Spring Comes To the Flatbush Trees

Artist David Eppley will create a gorgeous piece of public art on The Flatbush Trees at Empire Blvd and Flatbush Avenue.

NEEDS: $0 of 6,950

Evergreen Rain Garden

A rain garden on unmaintained property to provide benefits of residential surface management techniques, including beautification, native plant propagation, & species diversity.

NEEDS: $0 of 1,374 + Volunteers

Hike The Heights

This annual celebration is only possible with generous support of neighbors and friends like you.  So please, donate, volunteer, and join us for Hike the Heights!

NEEDS: $69 of 5,000

Mid-South Greenways App

Our smart phone app will put vital greenways information directly into your hands. It will include way-finding and directions, destinations, amenities, and opportunities for feedback.

NEEDS: $0 of 265 + Volunteers

The QueensWay: Next Step

The QueensWay is the transformation of 3.5 miles of the abandoned LIRR Rockaway Beach Branch into a "cultural greenway".

NEEDS: $0 of 875

Farm to Table and Then Some

NYLP provides job-training experience to Newark high school youth in environmental fields. The "Farm to Table" theme gives students an inside look at our current food system.

 

NEEDS: $0 of 1,680

St. Nicholas Miracle Garden

We are building a compost center and a vertical garden using recycled bottles and a wood frame and cable system. This will allow many gardeners to grow herbs, greens and flowers, and to beautify the neighborhood. 

NEEDS: $0 of 1,681 + Volunteers

Roots Memphis Farm Academy

Roots Memphis Farm Academy is a farmer incubator program that educates, trains, and launches new sustainable farmers in the region. 

NEEDS: $0 of 2,690

Sustainable Flatbush Healing Herb Garden

Our culinary and medicinal herb garden will serve as an outdoor classroom to demonstrate the benefits of herbs as both food and medicine.

NEEDS: $0 of 2,802 + Volunteers

The Brooklyn Student Credit Union

We will learn to build a sustainable cooperative business, which will be a student run and owned credit union. It will address economic justice issues like student debt and green community development.

NEEDS: $0 of 3,000

Fall Creek Gardens Sunflower Mural

Fall Creek Gardens teaches sustainable practices for growing food in the city.  We seek funding for a sunflower mural that will engage the neighborhood and beautify our community garden!

NEEDS: $0 of 2,385 + Volunteers

Green Apple - Love Our Trees Day

A school sponsored community volunteer day to clean and beautify our school’s street trees and green spaces.

NEEDS: $0 of 702

GardenWalk Cleveland

GardenWalk Cleveland is a free tour of private gardens, community gardens and urban farms in the City of Cleveland over a weekend in the summer.

NEEDS: $0 of 1,680 + Volunteers

The Most Fabulous Green Wall Ever Built

The Most Fabulous Green Wall Ever Built supports West Oakland’s sustainable economy by building a striking green wall at American Steel Studios using recycled materials, fed with rainwater.

NEEDS: $0 of 251

Daffodil Project Distribution-Fall 2012

We will be distributing Free 911 Daffodil Project bulbs to groups in Queens. We plan on giving hand tools to groups to help them with the planting. In 2011, over 25,000 bulbs were given to groups to plant in Queens.

NEEDS: $0 of 206 + Volunteers

Community Playground

We are partnering with KaBOOM! to build a playground in Tampa Heights!

NEEDS: $0 of 235 + Volunteers

Summer of Solutions Hartford

A youth-leadership and food-justice summer program that creates opportunities for youth ages 14-30 to work in school and community gardens, community outreach and organizing, and educational and cultural programming.

NEEDS: $0 of 3,697 + Volunteers

Patchen Community Square

A collaborative effort to utilize the vacant land parcel at Patchen Avenue and Putnam to create a garden and small play area.

NEEDS: $0 of 702

Urban Patch - Park Garden

The Park Garden is a new green space on Indianapolis’ north side. It will be a permaculture garden and will provide a more naturalized and informal setting.

NEEDS: $0 of 1,326 + Volunteers

ALL CITY ACRES

ALL CITY ACRES will make print maps of potential spaces for community-driven projects available in the Bronx, Queens, Staten Island and Manhattan. We are building on the successful tactics of 596 Acres in Brooklyn.

NEEDS: $0 of 3,865

2012 Brooklyn Food Conference

On Saturday, May 12, 2012, the Brooklyn Food Coalition, will share ideas and work together for the kind of food system change we need now. PLEASE DONATE TODAY!! 

NEEDS: $0 of 7,992 + Volunteers

Urban Seed Library

A seed library promotes the saving and sharing of locally-sourced seeds. It fosters community in that  members give back in order for the library to grow and everyone to benefit.

NEEDS: $0 of 436 + Volunteers

St George Day Festival

The St George Day Festival encourages environmental stewardship through storytelling, spectacle and innovative educational & community building activities.

NEEDS: $0 of 400 + Volunteers

PS 11 Chicken Coop

Just Food's City Chicken Project is providing PS 11 with support & training to build a chicken coop in our school garden.  

NEEDS: $0 of 1,306

Bronx Greenhouse at Intervale Green

WHEDco, a non-profit in the Bronx, will construct a greenhouse to support its farming program aimed at creating opportunities for residents to learn about sustainability.

NEEDS: $0 of 2,892 + Volunteers

Myrtle Village Green

We’re seeking to purchase gardening equipment to transform an unused, vacant piece of city-owned land into a true community amenity where people can come together to garden, compost, and enjoy passive open space.

NEEDS: $0 of 1,000

Xquizit Greens at 143 Stockholm

Help us build a new people's garden in Bushwick. We'll be strengthening community and growing healthy, local economies at this positive social gathering point and greening action hub.

NEEDS: $0 of 1,877 + Volunteers

Hike the Heights 2012

Hike for health!  Help us fundraise to encourage hundreds of people to hike through beautiful northern Manhattan.

NEEDS: $0 of 2,493

462 Halsey Street Community Garden

 A collaborative effort between residents and businesses of Bedford-Stuyvesant to transform a vacant lot for almost 20 years, into a thriving community garden. 

NEEDS: $0 of 1,417 + Volunteers

Southside Community Garden Patio Project

We want to construct a shaded patio area in the front of the garden that will invite our neighbors inside and give the community a welcoming green space that all can enjoy.

NEEDS: $0 of 2,160

FREE eggs on the Free Range in Brooklyn!

Bushwick City Farm will raise organic free range chickens in Bushwick Brooklyn in order to provide the community with free organic eggs and chickening knowledge.

NEEDS: $0 of 500

NEW Farm + FREE food in Brooklyn!

We want to convert a vacant lot into an urban farm that produces free veggies and eggs and provides free services to the community.

NEEDS: $0 of 178 + Volunteers

It's My Park! Day at Sara D. Roosevelt Park

Join HSC for fun, interactive activities at a day-long event to care for and appreciate Sara D. Roosevelt Park in Manhattan on Sat, May 16.

NEEDS: $0 of 345 + Volunteers

It's My Park Day at Veterans Square

We will clean and beautify the Veterans Square and the Vietnam Memorial as a dedication to all veterans that have served this country.

NEEDS: $0 of 150

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