Oct
3
Breaking Cycles of Incarceration with Opportunities in Urban Forestry
Free lunch panel talk with our partners from EMERGE
Marsh Hall, first floor
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Community Greenspace Groups Need YOU! Commmunity Greenspace celebrates 25 years!
Get involved! Community Groups: Apply today!
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New Haven: Request a Tree!
URI GREENSKILLS WILL PLANT YOUR free tree. Click here.
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Transforming Communities through Greening
URI is a not-for-profit university partnership. Learn more and support this work.
Get Involved
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.
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.
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.
Thanks to a partnership with the City of New Haven's Parks, Recreation and Trees Department we are happy to plant street trees for New Haven residents with our GreenSkills crews.
Greenspace Log
08/22/2019
Cherry Ann Park20 first-year students from Yale working with the FOCUS program and 44 incoming graduate students with the School of Forestry at Yale assisted community members in clearing trash, invasive plants, and planting 3 shrubs and 3 trees.
08/10/2019
Victims of Gun Violence16 volunteers worked together to remove invasive plants, mulch and water existing plantings.
08/08/2019
Bradley Street Pocket ParkAnother summer goal checked off! We made the first green additions to the site. These were the toughest holes I dug over the summer! We put in some euonymus and witch hazel as border plantings to cover the chain link fence. Hopefully they will do well despite the poor soil and the heavy shade.
08/08/2019
Bradley/WoosterThe group continued spreading pine bark mulch across weeded areas, and planted three more maiden grasses where there was space for them.