BUGS Annual Appeal

December 29th update: Thanks to everyone's incredible generosity on this site and through offline donations (checks) we were able to access the full $10,000 match by December 23rd!  We therefore have only $1,060 left to reach our $30,000 goal for the new year!  We are almost there. Thanks for spreading the word and chiseling away at that $1,060.  We are doing this together! 

Brooklyn Urban Garden Charter School (BUGS) relies on private contributions and support from generous individuals like you to create an environment where middle school students can flourish academically and personally.  

Reanna, an 8th grader at BUGS, found her strength and power through the school’s welcoming, academically-challenging environment:

“I love how the school is small and teachers care, know me by name, and connect.  It’s warming.  I can give my opinion and others are open to talk and try to understand.  It’s an "aware" school.

BUGS has given me the power to conquer and to control my anxiety.  Something I never thought I would have been able to achieve.  My story no longer controls me. I control my story. I am full of love and happiness and want to give everyone a chance to feel their own self-love and happiness, like I have found through BUGS and the meditation program.”

This time of the year is pivotal to be able to continue to provide this innovative work in this diverse academically-challenging, sustainability-themed school.  We hope you will consider supporting BUGS with a gift by December 23!

Donate by December 23rd midnight, and your donation will be matched dollar for dollar up to $10,000, thanks to a generous matching gift. 

Donations can also be received after December 23rd without a match, or anytime thereafter. 

You can help us reach our goal of $30,000 (Your $20,000 total donations, plus the $10,000 match). No donation is too small!

Please share this page with your friends and family via social media and email.  Tell them about our great work and your generous part in it!

Now more than ever, we need our students to create a caring school community, to make their mark of justice through civic engagement, and work to ensure our environmental, economic, and social sustainability in the immediate and long-term future.  

Supporting BUGS is a way for you to make sure that diversity, sustainability and equal access to a high quality education continue to be a focus in the year of political transition ahead.  

By donating, you make a mark locally on students' lives, like Reanna's, and make a mark nationally by supporting an innovative educational model and beacon of educational innovation and hope.