Wednesday, September 4, 2024

Bronx Newsblast September 2024

 

HIGHLIGHTS

Organizing Events in City Parks from Concept to Production

Want to create an event at your local park? Partnerships for Parks welcomes special guest speaker Robin Schatell from Mov!ng Culture Projects to this webinar to talk planning! Join us to learn the logistics of outdoor events and walk away feeling empowered to host one of your own. 

Wednesday, September 18, 2024 from 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm. Click here to register now.

City of Forest Day 2024

Have you heard?! City of Forest Day is back for year 3 on Saturday, October 26! Register your event today to celebrate, steward, and learn about our vital urban forest on this city-wide day of engaging, inspiring, fun, and educational events. Spread the word + register to host a City of Forest Day 2024 event by September 9.
Click here to register your event now. 

Parks Opportunity Program

Looking for a job? Develop your skills with NYC Parks! The Parks Opportunity Program allows you to participate in job training while working to keep our city’s parks, playgrounds, and other facilities clean and green! Our program offers a six-month maintenance position with NYC Parks earning $18.54 per hour and more!

Click here to sign up now.
For questions, email workforce.development@parks.nyc.gov.

COMMUNITY EVENTS

Citywide Nursery Gardening 
Volunteers will assist the Stewardship team and staff at Citywide Nursery to maintain plant hoop houses and pot up perennials into larger grow pots. 
Date/Time: Wednesday, September 4th 9:00 AM – 12:00 PM 
Date/Time: Wednesday, September 18th 9:00 AM – 12:00 PM 

Riverdale Park Forest Restoration
Volunteers will contribute to ongoing restoration work and learn the importance of species diversity to ecosystem health.
Date/Time: Saturday, September 14th 10:00 am  - 12:00 PM

Work Together Wednesday
Join our gardeners to help remove weeds, clear leaves and debris from around Indian Lake and upkeep our gardens
Date/Time: Wednesday, September 18, 10:00am - 12:00pm
Location: Meet at the Crotona Park Tennis House @ 1700 Crotona Avenue, Bronx, NY 10457
Contact: Contact Ismael.Guzman@parks.nyc.gov

Stewardship Saturday
Join staff to clear leaves and debris from around Indian Lake, remove trash from our large park zones and help to keep Crotona Park looking great!
Date/Time: Saturday, September 21, 10:00am - 12:00pm
Location: Meet at the Crotona Park Nature Center, enter @ Charlotte Street

10th Anniversary Unity Race 5k Run/Walk
Exercise as nature intended - walk, jog, or run! The CPRC Unity Race is a multifaceted community project that includes a race, solutions for community and police relationship building, and solutions for community development. Hosted by The Crotona Running Club - Includes a Community Wellness Fair
Date/Time:  Saturday, September 21, 10:00am Rain or Shine
Location: 1700 Crotona Avenue, Bronx, NY 10457
Contact: Abiodun Bello at Abiodun@cprcinc.org or call 877-721-4793

TRAININGS

Introduction to Fundraising Planning
Does your organization need help directing its fundraising efforts? Planning focuses your organization by setting fundraising priorities and helps give staff and board members a roadmap to success. This introductory class will provide you the basic steps for developing a fundraising plan, including tips on:

  • Making your case for support
  • Diversifying your organization’s fundraising base
  • Creating a plan of action

Location: Online
Cost: Free
Date: Tuesday, September 10, 2024 @ 2:00-3:30pm

GRANTS AND RESOURCES

Daily Grants 
The Pollination Project
The Pollination Project offers seed funding of up to US$1 thousand to compassion-driven individuals, informally organized groups and organizations, and formally registered or incorporated non-profit organizations based anywhere in the world. Topics for projects include education, clean water, afforestation, animal advocacy, and many others. 
Deadline: Applications accepted on a rolling basis.
Link: Learn more

The Resiliency and Recovery Fund
The Pollination Project
The Resilience & Recovery Fund (RRF) will provide fast, small one-time grants of $1,000 to support grassroots volunteer responses to natural disasters, pandemic, humanitarian crises, or similar emergent events. Applications are accepted on a rolling basis, and existing TPP grantees in good standing who have not previously received RRF funding are eligible to apply.
Deadline: Applications accepted on a rolling basis.
Link: Learn more

Gardens for the City Program
New York Restoration Project
Is there a community space in your neighborhood you’d like to see transformed? If so, apply for NYRP’s help. NYRP provides support for projects of various scales — from building a few vegetable beds to large-scale restoration work. NYRP helps provide materials, horticultural knowledge, environmental education, and construction expertise in order to help create community gardens and accessible landscapes in under-resourced neighborhoods. 
Deadline: Applications accepted on a rolling basis. (Due to the high volume of applications, all future GFTC inquiries will be considered for 2025.)
Link: Learn more

The Awesome Foundation 
The Awesome Foundation is a global community advancing the interest of awesome in the universe, $1000 at a time. Each fully autonomous chapter supports awesome projects through micro-grants, usually given out monthly. 
Deadline: Reviewed monthly
Link: Learn more

Additional Opportunities

NYC DOT’s Open Streets Application
NYC's Open Streets program allows communities to embrace new public space and support small businesses. Open Streets prioritize pedestrians and cyclists by transforming streets into public space. New York City Department of Transportation (NYC DOT) works with community-based organizations, educational institutions, and groups of businesses to execute Open Streets citywide.
Link: Learn more

For questions or concerns, contact Community Engagement Director Vlad Cruz vcruz@cityparksfoundation.org

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