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    • Events
    • Tree Ambassadors
    • URI's Rock to Rock Team
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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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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

04/13/2023

East Rock Park
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Maintenance

04/13/2023

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

Thanks to the students from Albertus Magnus we were able to rake leaves, pick up trash, and make the garden look beautiful!

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Maintenance

04/06/2023

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

Common Ground art teachers Julia and Nicole brought their class and spread mulch for the new walking path along the river!

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Maintenance

03/09/2023

East Rock Park

Today we removed invasive plants from East Rock Park's forest and park!

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Maintenance

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Yale School of the Environment

Urban Resources Initiative

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New Haven, CT 06511

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