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Nonprofits Step Up Where Government Fails Sandy Victims

Thu, 2014-05-22 13:53 — Rebekkah Thompson

On Saturday, May 10, 2014 Pastor Dennis Loncke, founder of Arverne Pilgrim Church in Rockaway, NY lead the way as church congregants, neighbors and community organizations gave B75th Street and Beach Channel Drive a makeover cleaning and planting in tree pits and softening with decorative flower pots bolted into concrete.  

The funding for this resident lead project was awarded by the Citizens Committee for New York City known for their support of community and grassroots groups permitting resident leaders to apply for small community improvement grants regardless of nonprofit status.  

Pastor Loncke and his church have struggled to come back after Hurricane Sandy destroyed the one story church building.  Churches did not qualify for FEMA.  

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Product Demonstrations

Superpedestrian, Inc. - The Copenhagen Wheel

Thu, 2014-05-15 20:07 — Kathy Gilbeaux

superpedestrian.com

Superpedestrian, Inc is a venture-backed company operating out of Cambridge, Massachusetts. Our diverse team is developing lightweight electric vehicles with integrated online platforms, finding new ways to connect people with their environment. Founded in late 2012 by Assaf Biderman, Associate Director at MIT's SENSEable City Lab, Superpedestrian seeks to provide new forms of human-powered mobility for cities. Ultimately, our vision is to offer an improved quality of living to everybody.

The Copenhagen Wheel was initially developed at MIT's SENSEable City Lab as a research project, sponsored by the Mayor of Copenhagen. It has won multiple design awards and been reviewed in over 1,000 media publications, including BBC, Wired and the New York Times - not to mention a glamourous acting debut during a whole season of TV series Weeds. Most importantly, Superpedestrian has been receiving daily requests for pre-orders - over 14,000 messages to date.

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Webinar - Resilience & Resilience Systems - Considerations for NYC Coastal Communities

Mon, 2014-05-12 22:34 — Kathy Gilbeaux

      

ncfpd.umn.edu - April 4, 2014

Webinar - Community Resilience and Impacts of Interdependent Infrastructure Disruptions as Experienced from Hurricane Sandy (One hour long)

Presented By: 
Michael D. McDonald, Dr.P.H.
Chairman, Global Resilience Inititatives
Executive Director, Health Initiatives Foundation, Inc. 

Facilitated By:
John T. Hoffman, Col., USA, Ret.
Senior Research Fellow, National Center for Food Protection and Defense

Under the dynamic conditions of rapid climate change and broader global changes, resilience and sustainability are not being achieved through traditional emergency management and humanitarian approaches alone. While community-based resilience networks are now beginning to emerge in a race to stabilize New York City's coastal communities significantly impacted by Superstorm Sandy in 2012, many impacted neighborhoods are still trending toward greater vulnerability plaguing recovery and preparedness for the next wave of potentially larger storms.

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CDBG-DR Funded: Construction of the Rockaway Boardwalks RFQ II

Mon, 2014-03-31 22:27 — Kathy Gilbeaux

                                                     

nycedc.com
 
Submission Deadline - April 11, 2014 at 4:00 pm

New York City Economic Development Corporation (“NYCEDC”) is seeking qualified firms to construct boardwalks, dunes and other protective measures along 4.7 miles of shoreline in the Rockaways (the “Project”) through this supplemental Request for Qualifications (“SRFQ”). 

On September 23, 2013, NYCEDC issued a Request for Qualifications (“RFQ”) for the provision of construction contractor services for the Project.  This RFQ does NOT replace, cancel or otherwise modify the status of those prequalified contractors selected under the original RFQ. The purpose of this RFQ is to seek qualified contractors for additional trades and to increase the overall number of prequalified contractors for the Project.

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coalition of concerned Canarsie neighbors

Fri, 2014-03-21 11:37 — debbiefook
Subject: Stop Unfair NYC  Property Tax Increases Now
 
Hi Neighbors
 
We created a petition to NYC Commissioner of Finance, Beth E. Goldman, City Councilman Alan Maisel, NYC Mayor Bill deBlasio:
 
"We, a coalition of Canarsie homeowners, tenants paying property taxes and purchasers hereby request:(1) NYC Department of Finance to lower assessed tax rate and (2) outreach to taxpayers by suspending the placement of property tax liens on property owners financially impaired by sewage back-ups and by the devastation of Superstorm Sandy. We ask that property owners   be given more time and the opportunity to make reasonable payment arrangements. We encourage Canarsie property owners or their designated representative to contest property tax increases by March 17, 2014. Please sign this petition and submit Grievance Form  RF-524 to NYC Dept of Finance./Office of Real Property Services."
 
