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As an all-volunteer community-based organization, BCR works to renew Ballona Creek and its watershed for a healthier, more sustainable environment and community. We teach, advocate, partner, clean and green from the hills to the creek, wetlands and bay.
BCR continues to help implement the Ballona Greenway vision. At Culver City Middle and High Schools, BCR leads the Creekside Native Plant Learning Garden, a project funded by a grant from the Santa Monica Bay Restoration Foundation. Concurrently, BCR is partnered with the Friends of Ballona Wetlands and Mar Vista Family Center on the Ballona Creek Restoration and Stewardship Project, partially funded by the Southern California Wetlands Recovery Project. To do more, BCR needs skilled, energetic, and diverse staff and volunteers to help lead and support fundraising, projects, tours, education, outreach and IT. |
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Founded in Culver City in 1953, by individuals sharing a common interest in gardens and the environment, the Club offers free opportunities to the general public to learn about plants, gardening, healthy living and the area environment.
The Club is a 501(c)(3) as recognized by the IRS and is incorporated in California. The Club meets once monthly, usually the first Tuesday at 7:30PM, in the Garden Room of the Veterans' Building. There is a presentation on some topic of interest, plant raffle and "Show, Tell & Ask". The Club hosts an annual Garden Show & Plant Sale each summer in the Veterans' Auditorium. There is usuallly also a yearly Garden Hop. All activities are free. Yearly membership is $12 for one and $18 for two. |
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The Culver City Great Parks Association is a community based fund-raising organization whose mission is to improve the physical appearance and functionality of our parks.
It is our intention to better the environment of the parks beginning with public interest and input, without straining the city budget. While we will not refuse financial assistance from the city, it is our goal to fund each project through federal and state grants, public and private donations, and organized fundraisers. With community involvement, from design, to budget, to completion, it is our belief that we will enhance our parks in a way that the residents of Culver City expect: in harmony with the neighborhoods that the parks serve. |
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reDiscover promotes creativity in early childhood and elementary education while encouraging environmental responsibility.
reDiscover recycles everyday discards donated by business and gives them new purpose as hands-on learning materials. reDiscover is a community art center, reuse warehouse, gallery and event space. |
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The Center for Land Use Interpretation is a research organization involved in exploring, examining, and understanding land and landscape issues. Projects have encompassed a range of topics, including the landscapes of oil, parking, waste, emergency response, hydroelectric power, water and telecommunications. The Center’s programs and exhibitions employ photography, text, video, bus tours, publications, and other media to extract meaning from intentional and incidental landscapes. Programs are thematic and/or regionally based, exploring various types of land uses as they occur nationally, or are characterizations of selected areas. All of the programs seek to tell stories about American culture, as expressed through the medium of the ground we inhabit. Mission statement: To increase and diffuse information about how the nation's lands are apportioned, utilized, and perceived.
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