculum into the Indonesian college classroom.  We also had the opportunity to talk about our work on Radio Republik Indonesia - Ternate, which broadcasts in the North Maluki region.  Over the weekend, we'll be headed to the nearby island of Halmahera to help kickstart their Beeworks Indonesia project, which we hope will cross-pollinate with Beeworks Brazil for exciting new collaborations.

All these new members of Greenworks will need financial support.  The next best matching opportunity will be Giving Tuesday in December, so I hope you keep us in mind as you plan your end-of-year giving.  Our teachers are ready and excited to get started, but they need your continuing support!

With gratitude,

Lev