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Internships
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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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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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Greenspace Log

11/16/2024

New Haven Botanical Garden of Healing Dedicated to Victims of Gun Violence

We got a ton of work done with this huge group of volunteers. We raked leaves and planted hundreds of tulip and daffodil bulbs that we’ll all get to appreciate next spring. A couple of families with young kids came and worked alongside volunteers from Yale University, Southern University, and Career High.

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Volunteers!

11/16/2024

East Rock Park

From Greenspace Leader David Shimchick: We had another extraordinary work day on Saturday. This power crew was comprised of FERP regulars, high school students earning their community service hours, and geocachers who responded to the event posted by FERP's Kimberley Gibson. We continued work removing the tangled mass of invasives along Betty's Way in the area directly behind the back stop including a section on the upside of the trail where a combination of winged euonymous and porcelain vine was strangling a young oak.

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Tashi and Mulberry Jam's sign!
Tashi and Mulberry Jam's sign!

10/28/2024

Bradley Street Pocket Park -Mulberry Jam

The evening was brisk, but Ming and Tashi were excited to install this sign that was created in the summer! Ming was estatic to see the sign in person for the first time. She directed where she wanted the sign in the greenspace, and Tashi and I installed the sign. Ming had to leave a little early, but she couldn't wait to tell the fellow volunteers of the Bradley Street Co-op about the installed sign!

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Welcome to Fair Haven!
Welcome to Fair Haven!

10/07/2024

Dover Beach Park

On a bright autumn morning, Christel and Joyce walked over to the corner of Dover Beach Park with the excitement of finally installing their Fair Haven sign. As always, they were picking up trash along the way. After installing the wooden posts last week, the three of us marked the wooden posts and carefully installed the sign. As you drive into the neighborhood of Fair Haven, there is now a large sign that stands bright, welcoming all!

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