Urban Resources Initiative

The Urban Resources Initiative (URI) is an applied research collaboration that has worked since 1989 to improve the quality of life for Baltimore City residents. Using innovative research, community building projects, and education and training programs, URI endeavors to strengthen the ties between residents and their recreation and parks system and the natural environment.

URI works in partnership with the Baltimore City Department of Recreation and Parks, the Baltimore Ecosystem Study and other non-profits to provide urban youth with environmental education and meaningful opportunities to explore the Chesapeake Bay and the city’s green spaces.

The initiative also sponsors a competitive internship program that offers high school, undergraduate, and graduate student interns the opportunity to lead and develop activities consistent with the URI aim of assisting underserved urban communities find practical, community-based solutions to urban parks and natural resource management issues in Baltimore.

For more information on URI programs, email Mary Washington, or call her at (410) 448-5663 ext 107.