Street Works Earth
A festival in mid-September that brings together artists, neighbors, & changemakers to co-create art and explore how we can care for our planet and each other. Join us September 20, 2026, 11am-6pm, for Street Works Earth at Travers Park/34 Ave in Jackson Heights, Queens!
2025 Street Works Earth. Energy Tattoos. Design by Anjali Deshmukh. Facilitated by MJN / Street works. Photo by Derrick Seymore.
News & Events
Learn more about the 45 designs featured at the Sustainable Fashion Designer of the Year Awards, Sept 20, at Street Works Earth!
Learn more about the 45 designers that will be showing their work at the Sustainable Fashion Designer of the Year Awards, Sept 20, at Street Works Earth!
Are you 17–24 and interested in climate, design, art, community work, or creating a more resilient New York? Apply by October 31 for the Climate Resilience Fellowship, a 16-week training and career program by Waterfront Alliance over 16 weeks for young people from New York City on the frontlines of climate change.
Participants who complete specific fellowship requirements receive a $700 honorarium. If you have any questions, contact Furhana Husani: fhusani@waterfrontalliance.org.
We are seeking volunteers for Street Works Earth, our annual climate, justice, and art festival in Queens, scheduled for 9/20. Sign up by 8/20 to get integrated into our awesome community and get to know the festival alongside us!
Several community members have asked if they can model in the 2026 Sustainable Fashion Designer of the Year Awards Show. So we created this interest form! By submitting, you'll be added to a pool of potential models that we share with designers connected to Street Works Earth 2026.
Below are the questions registered designers for the Sustainable Fashion Designer Awards will fill out when they submit designs after June 26.
We’re setting a minimum standard for sustainability for individual designers, while creating space to see how standards should go up as they start selling their work.
When: September 20 (Sept 27 rain date). Where: 34th Avenue Open Street @ 78th Street, Jackson Heights, Queens.
Join us for our 3rd annual street arts and climate action festival! If you’re interested in participating, please submit to the form here by June 26.
This September, we’re bringing a fashion competition to Street Works Earth to celebrate designers, artists, and neighbors creating outfits that show how care for people, communities, and the planet can be gorgeous, inventive, and stylish.
We’re inviting fashion designers at any level — self-taught, students, emerging, or established — to submit one original wearable outfit that demonstrates sustainability. Designers must be available in person in Queens, NYC, September 20-27 to present their work (exact day to be confirmed.)
CRECE + Street Works are building a directory of Queens artists interested in presenting work in CRECE's beautiful community space, scheduled to open in May 2026. Submit your art here!
Climate crisis, rising costs, and political instability are reshaping what work—and stability—look like. Join us the day after International Workers’ Day for a gathering that brings together people at different points in their career to share journeys reflecting on how we build livelihoods through turmoil, while also building a more just world.
Second Wealth Building workshop— Details coming soon. Image: Making money makes sense, collective design from Workshop One. Photo by Ernest Verrett.
Join an informal chat with Chris Gray, former executive director of TimeBanks USA and long time practitioner in time banking, Together with some from her decades of experience as we build our own in Jackson Heights.
Join the second time bank planning meeting, immediately following the open house. Attend the open house to find out if this meeting is right for you!
Join a virtual meeting on 3/12 at 7pm to collaborate on financial literacy trainings, food drives, and more.
Join us for a creative brainstorm on how to build wealth in and for our families & communities. We’re first clarifying what's needed, grounding in art, and getting feedback on the sketch of a curriculum for our community.
Join an open house where neighbors can drop in and connect with people involved in local community practices. A guest from the Department of Labor (DOL) will be there to offer resume feedback!
Are you an artist, community organizer, or neighbor who wants to gather people in public space but feels blocked by cost, bureaucracy, or not knowing where to start? We’re creating a Blueprint to help you. See a preview before an official launch by April.
