Volunteer

Volunteers help us steward street trees in the Lower East Side.

Public Volunteer Opportunities

If you are an individual interested in volunteering with us, please fill out our newsletter sign up and you will be added to our monthly volunteer email newsletter. Our volunteer opportunities typically include activities such as conducting outreach, stewardship, or supporting our compost operations.

Corporate volunteers spend the morning gardening in Tompkins Square Park.

Corporate Volunteer Opportunities

Spend a morning volunteering in downtown Manhattan’s green spaces to foster team building, community service, and environmental stewardship. Volunteers work alongside LES Ecology staff to rejuvenate gardens and beautify public spaces. Activities include tending to garden beds, weeding, removing litter, applying mulch, painting benches or fences, planting ground cover, planting flower bulbs, and raking leaves. This work supports LES Ecology’s long-term stewardship of public open space and our effort to maintain a vibrant, ecologically healthy space for the community to enjoy. To learn more about corporate volunteering, email Antonio at antonio@lesecologycenter.org.