A clear mission. A practical funding conversation.

Connect youth learning, sustainable agriculture, food access, and environmental stewardship.

ECO 180 at a glance

ECO 180 is a 501(c)(3) public charity, EIN 92-1219043. Incorporated in 2022, its federal exemption is effective September 7, 2025.

Project priorities

Youth STEM kits, educational materials, and educator access.
Technical validation and site and utility readiness.
Aquaponics equipment, installation, and operator training.
Food-access and community-action resources.
Water stewardship, sensors, and smart-farming learning.

Rembert Living Agricultural Laboratory

The laboratory is in development. The readiness campaign supports technical validation, site preparation, professional setup, and an acquisition reserve.

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One mission. Several paths to investment.

Our environmental-agriculture learning model supports connected priorities. Each funding conversation defines its audience, geography, budget, delivery plan, and evidence requirements.

Funding priority	Program connection
Early learning & families	Adult-guided plant discovery, drawing, vocabulary, comparison, and caregiver participation.
Youth STEM & rural access	Plant-and-water kits, journals, measurement tools, and reusable classroom demonstrations.
Agriculture & workforce learning	Aquaponics, crop science, system design, coding, sensors, and career connections.
Water, habitat & conservation	Water-quality learning, stewardship, environmental observation, and responsible land use.
Youth agency & responsible AI	GroundTruth: observation, source questioning, evidence comparison, and youth co-design.
Food access & community well-being	Sustainable food-system learning, community relationships, and developing production capacity.
Inclusion & participation	Learning formats adapted to age, reading, mobility, sensory needs, and access barriers.

What a program investment supports

Kits and plant materials, water-quality supplies, student journals, reusable demonstrations, learning assessment, safe supply management, and educator-supported access form a practical funding pathway. Infrastructure investments support the separate readiness and farm-development pathway.

Evidence and accountability

Our evaluation design uses participation and completion records, pre/post tasks, student work, reflections, and feedback. GroundTruth adds evidence-evaluation and critical-thinking rubrics with youth input into program improvement. Its targets are prospective; completed results will be reported from collected evidence.

What remains after a grant

Reusable demonstration materials, curriculum resources, stronger evaluation tools, and a repeatable learning model can support subsequent cohorts. Our sustainability approach combines foundation support, individual giving, sponsorships, in-kind contributions, and community partnerships.

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