Greening UpSlope Gowanus: reducing Stormwater Run-off
We will increase stormwater infiltration & decrease run-off by caring for new street trees and creating a rain garden.
We will increase stormwater infiltration & decrease run-off by caring for new street trees and creating a rain garden.
Green infrastructure module kits for Brooklyn educators and students to build and install in their schoolyards.
We want to install a water bottle refill station in Margaret Pace Park so attendees using the sports, BBQ, and other facilities can refill their bottles with free filtered water.
Let's create little free libraries in East Memphis!
We will expand the crops currently grown in the teaching garden with the installation of an irrigation system and wrought-iron fence.
Richbriar Little Free Library... a place to gather, discover, and share children's stories.
The Undoing Racism and Oppression workshop focuses on understanding what racism is, where it comes from, how it functions, why it persists and how it can be undone.
We Are Family CDC has inherited a building that needs major repairs.
Send the 2014 JUMP OFF Champions and the JUMP CLUB Coach to SUMMER CAMP!
We want to be the first school in Jersey City installing green infrastructure to help manage storm water runoff.
City Hall, in partnership with SJC, Bike JC and the Jersey City Art School, is raising funds to bring a beautiful, unique bike rack to Jersey City.
Nettleton Community Orchard -- creating community through fruit trees.
Are you familiar with the beautiful green space at the intersection of Madison and Belvedere, across from Zinnie's Restaurant? Beautiful area right!? Let's make it a space for idea sharing and creative collisions!
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.
We hope park visitors will enthusiastically embrace free public shuttles and protect Overton Park's recreational spaces from overflow parking. But first, we must pay for the shuttles.
Everyone poops. Be someone who helps keep it off streets and out of yards.
We're expanding our rain barrel system by at least three more barrels, expanding our compost curing stations, and hoping to build a small greenhouse.
A permanent resource to support the core costs of NOKP’s “Collective Impact” work, including staff, operations and working group projects.
Along with Memphis College of Art artists, volunteer community members will paint a colorful mural on both walls of the underpass on Cooper Street at Peabody Park.
Building farms and teaching fitness and sustainability - we grow food and we grow growers. The Bronx is a food desert - diabetes, obesity and hunger run rampant - we intend to change that.
New tools for the AMEF Urban Forest & Community Garden in Soulsville, Memphis. The tools will help expand the existing garden and provide a source of fresh food and pride for the community.
The Greenville Tool Library will loan out tools for projects in the home, lawn or garden. Building upon the energy of the community garden movement, we hope to inspire and equip community projects across Greenville.
Cover the costs of training materials, game clocks and a club ice cream social event to end the year.
Exploris seventh graders want you to know this: IT'S NOT TOO FAR to walk!
The 19th Annual Columbia Pike Bluesfest is a free community event in Arlington, Virginia on June 14th, 2014!
Through community education, Energy Corps Interns will bring the benefits of solar energy to the greater Binghamton area, providing clean, cheap, reliable energy, creating local jobs and boosting the economy.
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.
Crosswalk Flags help pedestrians cross safely. Just grab a flag, look both ways, use the flag to help you cross, then deposit it on the opposite side of the street.
Help the ALS purchase milkweed plants to restore habitat for the disappearing migratory monarch butterfly with students from P.S.47!
We use an old computer, as well as a couple of very old, very buggy PCs to run our jobs program. Please help someone exit homelessness by giving them access to online job applications.
Our Discovery Garden will educate children about healthy food and how it grows.
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.
A rain garden on unmaintained property to provide benefits of residential surface management techniques, including beautification, native plant propagation, & species diversity.
The Clean Rivers Campaign is transforming our regions largest public investment into a green-first plan that maximizes community benefits.
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!
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!
GrowMemphis assists residents to create community gardens or urban farms in their neighborhoods. Gardens eliminate blight, provide healthy food, create a space for community building, and provide economic opportunity.