Providing a safe, fun place for children to play and for parents to get the much needed support they need. We also aim to keep much needed goods from landfills that families need.
Make It Mar Vista is a one-day festival, taking place Saturday, November 28, 2015. It will be a day of true community engagement along our Great Street of Venice Boulevard.
Capitol Hill Tool Library: lending tools, sharing ideas, building community.
At a Repair Cafe, volunteer fixers gather at an event with hands and tools at the ready, and the community is invited to bring items in need of repair.
Help us buy James a lawnmower so he can keep Carnes Garden beautiful. He lives next door to Carnes Garden and has become the garden caretaker. James has helped us every step of the way.
By transforming unused spaces into sustainable urban farms we combine education with food production in order to feed residents of one of the United State's hungriest communities. We grow food and we grow growers.
Promoting economic vitality, transportation options, and great places for people along West Colfax through "pop-up" design.
Help us put the park in Historic Meridian Park!
Paint Memphis will establish Memphis' largest collaborative mural, and with the Chelsea greenline, wlil help revive the New Chicago/North Midtown neighborhood, making it a safe place to work and live.
Giant Puppet Dance Club is a free weekly dance class where participants ages 8 to adult work with a puppetmaker and a choreographer to dance and perform for the community.
Our project aims to beautify the 6 entry points of Corlears Hook Park with new planting beds, thus making them more visually welcoming and appealing entryway into the Park.
I have plans to create a beautiful perennial garden at the former Reservoir site. I want to make changes in the community and pursue others to do the same.
Phase 2: Incorporating into a nonprofit to serve the Minneapolis community for the long term!
The Biggs Hillside Garden is a project of ReClaim Northside, transforming a vacant lot into a tranquil garden space. Neighbors can stop and sit in the garden or pass by going up and down the Biggs Stairs.
Spring / Summer gardening project to brighten and freshen street tree beds along Montgomery Street in Brooklyn.
My specific request that I am fundraising for is this. I would like to have a Little free Library as the centerpience in this gateway garden in order to engage the community to interact within the garden space.
Civic Art Lab is a community arts and environmental education storefront in Bed-Stuy, BK.
Nurturing eco-consciousness in children through garden education, nature exploration and old fashioned play.
WHEC brings a positive message and empowers our community...one block at a time. We connect youth and community in West Harlem with needed resources, empowering them to reach their greatest potential.
A festival celebrating spring, mothers, art, and culture could transform Utica's Oneida Square into a beautiful neighborhood center and lively social space--for Mother's Day weekend and beyond.
The Guerrilla Gardening Project makes growing your own produce easy, accessible, fun, and affordable. The project teaches and encourages organic and sustainable gardening methods across communities.
The money raised will allow us to transport volunteers, tools, plants and compost to numerous gardens and tree pits throughout the Watershed.
Over the years, fewer and fewer bats and Chimney Swifts are seen in our area. East Buntynites want to provide safe, suitable housing for these creatures that are so beneficial to our families and the ecosystem.
Bandaids might not seem like a big deal, but for some families its an item that gets left off the shopping list.
Rangeline primary mission is to assist students with reading, math, homework assignments, and class room participation.
We will clear the lot of debris, remove overgrowth, and redesign the landscape to be environmentally friendly and a beautiful living and gathering space.
Idlewild's Community Garden links classroom learning, community involvement and healthy lifestyles.
Casey Jones project builds local railroad flavor into a communty named for railroad.
Join us in planting trees in the Belt Line Community
We are programming and open sourcing the community garden building in a wasted lot of a high demand area threatened by developers for youth to learn sustainable skills for a replicable and robust garden based curriculum.
Indomitable Women of Incarcerated Men, Inc. is trying to purchase a building as a training site to begin "Incarcerated to Indomitable" program.
For this project, senior citizens will teach children how to establish a garden. It will involve the churches, schools, and community organizations. The outcome will be knowledge about nutrition and exercise.
Help GrowMemphis start 7 new community gardens in 3 months. Our goal for the gardens is to improve access to fresh food for low-income residents living in Memphis.
This playground has loved our children well over the years, let's love it back!
A landscape beautification project that will help enhance the newly installed "I Love Soulsville" mural.
Movie Nights at the Community Garden!
We're going to create a mobile bocce court that can be setup quickly then broken down for transportability. Then we'll set up down the block for refreshments and a nice game of lawn bowling!
Outside fun at the Levitt Shell on May 16 - make a community mural that will stay up all year, learn some new dance moves, make art and record some stories! It's a day to celebrate arts in Memphis!
We are educating and encouraging homeowners to create personal composting/mulching stations resulting in free soil and mulch for homeowners and a reduction in our carbon footprint and landfills.
Ride and Run the Greenline with easier Access
A mural will be presented in honor of the late great W. C. Handy known to many as, "The Farther of the Blues."
Altown DIY Skatepark Build... Turning an empty lot into an awesome community space.
With the launch of the Girls Inc. Youth Farm, Girls Inc. of Memphis is launching a new program to teach high school girls the skills necessary to start and run their own businesses.
The iron fence that runs along the south side of Alabama will be woven with bright fabrics to turn the fence into a tapestry. The tapestry sections of fence will be interspersed with sections of sunflowers.
We provide bicycle helmets to youngsters who need them. At our bicycle safety rodeos we help kids ride more safely. The events are set up to be fun and challenging. Each participant receives a custom-fitted helmet
