The Friends of Washington Market Park

Butterfly Garden for Washington Market Park

We hope to make our park a welcoming stop for butterflies - some of which are endangered in NY state - and educate the community in the process. We will supply plants and erect fencing and signage.

NEEDS: $0 of 1,580

Super Awesome Active Birthday Parties

Providing NYCHA child residents and the greater community with the opportunity to celebrate their birthdays with outdoor play, delicious cupcakes, and healthy snacks in East Harlem at Mad Fun Farm and Jefferson Houses.

NEEDS: $0 of 1,682
CPE II Garden

Bring a Kitchen Classroom to CPE II

Central Park East II School is raising money to fund a kitchen classroom conversion, garden education, and garden supplies. 

NEEDS: $0 of 10,335

Harlem Grown 127 Street Farm

Harlem Grown is opening a new 127 Street Farm to expand our programming within Central & East Harlem. Your support will help Harlem Grown to grow 5,000 pounds of produce by the end of 2017 across all our properties.

NEEDS: $0 of 10,335
Founding Director, Susan Rodriguez riding the Fender Blender Bike.

Charge Up East Harlem

SMART is hoping to acquire a charging back plus an ice cream maker attachment for our Fender Blender bike. We want to become a healthy eating and emergency preparedness hub to our community. 

NEEDS: $0 of 5,185 + Volunteers

Let's Get Moving! Bringing Free Yoga to the Park.

We are seeking to provide a relaxing and healthful experience to LES residents by bringing a short-term, weekly, free, outdoor yoga class to Corlears Hook Park in the spring of 2017. 

NEEDS: $0 of 3,290

Child Welfare Organizing Project

Our goal: Upgrade our kitchen to meet NYC standards to partner with Food Bank of NY.  This will allow us to provide healthy/nutrituious meals to the participants of our programming at no cost to our organization.

NEEDS: $0 of 5,185

Hike the Heights 12

Hike the Heights is a community event that links 2000+ residents to the parks in No. Manhattan. This year, we invite the Bronx residents to celebrate with us by crossing over the highbridge to 'Be Our Guest'.

NEEDS: $0 of 4,000

"Dis/Location (Fort Tryon)"

Drastic Action is exploring the immigrant experience through a new site-specific dance for Fort Tryon Park and a series of free dance classes at City College Academy of the Arts.

NEEDS: $0 of 1,634 + Volunteers
chicken coop

School Garden Chicken Project!

We aim to further develop our school garden education around sustainable food systems by keeping chickens year-round through the purchase of a winterized chicken coop.

NEEDS: $0 of 689

Corlears Hook Park Entryway Beautification

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. 

NEEDS: $0 of 4,355 + Volunteers

Hike the Heights

Hike the Heights 2015: Connect the Dots 

NEEDS: $0 of 10,589 + Volunteers

Summer 2015 Empowerment Fairs

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.

NEEDS: $0 of 2,607 + Volunteers

Seedball School Garden

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.

NEEDS: $0 of 2,000 + Volunteers

Help Network

We (Founder Christian Luna- Labee, General Manager Rebecca Tello, and fellow Danielle Shaw) wish to raise enough funds to have a small office where we can house our volunteer administrators to expand our impact. 

NEEDS: $0 of 880 + Volunteers

Save Farm School NYC!

Growing food, leaders and communities in New York City

NEEDS: $0 of 10,895 + Volunteers

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

Pumpkin Composting

We must dispose of our Jack O'Lanterns after Halloween, but where? Pumpkins can become fertilizer for gardens in the Spring if we compost them in the Fall. Don't throw Jack O'Lanterns into a landfill.
NEEDS: $0 of 55 + Volunteers

EARTH (a play about people)

EARTH (a play about people) explores our contemporary relationship to population through the story of a couple deciding whether or not to have a child. 

NEEDS: $0 of 1,865 + Volunteers

Game Night!

We Got Game(s)!

NEEDS: $0 of 250 + Volunteers

Peck Slip Plaza

Peck Slip Plaza will serve as a much-needed and highly celebrated open space, to be used and enjoyed by workers, residents and visitors in the historic South Street Seaport district of Lower Manhattan. 

NEEDS: $0 of 3,250

Greener Lenox

The Initiative was created to get local businesses and residents to come together and help clean up Lenox Avenue. This promotes a sense of unity and pride in giving back to the community.

NEEDS: $0 of 50 + Volunteers

PS11 Garden 2014 Spring Planting

The students grow edible plants and develop a first-hand knowledge of where food comes from. They compost, to understand how decomposition plays a part in the cycle of growth.

NEEDS: $0 of 380

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

Rooftop Aquaponic Greenhouse Lab

The greenhouse will allow Food and Finance High School students to cultivate the latest in science technology, sustainability and urban food production. Our partner is Cornell University!

NEEDS: $0 of 975

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

Mojdeh Baratloo Urban Urge Awards

A group of friends, family, students and colleagues of Mojdeh Baratloo are honoring her life, work and commitment to ideas, cities, communities, and her students by creating a memorial urban projects grant program.

NEEDS: $0 of 25,975

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

Hike the Heights 2013

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

NEEDS: $0 of 2,645

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

Lakshmi Community Garden Project

We are currently seeking funds to put up a community notice board and to construct a gate in the back connecting us to an established community garden on the opposite block.

NEEDS: $0 of 387 + Volunteers

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

A Rainbow Garden at Mad Fun Farm

Our 7-8-year-olds need your help to grow a Rainbow Garden, fruits, vegetables, herbs, and flowers from their countries of origin, at Mad Fun Farm.

NEEDS: $0 of 1,080

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