In 2026, Climate Works for All will deliver hundreds of postcards created by children at Street Works Earth 2024 and 2025 to Mayor Mamdani calling for green, healthy public schools, alongside messages from educators, families, and community members. Sign the petition to join!
Join a virtual meeting on 2/12 at 7pm to collaborate on financial literacy trainings, food drives, and more.
Join a virtual meeting on 1/15 at 7pm to shape vision for 2026, which includes collaborating on: financial literacy trainings, food drives, and more.
Initiated by Meredith Faltin, we’re exploring what it would take to start a neighborhood timebank, a system where one hour of your help = one hour of someone else’s help. We don’t need to exchange money to support one another!
Join a virtual meeting on December 11th at 7pm to: Check in with one another & rebuild collective rhythm; share updates about ongoing efforts and neighborhood needs; discuss what support systems we want to strengthen or restart.
We’re releasing 3 quarters of the Street Works 2026 calendar in draft form, so members of our community can weigh in. Before we lock in content, dates, and times, take 1 minute to share feedback.
Street Works Earth is this Sunday, 9/21, from 11 AM-6 PM! This is your at-a-glance guide to what’s going on, when, and how to get here. Directions and schedule inside!
The way we decorate ourselves is an artistic act. But it’s also shaped by systems. Thread Lightly was a fashion focus in Street Works Earth 2025, co-designed this year with We Act for Environmental Justice and Kaleidospace. Let us know if you have ideas for how we can carry this into 2026 and beyond.
A not from co-designers of Future@Work, a career fair within 2025 Street Works Earth, and co-dreamers of a future that works for all of us.
Join Make Justice Normal and Street Works for a joyful street arts and climate action festival in Jackson Heights, Queens, NYC, on September 21 (Sept 27 rain date).
2026 Participants
Every Electric makes it easier for people to use a home battery and get paid for using it when the electric grid is stressed, which happens often in the hot summer months. The battery plugs into a regular wall outlet, stores electricity, and can be used to power many devices, including an air conditioner when it’s better to not use the grid.
Urban Upbound is dedicated to breaking cycles of poverty in New York City public housing and other low-income neighborhoods. They provide underserved youth and adults with the tools and resources needed to achieve economic prosperity and self-sufficiency through seven comprehensive, integrated programs.
Worn Not Torn Exchange is a clothing swap collective fighting fast fashion and breaking down the barriers to accessibility and inclusivity
We are professionally trained and licensed climate-aware therapy practitioners who recognize that the climate crisis is a global threat to all life on Earth and a deeply personal threat to the well-being of each individual, family, and community.
We are a community of over 1.6 million moms and dads united against air pollution—including the urgent crisis of our changing climate—to protect our children’s health.
The MinKwon Center for Community Action was founded in 1984 (formerly called YKASEC) in Jackson Heights, Queens as an open space for Korean Americans to devote themselves to service, youth education, and cultural activities for the community.
Connected Chef is an organization of cooks and restaurant workers on a mission to build a community-controlled food system that ensures every Queens’ household has consistent access to local, nutritious food; healthy eating education; and pathways to financial agency.
WE ACT’s mission is to build healthy communities by ensuring that people of color and/or low income residents participate meaningfully in the creation of sound and fair environmental health and protection policies and practices.
ALIGN is a longstanding alliance of labor and community organizations united for a just and sustainable New York.
At the New York City level, ALIGN leads Climate Works for All, a coalition of labor, community, faith, environmental justice, and climate organizations fighting climate change and inequality in NYC by demanding a Just Transition for workers and Environmental Justice communities. Our mission is to decarbonize and make resilient NYC’s building sector while centering workers and environmental justice communities to improve people’s quality of life, health, our environment, and climate
Central to this work is our Green, Healthy Schools campaign. NYC 3K-12 students, teachers, parents, and school staff deserve safe and healthy workplaces.
We’re Girl + Environment (and yes, the "+" is for PLUS) —the national community and 501(c)(3) nonprofit founded in 2019. We’re all about getting Black and Brown Millennial and Gen Z girlies all fired up about climate and environmental justice!
