ECO-VOLUNTEERISM
IN ANN ARBOR, DETROIT & YPSI
COMMUNITY & SCHOOL GARDENS
Agrarian Adventure
2251 E. Stadium Blvd.
Ann Arbor, MI 48104
Phone: 734.994.2017 x35437
info@agrarianadventure.org
Sustains an organic school garden, helps integrate food systems and health education into the curriculum and school day, sponsors educational events, and offers an after-school program focused on food, gardening, and activism.
Detroit Agriculture Network
200 W. Parkhurst
Detroit, MI 48203
Phone: 313.869.7199 Mailbox 3
Supports urban gardening initiatives and programs in the city.
Detroit Garden Resource Program
Phone: 313.961.3151
lindsay_detroitagriculture@yahoo.com
Provides hundreds of home, school, and community gardens access to resources and information in order to empower Detroit residents to grow, harvest, prepare, and preserve food for their families in their backyards and neighborhoods.
Growing Hope
P.O. Box 980129
Ypsilanti, MI 48198
Phone: 734.786.8401
Fax: 734.484.4630
info@growinghope.net
Helps people improve their lives and communities through gardening.
Project Grow
1831 Traver Rd.
Ann Arbor, MI 48105
Phone: 734.996.3169
Fax: 734.997.1072
info@projectgrowgardens.org
Provides the space, education, and inspiration and to make organic gardening accessible to all.
HUNGER RELIEF
Earth Works Garden
c/o Capuchin Soup Kitchen
1820 Mt. Elliott
Detroit, MI 48207
Phone: 313.579.2100 x211
volunteer@cskdetroit.org
An urban farming project in Detroit. Educates Detroit area schoolchildren in areas of science, nutrition, and biodiversity of organic agriculture. Yields fresh produce to benefit such programs as WIC and the Capuchin Soup Kitchen’s daily meals.
Food Gatherers
P.O. Box 131037
Ann Arbor, MI 48113
Phone: 734.761.2796
Fax: 734.930.0550
info@foodgatherers.org
Exists to alleviate hunger and eliminate its causes by reducing food waste through the rescue and distribution of perishable and non-perishable food, coordinating with hunger relief providers, educating the public about hunger, and developing new food resources.
Food Not Bombs
Phone: 734.426.0090
ahreva@aol.com
1pm Sun. in Liberty Plaza (Division & Liberty)
Distributes free vegetarian food to the hungry.
NATURE PRESERVATION
Natural Area Preservation
1831 Traver Rd.
Ann Arbor, MI 48105
Phone: 734.996.3266
nap@a2gov.org
Natural Area Preservation works to protect and restore Ann Arbor’s natural areas and foster an environmental ethic among its citizens. This involves conducting plant and animal inventories, ecological monitoring, and a variety of stewardship projects in Ann Arbor parks. These tasks are performed by both staff and volunteers. One third of NAP’s field work is done by volunteers, and NAP projects take volunteers well beyond the realm of litter clean-up into broader areas of concern, such as maintaining biodiversity and restoring damaged ecosystems.
Wild Ones Ann Arbor Chapter
11606 Centennial Dr.
Whitmore Lake, MI 48189-9755
Phone: 734.622.9997 (President Susan Bryan)
Phone: 810.231.8980 (Treasurer Karen Lowry)
susanbryanhsieh@yahoo.com
karen.lowry@federalmogul.com
Wild Ones: Native Plants, Natural Landscapes promotes environmentally sound landscaping practices to preserve biodiversity through the preservation, restoration and establishment of native plant communities. Wild Ones is a not-for-profit environmental education and advocacy organization.
POLITICAL ADVOCACY
Clean Water Action
205 1/2 N. Main St.
Ann Arbor, MI 48104
Phone: 734.222.6347
Fax: 734.222.6473
annarbor@cleanwater.org
Clean Water Action is a national organization of diverse people and groups working together for clean water, protecting health, creating jobs, and making democracy work. Clean Water Action organizes strong grassroots groups and coalitions and campaigns to solve environmental and community problems, and to elect progressive and pro-environmental candidates at every level.
Michigan Peaceworks
120 1/2 W. Liberty St.
Ann Arbor, MI 48104
Phone: 734.761.5922
info@michiganpeaceworks.org
Advocate for a sustainable future. Michigan Peaceworks provides information online for volunteers to write to legislators and government agencies to urge them to advance environmentally responsible initiatives.
REUSING & RECYCLING
The ReUse Center
2420 S. Industrial Hwy.
Ann Arbor, MI 48104
Phone: 734.662.6288
info@recycleannarbor.org/volunteer/volunteer.htm
Help save tons of reusable stuff from ending up in landfills each year.
The Scrap Box
581 State Cir.
Ann Arbor, MI 48108
Phone: 734.994.0012
sally@scrapbox.org
The Scrap Box is the place for creative recycling of unique materials which manufacturers and businesses would otherwise send to landfills: remnants, samples, seconds, and scraps. This good "junk" can be recycled into useful materials for art classes, learning games, science experiments, crafts, and other expressions of creativity.
URBAN REFORESTATION
Global ReLeaf of Michigan
1100 N. Main St., Ste. 105
Ann Arbor, MI 48104
Phone: 1.800.642.7353
Fax: 734.998.0163
GlobalReLeafMi@aol.com
Global ReLeaf's mission is to educate the public on the value of trees and the need to properly select, plant, and maintain them, by working with community groups with local tree planting projects in the fall and spring and by providing informational materials and presentations.
The Greening of Detroit
1418 Michigan Ave.
Detroit, MI 48216
Phone: 313.237.8733
Fax: 313.237.8737
info@greeningofdetroit.com
Exists to improve the quality of life in Detroit by guiding and inspiring the reforestation of Detroit’s neighborhoods, boulevards, and parks through tree-planting projects and educational programs.
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