Community Engagement
Groundwork Southcoast participates in many programs that serve to better the local community through teamwork, service and engagement with the community. Please click below to learn about our exciting programs we are proud to be a part of this year!
Adventure Walk| Sow & Grow | Volunteering
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Community Engagement
Community Engagement
Groundwork Southcoast participates in many programs that serve to better the local community through teamwork, service and engagement with the community. Please click below to learn about our exciting programs we are proud to be a part of this year!
Adventure Walk|
Sow & Grow | Volunteering
Sow & Grow
Sow & Grow is surprising us! Last spring (while late for seed starting) we did free (for low-income folks) seed kits and seed starting educational supports program led by Green Team. We distributed about 60 kits at that time. In preparation for the Wicked Cool Places Grant (due last week), I sent an email to a few partners through the Near North End Alliance and We already have over 1200 requests for kits just in New Bedford and without doing any outreach. Learning from last year we have developed a plan to ensure that Green Team leads the educational support aspects of the kit and to work with partners to distribute the bulk of the kits and work with paid artists and volunteer kit assemblers to streamline the kits and distribute in February and March. This ties to Riverside Park because the first 100 participants in this program who would like to adopt a raised bed at our Riverside Park Community Garden, will be able to do so without paying a small usage fee. It will require a big, unexpected fundraising push at the end of this year, but we hope to seek additional funding to try to distribute 2,000 kits this year. We have submitted a second application for $15,000.00 to Wicked Cool Places for this project as well.
Environental Resilience
Greening the Gateway Cities Tree Planting Program
- Want a free tree? We can help! https://www.maurbancanopy.org/sign-me-up
- Planting trees is vital in this community to increase our tree canopy to reduce heat, flooding and other extreme weather impacts.
- This project requires 80% of trees planted to be on private property and 20% on city property. This will deepen our community outreach and the more outreach and connections our youth and team build in the North End, the more we will be able to continue to foster those connections in our future resiliency efforts for community and our open spaces like Riverside Park, the Ave, and potentially our trails too. We were just awarded $15,000 for the Greening the Gateway Cities program in New Bedford.
Planning
We are working with a variety of partners to pull together funding to kick-off a project to develop a community-centric plan for our parks, open spaces, streetscapes, history, and culture.
