Save the date! Saturday, October 19, 2024, 5:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. Spend an evening with the chief wine critic of The New York Times. The special event at the brand-new Arverne East Welcome Center, 190 Beach 44th Street, will be to raise funds for RISE's new educational garden in Arverne East.
Join RISE in creating a new native plant nursery, to locally grow native shoreline plants for the coastal dunes of the Rockaway peninsula.
RISE, in partnership with Cornell University and NYC H20, is an awardee of National Sea Grant Marine Debris Community Action Coalitions Competition. The partners will work together over the next three years, hosting beach cleanups and school educational workshops focused on the impacts of marine debris on the environment. The competition is funded through Bipartisan Infrastructure Law and Inflation Reduction Act.
RISE won a three-year grant from New York State's Environmental Protection Fund. Click here to learn more.
RISE established a new initiative to conduct a comprehensive site assessment and preliminary design, with community input, to enhance the shoreline of the Rockaway peninsula into an extensive, biodiverse, and habitat-rich dune system.
Click here to read our final report.
Check out AZURE Magazine's AZ Awards 2024 to RISE, in collaboration with WXY Architecture + Urban Design and eDesign Dynamics, for the new Arverne East Welcome Center, Native Plant Nursery, Dune Preserve, and development of educational programs and "Dune Squad" stewardship training program.
