Crosswalk Flags

Crosswalk Flags help pedestrians cross safely. Just grab a flag, look both ways, use the flag to help you cross, then deposit it on the opposite side of the street.

NEEDS: $0 of 543

Hospitality HUB iPad-powered Jobs Program

We use an old computer, as well as a couple of very old, very buggy PCs to run our jobs program. Please help someone exit homelessness by giving them access to online job applications.

NEEDS: $0 of 3,125

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

Hike The Heights

This annual celebration is only possible with generous support of neighbors and friends like you.  So please, donate, volunteer, and join us for Hike the Heights!

NEEDS: $69 of 5,000

2014 New Garden Campaign

GrowMemphis assists residents to create community gardens or urban farms in their neighborhoods. Gardens eliminate blight, provide healthy food, create a space for community building, and provide economic opportunity.

NEEDS: $0 of 2,583

Neighborhood History Project – Highland Heights

Corners of Highland Heights Community of Shalom & Crossroads to Freedom at Rhodes College will train youth archivists from the 'Heights' & Treadwell Middle School to interview local elders.
NEEDS: $0 of 583 + Volunteers

Neighborhood History Project - South Memphis

The South Memphis Shalom Zone is teaming up with Crossroads to Freedom at Rhodes College to train youth archivists from South Memphis to interview the elders in their neighborhood.

NEEDS: $0 of 920 + Volunteers

A Better You

The Klondike Smokey City CDC will use funds from the “A Better You” program to add extended learning opportunities and to maintain our current level of services.

NEEDS: $0 of 755

Carnes School Learning Garden

We will transform a vacant lot across from Carnes Elementary School into a garden where students can observe and learn about the environment.

NEEDS: $0 of 1,763 + Volunteers

Mid-South Greenways App

Our smart phone app will put vital greenways information directly into your hands. It will include way-finding and directions, destinations, amenities, and opportunities for feedback.

NEEDS: $0 of 265 + Volunteers

Floral Fantasies, Real and Imagined

Atistic focus points for locals and tourists that are conceived and created by local artists as a starting point for having visible boundaries that mark and call attention to the Little Havana artistic/historic district.

NEEDS: $0 of 5,040

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

Chalked Up Miami Pilot

Ttransform chain-link fences from eyesores into art by installing chalkboards, and establish a blog where the community can engage in conversation.

NEEDS: $0 of 1,500

Urban Playscape

The Urban Playscape project will provide a new context for interaction and recreation within a public corridor.

NEEDS: $0 of 2,500

Park East Green Team of Engineers

The Park East Green Team of Engineers wants to transform an underdeveloped, underused courtyard into a habitat for local species and garden laboratory.

NEEDS: $0 of 1,255

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

The QueensWay: Next Step

The QueensWay is the transformation of 3.5 miles of the abandoned LIRR Rockaway Beach Branch into a "cultural greenway".

NEEDS: $0 of 875

Baxter Community Center Garden Lending Library

Help us add tools to our seed and book library so that our neighbors and community partners have everything they need to grow fresh vegetables and fight back against the 'food desert' in our community! 

NEEDS: $0 of 2,095

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

Summit County Seed Library

A collaborative conservation effort of seeds to develop a regionally adapted collection of seed stock.

NEEDS: $0 of 2,095

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

Corbin Hill Farm Trip!

The Farm Trip is open first-come, first-served to all members of our communities, free of charge. To make that possible, we're asking community members to fund seats for themselves and for their neighbors.

NEEDS: $0 of 9,666

West Haven Community Garden

West Haven Community Garden is a nonprofit, all-volunteer organization, dedicated to the promotion of locally grown, organic produce. Located at Molloy School, it will have 100 plots.

NEEDS: $0 of 885

Muckraking the Mayflower Oil Spill

Pulitzer Prize-winning InsideClimate News and the Arkansas Times are forming a groundbreaking national/local partnership to investigate the March 29 ExxonMobil oil spill in Mayflower, Ark.  

NEEDS: $0 of 26,535

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

Inside Out Project: Northeast Hartford

We have taken 30 black and white photos of residents and our goal is to print these on weather proof material that is 4 by 4 feet and hang them on the fence surrounding the property we are revitalizing.

NEEDS: $0 of 800

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

Gardening in the Classroom

In order to get our hands in the dirt, we need to bring it into the classroom! We plan to set up indoor vertical gardens in 5 science classrooms, serving a total of more than 650 students.

NEEDS: $0 of 540

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

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

Telluride Grown

In a high mountain town Telluride Grown will build two demonstration aquaponic models to raise mercury-free fish and produce organic vegetables as initial steps to create local aquaponic greenhouses.

NEEDS: $0 of 4,158

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

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

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

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