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Roosevelt Island Community Roundtable

Planning a Vision Summit to create a more environmentally sustainable Roosevelt Island

This grant supports a planning roundtable to develop a Vision Summit focused on creating a more sustainable Roosevelt Island. Roosevelt Islanders, Cornell Tech, Cornell Cooperative Extension of New York City and Roosevelt Island organizations — led by a facilitator and leaders from iDig2Learn and the Roosevelt Island Garden Club — will establish goals, priorities, strategies and program topics for the summit. Potential topics include health, science and human development programs on clean water, food, air, land, shelter, resource and waste management; systems that sustain a clean environment; proximity to nature; self-sufficiency; and financial success and stability.

Topics: Children, Youth, Seniors and Families; Education; Energy, Environment and Sustainability; Food and Agriculture

The Team

  • Jane Swanson, Community and Government Relations

    Cornell Tech

  • Jennifer Tiffany, Department of Human Development

    College of Human Ecology

  • Community partner:  iDig2Learn
  • Community partner:  Roosevelt Island Garden Club

Engaged Opportunity Grants

Supporting a wide range of community-engaged learning projects, from student leadership programs and partnership building to events and conference travel. Open to all faculty and staff.

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