Cesar Chavez Day of Service and Learning

Governor Gray Davis signed landmark legislation creating a new state holiday, the Cesar E. Chavez Day of Service and learning, in honor of Cesar Chavez. GO SERV awards nearly $5 million in grants annually to programs that involve K-12 students in on-going service activities designed to help them learn about the life of this great civil rights leader and practice the values that propelled his work. Activities include creating community gardens, initiating neighborhood beautification projects, creating, after-school service club, and gleaning vegetables and fruit from fields for food banks and homeless shelters.