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    • Donate
    • Request a Free Tree
    • Plant a Tree
    • Stewardships Tips and Technical Advice
    • Events
    • All Hands Parks Strategic Planning Surveys
    • Gathering Ideas to Re-envision Parks
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    • URI's Rock to Rock Team
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    • Street Tree Inventory Map
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Internships
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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Donate
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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

11/15/2025

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

It was a chilly but productive Saturday and volunteers planted 800 bulbs!

Planting
Planting

11/01/2025

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

It was a meaningful Saturday at the Gardens of Healing. Volunteers raked fallen leaves and planted bulbs that will bloom next spring!

Maintenance
Maintenance

09/23/2025

IRIS Youth

IRIS Youth planted two trees, watered all the new trees on the site, and picked up trash along the Mill River behind Wilbur Cross High School.

Planting
Planting

09/13/2025

Blake Street Pocket Park

The clean up went well. We even had a surprise from our latest URI intern! It was nice to see Margaret again. The next date is set for Saturday October 25.

Maintenance
Maintenance

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Urban Resources Initiative

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