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.
ALL CITY ACRES will make print maps of potential spaces for community-driven projects available in the Bronx, Queens, Staten Island and Manhattan. We are building on the successful tactics of 596 Acres in Brooklyn.
Pedal Power Bike Blender - Teaches students about the importance of eating healthy, exercising, and energy production and conservation.
Install a solar panel system on the Eco-Shed of the Bushwick Campus Farm to provide clean energy for the school’s outdoor greenhouse, vertical farm and hydroponic systems.
Composting in western Queens will bring more materials, workshops, and infrastructure for composting to Astoria, Long Island City, Jackson Heights, Sunnyside, and Woodside.
O2 Compost @ Brooklyn Grange will bring solar-powered composting to the world’s largest rooftop farm.
We make local, sustainably-grown fruit and veggies accessible to all regardless of income!
VertiCulture is an aquaponics project in Brooklyn that aims to alleviate the environmental, health, and social problems associated with modern agriculture by promoting sustainable food production in urban environments.
Cleaning the Gowanus Canal through an alternative arts and science project.
Replacement of one hundred and four 300 watt incandescent bulbs with 12 watt LED bulbs across our NYC elementary school.
The New York City Prenatal Fitness Initiative will expand and promote access to this excellent form of activity for pregnant women.
Through the design and launch of a website, this campaign will garner support, provide information, and facilitate discussion about reducing our dependence on disposables in the food service industry.
Transforming public perceptions and working toward a healthy, safe LA River through recreational-educational boating adventures for kids.
Creating local solutions to the global climate crisis.
Providing access to healthy food & building community in West Philly
Just Food's City Chicken Project is providing PS 11 with support & training to build a chicken coop in our school garden.
Help NYC learn about the best stuff that happened at the National Bike Summit from March 20 to 22, 2012.
More healthy cooking classes! We're looking to fund FOUR children and ONE adult classes right now (5 total)! There is already a list of over 200 kiddies (and growing) eager to get cooking-- let's make it happen!
30 students will beautify a local community garden in the Mount Eden area of the South Bronx addressing food injustice with performance art.
Tree care team volunteers need funds to purchase two sturdy tree guards to protect young street trees.
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.
We need to buy seed starting supplies in order to get an early jump on the Spring planting season. The beds will be planted with items that the school students will sow, water and then harvest.
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 goal is for the lesson to be brought to the home! Getting children involved in the cooking process, increasing awareness of healthy, nourishing food, and getting the whole family to cook together and eat together.
The McGolrick Park Schools Alliance will organize, promote, and lead monthly clean-ups, events, and workshops from March 2012-November 2012 in McGolrick Park.
Hike for health! Help us fundraise to encourage hundreds of people to hike through beautiful northern Manhattan.
This is an exciting, traditional form of prenatal fitness and childbirth preparation accessible to low income women to support health throughout the pregnancy.
We reached our goal of $1,296 to participate in the academy! Thank you! Any additional donations will go to a fund for materials and expenses for our coop.
Chain Reaction is Boston’s first ever youth-run afterschool mobile bike shop and training center. Chain Reaction provides bicycle education, repair and sales in Boston neighborhoods without retail bicycle shops.
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.
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.
Creating open green space for the Greenpoint waterfront area.
Healthy, environmentally sound food options for all Flatbush residents.
Help us maintain and improve our street trees and tree pits.
GreenHomeNYC is committed to making sure that local non-profits and community groups well represented at the New New York green block party this fall.
Pop-up cafés are popping up all around New York City, making more room for people not cars! Streetfilms will make a short and fun video to help people learn, participate, and advocate for more pop-up cafés.
We want to construct a shaded patio area in the front of the garden that will invite our neighbors inside and give the community a welcoming green space that all can enjoy.
We are in the Bronx and help wild birds in their migration for over 10 years!
Rejuvenate Septuagesimo Uno park by planting colorful flowers that will thrive in its shade.
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.
DontFlushMe connects you to where your wastewater goes in the city. The system alerts users when their part of the sewer system is overloaded
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.
Construction of a 25-foot wooden rowing gig for use by high school and community rowers based in Wallabout Channel, Brooklyn.
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.
We will clean and beautify the Veterans Square and the Vietnam Memorial as a dedication to all veterans that have served this country.
