Just as organic farmers replenish the soil to nurture their crops, at Earthbound Farm we’ve made a tradition of giving back to our communities to help them prosper and grow.

• Future Environmental Stewardship: We support the next generation of environmental stewards by funding academic scholarships at Anzar High School and University of California Santa Cruz.
   
• Local Organic Outreach: Our outreach program delivers farm-fresh organic produce to local schools. The program has been so successful that we’ve expanded it to one of our local hospitals, the Community Hospital of the Monterey Peninsula. We’ve helped students at Anzar High School start a student-managed organic garden, and through our Farm Stand we've also set up an organic school lunch program in cooperation with All Saints' Day School in Carmel Valley, CA.
   
• Community Support: Being good neighbors means taking an active role in community activities by supporting charitable organizations, school fundraising events, service clubs, and local food banks throughout the year with financial and product donations to their fundraising efforts.
   
• Earthbound Farm Scholarships: Every achievement at Earthbound Farm is made possible through the hard work and dedication of our employees — some have been with us since the earliest days of our company. To honor our employees, we award two renewable scholarships each year to children of employees headed to college or other post-secondary education. It’s a smart investment in the future for all of us.
   
• Employee Charities: Our employees are proud to support Earthbound Farm’s mission to share the benefits of organic food — and in turn, Earthbound Farm supports our employees’ passions for other causes. Each month we donate to a nonprofit organization nominated by our employees. Here are some of the charitable organizations we've supported over the last year:

   

  May 2012	The Salinas-Marina Community Food Project supports the production of fresh food, nutrition education and employment training. By building and maintaining community gardens with and for underserved populations in the Monterey Bay Area, the organization increases people's access to fresh organic produce; provides a supportive work environment that nurtures entrepreneurial enterprise; and creates free public green spaces for the community to enjoy.
  March 2012	St. Baldrick's Foundation is a volunteer-driven charity committed to funding promising research on cures for childhood cancers and giving survivors long, healthy lives. They currently fund more childhood cancer research grants than any organization besides the US government. The Foundation coordinates its signature head-shaving events worldwide to raise money to support childhood cancer research.
  February 2012	The King City Young Farmer's Foundation raises funds to support community activities throughout the rural South Monterey County region of King City and Greenfield, CA. They support a wide variety of local nonprofit groups, from Future Farmers of America to dance troupes to scholarship programs, with all proceeds from this volunteer-run organization going back into the community.
  January 2012	Islands First is helping to peacefully relocate a group of small villages on atolls in the Pacific that must move because of rising sea levels brought on by global warming.
  December 2011	SBC (Sociedad Cultural Bilingue) at Watsonville High in Watsonville, CA, enriches cultural awareness, fosters community involvement and teaches leadership skills. Our donation supported their scholarship fund for first generation students attending college.
  November 2011	The Boys & Girls Clubs of Salinas offer a safe place for kids to learn and grow. The clubs oversee educational and recreational programs that help instill in kids a sense of competence, usefulness and belonging.
  September 2011	Gilroy Chaos Fastpitch provides young female athletes ages 8-16 the fundamental training in fast-pitch softball so they can play at the high school and college level with leadership, self discipline and teamwork skills.
  August 2011	Monterey County Agricultural Education hosts “Farm Days” field trips to learn about food and farming for about 6,500 third graders around Monterey County each year at no cost to local schools or districts.
  July 2011	The Elks Scholarship Program awards college scholarships to students from the 3 high schools in San Benito County, CA, where Earthbound Farm's headquarters and California processing plant are located.
  June 2011	The Gil Basketball Academy promotes basketball to at-risk kids ages 4-17 with the goal of helping them “shoot for and reach their goals” by participating in an organized basketball skills academy.