recycling collection, green city force, door-to-door recycling

Door-to-Door Recycling Collection Initiative

This innovative and convenient solution will change the way recycling is collected in public housing developments. "It's a win, win for EVERYONE"

NEEDS: $0 of 15,320 + Volunteers

Gardens! Films! Greenpoint!

Join us in the gardens of Greenpoint for a series of environmental films, with special guests!  Your donation to this project will be matched Dollar for Dollar, by IOBY (THANKS).

NEEDS: $0 of 500 + Volunteers

Mayday Festival of Resistance

Please donate! We will celebrate Bushwick as a working class immigrant neighborhood. We'll have, speakers, art & music! Our line up is made up of all femme-fronted/women of color led singers!  

NEEDS: $0 of 10,000 + Volunteers

The We Run Brownsville Community Race

The Brownsville Community Race will be the first ever community run to be held in Brownsville in order to raise awareness around existing health disparities and to celebrate grassroots efforts to transform the community.

NEEDS: $0 of 9,305
Kippee the Rhode Island Red needs a home!

Help Kippee the Hen Build Her Forever Home at Los Sures!

We're building a hen coop, chicken run, and chicken garden for Kippee and her friends at Los Sures, a non-profit organization that has been dedicated to the welfare of the Williamsburg Brooklyn residents since 1972.

NEEDS: $0 of 3,550 + Volunteers
Behind Bars in Brooklyn

AdaptAbility 2

Help us to provide another 3 adaptive bikes to children by raising $10,000. Every dollar contributed goes towards the cost of buying bikes and spreading the word to enlarge our community of supporters.

NEEDS: $0 of 6,450 + Volunteers
Chess in the Garden

Chess in the Garden

Chess in the Garden introduces the game of chess to students at PS 5 in Bedford Stuyvesant.

NEEDS: $0 of 451
It's My Park Day

Pitch In for Our Park

Help the North Pacific Playground and Garden reach their full potential!

NEEDS: $0 of 2,095 + Volunteers
Ms. Scott's Third Grade Class at Alice's Arbor Restaurant

Youth Culinary Education in Bed Stuy

Community-Supported Culinary Education at P.S. 21/Crispus Attucks School in Bed Stuy. Local Restaurants help us bring our healthy, hands on cooking curriculum into the school day. 

NEEDS: $0 of 579
We Run Brownsville Fall 2017

We Run Brownsville - Next Level

We Run Brownsville is a grassroots effort to encourage women who are living and working in Brownsville to take ownership of their physical, mental and emotional wellness.

NEEDS: $0 of 7,760

WATERSHED RED HOOK

Catalyzing conversation about climate change and infrastructure issues that are critical to areas like Red Hook.

NEEDS: $0 of 1,910
United Students of NYC Meeting

Vote At 17

We're a grassroots, youth-run organization dedicated to improving youth engagement and representation in politics.

NEEDS: $0 of 1,090
Building new raised garden beds with volunteers

Grow our Garden!

Help us grow and beautify Wyckoff-Fidler park including planting 3000 bulbs, 3 new raised garden bed, and a garden shed. 

NEEDS: $0 of 4,857 + Volunteers
Youth working at Imani Garden

Save The Imani Willow

Stop The Destruction of This Historic Tree in the Heart of Weeksville, NYC's oldest independent African-American community.

NEEDS: $0 of 2,408 + Volunteers
Preliminary research at CB14's Youth Conference in March

Building Blocks

Creative and collaborative civic engagement in Flatbush!

NEEDS: $0 of 1,605 + Volunteers
Tehuti Maat Garden Organic Food for the People project

Organic Food for the People

Invest in the transformation of this Brooklyn community garden into an organic urban farm!

NEEDS: $0 of 1,290 + Volunteers

Air Conditioning Fundraiser for New Women Space

We're anticipating a hot summer and we're going to need an AC unit powerful enough to cool the space down. With your help, we can provide an even more comfortable place for our communities to gather.

