Bronx Students Investigate Transit Pricing

Why does subway fare cost what it does? Who decides?

Fifteen Bronx public high school students will investigate that issue this summer, with your help! 

NEEDS: $0 of 11,880

Falling Spring Elementary Garden

Build a raised garden bed where students can grow vegetables and learn to connect with and care for their environment.

NEEDS: $0 of 648

A Workshop for the Community

At Chenchita's Community Garden, we will install a rain harvest roof, allowing us to collect water and host FREE workshops for the community.

NEEDS: $0 of 780 + Volunteers

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

Recycling at P.S. 32

We want to incorporate recycling into our school culture and use this project as a way to create engaged and informed citizens.

NEEDS: $0 of 2,969

PS 705 PTA Fall Appeal

Fund visual-arts education for the 2013-2014 school year for every child at Brooklyn's brand-new PS 705 through Studio in a School, a program that brings a professional artist into the school weekly.

NEEDS: $0 of 7,266

Building Community at the UM Campus Farm

The UM Campus Farm will enhance community and education opportunities, fostering sustainable food citizenship through experiential learning that grows not only food, but leadership, conversations, and collaboration.

NEEDS: $0 of 2,823 + Volunteers

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 Roots and Wings Program

The Roots and Wings Program introduces urban Los Angeles high school students to our National Parks while building self-esteem and an appreciation for nature and the world beyond their communities.

NEEDS: $0 of 3,125 + 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

Literary Garden

NC students are growing vegetable gardens to feed those in need. To support their endeavor, library books are needed on gardening topics. We need to feed their minds as well as their bodies with good nutrition!

NEEDS: $0 of 285

Time's Up! Archiving History Project

With the hard work of dozens of interns, volunteers and project leaders, 25 years of Time's Up! advocacy work is being archived.

NEEDS: $0 of 1,895 + Volunteers

Turning a Classroom into a Garden

The children will learn and then manage a compost bin throughout the school year and then periodically use the compost to help grow plants and herbs in our classroom. 

NEEDS: $0 of 324

Brownsville Student Farm

Brownsville Student Farm is an oasis of plant and animal life in the middle of Brooklyn. We focus on youth education, providing a green community space and raising awareness about health and nutrition.

NEEDS: $0 of 5,294 + Volunteers

The Youth Internship Program

Help us sustain a Youth Internship Program for low-income teenagers to teach workshops on environmental and health-related topics to peers and neighbors at an urban farm in a struggling neighborhood of Washington, DC.

NEEDS: $0 of 2,960 + Volunteers

Emerald Awards 2012

Outstanding volunteers are honored each year in November for their great work during the year.

 

 

NEEDS: $0 of 412 + Volunteers

Student Recycled Art Gallery - Create and Learn!

Art/learning kits using recycled materials from Detroit given to 1,000 students at neighborhood school.  Volunteers take pictures; create show at our Recycled Art Gallery. Students/parents are special guests. 

NEEDS: $0 of 453 + Volunteers

Help Green City Force get wheels!

Help GCF get wheels, supporting Corps Members as they provide low-income residents with low-cost measures and education that can lower utility bills, while simultaneously reducing greenhouse gas emissions.

NEEDS: $0 of 802

Urban Patch - Stone Soup Kitchen

The Stone Soup Kitchen project by Urban Patch will help to make the inner city better by offering classes to people of all ages in the community how to eat healtheir (more fruits & vegetables) while saving money.

NEEDS: $0 of 618

Eco Ryders

Eco Ryders is an education-based organization dedicated to teaching Bronx youth about the environment and social issues through workshops and skateboard design.

NEEDS: $0 of 1,147

POP blog

POP is an online zine created by and for young women of color. We'll discuss current events, sex education, healthy relationships, LGBTQ issues and the politics of being young women who identify as people of color.

NEEDS: $0 of 3,125

Language in the Community

Queens Botanical Garden intends to obtain an Apple iPad to run an application called Google Translate. Our visitors come from all over the globe, speaking languages other than English.

NEEDS: $0 of 876

Solar Powered Eco-Shed

Install a solar panel system on the Eco-Shed of the Bushwick Campus Farm to provide clean energy for the school’s outdoor greenhouse, vertical farm and hydroponic systems.

NEEDS: $0 of 220

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

VertiCulture

VertiCulture is an aquaponics project in Brooklyn that aims to alleviate the environmental, health, and social problems associated with modern agriculture by promoting sustainable food production in urban environments.

NEEDS: $0 of 4,411

What's sprouting up at MS 88

Help establish the first community garden at a high needs middle school in Brooklyn.

NEEDS: $0 of 805 + Volunteers

Prenatal Belly Dance in Harlem

The New York City Prenatal Fitness Initiative will expand and promote access to this excellent form of activity for pregnant women.

NEEDS: $0 of 432

Less = More Green Map of NYC

 

Amplifying practical solutions, the Less = More Green Map of NYC highlights local waste reduction sites and strategies with handy neighborhood and citywide interactive maps.

NEEDS: $0 of 469 + Volunteers

Adventures for Kids on the LA River

Transforming public perceptions and working toward a healthy, safe LA River through recreational-educational boating adventures for kids.

NEEDS: $0 of 2,022

The Newtown Creek Armada

For The Newtown Creek Armada, a model boat pond will be created on one of America's most polluted waterways. 

NEEDS: $0 of 1,087 + Volunteers

Allergic to Salad - Kids Get Cooking

More healthy cooking classes! We're looking to fund FOUR children and ONE adult classes right now (5 total)! There is already a list of over 200 kiddies (and growing) eager to get cooking-- let's make it happen!

NEEDS: $0 of 4,225

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