Community Garden Magazine Issue Eight April 2016 Community Garden Magazine Issue Eight April 2016 | Page 17

Since 1996, the New York City Community Garden Coalition (NYCCGC) has promoted
the preservation, creation, and empowerment of community gardens through education,
advocacy, and grassroots organizing. NYCCGC is the only organization in New York City
by and for community gardeners, who often live in low-income communities of color
that face disproportionate environmental justice and health challenges.
The NYCCGC is a recipient of Community Development Block Grant – Disaster
Recovery funding from the New York State Governor’s Office of Storm Recovery (GOSR)
to undertake a feasibility study for stormwater capture best practices within the
community gardens of the Lower East Side of Manhattan. The project known as
Gardens Rising will combine community participation with engineering expertise, to
develop green infrastructure to increase permeability and stormwater capture within
forty-seven (47) community gardens located in the Study Area.

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