La Canasta, food buying club
We want to create a hybrid non-profit / worker cooperative with technical assistance from the Coop Academy, an eighteen week training and mentoring program that helps to create worker coops.
ioby brings environmental projects to life, block by block.
We want to create a hybrid non-profit / worker cooperative with technical assistance from the Coop Academy, an eighteen week training and mentoring program that helps to create worker coops.
We need to fundraise $1,500 by Feb. 15, 2012 in order to participate in the Green Worker Coop academy.
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.
Children and adults alike will learn the proper techniques to design and build a sustainable trail and learn the techniques to ride singletrack trails while performing a highly aerobic activity.
A New Farm in Cypress Hills/East New York and Gowanus Green Wayfinding Project
Take the Lead in Initiating Crowd-Funding Match
Do you want to join that cool club of people who give a dollar a day to make NYC neighborhoods stronger and more sustainable? It's not too late! Join by Jan 18 and you'll be invited to our kickoff party.
Firefighters, vagabonds, bus buddies. Just a few names given to the new wave of people who spend more than an hour and a half traveling to and from work every day, the national average being 50 minutes. These new super commuters have increased over 95% since 1990, and the number only seems to be rising.
Not everyone is fun to buy gifts for. There's always that one person who has everything. And then there's that other person who never seems to want anything.
For these difficult loved ones, why not give the gift of stronger and more sustainable neighborhoods?
Now on ioby, you have two gift options for these special someones.
When most people think of New York City, one of the last things that come to mind is “green.” Although the buildings might outnumber the trees, and the air quality is far from ideal, surprisingly, New York City is the greenest city in the United States.



