POLLINATOR
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  • ​​Harvesting Humanity, Team Depot and Volunteer groups from: Atrium Health, R.E.A.L Home Services, Balfour Beatty, She Built this City, Urban Institute for Strengthening Families, Ashantiwah's Life Legacy Foundation and many others built, decorated, and donated bird-and butterfly- houses to extend our "Pollinator Pathways" and to protect the pollinators, their homes and the people and places that occupy their homes.  BACK BY POPULAR DEMAND,  WE INVITE YOU TO JOIN US AGAIN THIS YEAR?                                                                                 
  • STEP 1:  PURCHASE A BIRD- OR BUTTERFLY- HOUSE MAKER KIT OR BUILD YOUR OWN.   ​Our generous sponsors have made it possible to offer 25 birdhouses (as modeled in the demonstration by Kai N. Spence linked in STEP 2) available at no purchase cost to community members who desire to participate but cannot afford the purchase price.  These birdhouses are being made available on a FIRST COME-FIRST SERVED BASIS. TO RECEIVE A FREE Home Depot Birdhouse Model No.94541    REGISTER HERE.                                       
  • STEP 2: BUILD/CONSTRUCT THE BIRD-BUTTERFLY-HOUSE!          ​CLICK HERE for a tutorial on how to build provided to you by Harvesting Humanity Volunteer Coordinator:  Kai Negest Spence                                                                     
  • STEP 3:  ORNAMENT AND DECORATE THE HOUSE WITH SYMBOLIC REPRESENTATION OF NATURE AND OF TH E PEOPLE AND PLACES THAT ARE A PART OF NATURE!    To learn more about the places where these bird-and butterfly-houses will live as well as the benefits to our natural and built environments and to our neighbors.  CLICK HERE 
  • IMPORTANT TO NOTE: When you ornament the bird-butterfly-house please be sure to use non-toxic garden paint and DO NOT USE GLITTER.  Glitter is extremely toxic to our environment.  This and other eco-friendly considerations circumvent poisoning our natural resources (air, water, etc.) as well as our food.                                                                         
  • STEP 4: CLICK HERE   To view samples of in-progress and completed birdhouses as well as the most updated list of delivery options and drop-off  LOCATIONS NEAR YOU!​ DONATIONS WILL BE ACCEPTED THROUGH APRIL 14, 2023                                                                  
  • STEP 5:  COMPLETE THE FORM BELOW If you'd like to upload pictures of your work to include on our Solutionary Spotlight board.  

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                  BIRTH, BUILD,       
           BEAUTIFY, BREATHE                          INITIATIVE 
                                                   
  • The work of Harvesting Humanity has always been centered on the just and equitable valuation- and treatment- of people, place, and planet.  Reverencing an ancient and indigenous understanding that our existence is inextricably linked to one another and to the very natural and built environments that nurture and sustain us, our mission means putting our hands to work ensuring that our people, our places, and our planet will survive and thrive!                                                           ​
  • CLICK HERE FOR THE LATEST OPPORTUNITY TO PUT YOUR HANDS TO WORK: SEEDING, WEEDING, PLANTING, PRUNING, HARVESTING, HEALING... throughout several established and developing indoor and outdoor healing centers.













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         CULTIVATING
    HEALTHY EATING &          LIVING (H.E.A.L.ING)                COMMUNITIES

  • Cultivating H.E.A.L.ING Communities started as a five-month Solutionary Service-learning experience for (10) Grassroots Community Leaders across Mecklenburg County's Public Health (MCDPH) Priority Areas (PHPAs) with support from MCDPH Grassroots Funding.​
 
  • Due, in part, to a subsequent MCDPH Health Equity "Grow Grant" the experience has expanded to include a learning management system for community connections, collaborations and teaching and learning.​
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One of Harvesting Humanity's newest experiences- the Equity Youth Engagement & Witness (E.Y.E.WITNESS) Global Fellowship, officially convened on Saturday, April 17th, 2021.  The E.Y.E.WITNESS Global Fellowship is a virtual service-learning fellowship engaging, preparing, and positioning (30) Youth "Solutionaries" ages 16-21  and (10) Adult "Supporting Solutionaries" across the countries of: Cabo Verde, Ghana, Jamaica, Moldova and the United States of America.

