2024-06-25T10:25:11-05:00 2023-12-31 050495839 Aaronson Lavoie Streitfeld Diaz & Co PC 1604 Broad Street Cranston RI 02905 990 2023-01-01 901002432 Garden Time Inc GARD 4019964922 286 Rochambeau Avenue Providence RI 02906 Kate Lacouture Executive Director 4019964922 2024-06-25 1 Kate Lacouture 999009999 0 Richard Streitfeld P00290819 4012230205 2024-06-24 2 AAL1 IAL1 2023 2023-04-26 12:10:37Z Kate Lacouture 286 Rochambeau Avenue Providence RI 02906 379521 0 X https://www.gardentime.us/ X 2013 RI Garden Time provides prison-based educational programs that teach incarcerated men and women how to cultivate gardens and grow food for their own economic and personal well-being, integrating job readiness skills and reentry support. Additionally, we provide community-based green industry job training for formerly incarcerated men and women. Our programs foster education, inspitation, and empowerment, and help trainees translate new skills into opportunities that enable their sucessful and permanent reentry into society. 5 5 0 0 0 0 156889 379521 100263 0 0 0 0 0 257152 379521 0 0 0 0 59984 108402 0 0 8251 133408 245841 193392 354243 63760 25278 99535 124804 0 0 99535 124804 X Garden Time provides prison-based educational programs that teach incarcerated men and women how to cultivate gardens and grow food for their own economic and personal well-being, integrating job readiness skills and reentry support. Additionally, we provide community-based green industry job training for formerly incarcerated men and women. Our programs foster education, inspitation, and empowerment, and help trainees translate new skills into opportunities that enable their sucessful and permanent reentry into society. 0 0 33473 In 2011, Garden Time's Co-founders worked with inmates at the men's maximum-security facility at the Rhode Island Adult Correctional Institutions to build a garden in an empty section of prison yard. Since then, we have added two more gardens at other facilities within the prison complex, and trained some 300 incarcerated men and women to become skilled gardeners. While producing thousands of pounds of produce for use in the prison kitchens, our participants have also gained self-confidence, a positive outlook, and a completely new connection to nature. In 2017 we expanded our work to include more explicit job preparation. The Garden Time to Work pre-employment program at the men's medium-security facility offers important life skills and job training for the green industry with reentry planning and support. In 2023 we ran in-prison programming for approx. 30 incarcerated gardeners. 200838 In 2021, after ten years of teaching garden programs at the ACI and to extend opportunities for released students, Garden Time created the Green Reentry Job Training program, an 8-week green industry job training focused on tree stewardship, work readiness and environmental justice for formerly incarcerated Rhode Islanders. Through our partnership with Providence Neighborhood Planting Program and Groundwork Rhode Island, trainees plant trees and gain valuable employment experience. We focus on trees because in the green industries, tree service tends to offer year-round work and a living wage. Also, tree equity is a relatable environmental justice concept for trainees who tend to live in lower-income, lower canopy neighborhoods. Finally, planting and maintaining trees is consistent with many formerly incarcerated individuals' desires to, as one student put it "give back and help in the positive development of the same communities I helped to destroy." In 2022, The Green Reentry Job Training program had 22 graduates. 100418 As an extension of reentry support, Garden Time employs training graduates to be part of a tree care crew for young trees in the Silver Lake neighborhood that were planted during the training as well as those PNPP has designated as needing maintenance. They assist with watering, pruning and installing tree pit protection where they may be more vulnerable to vehicle damage. This young tree maintenance is critical to build and maintain the tree canopy to ensuring that the neighborhood experiences all the benefits urban trees provide. Being part of the tree maintenance crew provides seasonal part-time employment for Green Reentry trainees--all formerly incarcerated, predominantly people of color--as they search for permanent employment. In 2023, eleven training graduates participated in the tree maintenance crew. 334729 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 34 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 X 5 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 0 0 X Katharine Lacouture 4019964922 286 Rochambeau Avenue Providence RI 02906 Vera Bowen Treasurer 10.00 X X 0 0 0 Robert Rafka Vice President 1.00 X X 0 0 0 Gerard Donley Board Member 0.50 X 0 0 0 Stephanie Moniz Board Member 2.00 X 0 0 0 Katharine Lacouture Executive Director 40.00 X 61750 0 0 61750 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 7157 203779 168585 379521 0 7157 0 0 379521 0 0 0 61750 52488 6175 3087 38955 36946 1608 401 7697 6850 539 308 1094 1094 10542 9383 738 421 15847 14104 1109 634 Stipends 114453 114453 Program Expenses 52867 52867 Consultants 41669 41669 Travel Reimbursement 5969 5969 3400 3400 354243 334729 11263 8251 99535 124804 99535 124804 0 0 X 99535 124804 99535 124804 99535 124804 25278 0 X 0 0 0 X 68040 80439 255302 379521 783302 68040 80439 255302 379521 783302 64836 718466 783302 2250 0.91720 0.84470 X RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED Form 990, Part VI, Section B, line 11b All members of the governing board review the 990 before it is filed. Form 990, Part VI, Section B, line 12c The organization reviews conflicts of interest for board memebrs annually and upon election of a new board member, Form 990, Part VI, Section B, line 15a The board annually reviews the executive direcftor's performance and compensation Form 990, Part VI, Section C, line 19 These are provided upon request