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GroundCorp Landscape

GroundCorp, a social venture of Groundwork Rhode Island, is a landscape design-build and maintenance service. Fully-insured and registered as a contractor in the state of Rhode Island, GroundCorp started in 2010 as a transitional employment program for graduates of our job training program as they searched for permanent employment. Over time, however, GroundCorp has developed into a standing, professional crew, offering full-time, year-round employment for job training graduates. Under the management of the Director of Field Operations, GroundCorp engages in both small-scale residential and larger-scale community landscape design and installation projects. Projects demonstrate urban landscape restoration and stormwater management best practices, contributing to the health and vitality of the people and places in Rhode Island’s urban communities.

Storm Crew

In 2025, we launched a transitional 16-week internship program for job training graduates called Storm Crew. This group of recent job training graduates work on green stormwater infrastructure (GI) inspections, maintenance, and installations in collaboration with GroundCorp and the Providence Department of Public Works (DPW). Currently this effort is being funded by an EPA Southeast New England Program (SNEP) SOAR grant. Storm Crew inspects and provides maintenance for plant-based stormwater infrastructure installed by GroundCorp as well as other GI in Providence, Pawtucket, and Central Falls. Storm Crew is also involved in sidewalk sweeping in coordination with street sweeping by DPW, and cleaning clogged catch basins and other sediment traps that can lead to drainage problems and poor water quality.

Canopy Crew

Our partner, Garden Time, along with the Providence Neighborhood Planting Program (PNPP), collaborate together on Canopy Crew, also a transitional employment program for recent graduates of Garden Time’s Green Reentry job training program. Groundwork RI works with both Green Reentry and Canopy Crew through staff involvement, some funding, and collaborative fundraising. The Canopy Crew focuses on young street tree care across Providence and Pawtucket, providing much needed maintenance and watering for young trees as they get established in the three years after planting.