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

TAKE THIS X: The OAAU @ 50

Upon the 50th anniversary of the leader’s death, artists, educators and activists in Harlem ask an urgent question: What if Malcolm X had lived?

 

NEEDS: $0 of 3,668 + Volunteers

Save Farm School NYC!

Growing food, leaders and communities in New York City

NEEDS: $0 of 10,895 + Volunteers

MAKE ASAP OFFICIAL FOR 2015!

ASAP is fundraising toward fiscal sponsorship, website hosting, and our public events!

NEEDS: $0 of 2,404 + 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Time's Up! Archiving History Project

With the hard work of dozens of interns, volunteers and project leaders, 25 years of Time's Up! advocacy work is being archived.

NEEDS: $0 of 1,895 + Volunteers

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

Belly Dance Class for Pregnant Moms in Harlem

This free class offers low income pregnant moms in Harlem and surrounding areas a safe, fun, and affordable prenatal fitness option. Great for mom's physical health and also builds community!

NEEDS: $0 of 486

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

ALL CITY ACRES

ALL CITY ACRES will make print maps of potential spaces for community-driven projects available in the Bronx, Queens, Staten Island and Manhattan. We are building on the successful tactics of 596 Acres in Brooklyn.

NEEDS: $0 of 3,865

Green Is The Word

To make an educational video to inspire and engage the NYC Public Schools on sustainability issues.

NEEDS: $0 of 968 + Volunteers

Prenatal Belly Dance in Harlem

The New York City Prenatal Fitness Initiative will expand and promote access to this excellent form of activity for pregnant women.

NEEDS: $0 of 432

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

Urban Seed Library

A seed library promotes the saving and sharing of locally-sourced seeds. It fosters community in that  members give back in order for the library to grow and everyone to benefit.

NEEDS: $0 of 436 + Volunteers

PS 11 Chicken Coop

Just Food's City Chicken Project is providing PS 11 with support & training to build a chicken coop in our school garden.  

NEEDS: $0 of 1,306

West 144th Street Block Association

Bringing attention to 39 tree pits on the block on May 19th by planting flowers, cleaning up litter, and building tree guards.

NEEDS: $0 of 540 + Volunteers

PS11 Garden 2012 Spring Planting

We need to buy seed starting supplies in order to get an early jump on the Spring planting season. The beds will be planted with items that the school students will sow, water and then harvest. 

NEEDS: $0 of 486

Beautify Lower Madison Avenue Neighborhood

We need funds to purchase fresh soil and compost to help young street trees thrive this spring and beautify busy pedestrian blocks. Help us transform our streetscape into a greener, more welcoming neighborhood.

NEEDS: $0 of 233

Hike the Heights 2012

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

NEEDS: $0 of 2,493

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