MS-88
A student-led effort at Middle School 88 to create a native plant and pollinator garden on the perimeter of Slope Park Playground at 6th Avenue and 18th Street. This project will convert the neighborhood green space into a field study site for 1,200 students, engage students from neighboring schools, residents and passersby in park stewardship, nature appreciation and hands-on environmental activism, and invite community involvement and ongoing stewardship through successive plantings, clean-ups and celebrations.
Arts Gowanus
Arts Gowanus’s ongoing Gallery Dispersed program, an ongoing neighborhood “gallery” using the walls of local businesses and venues, parks, vacant storefronts, and studio spaces, unified through cohesive identity, themed exhibits, art and civic dialogues, and coordinated openings. Gallery Dispersed offers a platform for creative expression and economic development for diverse populations in Brooklyn.
Camp Friendship
Camp Friendship to offset some routine costs that are necessary for their do day-to-day work. This will likely include the purchase of bins to protect their food, wagons to help them move thousands of pounds of produce from the sidewalk into our building, and folding tables to help them continue to serve food in a client choice model.
Brooklyn Book Bodega
Brooklyn Book Bodega to support their work increasing the number of 100+ book homes for kids 0-18 in New York City. Brooklyn Book Bodega provides access to and ownership of books, builds community, and creates a passion for learning through free events and literacy-based community programming. They hold events all over Brooklyn, give out books to anyone who needs them. The organization has book drop sites in Brooklyn, including at the Old Stone House.