"Celebrate Griggs" Garden Party

Help Us Celebrate the History and Contributions of the Griggs Business and Practical Arts College.

 

 

NEEDS: $1,623 of 2,174 + Volunteers

Homewood's Backyard Market

To connect, engage, and educate the Homewood community in entrepreneurship, healthy lifestyles, and culture. 

NEEDS: $10,140 of 10,345 + Volunteers

Sustaining Larimer

Larimer is building it's own sustainable, green future.

NEEDS: $20,430 of 20,635 + Volunteers

Gowanus Curbside Rain Garden

A rain garden, alive with hardy native plants, could bring this Brooklyn street to life and spark an affordable, replicable model of beauty, sustainability, and resiliency.

NEEDS: $3,170 of 3,275

Human Impacts Home

We will open up the rooftop, basement, backyard and storefront of our headquarters in South Willamsburg for green building education!

NEEDS: $5,927 of 6,009 + Volunteers

Black Belt Bamboost Builds a Park

The overall goals include building a public bamboo park that will serve three main purposes in our community: educational center; public art space; and livability showcase.

 

NEEDS: $2,428 of 2,610 + Volunteers

Birds Chirping Rather Than Gunshots

We will organize residents  and collaborate with other volunteer groups and build tree guards and start taking care of the trees on our block.

NEEDS: $96 of 464 + Volunteers

Plumb Beach Earth Day cleanup

Join us on Earth Day to make Plumb Beach a cleaner, better place for humans and wildlife.

NEEDS: $248 of 258 + Volunteers

Living City Brooklyn Gowanus

We envision an ultra-creative street sign project that marries destination pointers and green infrastructure elements such as stormwater management, green energy, alternative transportation. 

NEEDS: $3,918 of 4,160

BQE Garden

Clean, green and beautify the east side of the BQE between 37th Avenue and Northern Blvd. in Jackson Heights. 

 

NEEDS: $697 of 927

Chicken Apprenticeship Workshops

The Chicken Apprenticeship will teach community members the basics of raising hens in the city. The Apprenticeship includes hands on workshops independent work with the hens, readings and field trips.

NEEDS: $614 of 1,315 + Volunteers

All People's Garden

The project for which we are asking funding would help us plant the backyard area. We'll plant seasonal vegetables (tomatoes, lettuce) in raised beds.

NEEDS: $1,456 of 1,620 + Volunteers

135th Street Beautification Project

The need is for environmental beautification of this block. Uplifting the morale in the community in a healthier and self-esteem way.

NEEDS: $2,925 of 3,125 + Volunteers

Cookbook Fundraiser

This long-term project compiles healthy seasonal recipes using seasonal ingredients our students have cooked with throughout the year. Once developed and printed each student will receive a cookbook!

NEEDS: $950 of 1,026

Farm Visit

We make local fruits and veggies more accessible to our community by running the CSA, which partners with Golden Earthworm Farm on Long Island.

NEEDS: $409 of 604

Street Tree Guard Building Clinic

BrooklynShade offers free 2 hour clinics in affordable wooden Tree Guard construction and proper tree care.

NEEDS: $244 of 529 + Volunteers

More Green For Less Green

Access to fresh produce is severely limited in the Bed-Stuy/Brownsville/Ocean Hill area.

NEEDS: $1,544 of 2,160 + Volunteers

Composting Toilets

The environmental problem the project will address is how human waste (poop) contaminants that would go into our water can be properly handled by composting.

NEEDS: $2,639 of 2,750 + Volunteers

Leadership Intern Field Training

Sustainable South Bronx (SSBx) is a community organization dedicated to Environmental Justice through innovative, economically sustainable projects that are informed by community needs.

NEEDS: $639 of 2,415

Children's Organic Food Patch Workshops

Broadly, we wish to address the growing rate of diabetes, collapsing food economy, inequality of access to affordable organic produce, and the lapse of environmental education on food production in

NEEDS: $1,889 of 3,220 + Volunteers