Jericho Road Projects
The Jericho Road Episcopal Housing Initative partners with additional New Orleans nonprofits, including Tulane City Center, Master Gardeners of New Orleans, Central City Growers Coop, Recirculating Farms Coalition, Pistol & Stamen Flower and Farm Studio, and the LSU Ag Center to reviatlize vacant and abandoned properties. Jericho Road collaborates with local groups to identify and…
Read MoreThe Village Community Garden
The intent of the Village Community Garden is to provide food and education while meeting the needs of the community’s youth and their families. The community garden supports aeroponics technology as well as traditional agricultural practices. It is a place where youth can come to work, learn together, and engage in productive and empowering horticultural…
Read MorePower in Dirt
Power in Dirt was an initiative sponsored by the Baltimore City Mayor’s Office’s stepUP! Baltimore Campaign in 2011/ 2012. The program allowed residents to adopt vacant lots and gain support from nonprofit and city partners like the Baltimore Green Space land trust to beauty abandoned and deteriorated properties. Residents could receive a temporary, 1-year lease…
Read MoreMeditation Labyrinth
This project will create an intergenerational open space for art and creativity. Community arts outreach will be paired with a walking path made out of personalized clay pavers and chalkboard walls made from recycled wood pallets and natural seating. More about this project >
Read MoreGreen Saginaw
Green Saginaw is SLBC’s next generation of work in this community in partnership with the Saginaw County Land Bank and the City of Saginaw helping to address non-structural blight and vacant property conditions. Green Saginaw builds on a previous, 5-year investment called the Pollinator Project which worked to replace vacant, blighted properties with more manageable wildflower prairie…
Read MoreCommunityCare
CommunityCare recognizes, rewards, and equips residents to participate in vacant lot maintenance and beautification as community stewards. More about this project >
Read MoreErie Community Gardens
Environment Erie sees lots as unique to each neighborhood and thinks that each lot should represent a neighborhood’s organization and vision. The lot pictured here is the result of collaborating on a vacant structure demolition project. More about this project >
Read MoreCommunity Pumpkin Patch
Volunteers with their Regenerative Agriculture and Environment Justice Program reuse tires and cardboard, which would otherwise end up in a landfill, for a Sugar Pumpkin patch. They encourage organizations starting out to engage as many grassroots organizers as possible. More about this project >
Read MorePollinator Project
Saginaw Basin Land Conservancy thinks activating community and business partners is essential for revitalization work. Here, volunteers from the Dow Chemical Company remove two 30-yard dumpsters of trash from a vacant, land bank-owned property. More about this project >
Read MoreMuskegon Lot Clean-up and Beautification
Muskegon County Land Bank Authority is collaborating with AmeriCorps to maintain land bank owned lots and houses in a large target zone. Here, an AmeriCorps member directs volunteers in clearing this space. They advise organizations starting out in this work to begin slowly and build sustainably. More about this project >
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