NYS DOL’s mission is to provide outstanding services to our customers - the workers and businesses that call New York home. As New York State transitions to a clean energy economy, the Office of Just Energy Transition (OJET) will connect workers to opportunities for quality jobs, upskilling, and training with a focus on serving those who are traditionally underrepresented, especially within disadvantaged communities and incumbent fossil fuel workers.
Make Justice Normal (MJN), a collective founded in 2021 to develop and implement justice-centered organizing models—like equitable budgeting, democratic decision-making, and circular leadership structures.
Memo Salazar is a Mexican-born filmmaker, writer, and activist… and a longtime resident of Queens, New York.
Mazorca Colectiva fosters alternative intergenerational spaces of care, mutual aid, collective storytelling, and cultural revival. Through community workshops and a community garden located in East Elmhurst, Queens, Mazorca Collectiva centers ancestral practices and nourishing traditions for Indigenous children, Elders, community teachers, and immigrant community that are often overworked and highly exploited by racial capitalism.
A HUD-certified non-profit counseling agency with over 28 years of housing and advisory services for local residents of Queens. NHS of Queens’ mission is to preserve and revitalize underserved neighborhoods in Queens.
NY Renews is a coalition of over 380 environmental, justice, faith, labor, and community groups, and the force behind the nation’s most progressive climate law, the Climate Leadership & Community Protection Act.
Chhaya was founded to address the housing and economic needs for low-income South Asian and Indo-Caribbean New Yorkers.
The Frontline Resource Institute supports frontline communities working to advance environmental justice and climate justice by providing the resources and technical assistance to build a world where all can achieve healthy, safe, and sustainable environments.
KALEIDOSPACE is a Queens-based collective focused on the intersection of art, activism, and community: Sunny Roberts, Manuela Agudelo, Kacia Flórez, Kelly Arango, Mark Saldana.
Veggie Nuggets is a Queens youth climate action group. They have worked on multiple projects, including helping to stop the NRG Astoria power plant and creating a public garden for Queens’s diverse communities to enjoy.
Purvi Shah seeds healing and transformation through anti-violence advocacy and creating art.
We’re building working class power to challenge the dominance of the wealthy and the powerful in the five boroughs. Together, we aim to transform New York into a place where working people have the power in our democracy to ensure that everyone can live a dignified life.
Jackson Heights Indivisible is a group of neighbors working together to take action on issues we’re passionate about at the local, state and national levels. We are committed to building collective power while fostering a welcoming, inclusive, and energizing space for all.
Brooklyn SolarWorks was founded in 2015 by three seasoned industry professionals who shared a common mission: to make solar appealing, easy and available for New York City’s urban homeowners.
Queens Public Library is one of the largest and busiest public library systems in the United States, dedicated to serving the most ethnically and culturally diverse area in the country.
SonTierra is a multi-generational Latin music ensemble that brings together sound, storytelling, and environmental justice.
TuTu’s Green World is a green lifestyle & education company for all ages. Reimagine a clean environment where children save our planet! That’s what we do here at TuTu’s Green World.
Team AOC represents New York’s 14th District: 700,000 people across parts of the Bronx and Queens, including:
Astoria, College Point, North Corona, East Elmhurst, Jackson Heights, and parts of Corona in Queens
Pelham Gardens, City Island, Country Club, Van Nest, Parkchester, Pelham Bay, Schuylerville, Hunts Point, Throggs Neck, Soundview, Castle Hill, Mott Haven, Port Morris, and parts Morris Park, Middletown, Longwood and Foxhurst in the Bronx
Soulful Synergy is a minority-owned workforce development agency dedicated to creating equitable and sustainable communities. Since 2013, Soulful Synergy has successfully run tailored recruitment and training programs that tap into the soul of communities and upskill local workforces for clean energy and other high-demand jobs in green construction.
