East Palo Alto, CA Emerson Collective

EPA Bloomhouse | December 10, 2021

Scope: Ripple impact through the East Palo Alto community through collaboration of six organizations to create kits, build library carts, and paint/landscape the campus of Bloomhouse

My Role: Project Coordinator of Front Landscaping

Impact:

• Filled 300 drawstring bags with supplies and math games for the Boys and Girls Club of the Peninsula

• Assembled 300 family holiday gifts kits for Nuestra Casa, as part of their effort to uplift Latino families in East Palo Alto 

• Constructed and painted 19 Library Carts for City Year partner schools in Sacramento and San Jose 

• Painted a new garage door mural for the Bloomhouse facility based upon a previous design 

• Created 200 gift packages with gloves, socks, blankets, beanies and thank you cards for DREAMer’s Roadmap in support of immigrant farmers 

• Wrote 200+ holiday cards for Casa de Paz in support of immigrants recently released from detention 

• Potted twelve new trees and ten new plants for the landscape at Bloomhouse 

• Weeded and replanted two existing raised garden beds, and built three additional beds 

• Constructed and painted four outdoor tables to be used at Bloomhouse for events  

Service Development

In preparation for this event, I helped gather logos of local partner schools to be painted on 19 library carts. Additionally, I selected colors for each school and coordinated how much paint to be purchased based on the distribution.

On-Site Prep Week

Event Day