Mission
United Green CORE is a youth-led environmental organization that empowers young people through hands-on education, community partnerships, and practical action.
How we do it
Through the Native Plant Olympics and other community-based projects, students learn by doing and create real change where they live.
Creativity
Openess
Respect
Empathy
The three seeds in our trademarked logo represent three pillars of society: community, business, and government. We believe lasting environmental change requires collaboration across all three.
Founded in 2023 and officially incorporated on June 19, 2024, we turn complex environmental challenges into hands-on projects that communities can actually run with.
We design programs that teach by doing planting, observing, tracking growth, and connecting local ecosystems to broader climate challenges. Our flagship initiative, the Native Plant Olympics, brings friendly classroom competition to pollinator and native-plant science.
We've grown through partnerships with local government, businesses, and community members. The City of White Plains selected United Green CORE to receive two grants through the Bloomberg Philanthropies Youth Climate Action Fund, supporting youth-led environmental projects across the city.
We also mentor students who want to lead their own environmental projects, providing guidance, resources, and support from concept to launch. Recent projects include:
We welcome inquiries from young people with project ideas of their own.
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