Help our neighbors

The “Cooling our Neighborhood” project starts in just 2 weeks!*

Saint Philip’s has partnered with local nonprofit, Watershed Management Group (WMG) and L.M. Prince Elementary School (at Prince and Stone Avenues). Our youth and families will work with the Prince students and their families to design rain-harvesting gardens and plant trees. WMG will provide the training and installation expertise. 

Saint Philip’s is seeking donations to make up a shortfall in the grant funding it requested. $2,000.00 is needed to meet the original request. The money will be used to purchase trees, vegetation for the rain garden, and provide Prince Elementary families with “rain garden kits.”

Prince Elementary is in an economically disadvantaged area with a neighborhood “at environmental risk” with fewer shade trees and higher heat levels than other areas in town. The newly planted trees will provide much-needed shade, and the rain garden will enhance rainwater infiltration and lower temperatures—all of which will benefit the entire neighborhood. 

Donations can be made online. Click the button below and choose “Cooling our neighborhood” from the drop-down options. Of course, check are also welcome. Please make them payable to “Saint Philip’s in the Hills” and write “Cooling our neighborhood” in the memo line. Thank you!

*The training will be 6:00pm-7:00pm at Prince Elementary School on Tuesday, October 29 (with food available as of 5:30pm).

The work will take place 8:00am-12:00pm on Saturday, November 2, with a party at 12:00pm to reward everyone’s effort!

This is a wonderful opportunity for volunteers! Please let Erika Johnson (Chair of Saint Philip’s Creation Care Commission) know if you can help. You can contact her at erika.johnson06@gmail.com.