Western Queens Community Land Trust (WQCLT) is a nonprofit made up of activists, small business owners, professors, artists, students, and community members who fight for democratic and equitable land use in Western Queens.
We’re working on establishing a multi-site, multi-focus community land trust (CLT) to slow gentrification and act as a stabilizing force across Western Queens, from Hunters Point to Flushing.
The Southeast Queens Residents Environmental Justice Coalition (SQREJC) promotes civic pride in maintaining a stable, beautiful, and desirable Southeast Queens Community through direct liaison with community residents, city agencies, and community-based organizations to ensure a clean, safe, and environmentally healthy residential community.
Queens Climate Project is a group of Queens neighbors and residents advocating for equitable clean energy policies and developing initiatives that increase clean energy, with a focus on Queens and achieving climate justice.
2026 Activities
All day, Every Electric
Stop by Every Electric’s charging Station to charge your phone using a portable battery, and learn about a new approach to taking stress off the electrical grid & keep the lights on when the power goes out.
All day, Make Justice Normal (MJN)
What if?!…YOU could design the future?
Stop by Make Justice Normal to co-create a JusticeFuturism college. We’ll have questions to get you started, then your imagination and heart are the only limits!
All day, while supplies last
A terrarium is a sealed glass garden, a living, self-contained, and self-sustaining ecosystem. Terrariums combine art and science. You’ll get to take the one you design home!
All day, Neighborhood Housing Services/Queens Energy Hub
Collaborate with the sun to make a cyanotype print by arranging natural materials and other objects on light-sensitive paper. Then let sunlight bring your image to life.
All day, Worn Not Torn, Street Works/QMA
Join a free clothing exchange. Drop off your clean, ready-to-wear clothing and browse and take items that work for you.
All day, Chhaya
For nearly 20 years, an unfinished seven-story building in Elmhurst has stood empty. At the festival, learn about the history of 1 Claremont Terrace and help imagine what comes next.
All day, facilitated by Frontline Resource Institute
Create a map of Jackson Heights and surrounding areas showing what we know about our neighborhood, including sources of resilience, harm, and opportunities to imagine something better.
All day, Waterfront Alliance
Meet the Waterfront Alliance to learn about the Climate Resilience Fellowship for young people. Participants who complete specific fellowship requirements receive a $700 honorarium. Apply by October 31!
2 hours, Climate Cafe NYC x Climate Psychology Alliance of North America x Climate Imaginarium
A ribbon upcycling workshop alongside a conversation to process climate emotions and our feelings about consumerism as we make accessories, chokers, and more.
All day, Girl+Environment
What would you say if the future picked up the phone? Step into a makeshift phone booth and leave a message about the world you want to live in. Your voice will become part of a collective story about the future we're fighting for, and the world we still have the power to create.
All day, New York Civil Liberties Union
What would it take to repair the harm of generations of injustice, and build a New York where everyone can truly thrive? Visit an installation exploring why reparations are essential for New York and how we can work together to build a more just future.
All day, Queens Public Library
Stop by Queens Public Library to create your very own Native Plant Seed Bombs and complete a Scavenger Hunt for native species in Travers Park to win a prize!
All day, Kareena’s Closet
Stop by to explore a curated collection of stunning South Asian formalwear and learn how this community model is reducing textile waste.
All day, Western Queens Food Coop
Meet neighbors working to build a community-owned grocery co-op for Western Queens, starting with a buying club and mobile delivery that will bring affordable, fresh food to multiple neighborhoods.
All Day, Ernest Verrett & Anjali Deshmukh/Street Works/MJN
Interact with a multi-year bead project telling the story of how wealth inequality is inextricably tied to our climate crisis. Special thanks to support from Stella Muti and the World Inequality Database.
All day, facilitated by Time Bank members
Join the public launch of the Street Works Time Bank! This is a new way for neighbors to exchange skills, knowledge, support, and care using time as a shared currency.
