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.
We are building our headquarters - an outreach and training center, plus a place to store the local food we grow - while helping a life long community resident keep her home and nurse it back to health.
Most students are on free and reduced lunches and don't have reliable meals in the summer. We provide free fresh produce to the community and educate youth and their families about healthy diet choices.
The Enrichmond Foundation will be the steward for a portable water meter to be shared with its partners and urban agricultural projects in the City of Richmond.
A new 16' footbridge on the multi-use trail in Powhite park will address safety and environmental issues.
30 Years and Still Planting.
Help the ALS purchase milkweed plants to restore habitat for the disappearing migratory monarch butterfly with students from P.S.47!
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.
Transforming a vacant lot into a community garden that will provide a place for members of the community to safely and productively gather, participate in and learn about growing and eating healthy food.
We are opening a cooperative grocery store for Vance and Downtown Memphis. Working with U of M, Vance Avenue Collaborative, and select leaders in the Memphis community, we aim to make this area more food secure.
Cleaning up this Richmond DIY skatespot with the help of local skaters and neighborhood kids.
The project will promote attention to our environment while at the same time enhance the appearance of our community and protect our trees. We will create a more uniform and dynamic look to our urban streetscape.
The Clean Rivers Campaign is transforming our regions largest public investment into a green-first plan that maximizes community benefits.
NYC's first public bike counter! Imagine a counter for bikes, used by community projects around NYC. Now imagine the numbers on the screen are legible from 100 ft. That's the super bright public bike counter.
Helathy, hands-on, activity-filled cooking lessons explore local, seasonal, vegetarian, nut-free and often soy- and lactose-free international cuisine with children!
Public Lab and local partners are building an open-source water quality monitoring platform.
We are constructing observation stations to monitor refinery flares continuously and remotely. They will provide an inexpensive, easy to construct, and reliable remote flare observation station that provides usable data.
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.
We're serving the community by continuing to build a space for personal enjoyment and for education on various environmental levels!
Gowanus Low Altitude Mapping (GLAM) is a volunteer-driven initiative to create detailed aerial photos of the Superfund-designated Gowanus Canal, using cameras and balloons.
Help NOLA Women on Bikes fundraise for our Youth "Spokesperson" Mentorship Program!
The festival showcases environmentally oriented exhibitors and includes demonstrations by experts in proper tree care. For children, there are tree related activities, face painting, and live animals.
With a coalition of local organizations and businesses, we will host a public space festival showcasing various installations and programs to inspire Miami locals to activate pocket parks in the downtown corridor.
Monica Zappa and her dogs are using their run in Iditarod 2014 to bring attention to the fight to Stop the Pebble Mine from destroying Alaska's Bristol Bay. We need your help. Please donate now.
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 art students.
This project entails creating a farmer’s market along Biscayne Boulevard in downtown Miami.
Transforming chain-link fences from eyesores into art and an area where the community can engage by installing chalkboards and starting a blog to create a virtual communty.
Shades of Miami will suspend colorful umbrellas over urban pathways for shade.
A brand new fitness zone in Kendall Indian Hammocks Park suitable for individuals with disabilities. This will give these individuals a greater chance to live healthy lives and promote health and wellness for everyone.
Ark IPL will work with USGBC, med students, and a community building to distribute bags. When families reduce energy consumption and lower utlity bills, they have more money for food and basics.
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!
We want to incorporate recycling into our school culture and use this project as a way to create engaged and informed citizens.
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.
An outdoor classroom in proximity to the successful Clinton Garden will accommodate environmental education, health and access for students at our large urban high school campus.
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!
Supporting at-risk LGBT youth in New York City and Guayaquil, Ecuador, my hometown.
Washington Square Park Ecology will create a map of the ecological assets of the park.
Go Hampline! We reached our goal but every dollar more still goes directly to The Hampline. We're grateful for you to keep giving!
Fund visual-arts education for the 2013-2014 school year for every child at Brooklyn's brand-new PS 705 through Studio in a School, a program that brings a professional artist into the school weekly.
The M-Path Park project is a grassroots initiative to bring a multi-modal park to the Downtown Dadeland community.
UPG Garden Centers on 6.5 acres will become epicenters of change in Miami!
We seek to provide a space for local artists and skateboarders to safely enjoy. Our goal is to open as a 3-day pop-up park during Art Basel 2013 to showcase Miami’s need for a permanent skatepark on-site.
City Share Club is a membership club for sharing of small household items including tools, yard care, and small kitchen appliances.
The UM Campus Farm will enhance community and education opportunities, fostering sustainable food citizenship through experiential learning that grows not only food, but leadership, conversations, and collaboration.
We'll be lending out tools to the good folks of Buncombe County in Western North Carolina
The "You and I are Love" project will bring talented artists of all facets under one roof. We will create and offer a venue for artists to network, showcase & sell their art at no cost to them.
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.
