Gowanus Low Altitude Mapping (GLAM)

Gowanus Low Altitude Mapping (GLAM) is a volunteer-driven initiative to create detailed aerial photos of the Superfund-designated Gowanus Canal, using cameras and balloons.

NEEDS: $0 of 293 + Volunteers

I AM MIA (Miami in Action)

With a coalition of local organizations and businesses, we will host a public space festival showcasing various installations and programs to inspire Miami locals to activate pocket parks in the downtown corridor. 

NEEDS: $0 of 5,000 + Volunteers

iPads for Afterschool Learning in Vollintine Evergreen

Show our students what it means to love their neighborhood while helping them achieve their academic goals! Our youth-inspired volunteer program seeks iPads for enhanced learning & homework help.  

NEEDS: $0 of 1,495 + Volunteers

Our Biscayne

This project entails creating a farmer’s market along Biscayne Boulevard in downtown Miami.

NEEDS: $0 of 8,500 + Volunteers

Fitness Zone Suitable for Individuals with Disabilities

A brand new fitness zone in Kendall Indian Hammocks Park suitable for individuals with disabilities. This will give these individuals a greater chance to live healthy lives and promote health and wellness for everyone.

NEEDS: $0 of 10,165 + Volunteers

Holiday Tighten-Up Gift Bags

Ark IPL will work with USGBC, med students, and a community building to distribute bags. When families reduce energy consumption and lower utlity bills, they have more money for food and basics.

NEEDS: $0 of 200 + Volunteers

Urban Roots Science Garden

A hands-on science garden providing environmental science and nutrition education to an underserved urban public elementary school.

NEEDS: $0 of 6,340 + Volunteers

Vito Marcantonio Community Peace Garden

A sustainably designed East Harlem school rooftop greenhouse created to address the needs of a beleaguered zip code at the epicenter of diabetes, defiance, and despair. 

NEEDS: $0 of 10,201 + Volunteers

SJC's Rain Gardens +ART Campaign

A citizen-led initiative to educate and engage Jersey City stakeholders about green infrastructure benefits and inspire more projects across all of our neighborhoods.

NEEDS: $0 of 4,571 + Volunteers

Washington Square Park Ecology

Washington Square Park Ecology will create a map of the ecological assets of the park.

NEEDS: $0 of 3,050 + Volunteers

M-Path Park Project

The M-Path Park project is a grassroots initiative to bring a multi-modal park to the Downtown Dadeland community.  

NEEDS: $0 of 11,290 + Volunteers

NOLA TimeBank Neighborhood Expansion

NOLA TimeBank is re-thinking Money. Instead of Money we exchange Time. TimeBanking is a pay-it-forward system that promotes equality and community. It’s the right thing at the right time for New Orleans.

NEEDS: $0 of 2,385 + Volunteers

City Share Club

City Share Club is a membership club for sharing of small household items including tools, yard care, and small kitchen appliances.  

NEEDS: $0 of 600 + Volunteers

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

Asheville Tool Library

We'll be lending out tools to the good folks of Buncombe County in Western North Carolina

NEEDS: $0 of 7,556 + Volunteers

Phoenix Tool Shed

We want to put tools and the ability to use those tools within reach of everyone in our community. This will empower our community to work on projects, accomplish tasks, and build skills that will improve the community.

NEEDS: $0 of 2,053 + Volunteers

You and I are Love

The "You and I are Love" project will bring talented artists of all facets under one roof. We will create and offer a venue for artists to network, showcase & sell their art at no cost to them.

NEEDS: $0 of 160 + Volunteers

Shore Fest 2013

Shore Fest is a car-free celebration on Shore Boulevard sponsored by The Astoria Park Alliance. Shore Fest re-imagines public space and celebrates cultural diversity through free music, performance, and fun.

NEEDS: $0 of 532 + Volunteers

Allergic to Salad - Chef-Led 2 Class Series

We'll partner with a local restaurant for awesome chef-led classes.
Together we'll explore a healthy recipe, develop kitchen skills and cook!

NEEDS: $0 of 994 + Volunteers

61 Franklin Street Garden

61 Franklin Street Garden is resident-led community project converting a vacant lot in Northern Greenpoint into a vibrant and green open space for the use of the neighborhood.

NEEDS: $0 of 578 + Volunteers

Stryker Park

Friends of Stryker Park is committed to creating a park on the north side of 97th St. between Amsterdam and Columbus Avenues on the Upper West Side.

NEEDS: $0 of 515 + Volunteers

PLAY- Petaluma Loves Active Youth

PLAY is an eight week health intervention for low-income families whose children are facing obesity. Farmers, physicians and families come together to make locally grown food available to those who need it most. 

NEEDS: $0 of 831 + Volunteers

A Small Green Patch - Donation Drive 2013

A Small Green Patch is a Community Garden in Brooklyn, NY - The money gererated from this project will help the garden buy and set up a number of needed tools and events for the community.

NEEDS: $0 of 755 + 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 432 + Volunteers

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

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

Musicians United

The Pebble Mine will destroy Bristol Bay, Alaska, home to 46% of the planet’s remaining wild sockeye salmon. Help musicians record and distribute music to spread the word to audiences around the world and stop the Pebble Mine!
NEEDS: $0 of 11,291 + Volunteers

Ke’Ara Food Collective Mobile Harvest Market

The Ke’Ara Mobile Harvest Market will bring an exciting local farmers’ market on wheels to Miami-Dade sharing the freshest, local, sustainable, and organic goods and ideas with you.

NEEDS: $0 of 1,111 + Volunteers

Little Havana Moves

Little Havana MOVES is a community-driven asset mapping walkabout that brings together seniors and youth to identify shared dreams and to fortify a sense of neighborhood ownership.

NEEDS: $0 of 124 + Volunteers

Big Green Theater

Big Green Theater is an annual youth and community based eco-playwriting program and performance festival that combines an environmental education initiative with the presentation of a Green Theater production.

NEEDS: $2,479 of 3,125 + Volunteers

The Federico Garcia Lorca Murals

A project of Artmakers Inc., the last of four Federico García Lorca Murals based on Lorca's poem Ciudad sin sueño (Nocturno de Brooklyn Bridge) / Sleepless City (Brooklyn Bridge Nocturne).
NEEDS: $0 of 3,120 + Volunteers

Revamp and rebuild!

We're expanding to grow more food and include more of our neighbors!

NEEDS: $0 of 4,960 + 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

Connect the 9

Connect the Nine is a group of neighbors in the Lower 9th Ward in New Orleans, Louisiana, who advocate for life-saving infrastructure improvement for bikers and walkers on the St. Claude Bridge.

NEEDS: $0 of 450 + Volunteers

PS 20 Green Arts Expansion!

 

A project to expand PS 20 Green Arts, an interdisciplinary arts and gardening program that serves over 400 students at a Title 1 school in Brooklyn, New York!

NEEDS: $37,885 of 40,000 + Volunteers

goMarket

Part coop, part online farmers' market, goMarket connects farmers and gardeners to families & restaurants. Opening Spring 2013.

NEEDS: $0 of 753 + Volunteers

SWAG Project

SWAG Project is an urban farming, food justice and educational project in the South Ward of Newark. We grow food and build community through youth and community led projects that bring more fresh food to our neighborhood.

NEEDS: $0 of 4,155 + Volunteers

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

Interfaith Sustainable Food Collaborative Launch

The project facilitates faith communities sharing models to produce and access healthy, local food. The project advances policy activism by congregations to strengthen sustainable agriculture movement.

NEEDS: $0 of 2,607 + Volunteers

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