596 Acres

= "building online tools neighbors can use to clear hurdles to community land access. The tools turn city data into information about particular pieces of land and connect people to one another through simple social networking functions".

URL = http://596acres.org/

Description

"We're creating a practice of building online tools neighbors can use to clear hurdles to community land access. The tools turn city data into information about particular pieces of land and connect people to one another through simple social networking functions.

We're really proud of these partnerships:

Grounded In Philly, with the Garden Justice Legal Initiative at the Public Interest Law Center of Philadelphia; Growing Cities, The Movie: Grow Where You Are; LA Open Acres with Community Health Councils (Los Angeles, California) and C-Lab (NYC); & Living Lots, a prototype supported by the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation to meet the needs of the New Orleans Food and Farm Network's Farm This Now! Campaign.

We support groups creating community land access tools in their own cities through open source code and hands-on mentorships. We are also the convener of an international Community Land Access Advocacy network that will have its first in-person meeting this spring: save the date for Turning Our Vacant Acres into Community Resouces on April 22 & 23, 2014, at the New School in New York City.

In New York City we are community land access advocates and use one of our tools." (http://596acres.org/en/about/about-596-acres/)