Providing access to healthy food & building community in West Philly

Just Food's City Chicken Project is providing PS 11 with support & training to build a chicken coop in our school garden.  

We will be filming successful volunteer projects in Queens in our parks, green spaces, tree pits and other public areas in order to inspire others to do the same.

Feedback Farms is building out a 2nd location that will effectively double our square footage! 

Help NYC learn about the best stuff that happened at the National Bike Summit from March 20 to 22, 2012.

Volunteers from the Cornucopia Society and the Queens Coalition for Parks and Green Spaces will clean the area up and plant annuals to spruce up and colorize the area.

More healthy cooking classes! We're looking to fund FOUR children and ONE adult classes right now (5 total)! There is already a list of over 200 kiddies (and growing) eager to get cooking-- let's make it happen!

Bringing attention to 39 tree pits on the block on May 19th by planting flowers, cleaning up litter, and building tree guards.

30 students will beautify a local community garden in the Mount Eden area of the South Bronx addressing food injustice with performance art.

WHEDco, a non-profit in the Bronx, will construct a greenhouse to support its farming program aimed at creating opportunities for residents to learn about sustainability.

Explore, Empower, Envision.

Tree care team volunteers need funds to purchase two sturdy tree guards to protect young street trees.

We’re seeking to purchase gardening equipment to transform an unused, vacant piece of city-owned land into a true community amenity where people can come together to garden, compost, and enjoy passive open space.

We need to buy seed starting supplies in order to get an early jump on the Spring planting season. The beds will be planted with items that the school students will sow, water and then harvest. 

We need funds to purchase fresh soil and compost to help young street trees thrive this spring and beautify busy pedestrian blocks. Help us transform our streetscape into a greener, more welcoming neighborhood.

Help us create easily understood signs and brochures for our compost project and native plant garden for our diverse, multi-lingual neighbors!

Volunteers will clean out the area and remove all types of debris so when the the fountains are activated, it will be a clean and pleasing site without garbage floating around.

Help Queens Farm grow.

The goal is for the lesson to be brought to the home! Getting children involved in the cooking process, increasing awareness of healthy, nourishing food, and getting the whole family to cook together and eat together.

Support a compost garden in the Rockaways.

A Recyclers' farm in the midst of the city is  not only possible but attainable!!! . . Sure! we can!   

The McGolrick Park Schools Alliance will organize, promote, and lead monthly clean-ups, events, and workshops from March 2012-November 2012 in McGolrick Park.    

Help us build a new people's garden in Bushwick. We'll be strengthening community and growing healthy, local economies at this positive social gathering point and greening action hub.

Hike for health!  Help us fundraise to encourage hundreds of people to hike through beautiful northern Manhattan.

This is an exciting, traditional form of prenatal fitness and childbirth preparation accessible to low income women to support health throughout the pregnancy. 

We reached our goal of $1,296 to participate in the academy! Thank you! Any additional donations will go to a fund for materials and expenses for our coop.

Chain Reaction is Boston’s first ever youth-run afterschool mobile bike shop and training center. Chain Reaction provides bicycle education, repair and sales in Boston neighborhoods without retail bicycle shops.

The project, Coop Academy, is an intensive 16 week training and support program that will help us develop Nourishing Cities, a worker-owned green businesses. 

Employing and empowering mentally ill and formerly homeless individuals through urban gardening.

We are fundraising for a 16-week business boot camp run by Green Worker Cooperatives for cooperative business that better our community and our planet.  

Creating open green space for the Greenpoint waterfront area. 

Making a greener, cleaner and safer 137 St for all.

Creating new edible spaces in BK!

We have been cleaning out the lot and so far we have accomplished a lot.  Our current project is to build a chicken coop and greenhouse.  

Help build a home for 24 chickens in East New York.

We need your help to build a garden in Bushwick!

 A collaborative effort between residents and businesses of Bedford-Stuyvesant to transform a vacant lot for almost 20 years, into a thriving community garden. 

Healthy, environmentally sound food options for all Flatbush residents.

Support New York City's first Youth Food Council! Flip the Table: Youth Food Council (YFC) is a youth-led coalition working to support, empower, and amplify the passionate young voices of the food justice movement.

A community dialogue and performance project.

Ewen Park  is wonderful . Within the park is a dog run, which dogs like Lexi  (pictured) love to use and their owners like to take them to.  But  the dog run is in need of repairs. 

My project intends to beautify the environment of the Ave. P business district by means of maintaining the twenty or so tree pits on the block.

Help us maintain and improve our street trees and tree pits.

GreenHomeNYC is committed to making sure that local non-profits and community groups well represented at the New New York green block party this fall.

Pop-up cafés are popping up all around New York City, making more room for people not cars! Streetfilms will make a short and fun video to help people learn, participate, and advocate for more pop-up cafés.

We want to construct a shaded patio area in the front of the garden that will invite our neighbors inside and give the community a welcoming green space that all can enjoy.

We are in the Bronx and help wild birds in their migration for over 10 years!

Rejuvenate Septuagesimo Uno park by planting colorful flowers that will thrive in its shade. 

This grant will enable Greene Acres Community Garden to actually create the native plant section we planned last year, but were unable to complete due to lack of funds.

DontFlushMe connects you to where your wastewater goes in the city. The system alerts users when their part of the sewer system is overloaded