Our small neighborhood park relies on volunteers to keep FFP's plantings healthy and thriving. We need community support to help buy plants and materials.
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.
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.
Central Park East II School is raising money to fund a kitchen classroom conversion, garden education, and garden supplies.
Pride where you live lends itself to better mental, emotional and physical health.
Youth participants will care for ABC's space in the community garden, acquiring gardening skills and fostering a positive relationship with other members of the East Harlem community in the shared space.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Help the Waterfront Alliance re-introduce New Yorkers to the water through our Neighborhood Docks program with activities like water quality testing, children’s art projects, live music, or themed boat rides.
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'.
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.
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.
Keep Father Fagan Park in bloom throughout 2020!
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.
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.
Educating our community on the importance of environmental sustainability is vital in learning to achieve and access good health for our bodies, minds and souls.
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.
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.
Growing food, leaders and communities in New York City
At Chenchita's Community Garden, we will install a rain harvest roof, allowing us to collect water and host FREE workshops for the community.
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.
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.
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.
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.
A new hydropinic system that will make our use of the space more efficient and vertical, while also needing less maintenance for watering so that we can serve more of our Harlem community.
A hands-on science garden providing environmental science and nutrition education to an underserved urban public elementary school.
The Eric Dutt Eco Center at P.S. 6 needs a wall enclosure to keep the turtles in and the little ones out!
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.
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!
Washington Square Park Ecology will create a map of the ecological assets of the park.
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.
The 123rd Street community garden was destroyed by a building collapse in 2012. Help us rebuild our urban oasis.
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.
Hike for health! Help us fundraise to encourage hundreds of people to hike through beautiful northern Manhattan.
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.
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.
Amplifying practical solutions, the Less = More Green Map of NYC highlights local waste reduction sites and strategies with handy neighborhood and citywide interactive maps.
Help us maintain and improve our street trees and tree pits.
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.
