James Baldwin Outdoor Learning Center
About James Baldwin Outdoor Learning Center: A garden community and farmers’ market in the Bronx. Our mission is to strive for inquiry and project-based solutions at the juncture of food, environmental and social justice. Our goal is to build a healthier and greener, resilient community by engaging, integrating, educating and serving student and community members, especially low income and marginalized people, in collaboration with numerous partner organizations with common interests.
Latino Outdoors
About Latino Outdoors: Latino Outdoors is a unique, Latinx-led organization working in support of a national community of leaders in outdoor recreation, conservation and environmental education. As part of this work, we focus on expanding and amplifying the Latinx experience in the outdoors.
Biotech Without Borders
About Biotech without Borders: Biotech Without Borders is a self-sustaining community of scientists committed to increasing the accessibility of scientific resources and knowledge, especially among socially and economically marginalized groups. We provide education, lab facilities, and a forum for critical discussions to support responsible innovation in biotechnology.
CURB/Stuy Cove Park
About CURB/Stuy Cove Park: CURB: The Collaborative Urban Resilience Banquet. Adapting to climate crisis by meeting (and eating) our non-human neighbors; a multi-species experiment in many parts. Stuy Cove Park/Solar 1: NYC’s sustainability education resource, supporting programs at Stuy Cove Park, a native food forest.
Fungal Diversity Survey (FUNDIS)
About Fungal Diversity Survey: Fungal Diversity Survey ("FUNDIS") is North America's only nonprofit for fungal biodiversity and conservation. We protect fungi and their habitats through education, engaging community scientists, and partnering with conservationists and scientists.
Fungi Foundation
About the Fungi Foundation: The Fungi Foundation is a global organization that explores Fungi to increase knowledge of their diversity, promote innovative solutions to contingent problems, educate about their existence and applications, as well as recommending public policy for their conservation.
Green-Wood Cemetery
About Green-Wood Cemetery: Green-Wood is a living cemetery that brings people closer to the world as it is and was, by memorializing the dead and bringing to life the art, history, and natural beauty of New York City. Green-Wood is 478 spectacular acres of hills, valleys, glacial ponds, and paths, throughout which exists one of the largest outdoor collections of nineteenth- and twentieth-century statuary and mausoleums. Four seasons of beauty from century-and-a-half-old trees offer a peaceful oasis to visitors, as well as its 570,000 permanent residents. A magnet for history buffs and bird watchers, and a registered member of the Audubon Cooperative Sanctuary System.
Kelly Street Garden
About Kelly Street Garden:The core mission of the garden is to provide healthy food and community programming to our local South Bronx residents free of charge. This not only feeds people physically, but mentally and spiritually as well. Through Art workshops, Qi Gong, Yoga, cooking demos and herbal medicine we have created a space where the stressors of the community and daily life can be left at the door. Through our free distribution market, we have direct interaction with our neighbors in providing and educating a path to better nutrition. We cast a light on the healing components of food, justice, equality, culture, coupled with the opportunity to improve mind and body. Kelly Street Garden aims to be an oasis of healing in a community that has faced many challenges over the past several decades.
MiOhMy Farms
About MiOhMy Farms: MiOhMy Hydroponic Farms is a worker-owned hydroponic farm and educational organization with a mission to improve food access for the food insecure, while also providing opportunities for BIPOC communities to build generational wealth using Cooperative Economics and Just Transition principles, a vision-led, unifying and place-based set of principles, processes, and practices that build economic and political power. We exist to be a model of the new economy!
Museo de Hongo
About Museo de Hongo: Museo del Hongo (Fungus Museum) is the first pop-up museum that operates at the intersection between the arts, mycology, and technology. Founded in 2016 by designer Juan Ferrer in Santiago, Chile, the Museum seeks to combine contemporary artistic practices with scientific investigation, designing immersive experiences that present a wide array of works. Like mushrooms, the Museum can turn up anywhere, with the purpose of raising awareness among diverse audiences about the socioecological relevance of fungi, inspiring and promoting their
investigation from any discipline.
New York Ecoflora
About New York Ecoflora: The New York City EcoFlora project serves to meaningfully engage New Yorkers in protecting and preserving the City’s native plant species, and to assemble new, original observations and data on the City’s flora to better inform policy decisions about management and conservation of the City’s natural resources. The metropolitan area is home to a significant diversity of plants, animals, fungi, and habitats that provide such vital ecosystem services as cleaning the air and filtering the water. But this biodiversity is under increasing threat by development, invasive species, and a changing climate.
NYC Parks GreenThumb
About NYC Parks GreenThumb: Established in 1978, NYC Parks GreenThumb is proud to be the nation's largest urban gardening program, sustaining over 550 community gardens and supporting thousands of volunteer gardeners throughout New York City.preserving the City’s native plant species, and to assemble new, original observations and data on the City’s flora to better inform policy decisions about management and conservation of the City’s natural resources. The metropolitan area is home to a significant diversity of plants, animals, fungi, and habitats that provide such vital ecosystem services as cleaning the air and filtering the water. But this biodiversity is under increasing threat by development, invasive species, and a changing climate.
NYU Mycology Group
About NYU’s Mushroom Club: focuses on education, cultivation, restorationsustaining over 550 community gardens and supporting thousands of volunteer gardeners throughout New York City.preserving the City’s native plant species, and to assemble new, original observations and data on the City’s flora to better inform policy decisions about management and conservation of the City’s natural resources. The metropolitan area is home to a significant diversity of plants, animals, fungi, and habitats that provide such vital ecosystem services as cleaning the air and filtering the water. But this biodiversity is under increasing threat by development, invasive species, and a changing climate.
POC Psychedelic Collective
About POC Psychedelic Collective: The POCPC brings psychedelic education to people of color. Our organization creates spaces for people of color to learn about the harms of the war on drugs and the healing properties of psychedelics. We are committed to helping build a healing infrastructure that centers care, affordability, and accessibility for communities of color while reducing harm. We provide outreach, events, and educational content created by and for people of color to further our collective knowledge. We aim to build our table instead of asking for a seat at another.
The Interbeing Project
About The Interbeing Project: The Interbeing Project is an exploration into ways of becoming with each other [co-becoming] in a shared world, through a series of relational entanglements that blur and question boundaries between beings [such as species boundaries]. Drawing from artistic, scientific and subjective knowledge practices, our research asks how humans may embody a shift in consciousness that might sustain these dynamic networks and evolve an exchange between inter-being ways of knowing and being.
