Hair With Purpose Project
Supporting at-risk LGBT youth in New York City and Guayaquil, Ecuador, my hometown.
Supporting at-risk LGBT youth in New York City and Guayaquil, Ecuador, my hometown.
The QueensWay is the transformation of 3.5 miles of the abandoned LIRR Rockaway Beach Branch into a "cultural greenway".
Go Hampline! We reached our goal but every dollar more still goes directly to The Hampline. We're grateful for you to keep giving!
Fund visual-arts education for the 2013-2014 school year for every child at Brooklyn's brand-new PS 705 through Studio in a School, a program that brings a professional artist into the school weekly.
Driven by a local coalition, Food Commons Atlanta will create a food sovereignty roadmap by addressing land, infrastructure and funding.
We seek to provide a space for local artists and skateboarders to safely enjoy. Our goal is to open as a 3-day pop-up park during Art Basel 2013 to showcase Miami’s need for a permanent skatepark on-site.
Help us add tools to our seed and book library so that our neighbors and community partners have everything they need to grow fresh vegetables and fight back against the 'food desert' in our community!
A collaborative conservation effort of seeds to develop a regionally adapted collection of seed stock.
A group of friends, family, students and colleagues of Mojdeh Baratloo are honoring her life, work and commitment to ideas, cities, communities, and her students by creating a memorial urban projects grant program.
The Farm Trip is open first-come, first-served to all members of our communities, free of charge. To make that possible, we're asking community members to fund seats for themselves and for their neighbors.
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.
Pulitzer Prize-winning InsideClimate News and the Arkansas Times are forming a groundbreaking national/local partnership to investigate the March 29 ExxonMobil oil spill in Mayflower, Ark.
The UA machine is an aqua-hydroponic container farm installed in NYC's public gardens & urban farms.
We have taken 30 black and white photos of residents and our goal is to print these on weather proof material that is 4 by 4 feet and hang them on the fence surrounding the property we are revitalizing.
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.
In order to get our hands in the dirt, we need to bring it into the classroom! We plan to set up indoor vertical gardens in 5 science classrooms, serving a total of more than 650 students.
A farmers market run by Sprout Farms' high school interns and facilitated by GrowNYC.
In a high mountain town Telluride Grown will build two demonstration aquaponic models to raise mercury-free fish and produce organic vegetables as initial steps to create local aquaponic greenhouses.
Roots Memphis Farm Academy is a farmer incubator program that educates, trains, and launches new sustainable farmers in the region.
A completely free and amazing bilingual (English/Spanish) prenatal yoga class each week for 3 months. Classes will be held at the beautiful New Settlement Community Center at 172nd and Jerome in the Bronx.
Hike for health! Help us fundraise to encourage hundreds of people to hike through beautiful northern Manhattan.
LYRIC is transforming San Francisco public schools into communities where LGBTQQ youth are celebrated for who they are and encouraged to be who they want to be.
An intimate participation in agriculture through windowfarming encourages students to think about where their food comes from while exploring innovative solutions for farming in urban settings.
The garden will consist of 6 raised bed plots that will be available to Central City South residents free of charge. Many garden club members are anxious for the opportunity to contribute to the garden!
A sunken garden in an old replica mill raceway to green our city's oldest neighborhood and create an interpretative window of Rochester's first EcoDistrict as we green this rustbelt city.
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.
Help us install low-flow showerheads and sink aerators at 9 residences on the campus of Misericordia, a non-profit that provides residence and services to adults with developmental disabilities.
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!
A school sponsored community volunteer day to clean and beautify our school’s street trees and green spaces.
The Most Fabulous Green Wall Ever Built supports West Oakland’s sustainable economy by building a striking green wall at American Steel Studios using recycled materials, fed with rainwater.
The children will learn and then manage a compost bin throughout the school year and then periodically use the compost to help grow plants and herbs in our classroom.
Yellow House NYC’s hope is to make the arts more accessible and bring them into local communities by awarding funds to deserving artists and students.
We will remove Tamarisk from the banks of the San Gabriel River. We will plant trees to help restore the habitat of the area.
Neighborhood Foods, a West Philly low-income food coop, needs high tunnels for its farm to boost production for a food desert fraught witht diet-related health problems.
We're serving the community by building a space for personal enjoyment and for education on various environmental levels!
We're minimizing the use of well water and increasing water retention capacity through practices such as a cistern and pump system and rain barrels, appropriate plant selection and organic manure use.
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.
The Stone Soup Kitchen project by Urban Patch will help to make the inner city better by offering classes to people of all ages in the community how to eat healtheir (more fruits & vegetables) while saving money.
In 2011, Merrick Marsden Neighbor Association of Jamaica, Queens approached Brooklyn Queens Land Trust to help save a large plot of vacant land in their community that they own, but lack the funds to pay back taxes on.
This free class offers low income pregnant moms in Harlem and surrounding areas a safe, fun, and affordable prenatal fitness option. Great for mom's physical health and also builds community!
Eco Ryders is an education-based organization dedicated to teaching Bronx youth about the environment and social issues through workshops and skateboard design.
POP is an online zine created by and for young women of color. We'll discuss current events, sex education, healthy relationships, LGBTQ issues and the politics of being young women who identify as people of color.
To provide healing foods for women in the childbearing year. Women who practice self-healing and care create healthier babies, families and communities.
Support two youth education initiatives of EcoStation:NY, Bushwick's nonprofit dedicated to food justice and sustainable urban agriculture!
BFC’s Food Program is expanding our Southeast Center rooftop garden, which is located in Anacostia. We provide workshops and safe green space for our clients to socialize, skill-share, and build community.
Queens Botanical Garden intends to obtain an Apple iPad to run an application called Google Translate. Our visitors come from all over the globe, speaking languages other than English.
A collaborative effort to utilize the vacant land parcel at Patchen Avenue and Putnam to create a garden and small play area.
Help us build a rainwater harvesting system to water our urban garden!
Through a season on the Youth Farm, participants become intimately familiar with the tasks, challenges, and rewards of growing many varieties of vegetables and flowers appropriate to our region and community.
A refreshing slice of open space for the neighborhood.