Fellowship participants learn about, reflect on, analyze, evaluate, and craft arguments about issues in their local, national, and global communities.  As they learn, they build relationships with diverse peers and mentors, strengthen their servant leadership muscles, and activate agency by innovating Solutions to those issues.

​True to its name, the Fellowship explores issues of inequities and injustices plaguing local, national, and global communities and takes deep dives into examples of models and mentors who challenge those issues and show up as innovative Solutionaries.  

The Fellowship will last through 2022 culminating in a "Solutionary Showcase"...BE SURE TO STAY TUNED...
Through poetry, prose, visual, and other Integrated Art forms, Harvesting Humanity CEO- Eboné M. Lockett & E.Y.E.WITNESS Global Fellow- Kai N. Spence share their family's personal and persistent journey living with Sickle Cell Anemia. 

In addition to sharing their own stories, they will travel across the country and the globe to accept, affirm, and amplify, the stories of other individuals, families, and communities impacted by this condition.  

TO LEARN MORE:

Click the link below to hear the story as reported by Supporting Solutionary Organization Charlotte Is Creative 

... AND BE SURE TO STAY TUNED...
As we expand our Local, National, and Global Sickle Cell Awareness, Advocacy, and Action Campaign culminating in a live showcase broadcast in Ghana June 19, 2023 - World Sickle Cell Day!
 "Solar Sistas Serve - (SsS)"© 

"SsS" is  A Harvesting Humanity premier Flagship Experience in the federal application phase to be recognized as its own non-profit organization.  This experience was birthed out of the spirit of a partnership program between We Share Solar® , Wells Fargo, M.A. Rogers & the late Jim Rogers, and Charlotte Mecklenburg Schools (CMS) in which Principal consultant, Eboné M. Lockett remains a facilitator and mentor.    We Share Solar® is "an innovative educational program  dedicated to inspiring students to learn about, build, and share Solar Suitcases with the developing world".  SsS supports that model with a unique extension of engagement in local action, integrated (S.T.R.E.A.A.A.M ©) experiential service-learning, and personal and workforce skill development. SsS engages local community members in learning about clean energy solutions and environmental stewardship and prepares and positions servant leaders to disrupt the disparities and inequities in the clean energy industry workforce.  Thus, the experience superserves BIPOC females who make up approximately 2% of the solar workforce.

The fruits of this labor yielded a NC Greenpower Solar School Grant to Hidden Valley Elementary School making it the second Charlotte-Mecklenburg School (CMS) to receive this distinction. ​
NC CLIMATE AMBASSADOR TRAINING 

In partnership with Clean AIRE Carolina, ecoAmerica, Path to Positive Communities and Good Solar, Harvesting Humanity is engaging, preparing, and positioning diverse Climate Ambassadors across the state of North Carolina.
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Interested in learning more...?
REGISTER HERE FOR OUR NEXT TRAINING

Serving Our Community through the Arts (S.O.C.A) 


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One of Harvesting Humanity's premiere Flagship Experiences (S.O.C.A), engages diverse and integrated artistic talents as a means to make the invisible visible, interrogate and challenge inequities and injustices, and uplift and heal our local, national, and global communities. 

COME AND SERVE WITH US!

https://www.mecked.org/the-locator

Gallery coming soon
Harvesting Humanity's (R4)
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REMEMBER, REFLECT, RECONCILE & REIMAGINE
Exhibit​

(A contribution to the Charlotte Remembrance Project) 

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Recording Location & Images Featured at...
CATO Gorelick Galleries January -December, 2020 
cpcccrmsphotography.zenfolio.com/p350542550

Digitally Launched June 30, 2021@
https://youtu.be/lG2LyROogmg 
Annual Remembrance - June 30..Stay tuned...