Composting in western Queens will bring more materials, workshops, and infrastructure for composting to Astoria, Long Island City, Jackson Heights, Sunnyside, and Woodside.
Purchase composters to recycle garden waste into compost, reduce waste we throw out from the Meadow, pilot a household waste composting program
The Junior Composter course is an internship for youth from underserved communities to engage in composting, urban agriculture, and environmental activism.
O2 Compost @ Brooklyn Grange will bring solar-powered composting to the world’s largest rooftop farm.
The pile is tucked in for the winter, but there is no stopping composting in North Brooklyn!
Help us turn our school lunch waste into soil we can use! With compost bins and supplies, we will reduce our environmental impact and learn about science.
This project will better serve the community by create more available gardening space for community members, and allow us to better serve the community with a larger compost intake area.
The WQCI is a dynamic partnership of CSA's, gardeners, and youth & civic associations, providing leadership, service, and education in composting!
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.
Creating open green space for the Greenpoint waterfront area.
This project will give people a nice space outdoors. It would also create a good space to teach kids about community.
Nutrition Detectives helps kids measure and compare healthy food items.
Bushwick City Farm will raise organic free range chickens in Bushwick Brooklyn in order to provide the community with free organic eggs and chickening knowledge.
Healthy, environmentally sound food options for all Flatbush residents.
NYLP provides job-training experience to Newark high school youth in environmental fields. The "Farm to Table" theme gives students an inside look at our current food system.
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.
The Community Table Garden is in need of TLC repairs in our 3rd year of operation! We hope to amend our garden bed soil, improve our irrigation system, and build a shade stucture for our volunteers and visitors!
Students will create and maintain a vegetable garden, and develop awareness in healthful eating habits and a respect for the earth that provides us food.
HSC will complete student projects in the Outdoor Classroom at PS 134 and hold a year-end "Garden Celebration" to increase project awareness and support.
The 78th St. Play Street turns an under-utilized street in park-starved Jackson Heights into public open space for sports, arts and social interaction.
Nettleton Community Orchard -- creating community through fruit trees.
Brooklyn teens want to cook farm-fresh meals and share cooking demonstrations and recipes with the community.
The St George Day Festival encourages environmental stewardship through storytelling, spectacle and innovative educational & community-building activities.
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.
West Haven Community Garden is a nonprofit, all-volunteer organization, dedicated to the promotion of locally grown, organic produce. Located at Molloy School, it will have 100 plots.
A small cemetery, dating back to the 1800's, sits in a city neighborhood and has been overgrown with brambles and ivy for decades. We are working to preserve the cemetery and create a neighborhood green space.
Tree care team volunteers need funds to purchase two sturdy tree guards to protect young street trees.
Providing access to healthy food & building community in West Philly
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.