~4-5:30pm, hosted Mary-Elaine Bullitt
Vote in the competition celebrating artists creating outfits that show how care for people, communities, and the planet can be gorgeous. Designers: Register by June 26.
All day
Join Street Works Earth in creating a chalk mural exploring: Why vote? If you want to help design the wireframe at the beginning of the day, come at 10:00AM!
Throughout the day, by SonTierra
Sing back, clap along, and join SonTierra, a multi-generational music ensemble connected to EcoMadres, a project of Moms Clean Air Force.
45 min, by SonTierra
Sing back, clap along, and join SonTierra, a multi-generational music ensemble connected to EcoMadres, a project of Moms Clean Air Force.
50 min, facilitated by Memo Salazar
Join an open community circle to create music in real time. For musicians, passersby— no rehearsal or prior experience required!
Why
An incredible amount of creation happens in our public spaces — our streets, parks, plazas, and more. From graffiti art and performances, to chalk drawings and memorials.
Among street creators are artists who co-create art with passersby, in dialog with justice. In a time when democracy is at risk and collective participation is needed more than ever, we’re creating an annual ritual fostered by these artists, who unleash the brilliance of passersby and show us what we can create when we share power. Over time and scale, we hope this is one way for democracy to become a personal and joyful experience.
How
Street Works is an annual festival built through co-creation, a practice of shared imagination and shared labor. Each year, we bring together co-designers who shape the event and roll up their sleeves to make it happen. Co-designers are individuals or representatives of organizations who are willing to do the hard, messy work of building, creating, and learning together.
Co-design isn’t only about putting on one great event. We work hard to build ongoing collaboration. What that looks like will depend on each person’s capacity and interests, but our commitment is to make Street Works Earth an anniversary of our ongoing collective work.
Participant Words
Photo Archive
WE ACT’s mission is to build healthy communities by ensuring that people of color and/or low income residents participate meaningfully in the creation of sound and fair environmental health and protection policies and practices.
ALIGN is a longstanding alliance of labor and community organizations united for a just and sustainable New York.
At the New York City level, ALIGN leads Climate Works for All, a coalition of labor, community, faith, environmental justice, and climate organizations fighting climate change and inequality in NYC by demanding a Just Transition for workers and Environmental Justice communities. Our mission is to decarbonize and make resilient NYC’s building sector while centering workers and environmental justice communities to improve people’s quality of life, health, our environment, and climate
Central to this work is our Green, Healthy Schools campaign. NYC 3K-12 students, teachers, parents, and school staff deserve safe and healthy workplaces.
QMA is an arts-centered network, holding space for civic education, mental wellness, community actions rooted in mutual aid, and climate justice.
Make Justice Normal (MJN), a collective founded in 2021 to develop and implement justice-centered organizing models—like equitable budgeting, democratic decision-making, and circular leadership structures.
El Puente is a youth-centered human rights organization, focusing on education, the arts, environmental justice and wellness to inspire leadership for social justice. Its mission is to inspire and nurture leadership for peace and justice, working as a human rights institution in NYC and Puerto Rico with national and international impact.
The Frontline Resource Institute supports frontline communities working to advance environmental justice and climate justice by providing the resources and technical assistance to build a world where all can achieve healthy, safe, and sustainable environments.
KALEIDOSPACE is a Queens-based collective focused on the intersection of art, activism, and community: Sunny Roberts, Manuela Agudelo, Kacia Flórez, Kelly Arango, Mark Saldana.
Veggie Nuggets is a Queens youth climate action group. They have worked on multiple projects, including helping to stop the NRG Astoria power plant and creating a public garden for Queens’s diverse communities to enjoy.
Street Works is a community of artists and neighbors building relationships and civic action with art. We create opportunities in public spaces for people to collaborate in making beautiful work that introduces community issues in unusual ways.
2025 Co-Designers
We are a community-based safety group committed to protecting our neighbors and ensuring that everyone’s rights are respected.
