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Kayaking 4 a Cause

Raising awareness for mental health for everyone.

NEEDS: $10,217 of 10,908

Read With Me Pittsburgh!

Read With Me! is an adult literacy and special-needs developmental reading program for enchanced cognition and memorization.

NEEDS: $1,170 of 1,500 + Volunteers

Higher Purpose Reentry & Mentoring Services

The mission of Higher Purpose Reentry & Mentoring Services is to inspire and empower formerly incarcerated women and girls, by connecting them to services that lead to self-sufficiency.

NEEDS: $2,162 of 2,212

Providing Theatre Education for Northside Students

Theatre brings life to life. 

NEEDS: $2,478 of 10,908

Inspire Your City Mural Movement

Be the spark that ignites the flame!

NEEDS: $50,855 of 51,535 + Volunteers

Literary 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!

NEEDS: $290 of 575

Marin School of Environmental Leadership

MarinSEL is a school within a school focused on project-based education and environmental issues. It is designed to create community leaders of tomorrow.

 

NEEDS: $4,697 of 5,057

Help Green City Force get wheels!

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.

NEEDS: $1,293 of 2,095

Green Economy Leadership Training

Building the the supply of a green workforce and creating the demand for a green economy in our community.

NEEDS: $10,103 of 10,335 + Volunteers

Our Lady of Mercy School Garden's Welcome Center

The Our Lady of Mercy School Garden Club is raising money to purchase an outdoor bulletin board to share news and upcoming events with the community.

NEEDS: $310 of 330 + Volunteers

The Human Powered Mobile School

This project will document the Eugene, OR Mobile School Presentations and disseminate information about them through a cross country “Pony Express” style ride using a human powered cargo bike.

 

NEEDS: $11,260 of 11,365 + Volunteers

Green Breakfast Club

This campaign will allow us to transition into Village Green, the peer to peer resource exchange for triple bottom line startups, those that impact people, profit and planet.

NEEDS: $12,241 of 12,293 + Volunteers

Watershed

Watershed - Fish on 14th St, is a multi-media public artwork that aims to build awareness and educate community members in and around NYC about water ecology, which is of the utmost importance for a city surrounded by wa

NEEDS: $6,122 of 6,215

Plastic Bag Dropoff

Project seeks to reduce the number of plastic bags sent to landfill through recycling and reuse.

 

NEEDS: $268 of 373

Forget the Bag! Rewards Program

A pilot distribution of loyalty cards is planned to be distributed to 2 local shops to inspire their customers to use less, waste less, and be loyal to the businesses that care for the environment that surrounds them.

NEEDS: $652 of 687 + Volunteers

All Summer Butterflies

The Friends of Haffen Park is seeking funding for The Summer of Butterflies, to create a butterfly garden in Haffen Park, to help the adults and children learn about these beautiful creatures.

NEEDS: $813 of 918 + Volunteers

"PUEBLOTE"-Transforming Underutilized Public Lots Into Public Benefits

Creating local solutions to the global climate crisis.

NEEDS: $4,805 of 5,185

Concrete Green

"Whether it's a roof top garden, solar panels, edible walls or rain water capture, we make your green dreams a reality."

             

NEEDS: $4,947 of 5,267 + Volunteers

Living City Brooklyn Gowanus

We envision an ultra-creative street sign project that marries destination pointers and green infrastructure elements such as stormwater management, green energy, alternative transportation. 

NEEDS: $3,918 of 4,160

The Garden of Social Awareness indoor garden

Environmental education will be addressed by teaching the students the importance of plants on human wellness, and the environment.

NEEDS: $458 of 648 + Volunteers

Brooklyn Compost Map

Brooklyn Compost Collective make an online and printed map highlighting compost work, and provide educational and outreach opportunities.

NEEDS: $2,944 of 3,125 + Volunteers

Cookbook Fundraiser

This long-term project compiles healthy seasonal recipes using seasonal ingredients our students have cooked with throughout the year. Once developed and printed each student will receive a cookbook!

NEEDS: $950 of 1,026

Farm Visit

We make local fruits and veggies more accessible to our community by running the CSA, which partners with Golden Earthworm Farm on Long Island.

NEEDS: $409 of 604

Street Tree Guard Building Clinic

BrooklynShade offers free 2 hour clinics in affordable wooden Tree Guard construction and proper tree care.

NEEDS: $244 of 529 + Volunteers

Bailey-Holt House/Horticultural Society of New York garden project

A joint project, we attempt to empower others by growing herbs, flowers, and food while creating a sustainable and just food system.

NEEDS: $2,770 of 2,996 + Volunteers

More Green For Less Green

Access to fresh produce is severely limited in the Bed-Stuy/Brownsville/Ocean Hill area.

NEEDS: $1,544 of 2,160 + Volunteers

Culinary Kids Farm Rockaway Project

Students will learn about planting and growing crops, Composting, Vermiculture & Aquaculture.

NEEDS: $2,832 of 3,240 + Volunteers

Eating Healthy in Bed-Stuy

Global warming is demanding that humans acquire new consumption habits fast.

NEEDS: $2,222 of 3,450

Composting Toilets

The environmental problem the project will address is how human waste (poop) contaminants that would go into our water can be properly handled by composting.

NEEDS: $2,639 of 2,750 + Volunteers

Adopt-A-Bin For School-Wide Recycling Initiative!

Renaissance needs to purchase recycling bins so we can reduce our school's waste, and promote a Green Agenda for our community!

NEEDS: $3,652 of 3,692 + Volunteers

Leadership Intern Field Training

Sustainable South Bronx (SSBx) is a community organization dedicated to Environmental Justice through innovative, economically sustainable projects that are informed by community needs.

NEEDS: $639 of 2,415

Learn it, Grow it, Eat it - Community garden shade structure reconstruction

Help facilitate increased use of already existing open space

NEEDS: $3,198 of 3,228

Children's Organic Food Patch Workshops

Broadly, we wish to address the growing rate of diabetes, collapsing food economy, inequality of access to affordable organic produce, and the lapse of environmental education on food production in

NEEDS: $1,889 of 3,220 + Volunteers

Learn to Row Day

We prepare leaders for Learn to Row Day to involve the public in rowing traditional wooden (volunteer built!) Whitehall boats and a kids' pirate parade.

NEEDS: $1,047 of 1,065 + Volunteers

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Joe Matunis, El Puente Cycling Club, Project Leader, Brooklyn, NY
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