Cee-Lo Green Launches his GreenHouse Foundation, Friday in Southwest Atlanta

UPDATE: Photos from the event

Officially launching at 10 a.m. on August 17th in Atlanta, GA, on the campus of , where Cee-Lo attended elementary school, he and his sister will open their foundation's first "teaching Greenhouse".

Cee-Lo Green and his sister Shedonna Alexander started the GreenHouse Foundation with the mission "to help make “green education” easier and accessible to students in underserved school districts."  Southwest Atlanta Christian Academy has been certified as a "Greenhouse School Partner" and the Green Garden program will,  "use outdoor gardening as an innovative tool to teach math and science. It will allow students to experience a new approach to “green education,” states co-founder Shedonna Alexander.

The GreenHouse Foundation is an extension of CeeLo and Shedonna’s long family legacy of philanthropy. They grew up surrounded by great role models – their maternal grandmother Ruby Callaway Robinson and mother Sheila J. Callaway Tyler. Ruby started a nationally recognized non-profit organization “Comprehensive Auxiliary for Southwest Community on Alcohol and Drug Education” (CASCADE) that focused on drug-prevention and education in underprivileged communities. She initiated the nationwide “Just Say No” kids march in May 1986, which drew over five million participants and achieved broad and tremendous support, including recognition from former First Lady Nancy Reagan and Soliel Moon Fry aka “Punkie Brewster”. Their late mother Sheila followed in her mother’s footsteps, serving as one of the first female firefighters with the Atlanta Fire Department, plus years of other volunteer work throughout the community. - LookToTheStars.org

“The hands of our children will help feed those in need, like the homeless or elderly who live in ‘grocery deserts’ with no access to fresh produce,” says Cee-Lo Green.

In the future, the GreenHouse Foundation plans to launch other initiatives such as “The School Waste Diversion Initiative”, which will provide schools with waste receptacles to divert non-biodegradable waste from local landfills and create a local competition among the schools. Annually on Earth Day, they will start “The Clean Atlanta Green Day” to unify the city’s local businesses, schools and government officials to collectively clean up the City of Atlanta.