URI offers paid Greenspace and GreenSkills internships for graduate students at Yale, as well as for New Haven high school students and ex-offenders.
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Transforming Communities through Greening
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Building community one tree at a time
Community Greenspace supports 1000 volunteers each summer. Find your local Greenspace.
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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
08/11/2018
Rainbow ParkBeing the last work day for the group , the pouring rain couldn't deter the group who continued with planting around several areas in the park to give the park a new look. Shrubs and perennials were planted. Weeding and watering were also carried out to ensure the plants received adequate water.
08/11/2018
Monitor Square ParkThis was the last work day of the group and we had two more volunteers join us. Everyone defied the rains and continued stewardship at the park; mulching, weeding, watering and planting of eight daylilies around trees.
08/10/2018
Cedar Hill NeighborhoodBeing the last work day of the group, efforts were directed to weeding , cleaning and mulching along the corner garden.
08/09/2018
Friends Of Farmington CanalThe group carried out weeding, mulching and watering around the Urban oasis and all trees in the Farmington canal green space.