Big Green Theater is an annual youth and community based eco-playwriting program and performance festival that combines an environmental education initiative with the presentation of a Green Theater production.
We're expanding to grow more food and include more of our neighbors!
Hike for health! Help us fundraise to encourage hundreds of people to hike through beautiful northern Manhattan.
The Roots and Wings Program introduces urban Los Angeles high school students to our National Parks while building self-esteem and an appreciation for nature and the world beyond their communities.
Connect the Nine is a group of neighbors in the Lower 9th Ward in New Orleans, Louisiana, who advocate for life-saving infrastructure improvement for bikers and walkers on the St. Claude Bridge.
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.
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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!
NC students are growing vegetable gardens to feed those in need. To support their endeavor, library books are needed on gardening topics. We need to feed their minds as well as their bodies with good nutrition!
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.
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.
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 serving the community by building a space for personal enjoyment and for education on various environmental levels!
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.
Help GCF get wheels, supporting Corps Members as they provide low-income residents with low-cost measures and education that can lower utility bills, while simultaneously reducing greenhouse gas emissions.
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.
In 2011, Merrick Marsden Neighbor Association of Jamaica, Queens approached Brooklyn Queens Land Trust to help save a large plot of vacant land in their community that they own, but lack the funds to pay back taxes on.
The two main parts of our project are clean-up and beautification. We have student volunteers and would like additional volunteers to paint, clean-up leaves, and beautify our adopted flower beds.
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!
Eco Ryders is an education-based organization dedicated to teaching Bronx youth about the environment and social issues through workshops and skateboard design.
POP is an online zine created by and for young women of color. We'll discuss current events, sex education, healthy relationships, LGBTQ issues and the politics of being young women who identify as people of color.