We believe safety means dignity, accountability, and the freedom to live without fear of harassment and discrimination by people in power.
NY Renews is a coalition of nearly 400 climate, labor, youth, and community groups, and the force behind the nation’s most progressive climate law. We fight for clean energy, good jobs, and a healthier, more affordable New York. Following the leadership of Nations in the territory of NYS, the NY Renews Indigenous Solidarity Committee works to ensure that our fight for a Just Transition is aligned with Indigenous environmental justice, land justice, and sovereignty.
2025 Street Works Participating Committee Members: Allies of the Tonawanda Seneca Nation, Sunrise Movement NYC, Central x South East Brooklyn CDC
Team AOC represents New York’s 14th District: 700,000 people across parts of the Bronx and Queens, including:
Astoria, College Point, North Corona, East Elmhurst, Jackson Heights, and parts of Corona in Queens
Pelham Gardens, City Island, Country Club, Van Nest, Parkchester, Pelham Bay, Schuylerville, Hunts Point, Throggs Neck, Soundview, Castle Hill, Mott Haven, Port Morris, and parts Morris Park, Middletown, Longwood and Foxhurst in the Bronx
APA VOICE, (Asian Pacific Americans Voting and Organizing to increase Civic Engagement), increases civic participation and expands voting access for Asian American New Yorkers.
Convened by the MinKwon Center in 2014, APA VOICE emerged as the first pan-Asian coalition in NYC to increase civic participation rates among Asian Americans, which historically ranked lowest in the City.
The MinKwon Center for Community Action was founded in 1984 (formerly called YKASEC) in Jackson Heights, Queens as an open space for Korean Americans to devote themselves to service, youth education, and cultural activities for the community.
Connected Chef is an organization of cooks and restaurant workers on a mission to build a community-controlled food system that ensures every Queens’ household has consistent access to local, nutritious food; healthy eating education; and pathways to financial agency.
RETI Center is a model for how coastal cities can combine environmental justice, social responsibility, and innovative design to adapt to a changing climate.
Our Local Power training program uses hands-on learning and skill building in solar panel installation, workplace safety, career readiness, social entrepreneurship, and sustainability. Upon graduating from four weeks of intensive study, trainees choose from a wide range of sustainable businesses and organizations to start new careers.
Soulful Synergy is a minority-owned workforce development agency dedicated to creating equitable and sustainable communities. Since 2013, Soulful Synergy has successfully run tailored recruitment and training programs that tap into the soul of communities and upskill local workforces for clean energy and other high-demand jobs in green construction.
Western Queens Community Land Trust (WQCLT) is a nonprofit made up of activists, small business owners, professors, artists, students, and community members who fight for democratic and equitable land use in Western Queens.
We’re working on establishing a multi-site, multi-focus community land trust (CLT) to slow gentrification and act as a stabilizing force across Western Queens, from Hunters Point to Flushing.
ICI is an Intergenerational Critical Youth Participatory Action Research (ICYPAR) initiative that uses research to illuminate the issues, solutions, and contributions of NYC youth from their perspectives.
We activate our research findings to foster youth and community engagement; ignite coalition-building; and advocate for intergenerational municipal policy-making.
Tri-State Transportation Campaign is dedicated to promoting sustainable transportation, equitable planning policies and practices, and strong communities in the New York City metro area.
Grist is a nonprofit, independent media organization dedicated to telling stories focused on climate, justice, and solutions.
BronxWorks helps individuals and families in Bronx, NYC improve their economic and social well-being. From toddlers to seniors, we feed, shelter, teach, and support our neighbors to build a stronger Bronx community.
The Southeast Queens Residents Environmental Justice Coalition (SQREJC) promotes civic pride in maintaining a stable, beautiful, and desirable Southeast Queens Community through direct liaison with community residents, city agencies, and community-based organizations to ensure a clean, safe, and environmentally healthy residential community.
