Impact

Mission Statement

KIDS for the BAY collaborates with teachers to inspire environmental consciousness in children and cultivate a love of learning. We are committed to increasing access to environmental education and to restoring a healthy environment for all communities.

We believe that Everyone Is an Environmentalist, and we provide engaging environmental education opportunities, outdoor education and nature education experiences, especially for our under-resourced school communities.

KIDS for the BAY’s Environmental Education Programs:

  • Help children find joy in connecting with nature in the local watershed, and on special field trips to creek, bay, delta and ocean habitats
  • Get children excited about learning hands-on science with activities that engage all students 
  • Empower children to take positive action for the environment in service-learning Environmental Action Projects that help solve critical environmental problems 
  • Partner with teachers, schools and families to create a lasting impact for our work with hands-on programs, and by providing the curricula, equipment, and support needed to continue teaching engaging environmental science each year.

Since 1992, KIDS for the BAY has:

  • Engaged 109,789 students and more than 13,630 parents in meaningful environmental education programs.
  • Provided curricula, resources, and training to 4,363 teachers.

Since 1992, KIDS for the BAY students have:

  • Connected with nature in their local watersheds and on special field trips to unique creek, bay, delta and ocean habitats
  • Become excited about learning hands-on science in the living laboratory of our inter-connected creek-bay-ocean San Francisco Bay estuary watershed
  • Become leaders in their families and in their school communities, and taught others how to protect, clean up and restore local watershed environments, through student-led informational performances, informational interviews, posters, videos and environmental pledges at special presentation and Schoolwide Assembly events to teach their families and school communities about the importance of protecting the local watershed and the San Francisco Bay to keep these environments clean and healthy
  • Cleaned up 42,632 gallons of trash from school neighborhoods, local watersheds and creek, bay and ocean habitats
  • Planted 20,201 native plants in creek and bay habitats
  • Removed 35,483 invasive plants from creek and bay habitats
  • Learned how to make natural pesticides for their school and home gardens, taught their families and peer students how to prepare and cook bay and delta fish to reduce intake of toxins, studied the impacts of ocean acidification on shelled organisms, and worked to reduce their carbon footprints at their schools.

Every year, KIDS for the BAY students, teachers and families go on special nature-based field trips to enjoy, explore and clean up a local creek, bay, delta or ocean habitat. The map below includes some of our past and current partner school and field trip locations.