Compost Garden Community Signage and Brochures

Compost for Brooklyn (C4B), a community composting project and native plant garden, serves a diverse and multi-lingual community, and we are sometimes challenged when communicating about the garden and the compost process with neighbors who are not native English speakers.

Through DesigNYC's "Recharging Communities" project, graphic designer Karen Greenberg is volunteering her time and skills to design both permanent signage for our garden gates and replicable brochures  to inform people about C4B, the composting process, and how they can participate. Her designs will include pictograms for simple, attractive communication, along with clear, easily-translated text.

DesigNYC has provided us with valuable design services, but raising money for materials is up to us. We seek donations to help us with the most important part of this exciting partnership--implementing Karen Greenberg's design work--which will require a budget for signage materials and brochure printing.

1. Work with graphic designer to create sign and brochure designs;
2. Find sign materials and printers for metal signs for the garden gate;
3. Find a printer for banner signage to identify ourselves at events;
4. Find a printer for environmentally friendly brochures;
5. Print signs, hang signs, hand out brochures, and engage the public in our community and at events!

Compost for Brooklyn (C4B) is a community composting project based in Kensington, Brooklyn. We are committed to ecological restoration, composting, and environmental education in our local neighborhood and beyond. Founded in March 2010, C4B has transformed a vacant lot into a community composting project and thriving refuge for native plants and community members. Compost is collected during weekly drop-off hours and other collection initiatives and, when finished, used to amend depleted soils and cultivate healthy ecosystems.