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Katherine Davila’s Green Visions Story
Kat was recruited to interview for the Green Visions program on a typical neighborhood-canvassing day, back in 2015, simply standing outside of a JOSANA corner store. As an 18...
Volunteer
Interested in making Rochester a greener place? Come volunteer with us! We have a wide variety of volunteer needs from fundraising events to gardening with us in inner-city...
Green Visions Shipping Container Floral Workshop!
Now in its sixth year, the Green Visions program has installed an 800 square foot shipping container at the Green Visions Campus at 174 Whitney Street in the JOSANA neighborhood....
Opportunity still blooms in a wet summer
It’s been an unusual summer for Green Visions, Greentopia's job development program. A super-soaked spring and summer, along with some red-tape tangles, delayed the start of the...
Step aside Netflix series. Green Visions has “14 Stories.”
Trigger warning: you can’t watch Greentopia’s “14 Stories” without your heart being touched. This binge-worthy series of short films, posted on our website, profiles the young...
Three cheers for Tiani Jennings, our Green Visions site manager!
When Morgan Barry, manager of the Green Visions program, heard that Monroe County was looking for young people to recognize, he said it was a no-brainer to nominate Tiani...
Green Visions takes on new responsibilities
In our continuing efforts to make the Green Visions self-sustaining, the workforce preparation program is tackling more than growing flowers in the JOSANA neighborhood and...
An exciting partnership blossoms for Green Visions
Green Visions is planting new seeds. Not just the kinds that produce great cut flowers, but the kinds that produce opportunities for a new group of youth – developmentally...
Celebrating 5 Years of Green Growth!
February 18, 2016, marked the fifth anniversary of Greentopia’s incorporation. So what does our five-year-old organization have to show for those years? Plenty! Four years of...
If it’s February, it’s time to get green. Green Visions, that is.
February is Green Visions month! Just as people in are turning to seed catalogs to dream about what they’ll grow in the spring and summer, Greentopia is planting new “seeds” to...
5 Greentopia developments coming in 2016
It’s going to be an exciting year for Greentopia, as we move further into creating some of the physical projects that have been a goal since our inception. Here’s a look at...
Greentopia embraces new fundraising technology
Greentopia launched a new way to raise funds Nov. 12 with a wine-and-cheese party where people pledged by text. The concept was so successful that the attendees EXCEEDED...
Green Visions by the numbers
Increasingly, it looks like a big part of helping people out of poverty isn't a hand-out, but a hand up that recognizes the human capital available in our poorer neighborhoods....
Coming soon to an urban waterfall near you: The GardenAerial zipline
Imagine sailing over High Falls. The wind whipping your hair, the spectacular view surrounds you. You start out from a promontory on the east side of the Genesee River and you...
See our FlourGarden grow!
This will be an exciting summer for Greentopia: construction starts soon on the FlourGarden, the first section of the GardenAerial to become a reality. The $800,000 project,...
Green Visions has a corner on hope in the JOSANA neighborhood
At the end of a rainy-turned-sunny day, two young women are packing up at the Green Visions gardens on Rochester’s northwest side before planning to walk to their nearby homes....
Green Visions Update
We have now planted our initial seedling group of over 9,000 plants and they are happily growing away at the Garden Factory, our greenhouse partner for the Green Visions project....