Common Ground | Who We Work With

WHO WE WORK WITH

Common Ground’s name says it simply: we’re in this together. The environmental challenges facing our planet, and the educational challenges facing our community, are too large to face alone. By working in partnership with like-minded individuals and organizations, we have a real chance of addressing these big challenges: reducing global warming, making healthy food accessible to everyone in the community, closing the achievement gap, building a new generation of environmental leaders, re-building our connections to the natural world.

For this reason, our work has to be about community-building and partnerships. We welcome and encourage members of the community to use our site, approach us with ideas for collaboration, build coalitions with us, and encourage us to lend a hand to their work. If you are interested in discussing these opportunities, please contact our director, Oliver Barton, at obarton@nhep.com or 203.433.0823 ext 203. If you want to support our work financially, follow this link.

Here are examples of a few recent and developing partnerships:

Working with the Environmental Protection Agency, Common Ground students and staff took on a major air and water quality research and reporting initiative. Learn more about their work.
We are currently developing a partnership with the Peabody Museum to develop museum-quality interpretive materials of Common Ground’s site. Common Ground students will work with Peabody professionals to write and design these interpretive exhibits.
We were excited to help with the development of curriculum at Barnard Environmental Studies Magnet School, a K-8 New Haven public school, and to provide environmental support to a greenhouse initiative at Fair Haven Middle School.
Common Ground has partnered with the School for Ethical Education to create a Youth Philanthropy Board, through which students award grants to service-learning projects developed by their peers.
We are present every Sunday of the growing season at the Edgewood Farmer’s Market, one of the outstanding efforts of New Haven’s own CitySeed, and the chair of our board sits on the Food Policy Council that CitySeed helped to create.
The Connecticut Clean Energy Fund recently awarded Common Ground a solar array installed on the school’s roof, in part to recognize the work of Common Ground’s Envirothon team to help New Haven residents sign up for clean energy.
Common Ground students participate in a range of community organizations, supported and encouraged by the staff of Common Ground. Many have participated in the Peabody’s Evolutions program, Yale’s HPREP minority medical internship, and Youth Rights Media, for instance.
Our students have taken on ongoing community service projects at the West Rock Health Care Center, Katherine Brennan Elementary School, Casa Otoñal, and other area organizations.

Common Ground is proud to have worked closely with a number of area environmental organizations and agencies, as well: New Haven City Plan, the Connecticut Department of Environmental Protection, the Connecticut Coalition for Environmental Justice, the Yale School for Forestry and Environmental studies, the Urban Resources Initiative, the Urban Ecology Institute at Boston University, and others. We are glad to be part of a strong and growing community of environmental activism in New Haven.


	Who we work with WHO WE WORK WITH Common Ground’s name says it simply: we’re in this together. The environmental challenges facing our planet, and the educational challenges facing our community, are too large to face alone. By working in partnership with like-minded individuals and organizations, we have a real chance of addressing these big challenges: reducing global warming, making healthy food accessible to everyone in the community, closing the achievement gap, building a new generation of environmental leaders, re-building our connections to the natural world. For this reason, our work has to be about community-building and partnerships. We welcome and encourage members of the community to use our site, approach us with ideas for collaboration, build coalitions with us, and encourage us to lend a hand to their work. If you are interested in discussing these opportunities, please contact our director, Oliver Barton, at obarton@nhep.com or 203.433.0823 ext 203. If you want to support our work financially, follow this link. Here are examples of a few recent and developing partnerships: Working with the Environmental Protection Agency, Common Ground students and staff took on a major air and water quality research and reporting initiative. Learn more about their work. We are currently developing a partnership with the Peabody Museum to develop museum-quality interpretive materials of Common Ground’s site. Common Ground students will work with Peabody professionals to write and design these interpretive exhibits. We were excited to help with the development of curriculum at Barnard Environmental Studies Magnet School, a K-8 New Haven public school, and to provide environmental support to a greenhouse initiative at Fair Haven Middle School. Common Ground has partnered with the School for Ethical Education to create a Youth Philanthropy Board, through which students award grants to service-learning projects developed by their peers. We are present every Sunday of the growing season at the Edgewood Farmer’s Market, one of the outstanding efforts of New Haven’s own CitySeed, and the chair of our board sits on the Food Policy Council that CitySeed helped to create. The Connecticut Clean Energy Fund recently awarded Common Ground a solar array installed on the school’s roof, in part to recognize the work of Common Ground’s Envirothon team to help New Haven residents sign up for clean energy. Common Ground students participate in a range of community organizations, supported and encouraged by the staff of Common Ground. Many have participated in the Peabody’s Evolutions program, Yale’s HPREP minority medical internship, and Youth Rights Media, for instance. Our students have taken on ongoing community service projects at the West Rock Health Care Center, Katherine Brennan Elementary School, Casa Otoñal, and other area organizations. Common Ground is proud to have worked closely with a number of area environmental organizations and agencies, as well: New Haven City Plan, the Connecticut Department of Environmental Protection, the Connecticut Coalition for Environmental Justice, the Yale School for Forestry and Environmental studies, the Urban Resources Initiative, the Urban Ecology Institute at Boston University, and others. We are glad to be part of a strong and growing community of environmental activism in New Haven.