NEEDS: $0 of 3,841
PS 316 wall mural proposal

A Big, Beautiful Mural For PS 316

Parents and staff at PS 316 will transform the walls of our main entrance along Sterling Place into an outdoor, modern art museum by painting a mural of geometric designs across the entire 1st floor. 

NEEDS: $0 of 2,610
Garden area. Tree.

BKMSCC and Saratoga Library Community Garden

We will revamp a vacant library garden to provide a community space. We will provide hands on learning of environment and gardening by teaching health and sustainability. We will collectively create a greenspace.

NEEDS: $2,085 of 2,095 + Volunteers

Parkside 2017

The Parkside Plaza needs donations to keep programming on the plaza. 

NEEDS: $0 of 2,077 + Volunteers

We Run Brownsville

We Run Brownsville is a walk/run wellness program exculsively for women that is designed to prioritize individual care through the lens of collective responsibility and active community activism. 

NEEDS: $0 of 2,845

[re]New Lots: Artist Incubator & Vendor Market

re]New Lots: Artist Incubator & Vendor Market project utilizes recycled shipping containers to transform vacant property into burgeoning neighborhood hubs hosting below market rate storefronts and artist studios.

NEEDS: $0 of 7,185
Behind Bars in Brooklyn

AdaptAbility

We will provide adaptive bikes to 4-5 children a year by raising $10,000 in 2017. Every dollar contributed goes toward the cost of buying bikes and spreading the word to enlarge our community of supporters.

NEEDS: $0 of 9,679
Students enjoying Quiet Time

Meditation

BUGS Quiet Time Program provides students with twice per day meditation or quiet to reset, recharge, and get grounded in their sense of self at a time of great self-change.  

NEEDS: $0 of 2,435

Oh the Drama!

Make this Broadway dream a reality for our BUGS Drama Top Performers!

NEEDS: $0 of 1,580
Bridging Gowanus meeting with Councilmember Brad Lander

The Gowanus Atlas

The Gowanus Atlas is an analytical community planning tool that visualizes and gives voice to the complex urban, ecological, and sociological issues facing a culturally diverse neighborhood undergoing rapid change.

NEEDS: $0 of 22,975 + Volunteers

BUGS Annual Appeal

Supporting BUGS is a way for you to make sure that diversity, sustainability and equal access to a high quality education continue to be a focus in the year of political transition ahead.

NEEDS: $0 of 9,155

Help Build ICFNY's Robotics Club

Inner City Foundation of New York, Inc. (ICFNY) will launch its comprehensive and fun robotics program this early winter in Bedford Stuyvesant, Brooklyn for at-risk youth. 

NEEDS: $0 of 275 + Volunteers
Bangladeshi-American band The Feringhees plays in August 2016

Growing Events at the Garden

Besides booking acts that help celebrate our neighborhood's multicultural diversity, we would like to bring some of our many local talents to our beautiful garden space.

NEEDS: $0 of 1,115 + Volunteers
Childrens Workshop at Owl's Head Park

Paint the Owls at Owl's Head Park

We would like to have the cut-owls along the children's playground gate painted by children who come to the park.   Children will be given perimeters to paint inside the shapes of the owls.

NEEDS: $0 of 270 + Volunteers

Let's Get the Arts!

Fundraise $20,000 to provide our students access to the Arts.  $20,000 last year got us a 14 week residency with YPC, and a 28 week residency between grades PreK-2nd grade with Marquis Studios.

 

NEEDS: $0 of 10,627
We Run Brownsville

We Run Brownsville Spring 2017

We Run Brownsville is a walk/run wellness program exclusively for women that is designed to prioritize essential self-care through the lens of collective responsibility and active community activism.

 

NEEDS: $0 of 5,443

Journey Within - Teen Mindfulness & Meditation Fellowship

Your $25 donation helps provide transporation for our first fellow Richardson Louissant to attend four medation and mindfulness retreats where he will learn the wisdom of practice to share with his fellow peers.

NEEDS: $0 of 1,245

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