RISE Volunteer Featured on Spectrum News NY1

Jacqueline Duke, Rockaway resident and RISE volunteer, was featured as "NYer of the Week" on Spectrum News NY1. Click here to see the segment.

RISE in City & State New York

Jeanne DuPont, executive director of RISE, weighed in on the National Flood Insurance Program. Click here to read the entire article.

RISE on Cyberchase

In a segment of “Cyberchase: For Real,” a live-action epilogue that follows the animated portion of Emmy Award-winning PBS TV series Cyberchase, the Rockaway dunes are highlighted as real-life examples of community stewardship and education. RISE collaborated with first-grade students from PS 183Q Dr. Richard R. Green School, who received a lesson on the proper planting techniques for Virginia creeper, bayberry, and beach plum as part of “Greater Rockaway” Coastal Resilience Plan.

AZ Awards 2024 for Environmental Leadership

Check out AZURE Magazine's AZ Awards 2024 to RISE, in collaboration with WXY Architecture + Urban Design and eDesign Dynamics, for the new Arverne East Welcome Center, Native Plant Nursery, Dune Preserve, and development of educational programs and "Dune Squad" stewardship training program.

Arverne East Native Plant Nursery

Join RISE in creating a new native plant nursery, to locally grow native shoreline plants for the coastal dunes of the Rockaway peninsula.

"Dune Squad" Invasive Plant Removal

RISE won a three-year grant from New York State's Environmental Protection Fund. Click here to learn more.

"Greater Rockaway" Coastal Resilience Plan

RISE established a new initiative to conduct a comprehensive site assessment and preliminary design, with community input, to enhance the shoreline of the Rockaway peninsula into an extensive, biodiverse, and habitat-rich dune system.

Click here to read our final report.