Cawaco’s Horticulture Therapy Program Honored by Gift from Wells Fargo At Days of Giving Event Cawaco RC&D’s Horticulture Therapy Program was honored by Wells Fargo with a $1,000 grant at the company’s Days of Giving ceremony at The Birmingham Zoo’s Trails of Africa on September 20, 2011. The donation to (GROUP) is among nearly 140 [...]
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Distaster Readiness in Blount County from CAWACO grant
The Blount County Commission Monday divided a $4000 grant among four municipalities that will use their $1000 toward improving future disaster readiness. The grant comes from CAWACO Research Development and Conservation, a government-affiliated agency that supports educational and community development in five central Alabama counties, including Blount. Blountsville and Cleveland will use the money toward [...]
Robotics program receives Cawaco grant
Isabella High School science teacher Jay LeCroy accepted a $9,350 grant from Cawaco Resource Conservation and Development Council on Nov. 21 for the Mustang Engineering Robotics Program. LeCroy started the robotics team at Isabella in 2009 to inspire students to pursue careers in science, technology, engineering and mathematics. Shortly thereafter, the team grew to become [...]
Cawaco Horticulture Therapy Program Highlighted in National Magazine
The summer edition of the American Horticulture Therapy Association newsletter features Cawaco’s unique sponsored program, HTP. Horticulture Therapy will be attending and speaking at the American Horticulture Therapy Association Annual Conference, Oct. 21-23, 2011. The article on Cawaco’s Horitculture Therapy Program is located on Page 18. Click here for entire publication: AHTANews_LateSummer[1]page18Horticulture Therapy Association Newsletter
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YouTube of Cawaco Horticulture Program
Check out this YouTube video of Cawaco Horticulture Therapy Program (HTP) and the 4H Club in local schools. HTP combines special needs students and elderly in a horticulture program that changes lives of often forgotten people. You will see HTP founder Susan Grimes in a Hawaiian shirt in some photos working with the 4H Club. [...]
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Cawaco Helps Harrison Library Provides Resources
This news report from the Shelby County Reporter on a Cawaco funded project – July 27, 2011 Brad Gaskins/Staff Writer COLUMBIANA – The Harrison Library System has received a grant to develop a local collection of instructional resources for skilled workers and trade students. The grant will provide equal and easy access of resources to [...]
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Student Scholarships for Science School
The Alabama 4-H center in Columbiana recently closed a $10,000.00 grant they receieved through Cawaco RC&D and the Alabama Cooperative Extension System. The grant provided scholarships to students throughout the Cawaco 5-County area. The educational objective was to promote environmental education and leadership skills through hands-on experimental learning. Topics studied included entimology, forest ecology, herpetology, macro invertebrate study, [...]
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