Creating Schools Where LGBTQQ Youth Can Thrive!
LYRIC is transforming San Francisco public schools into communities where LGBTQQ youth are celebrated for who they are and encouraged to be who they want to be.
LYRIC is transforming San Francisco public schools into communities where LGBTQQ youth are celebrated for who they are and encouraged to be who they want to be.
An intimate participation in agriculture through windowfarming encourages students to think about where their food comes from while exploring innovative solutions for farming in urban settings.
The garden will consist of 6 raised bed plots that will be available to Central City South residents free of charge. Many garden club members are anxious for the opportunity to contribute to the garden!
A sunken garden in an old replica mill raceway to green our city's oldest neighborhood and create an interpretative window of Rochester's first EcoDistrict as we green this rustbelt city.
A project to expand PS 20 Green Arts, an interdisciplinary arts and gardening program that serves over 400 students at a Title 1 school in Brooklyn, New York!
We will learn to build a sustainable cooperative business, which will be a student run and owned credit union. It will address economic justice issues like student debt and green community development.
Part coop, part online farmers' market, goMarket connects farmers and gardeners to families & restaurants. Opening Spring 2013.
Help NYC neighborhoods hardest hit by Sandy.
Help us install low-flow showerheads and sink aerators at 9 residences on the campus of Misericordia, a non-profit that provides residence and services to adults with developmental disabilities.
SWAG Project is an urban farming, food justice and educational project in the South Ward of Newark. We grow food and build community through youth and community led projects that bring more fresh food to our neighborhood.
Fall Creek Gardens teaches sustainable practices for growing food in the city. We seek funding for a sunflower mural that will engage the neighborhood and beautify our community garden!
The project facilitates faith communities sharing models to produce and access healthy, local food. The project advances policy activism by congregations to strengthen sustainable agriculture movement.
A school sponsored community volunteer day to clean and beautify our school’s street trees and green spaces.
For the first time this fall, the camp will provide healthy, seasonal, organic apples to 2,274 school children, raise awareness about where food comes from, and establish new relationships with local farmers.
With the hard work of dozens of interns, volunteers and project leaders, 25 years of Time's Up! advocacy work is being archived.
GardenWalk Cleveland is a free tour of private gardens, community gardens and urban farms in the City of Cleveland over a weekend in the summer.
The Most Fabulous Green Wall Ever Built supports West Oakland’s sustainable economy by building a striking green wall at American Steel Studios using recycled materials, fed with rainwater.
Yellow House NYC’s hope is to make the arts more accessible and bring them into local communities by awarding funds to deserving artists and students.
We will remove Tamarisk from the banks of the San Gabriel River. We will plant trees to help restore the habitat of the area.
Brownsville Student Farm is an oasis of plant and animal life in the middle of Brooklyn. We focus on youth education, providing a green community space and raising awareness about health and nutrition.
Neighborhood Foods, a West Philly low-income food coop, needs high tunnels for its farm to boost production for a food desert fraught witht diet-related health problems.
Help us sustain a Youth Internship Program for low-income teenagers to teach workshops on environmental and health-related topics to peers and neighbors at an urban farm in a struggling neighborhood of Washington, DC.
Outstanding volunteers are honored each year in November for their great work during the year.
We will be distributing Free 911 Daffodil Project bulbs to groups in Queens. We plan on giving hand tools to groups to help them with the planting. In 2011, over 25,000 bulbs were given to groups to plant in Queens.
Classroom activity to teach Detroit students how to reduce, reuse and recycle through science, engineering, art and creativity.
A fun day to learn and network with other like-minded people! We will have exhibits and info at tables, show educational movies, and give workshops. Giveways to help improve the environment will also be available.
We're minimizing the use of well water and increasing water retention capacity through practices such as a cistern and pump system and rain barrels, appropriate plant selection and organic manure use.
Art/learning kits using recycled materials from Detroit given to 1,000 students at neighborhood school. Volunteers take pictures; create show at our Recycled Art Gallery. Students/parents are special guests.
Free, healthy, seasonal, hands-on cooking for kids! Taught by real chefs partnered with educators.
We'll be rolling up sushi when this class is funded! Healthy, hands-on cooking lessons explore seasonal, nut-free international cuisine with kids. Real food makes no excuses!
We'll be cooking up some Thai food when this class is funded! Healthy, hands-on cooking lessons explore seasonal, nut-free international cuisine with kids. Real food makes no excuses!
Free, healthy, seasonal, hands-on cooking for kids! Taught by real chefs partnered with educators.
The Stone Soup Kitchen project by Urban Patch will help to make the inner city better by offering classes to people of all ages in the community how to eat healtheir (more fruits & vegetables) while saving money.
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!
Support two youth education initiatives of EcoStation:NY, Bushwick's nonprofit dedicated to food justice and sustainable urban agriculture!
We are partnering with KaBOOM! to build a playground in Tampa Heights!
Queens Botanical Garden intends to obtain an Apple iPad to run an application called Google Translate. Our visitors come from all over the globe, speaking languages other than English.
A youth-leadership and food-justice summer program that creates opportunities for youth ages 14-30 to work in school and community gardens, community outreach and organizing, and educational and cultural programming.
The Powell Elementary GT Magnet garden and outdoor classroom is a stimulating space for play, interactive learning and environmental education.
A collaborative effort to utilize the vacant land parcel at Patchen Avenue and Putnam to create a garden and small play area.
One Kin farm will be the transformation of an abandoned lot to an urban farm with 20 raised beds that will produce a variety of vegetables, herbs and flowers.
We are celebrating the neighborhood’s multiculturalism by depicting Federico Garcia Lorca’s “Sleepless City” poem in a 4-part mural series.
A day of cleaning and greening Flatbush Ave on May 12, 2012!
The Park Garden is a new green space on Indianapolis’ north side. It will be a permaculture garden and will provide a more naturalized and informal setting.
Help us build a rainwater harvesting system to water our urban garden!
Through a season on the Youth Farm, participants become intimately familiar with the tasks, challenges, and rewards of growing many varieties of vegetables and flowers appropriate to our region and community.
Our project works to save wild salmon by creating a collaborative forum that puts salmon restoration in the hands of scientists and those impacted by their survival, not just politicians.
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.
Women, Minorities, and Delivery Guys are Cyclists too!
Pedal Power Bike Blender - Teaches students about the importance of eating healthy, exercising, and energy production and conservation.