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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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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

06/17/2026

Beaver Ponds Fishing Pier

With the help of a crew from U.S. Fish and Wildlife we cleared lots of invasive species from the rocks inside the ramp, watered the plantings and made a lot of progress on beatifying the space. The USFW staff helped make a plan for installing a set of steps later on in the summer to improve access to the pier.

Maintenance
Maintenance

06/16/2026

Friends Of Edgewood Park

The group at Edgewood park planted twelve perennials in the Gazebo garden and continued maintenance by the mid bridge.

Planting
Planting

06/16/2026

Shelton Avenue

A small group at Shelton Ave. managed to plant four Daylilies near the Liriope planted last week, water most of the site and fix the fence in the Southeast corner.

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Planting
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06/16/2026

Mill River Trail

The Mill River Trail volunteer team removed knotweed along the trail near the Grand Street entrance. This section of the trail has incredible biodiversity and has been significantly improved by prior years of efforts by the Mill River team, serving as a source of inspiration for other areas that remain more overtaken by invasive plants. The team also discussed possible plans for new plantings in July!

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Maintenance

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Urban Resources Initiative

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