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LEC Awarded Consolidated Communications Community Fund Grant

Living Earth Center is honored and grateful for Consolidated Communications Community Foundation's support of our Children's Gardening Initiative. 

Their $1500 grant will support LEC's programming initiative which gets children outside and exposed to the wonders and benefits of gardening.  LECs Youth Gardening Initiative works with Community Partners (MY Place, Head Start, and the YMCA) to provide gardening education and encounters to local youth at no cost to these community partners.

The Consolidated Communications Community Fund of the Mankato Area Foundation has award $155,000 in grants to 24 local nonprofits in the area.

The Consolidated Fund focuses its support on local programs that meet critical community needs, such as hunger and homelessness, along with initiatives that provide opportunities for innovative education and learning.