Will you sign this petition? Click here:
 
 
Thanks!
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Volunteers Needed for Unresponsive Build It Back Applicants Outreach

Thu, 2014-03-20 16:50 — Kathy Gilbeaux

submitted by Seth Golbey

 

On Tuesday, March 25th from 5pm-8pm, and Saturday, March 29th from 11am-2pm, we will be doing a citywide door knocking campaign to the Build It Back applicants who have been unresponsive to our numerous outreach attempts.  If these applicants do not reply to our requests, we cannot move their applications forward, which will prevent them from receiving Build It Back assistance.  This is why this outreach campaign is so important. 

Charlie Aidinoff from our office, is coordinating this outreach project.  If you and or your staff are able to provide volunteers for Tuesday, March 25th and/or Saturday, March 29th, please let Charlie know your availability so he can coordinate your outreach area(s).  Charlie can also be reached at 917-584-8950.

Thank you in advance for all your assistance with this outreach.

Andrew Olsen
Senior Advisor of Outreach, Brooklyn
Mayor's Housing Recovery Office
250 Broadway, 24th Floor
New York, NY 10007
(o) (212) 615-8069
(f) (212) 615-8328
***@***.***

 

 

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Rockaway Residents Awarded the Love Your Block Grant

Tue, 2014-03-18 23:31 — Rebekkah Thompson

The Citizens Committee for New York City’s annual Love Your Block Grant, has been awarded to a group of Rockaway residents among several other groups throughout New York City.

The Rockaway group, consisting of 12 families, plans on using the funds of $1,000 to beautify and soften the block where Pastor Dennis Loncke’s church and community center is located, 7416 Beach Channel Drive in Arverne (on the Rockaway peninsula). 

Arverne Pilgrim Church and Community Center was destroyed after Super Storm Sandy, and just at the pinnacle of the rebuilding process by dedicated volunteers, a driver plowed into the church last Easter morning setting the church back on reopening for almost another year.  (No one was hurt as a result of the crash.)

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Rockaway Residents Train to Incubate Worker Owner Businesses

Tue, 2014-03-18 22:41 — Rebekkah Thompson

I am honored and excited to announce that two Rockaway residents, Rebekkah Thompson (myself) and Sonia Daley, were awarded a grant to train over a 2-3 year period as planners and incubators of worker owner businesses or worker cooperatives.

 

We see this as the great hope for a revival of Rockaway's local economy.  Currently, we are limited to minimum wage jobs, traveling long distances, which can be costly and difficult if you have children in school, and virtually no career or entrepreneurship opportunities.

 

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Economics
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Far Rockaway Resilience Center - Rockville Resilience Center

Wed, 2014-03-12 18:31 — Kathy Gilbeaux

                                            CLICK HERE - FAR ROCKAWAY RESILIENCE CENTER

     

                                              CLICK HERE - ROCKVILLE RESILIENCE CENTER

      

rebuildbydesign.org

Far Rockaway Resilience Center

The Resilience Center of mixed commercial uses, housing, and job training will shelter Rockaways residents in times of need. Satellites will retrofit existing multi-family housing units for inhabitants to shelter in place safely, with floodproof levels, raised community centers, and uninterruptible services.

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Wind of change sweeps through energy policy in the Caribbean

Sun, 2014-03-02 22:39 — Maeryn Obley

A fruit juice cafe in Road Town, Tortola, in the British Virgin Islands. Many Caribbean islands are turning to sustainable energy. Photographs: Jenny Bates

Image: A fruit juice cafe in Road Town, Tortola, in the British Virgin Islands. Many Caribbean islands are turning to sustainable energy. Photographs: Jenny Bates

theguardian.com - John Vidal - February 10th, 2014

Aruba in the southern Caribbean has 107,000 people, a lot of wind and sun and, until very recently, one very big problem. Despite the trade winds and sunshine, it was spending more than 16% of its economy on importing 6,500 barrels of diesel fuel a day to generate electricity. People were furious at the tripling of energy prices in 10 years and the resulting spiralling costs of imported water and food.

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