
Our 5 Focus Areas
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Cultiv8Camp
Connects children primarily in rural areas with safe and free experiences in nature. Cultiv8Camp is designed for students to embrace the outdoors as they learn about the ecology, land management, planting, and connecting with nature. Each field trip and day camp experience is designed to build on the previous year's learning, encouraging schools and organizations to return annually. This progressive approach helps reinforce environmental education and fosters a deeper connection with nature over time.
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Cultiv8Connections
Seeks to connect with rural community leaders across North Texas to help them uncover their communities' hidden strengths and to see how those strengths can be leveraged to help solve problems connected to poverty and environmental conservation in their own regions. Our aim is to create a powerful network of rural communities poised to help each other and learn from each other.
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Cultiv8Housing
Builds high-efficiency, affordable homes and helps families experiencing poverty, who have never been homeowners, repair their credit, receive home ownership mentoring, and purchase homes with a $10-20,000 down payment assistance grant and no sweat-equity requirements. These homes will help stabilize families and allow them to build generational wealth for the first time. We have building lots secured, as well as close to half a million dollars in funding. In addition to building new homes we are also restoring some homes that have recently come our way.
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Cultiv8Respite
Provides peaceful locations in nature for teachers and community leaders to help them reconnect with the natural world and themselves, free of charge. Our respite experiences aim to improve mental and physical health and encourage a deep love of nature. We have multiple locations to serve as respite areas. We partner with the Prothro Center on Lake Texoma to provide places for teachers. Our other site, Graves Farm, is geared more for community leaders and their families.
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Cultiv8Habitat
Partners with local landowners to help reclaim their land as native pollinator habitats and/or adopt regenerative farming practices. Our efforts will increase much-needed land for pollinators, help reconnect habitat patches for wildlife, and restore rural soil. We currently have active partnerships with rural landowners and the National Wildlife Federation.