Compost NOW has diverted over a QUARTER-OF-A-MILLION POUNDS of food waste from the landfill since we began. We want to continue - and expand - our free, weekly food waste collections in 2020.
From garbage to garden: help us expand our free, weekly residential food waste collections to at least 8 New Orleans Public Library sites. Our goal: 100,000 pounds diverted from the landfill in 2018.
From garbage to garden: help us expand our New Orleans food waste collection & compost service to four Library sites this Spring. Our goal: 10,000 pounds diverted in our first 6 months!
Access bicycles will be used to engage youth through social biking events. The youth will assume leadership roles in their community and advocate for themselves and others through positive social interaction.
A creative bus shelter and crosswalk concept imagined, designed, and built by youth that will use public art to improve bus-rider experience on Oretha Castle Haley Boulevard.
A parade that will allow children from all over town to participate for free, involve all members of the community and give out books to those who need them the most.
To cover the costs of putting our bookmobile on the streets of New Orleans by mid April. This will be the ONLY bookmobile to serve Orleans Parish and the children of the city truly want and need it.
Bike Easy staff and volunteers will teach bike skills and safety to 4th and 5th graders at 10 local schools using fun activities and games.
The Freret Uptown Tool Lending Library will loan tools to New Orleans residents (at no charge) to perform simple home maintenance, tend their yards and gardens, build furniture, start projects, and learn new skills.
A permanent resource to support the core costs of NOKP’s “Collective Impact” work, including staff, operations and working group projects.
Help NOLA Women on Bikes fundraise for our Youth "Spokesperson" Mentorship Program!
NOLA TimeBank is re-thinking Money. Instead of Money we exchange Time. TimeBanking is a pay-it-forward system that promotes equality and community. It’s the right thing at the right time for New Orleans.
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.
