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112 people are interested
DC Green Corps Volunteer
ORGANIZATION: Washington Parks & People
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- A group opportunity. Invite your friends.
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112 people are interested
Help transform parks across the capital to breathe new life into under-served communities. Parks & People works with diverse volunteer groups of all sizes, ages, interests, skillsets, and walks of life. Green Corps volunteers help clean, weed, and reclaim parks, schoolyards, streams, and trails for all to enjoy; plant and take care of large native trees as part of habitat restoration and stornwater retention; and grow sustainble organic food in our intensive urban farm parks. Volunteers work side by side with Green Corps members and graduates and Parks & people staff to make massive impacts on restoring the land.
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About Washington Parks & People
Location:
2437 15th Street, NW, Washington, DC 20009, US
Mission Statement
To grow city-wide park-based community health, equity, and justice through innnovation and partnerships across DC.
Description
Parks & People is DC's award-winning city-wide community parks partnership. Founded in 1990 to reclaim Meridian Hill/ Malcolm X Park, the organization led the transformation of that park from the most crime-ridden national park in the area to one of the safest. Parks & People has now helped advance over 250 parks, trails, streams, playgrounds, schoolyards, and community gardens and farms. Our facilities include the Josephine Butler Parks Center, an award-winning 40-room "greenhouse" for revitalizing DC greenspaces; the historic Riverside Healthy Living Center, providing park programming, youth development, and healthy park-based business incubation; the Marvin Gaye Community Greening Center, a year-round community farm, native reforestation hub, and base of park reclamation and job training through our DC Green Corps; the Piney Spring Green; and the North Columbia Heights Green, a once-blighted vacant lot that serves as a hands-on outdoor classroom for year-round healthy food production. Parks & People has led the community reclamation and transformation of Marvin Gaye Park, DC's longest municipal park, for 23 years. It also helps the Escarpment Ridge and Fort Circle network of parks, Walter Pierce Park (where 8,428 African Americans were buried after the Civil War), the east side of Rock Creek park, and numerous schoolyards. Since its founding a generation ago, Parks & People has mobilized over 300,000 volunteers for parks and green spaces of all kinds. Parks & People volunteers work hard, have fun, and make a massive difference.
CAUSE AREAS
WHEN
WHERE
Multiple SitesWashington, DC 20009
DATE POSTED
March 23, 2016
SKILLS
GOOD FOR
- Kids
- Teens
- People 55+
- Group
REQUIREMENTS
N/A