Brooklyn Botanic Garden

Purpose: Expanding Educational Services The Brooklyn Botanic Garden will transform from a provider of informal, supplemental educational services to a formal educational partner through a new educational strategy, "Becoming a Partner in the Brooklyn Academy for Science and the Environment (BASE)." The Garden will serve as a lead partner in designing and operating a New York City public high school, which will focus on environmental science, for 500 inner city students. Partnering with Brooklyn's Prospect Park Alliance, the Garden will become one part of the School's 3-part "campus" extending its physical and programmatic role in the City as an architect of livable communities and learning environments. This grant will support the hiring of new program staff, curriculum development and evaluation consultants, training for the garden's staff, and evaluation materials.