New York
Support Local Sustainability Initiatives
SECOND.
849 6th Ave
New York, NY 10001
10:00am – 3:00pm
GrowNYC is a leading environmental nonprofit in NYC - helping more than 3 million New Yorkers by providing essential sustainability services and taking action to make NYC a truly livable city. GrowNYC’s mission is to empower all New Yorkers with equitable access to fresh, locally grown food, neighborhood green spaces, opportunities to reduce waste, and care for the environment.
Learn more about GrowNYC.
Earth Matter seeks to reduce the organic waste misdirected into the garbage stream by encouraging neighbor participation and leadership in composting.
Learn more about Earth Matter.
FABSCRAP is a convenient and transparent recycling and reuse service that was created to meet New York City’s commercial textile recycling needs. Materials that traditionally would have gone to landfill are now being properly recycled and made available for reuse.
Learn more about FABSCRAP.
BloomAgainBklyn is a community-based, nonprofit organization which repurposes unsold and once-used flowers into new arrangements which are distributed by volunteers to homebound seniors, local nursing home residents, trauma and homeless survivors, food pantry recipients and other low and moderate income populations.
Learn more about BloomAgainBklyn.
Project Description
Employees will spend the day participating in a variety of sustainability focused projects to support these nonprofit partners, including:
Building harvest totes and rain barrels for GrowNYC
Participating in an NYC Compost Project workshop to learn about closed-loop compost systems and how to implement one at home and create compost bins for Earth Matter
Sorting and prepping donated textiles for FABSCRAP
Participating in an upcycling workshop, and preparing bouquets of donated flowers for BloomAgainBklyn
Questions
Give To Get Lead
Judith Herrera
Team Leads
Valentine Starnes
