For another year, Nectar Sunglasses is proud to partner with The Bee Cause Project. In effort to inspire education around our world’s threatened bee population, we have funded bee colonies in over 25 schools around the country and Canada in the last 24 months.
“The Bee Cause is thrilled with our partnership with Nectar,” says the organization's executive director Tami Enright, who started the mission with a couple of hives in her front yard as a way to teach her own children about ecology.
“Not only do we appreciate partnering with a company that's headquartered in our backyard, but we also love that both organizations are focused on living the good life!”
The impact at each school is significant:
- 45-250 students are introduced to honeybees and the concept of pay it forward
- 2 beekeepers are connected with each school
- 5 teachers per school are provided a STEM teaching tool and supporting curriculum
- 20 school staff members are introduced to honeybees
- 50,000-60,000 honeybees are introduced into the environment
In addition to $150 to buy their bees locally, each school receives a honeybee hive and an educator’s Experience Box, including curriculum, lab books, journals and beekeeping tools, plus lots of swag like posters, T-shirts, stickers and more.
Nectar is excited to have helped introduce save-the-bees education and hives to kids at the following schools:
The Chinook’s Edge School Division No 73 – Alberta, Canada
Sturgeon Cromer Elementary School – Arizona
Rossland Summit School – British Columbia, Canada
Windsor Oaks Academy – California
Fountain Valley School of Colorado – Colorado
Combee Academy of Design and Engineering – Florida
Simeon Career Academy High School – Illinois
Carruthers Elementary School – Illinois
Galapagos Rockford Charter School – Illinois
Southport High School – Indiana
Lawrence Community Food Alliance – Kansas
Like Oak Middle School – Louisiana
D C Bilingual PCS – Washington, DC
Maurice J Tobin – Massachusetts
Houghton Elementary School – Michigan
Centro Tyrone Guzman – Minnesota
Montessori Children's School – North Carolina
PS 104Q The Bays Water School – New York
Neighborhood School – New York
St. John Fisher – Oregon
Riverview Charter School – South Carolina
Porter-Gaud School – South Carolina
Mt. Pleasant Academy – South Carolina
Henry Elementary – Tennessee
Briggs Elementary – South Carolina
The Waldorf School of San Diego – California
Edward Best Elementary – North Carolina
Creighton Preparatory School – Nebraska
Holy Spirit Catholic School – Ontario, Canada
Coal River Mountain Watch – West Virginia
White Mountains Regional High School – New Hampshire
C.C.A. Baldi Middle School – Pennsylvania
Tuloso-Midway Academic Career Center – Texas
Samuel P. Langley Elementary – Virginia
Bingham Memorial School – Vermont
