Overton Park Conservancy will implement safety surface improvements in the East Parkway Playground in Overton Park, providing our young park stakeholders with safe opportunities for play and recreation.
Teach children in an urban environment, the importance of pollinators and help increase the worldwide decreasing pollinator populations by building a pollinator garden on our school grounds.
Help us take steps to connect the Greenline to the Farmers Market at Agricenter International by raising funds to remove a gate and installed bollards so bicyclists can have an accessible path.
The CY Garden Club plans to create small garden pocket parks. These would be large planter boxes filled with a variety of hardy shrubs and flowers to enhance corners on Southern, Cooper, Young, and East Parkway.
The current living space will be gutted, new sheet rock and large windows will be installed to form a bedroom suite and the bathroom will be moved and daylighted.
This summer Project Backboard's goal is to add lines and art enhancements to 18 courts in 13 public parks across Memphis so everyone will have access to a basketball court with free throw and 3 point lines.
The Community Table Garden is in need of TLC repairs in our 3rd year of operation! We hope to amend our garden bed soil, improve our irrigation system, and build a shade stucture for our volunteers and visitors!
Our goal is to feed 18 low-income families fresh, local vegetables through our CSA program!
Paint Memphis will create the largest collaborative mural in Memphis, bringing together over 100 artists and community organizations. We build community one wall at a time.
The Challenge Grant invites communities to re-imagine their streets as vibrant public spaces. We partner with local groups to demonstrate improvements to their local streets, from parklets to plazas.
Hike the Heights is a community event that links 2000+ residents to the parks in No. Manhattan. This year, we invite the Bronx residents to celebrate with us by crossing over the highbridge to 'Be Our Guest'.
Through a generous 1:2 match by the Turley Family Foundation, Leadership Memphis plans to raise $77,285 and take 750+ Shelby County high school students on college and career tours.
Drastic Action is exploring the immigrant experience through a new site-specific dance for Fort Tryon Park and a series of free dance classes at City College Academy of the Arts.
TreesLouisville will move a 35 year old climbing tree (a Contorted European Beech) to Maupin Elementary's Early Childhood Development Center.
The Frayser mural project seeks to bring beauty to a neighborhood full of blight. Art has the power to transform. Frayser deserves such a transformation.
We are saving this last undeveloped woods in Ambler Pennsylvania to preserve as open space for the enjoyment of generations to come.
Memphis Catholic Middle and High School is raising funds to build out the next phase of gardens that will allow students to learn in direct contact with nature for years to come!
As the Pebble Mine fight continues, we are keeping the issue alive, remaining mobilized and building the resistance. See our Work Plan in the Updates section for our full strategy and then donate to support.
It was recently discovered that the roof on the Museum House is leaking, allowing water into the ceiling and walls of the 2nd floor. We need to fix this urgently and we need your help!
We aim to further develop our school garden education around sustainable food systems by keeping chickens year-round through the purchase of a winterized chicken coop.
Support the communities and families of Cleveland to assert the right of every individual to legal representation.
Keep Father Fagan Park in bloom throughout 2020!
McMerton Gardens hopes to partner with two neighborhood schools, De La Salle Elementary and Brewster Elementary, to install monarch butterfly waystation gardens throughout the neighborhood.
H.E.A.L.T.H for Youths Community Gardening Program to enhance community involvement of youth in New York City. We will work with youth, local community and civic groups to positively engage youth in these projects.
The purpose of the greenhouse would be to set up a base for horticulture in the community and to instruct the community at large about plant propagation and growing food.
The Mobile Mission: Bringing Resources to Families That Need a Clean Start. #TheMobileMission
Bicycles are fun! And they get kids moving. Help us train up 16 Bicycle Ambassadors who will then encourage the Peabody community to try riding to school! Let’s get Peabody riding!
Building and restoring lives through green space in Brownsville.
Tree plantings will establish the next generation of tree canopy, improve air quality & storm water management, increase rain water retention, & provide much needed shade for current and future users of the park.
We want to add a 'Little Free Library' and some other really cool things to the Nettleton Community Orchard in Downtown Memphis!
Help us maintain a beautiful Parkside! We need your support to continue to keep the plaza and its flowers, benches, tables and programming running.
Local artist Brandon Marshall will paint a mural on the side of a storage container that is being added to the expansion of the farm.
We want to beautify our outdoor space to build on the hard work we already started. We want to create a nature trail and a living wall to complete our natural space.
The Seek Academy school garden seeks to promote positive environmental change in Newark as well as provide access to nutritious, organic, real food in an area where there is limited access. We are Newark, New Jersey!
Uniting to build a connection to the Shelby Farms Greenline that's safe and accessible for all.
OSI is an international education provider in the Tri-State region. A 501c3 non-profit organization that offers study abroad programs for youth who attend high schools in historically underserved neighborhoods.
Nurturing eco-consciousness in children through garden education, nature exploration and old fashioned play.
Let's keep two hand-carved elm benches made by a local artist in a public park to be enjoyed by everyone in Princeton, residents and visitors alike.
A project of The Street Farm a community garden in College Park/Binghampton
The purpose of this project is to build a unique and innovative bus shelter that brings attention to the need for this critical transit infrastructure while also adding aesthetic value to community.
Round 2 will be a free and open previtalizing event on the grounds and in the shade and shadow of the Mid-South Coliseum from 1-7 p.m. October 4, 2015.
To celebrate, enhance, and educate our neighborhoods about Memphis heroes. We will involve artists, landscapers, and architects to create sculpture gardens based on Memphis music history.
We're raising money to send one of our members to Bike!Bike!, an international gathering of community bike shops. We hope to raise enough money to cover the costs of round trip plane tickets to Guadalajara, Mexico.
Thoughts on Water seeks to encourage community participation through the poetic expression of water. The project would demonstrate how existing infrastructure can be used as a platform for artistic expression.
H.A.C.E.R at the Gilliam Family Community Garden & Park is a community project to transform a vacant lot into a unique gathering place in the heart of the Greater Logan Heights neighborhood of San Diego.
An urban agriculture project that reclaims vacant land, unites community, provides healthy food, creates jobs, and gives kids a place to play.
