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    • All Hands Parks Strategic Planning Surveys
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    • URI's Rock to Rock Team
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Internships

Internships

URI offers paid Greenspace and GreenSkills internships for Yale students, as well as for New Haven high school students and adults with a history that includes incarceration.

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Planting a tree

Volunteer | Voluntariado

One of the most valuable contributions is your time. Most of URI's volunteer opportunities are with Greenspace in the summer. We host a few special workdays in the spring and fall. | Una de sus contribuciones más valiosas es su tiempo. La mayoría de las oportunidades de voluntariado de URI son con Greenspace en verano. Tenemos días especiales de voluntariado en primavera y otoño.

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Your contribution will support job training for teens and formerly incarcerated adults while improving our environment through tree planting and green space revitalization. Proceeds will provide internships, tools, compost, mulch and trees.

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Request a Free Tree
Request a Free Tree

Request a Free Tree

Thanks to a partnership with the City of New Haven, we are happy to plant street trees for New Haven residents with our GreenSkills crews.

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08/05/2026

Mill River Trail

Volunteer stewards at the Mill River Trail were joined by other Greenspace volunteers and new members to plant a Honey Locust tree along the section of the Mill River Trail nearest Grand Army Paint. This iconic portion of the trail sites opposite the historic Powerhouse building on Grand Ave and within eyesight of Ball Island, visibly tying together coastal restoration with Mill River District's industrial past. The Honey Locust was planted along a section of greenway previously overrun by invasive knotweed, and soon to be rehabilitated with dozens of native perennials conducive to the brackish shoreline soil that will aid in soil and slope stabilization alongside the tree.

Planting
Planting

08/04/2026

Shepard Street

At our last workday of the summer we finished the path we have worked on by adding stone dust. Everyone helped dump stone dust and rake it so the path is smooth. Of course, we needed to celebrate the end of the summer with freeze pops too.

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Maintenance

08/01/2026

Kensington Playground

To finish off the summer, we finished weeding and mulching the natural area in the back of the park!

Maintenance
Maintenance

08/01/2026

East Rock Park

At our last FERP workday we made great progress defining a new bed on Orange Street that will be worked on in the fall. To get started we planted a few coneflowers, bee balm and goldenrod so the space was not empty. Thanks for a great summer!

Planting
Planting

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Urban Resources Initiative

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