Providing Opportunity
​for Positive Choices
​for Youth and their Families

A short video made by our generous sponsor The Sand Dollar Foundation:

We help youth and families achieve their dreams by facilitating community collaborations and
​positive change.
We have served our community for more than 35 years. We know our community is changing, so La Colonia de Eden Gardens Foundation is growing and changing, too. We are expanding opportunities for families to benefit from academic, leadership and self-improvement programs. We continue to celebrate cultural and ethnic diversity through, art, nature and service projects for people of all ages.  
 
Our programs include La Clase Mágica, an after-school program where students receive homework help and get excited about learning. Learn about our programs. 
University Partners
LCEG Inc. is grateful for the connections we have made with various community partners. Through these connections, we have been able to secure relationships with prominent universities. UC Links and The Pal Program collaborate with our foundation to help us fulfill our mission statement. Together, with university students, we sustain quality after-school programs that help prepare underserved youth for higher learning and lifelong achievement.
UC Links, a program headed by the Graduate School of Education at UC Berkeley, is a network of university and community partners, working together to develop innovative after-school programs. UC Links sites bring underserved P-12 youth together with university students in guided activities that engage their minds and connect them to each other, their communities, and the world around them. Participating university faculty teach practicum coursework that places their students at local after-school sites and engages them in integrating theory and real-world experience. Since 1996, UC Links has worked as a collaborative community-university network to sustain quality after-school programs that help prepare underserved youth for higher learning and lifelong achievement. Originally based on the Fifth Dimension and La Clase Mágica programs, UC Links’ approaches to after-school learning now include a wide array of program activities that make use of new digital media and other innovative educational resources.
The PAL program, part of the Department of Education Studies, is UC San Diego's largest service-learning program. PAL provides opportunities for UC San Diego’s undergraduate students to work with underserved P-12 students and schools while earning upper division course credit and fulfilling graduation requirements. PAL service-learning courses provide students with an introduction to theoretical and practical issues in P-12 education by incorporating both academic work and fieldwork components into the course structure. PAL students are highly motivated in their commitment to serve local communities as role models to San Diego’s youth. Students come from all majors and colleges. They may or may not be considering careers in education. The PAL classes fulfill many college and university-wide graduation requirements so they are taken by a diverse cross-section of UC San Diego students.

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