Progress in the not-for-profit (NFP) arena is made best through collaboration and partnership development. NFPs are constantly faced with budgetary, resource, information and volunteer limitations. Much of work is geared towards project/program development and is dependent on grant funds and charitable donations. Most are ill-equipped with manpower, expertise, and time to improve operational infrastructure. UGW is no different in terms of our needs but our approach to meeting those needs is what separates us from most. 

We are constantly self-analyzing and adapting to the ever changing rules, environment, and community with the goal of staying ahead of the curve in regards to how our work pertains to the health, social, and environmental impact on communities we serve.

To this end, UGW has been fortunate to align itself with partners and collaborators who share similar visions of how to approach and address the socio-economic issues that affect those we serve.

Community Partners/Supporters

• 100 Resilient Cities

• Adopt-A-Tree

• Backyard Botanicals

• Barry University - Center for Community Service Initiatives (CCSI)

• Belafonte TACOLCY Center

• Bound By Beauty

• Catalyst Miami

• Citizens For A Better South Florida

• City of Miami Office of Sustainable Initiatives

• Consortium for A Healthier Miami-Dade

• Dream Defenders

• EarthSave Miami

• Farmers Market Coalition

• FAVACA

• Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden

• Florida Herbal Conference

• Florida IFAS Extension Servcies

• Florida International University

• Florida Master Gardener Program

• Florida School of Holistic Living

• Gang Alternative

• Green Miami - Tree Giveaways & Ordinances 

• Habitat of Humanity of Greater Miami

• The Kampong - National Tropical Botanic Garden

• Liberty City Revitalization Trust

• Miami County Day School

• Miami-Dade County GreenPrint

• PlantPure Communities

• Repair The World Miami

• Soroptimist Club of Key Biscayne

• Tropical Audubon Society

• Urban Environmental League of Greater Miami

• Urban Oasis Project

• Urban Paradise Guild

School Garden Sites 

• NorthWestern Senior High School

• Brownsville Middle School

• Barry University

• Holmes Elementary School

Funders & Sponsors

• Love Tito's

• Allegany Franciscan Ministries

• Clif Bar Family Foundation

• The Edward S. Moore Family Foundation

• FIU Education Effect

• The Fruit Tree Planting Foundation

• The Miami Foundation

• Nalith Foundation

• The Nature Conservancy

• VegFund

Academic & Other References

• American Journal of Public Health

• Center for Whole Communities

• Centers for Disease Control & Prevention

• Cornell University Public Health

• Food First

• Healthy People 2010 - final review

• Healthy People 2020

• The Lancet - Planetary Health Paradigm

• Miami-Dade County Climate Change Action Plan

• Miami-Dade County GreenPrint Action Plan

• National Good Food Network

• National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences

• Planetary Health Alliance

• plantANT

• The Journal of Therapeutic Horticulture

• The New England Journal of Medicine

• The Granite Garden

• Farm City: The Education Of An Urban Farmer

• The Essential Urban Farmer

• The Urban Farmer

• Worms Eat My Garbage

• What is Mindfulness?