Beaverton student community support

Planting Seeds Welcomes You/ Planting Seeds le dan la bienvenida/ مرحبا بك Planting Seeds

Dedicated Dreamers

Since January of 2017, Planting Seeds has been supporting Beaverton children through drives and service learning projects. Our mission is to help people understand the power they have to change lives for the better. Made up of moms, retirees, and doers, we are committed to creating positive change one child and one action at a time.

Our actions vary from donation drives to our "Flurry of Giving" program. Dig around our website to see if there's something you would like to participate in!

What We Do

Our Work

The volunteers of Planting Seeds partner with counselors, social workers, teachers and administrators to create service learning opportunities and meet needs for students and families in the Beaverton School District.

One day we might be holding a session in a classroom, teaching Beaverton's students about the needs in our community and brainstorming about how the class can help. Another day we might be facilitating a day long session between refugee students and members of the community who are sharing books and playing soccer.

Less glamorous but just as important is the work we do behind the scenes to make sure that hungry kids are getting backpacks during the weekend or long breaks or fundraising to find household goods for a family that just got a new apartment.

Supplies to families

Helping our community from students who need snacks to kids who need a bed to sleep in

Empowering kids

Students learn that they have the power to help themselves and their community.

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Service Learning

We work with students to show the power they have to create change.

About Us

Our Background

We are parents, retirees, school employees, community members. What we have in common is that we are all passionate about serving our community and making sure that no one goes without.

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How You Can Help

You can plant seeds yourself

Food Donation Drop-Off

Help Us Soar

Drop off non-perishable foods. Oatmeal, beans, rice, lentils, peanut butter, granola bars, and other healthy snacks can be left in the food bins near the front door of Sexton Mountain Elementary School.

Make a donation

Make a tax-deductible, cash donation

Our organization relies heavily on the generosity and involvement of people like you, with every contribution going towards making Planting Seeds an even better organization than it already is. All donations are appreciated.

Donate gift cards

From Winco, Walmart, Fred Meyer, Safeway and others

All money and gift cards collected are used to purchase food and essential supplies that are distributed directly to the families who need them.

Volunteer

Make A True Change

Interested in helping to expand the program? Collect donations? Stock the pantry? Create community partnerships? Staff informational tables at events? Contact a member of Planting Seeds to learn more.

Media Coverage

Check out what the media has to say about our organization.

Beaverton School District WE Community Partnership Award

May 4, 2017

Sexton Mountain's Planting Seeds initiative took root following winter break and an onslaught of snow days. For several families in the community, no school meant their children wouldn't have access to the school breakfast and lunch program they count on.

"Planting Seeds" for Food Insecure Families

March 31. 2017

"We are a school of privilege. So I think we make an assumption that everyone is doing OK. So to find out that there are families falling through the cracks, we wanted to create a food support program for the families at our school."

“Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.”

Robert Louis Stevenson

Contact Planting Seeds

Address:

9188 SW Platinum Place
Beaverton, OR 97007, USA