Citizen Stewardship Committee

Participants in the Citizen Stewardship Research Project

NYU Wallerstein Collaborative for Urban Environmental Education: The Wallerstein Collaborative For Urban Environmental Education was established in the fall of 2000 within the Steinhardt School of Education at New York University. The goal of the Collaborative is to provide a year-round program which stimulates public school teachers in the metropolitan New York City region to incorporate environmental education in their classrooms. Under the direction of Dr. Mary J. Leou, the Collaborative introduces educators to resources, materials, and strategies required to successfully implement environmental education across all grade levels and curriculum areas. To achieve this goal, the Collaborative has developed partnerships with a wide range of formal and non-formal science institutions, environmental organizations, government agencies, and New York City schools which provide opportunities for field-based teaching and learning.

Partnerships for Parks: Partnerships for Parks is a joint program of the City Parks Foundation and the City of New York/Parks & Recreation supports local efforts to revitalize parks and the neighborhoods that surround them. They build, link and strengthen a citywide constituency of parks supporters through technical assistance, small grants, outreach and organization development, and local problem solving. All of these efforts help strengthen a grassroots network of over 4,200 groups and 65,000 individual park supporters working to improve the 28,000 acres of New York City parkland. They are sharing this database of stewardship groups and assisting with the development of the Neighborhood Stewardship Project.

GreenThumb: The largest community gardening program in the country, GreenThumb is proud to support community gardens in New York City. They have over 600 member gardens serving 20,000 city residents. Since 1978 they've been committed to providing support to help strengthen gardens, strengthen gardener skills, and strengthen communities. GreenThumb's services take the form of materials, grants, and technical assistance, including educational workshops. They are sharing their registry data on all the garden groups and assisting with the development of the Neighborhood Stewardship Project.

New York/New Jersey Harbor Estuary Program: The Harbor Estuary Program is a National Estuary Program authorized in 1987 by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. The program is a multi-year effort to develop and implement a plan to protect, conserve, and restore the estuary. Participants in the program include representatives from local, state, and federal environmental agencies, scientists, citizens, business interests, environmentalists, and others. They are sharing their database of estuary stewardship groups and assisting with the development of the Neighborhood Stewardship Project.

Council on the Environment of New York City: The Council on the Environment of New York City, founded in 1970, is a privately funded citizens' organization in the Office of the Mayor. CENYC promotes environmental awareness and solutions to environmental problems. Our programs: Open Space Greening; Greenmarket; Environmental Education and Waste Prevention and Recycling and other special projects make a positive and discernible difference in the lives and communities of New Yorkers. CENYC is a partner in the OASIS Street Tree Inventory Pilot Project (Title VIII), and data provider for the Community Gardens.

Open Road of New York: Open Road's mission is to provide meaningful environmental education to young people in low inclome urban areas. Open Road was founded in 1990 to work with children and teenagers in New York City on local outdoor environmental projects. They develop small working teams of youth and adults that provide long term support to one another, as well as innovative, outstanding programs for the public. These teams reach out into the community and work with students, teachers, neighbrs, and local organizations to develop innovative projects, programs, mapping web sites, and partnerships. Open Road is a data provider and developer of community mapping for OASIS. Open Road park is located between 11th and 12th Streets, Avenue A and Avenue B, in Manhattan. To learn more, email openroadny@aol.com.

Community Mapping Assistance Project: NYPIRG's Community Mapping Assistance Project provides affordable access to maps and spatial analysis for nonprofit organizations so these groups do not have to purchase the software and analyze the datasets on their own. CMAP's mission is to strengthen nonprofit, philanthropic, and public service organizations by providing affordable access to computer mapping and other data visualization technologies. They are the host and one of the founding partners of OASIS.

USDA Forest Service: The Forest Service is a funder and founding partner of OASIS and a strategic partner on the Neighborhood Stewardship Project.

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