Partnership for Onondaga Creek | A voice for the Midland Community and the environment advocating for better, nonpolluting solutions for Onondaga Creek.

A voice for the Midland Community and the environment advocating for better, nonpolluting solutions for Onondaga Creek.

The Partnership for Onondaga Creek is a diverse, community-based environmental justice organization, rooted in the Midland area of Syracuse, New York. We are committed to empowering local communities, through knowledge and tools for change, to make the water and environment in and along Onondaga Creek meet the highest standards.

Welcome to the new POC website!

Our new website has many new features and much more content! Look around, and if you have any questions or would like to tell us what you think, use the contact form to send us a message.

Green Jobs for Syracuse

Highlighted directory listing

Greater Syracuse Works

http://www.greatersyracuseworks.org

Greater Syracuse Works (GSW) is a collaborative association of community organizations and agencies involved in employment and training activities with persons who are disadvantaged. GSW activities include focusing on community policy and practices that will improve the lives of Syracuse residents, developing opportunities to link member organizations with new and emerging employment services and inititatives, and managing projects that provide high-quality outcomes for individuals served through its member agencies and linking with other community entities to ensure a seamless delivery system.

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Click to read "We Got It Right!" Celebration

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POC member Joanne and Jack of NOON talk to Representative Dan Maffei during the "We Got It Right" celebration at Spa at 500.
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YWCA Academy of Diversity Achievement Award Luncheon
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April 23rd, 2010: EPA, Region 2, Environmental Quality Award for "Greening Syracuse;s Combiined Sewer Overflow Long Term Control Plan" was presented to The Partnership for Onondaga Creek, Atlantic States Legal Foundation, The onondaga Nation, and County Executive Joanne Mahoney.

POC Monthly Meeting

6:00pm, Tuesday, September 7, 2010

Brady Faith Center, 404 South Ave

The Partnership for Onondaga Creek meets the first Tuesday of each month. New members welcome.

This month's events

September 17, 2010

Community and Resistance Tour

Current Activity

Creating and Nourishing Environmental Justice Activists

Posted on July 5, 2010

In June, besides coordinationg a GPS Treasure Hunt with SU's community geographer, the POC worked out the transportation for 10 Syracuse teenagers to NYSDEC's Pack Forest Camp. The POC sponsored these 10 youth, and in so doing got them a free week of environamental education and fun in the Adirondacks. Five will be going July 11 and another five August 1.