NYC Votes is an initiative of the New York City Campaign Finance Board, the independent city agency that ensures local elections are fair, inclusive, and open.
Dabima helps students looking to apply to college and the community surrounding them get through the application process together. They are counselors, project managers, and technology experts working together to bring down the costs of getting help.
Urban Health Plan is one of the largest federally qualified health center systems in New York State proudly serving communities in the Bronx, Corona, Queens, and Central Harlem.
NYPA's mission is to lead the transition to a carbon-free, economically vibrant New York through customer partnerships, energy solutions, and the responsible supply of affordable, clean, and reliable electricity.
Queens Climate Project is a group of Queens neighbors and residents advocating for equitable clean energy policies and developing initiatives that increase clean energy, with a focus on Queens and achieving climate justice.
Chhaya was founded to address the housing and economic needs for low-income South Asian and Indo-Caribbean New Yorkers.
34th Avenue Open Street Coalition is a community of volunteers and local residents dedicated to developing community programming on 34th Avenue’s 26-block open street in Jackson Heights. Activities occur nearly seven days a week and include arts and cultural programming for people of all ages, immigration clinics, ESL classes, gardening classes, and more.
Environmental Defense Fund's mission is to build a vital Earth. For everyone. By leveraging our deep expertise in science and economics, EDF delivers bold, game-changing solutions to address the biggest challenge of our time — climate change.
2025 Participants
TuTu’s Green World is a green lifestyle & education company for all ages. Reimagine a clean environment where children save our planet! That’s what we do here at TuTu’s Green World.
Founded in 2010, the Worker’s Justice Project (WJP) is a New York City worker center that educates, organizes, and fights for better work conditions and social justice in the workplace.
With a base of more than 12,000 members, WJP organizes low-wage, immigrant workers who are fighting to raise workplace standards in the construction, house cleaning, and app-based delivery industries.
We’re Girl + Environment (and yes, the "+" is for PLUS) —the national community and 501(c)(3) nonprofit founded in 2019. We’re all about getting Black and Brown Millennial and Gen Z girlies all fired up about climate and environmental justice!
NYS DOL’s mission is to provide outstanding services to our customers - the workers and businesses that call New York home. As New York State transitions to a clean energy economy, the Office of Just Energy Transition (OJET) will connect workers to opportunities for quality jobs, upskilling, and training with a focus on serving those who are traditionally underrepresented, especially within disadvantaged communities and incumbent fossil fuel workers.
United Way of New York City partners with community organizations, government agencies, and corporate partners to support parents as their child’s first teacher, engage students through culturally relevant curriculum, and increase teachers’ capacity to learn and grow.
Flushing Council on Culture and the Arts (FCCA) presents multi-disciplinary global arts that engage and educate the global communities of Queens, New York and New York City, New York, in order to foster mutual appreciation.
As advocates of arts equity since 1979, we support local, immigrant, national, and international artists, developing partnerships and collaborations that enhance our efforts.
Latin Academy is a program educating younger generations of Latino heritage about the complex beauty of our origins. Our goal is to give them a strong sense of belonging, which will in turn create opportunities that can help foster a society of diversity and inclusion.
Queens Climate Project is a group of Queens neighbors and residents advocating for equitable clean energy policies and developing initiatives that increase clean energy, with a focus on Queens and achieving climate justice.
Mazorca Colectiva fosters alternative intergenerational spaces of care, mutual aid, collective storytelling, and cultural revival. Through community workshops and a community garden located in East Elmhurst, Queens, Mazorca Collectiva centers ancestral practices and nourishing traditions for Indigenous children, Elders, community teachers, and immigrant community that are often overworked and highly exploited by racial capitalism.
34th Avenue Open Street Coalition is a community of volunteers and local residents dedicated to developing community programming on 34th Avenue’s 26-block open street in Jackson Heights. Activities occur nearly seven days a week and include arts and cultural programming for people of all ages, immigration clinics, ESL classes, gardening classes, and more.