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New NYC Food & Fitness Partnership Website! |
It's been a long time coming but I'm pleased to announce the launch of our new website! The website provides an overview of the Partnership's work in our three priority areas - Community Food, School Food and Active Living - as well as a wealth of resources, articles and research, an events calendar and opportunities to get involved in the amazing work that's going on in New York City.
U.S. Poverty Rate Rises in 2009The national poverty rate hit a 15-year high in 2009. The Census Bureau estimates that14.3 percent of Americans (43.6 million people) lived below the Federal poverty level in 2009. That means that roughly one in seven people were classified as poor. Among children, more than one in five children were poor (20.7 percent). While poverty increased across all ethnic groups, people of color were still disproportionately affected. 25.8 percent of Blacks, 25.3 percent of Hispanics, and 12.5 percent of Asians were poor while 9.4 percent of white were poor.
Told to Eat Its Vegetables, Americans Order Fries
A recent article in the New York Times reports that despite two decades of public health initiatives, stricter dietary guidelines, growth in farmers' markets and ease-of-use products like salad in a bag, Americans still don't eat enough vegetables. According to the Centers for Disease Control, only 26 percent of the nationís adults eat vegetables three or more times a day. Two New Programs Aim to Prevent, Treat Childhood Obesity
U.S. National Institutes of Health announced a $72 million investment to curb childhood obesity through 2 programs. The $49.5 million Childhood Obesity Prevention and Treatment Research program will develop and test anti-obesity strategies that target home, community and primary-care settings for preschool children in poor, ethnically diverse neighborhoods. It will also examine home- and school-based obesity treatments for overweight and obese children ages 7 to 14 years. The second program will evaluate existing community-based efforts to reduce childhood obesity in 300 communities across the nation, at a cost of $23 million. Read more here. New Initiative Launched to Combat Childhood Obesity The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation announced the launch of a $2 million initiative designed to help reverse childhood obesity, especially in African-American and Latino communities. Over the next 16 months, five civil rights organizations - the League of United Latin American Citizens, the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, the National Council of La Raza, and the National Urban League - will work individually and collaboratively to advance the public advocacy and policy changes needed to create healthier communities. Read more here.
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CNR Update |
Despite heavy pressure from the White House and House Leadership over the past week, House Representatives refused to pass a Child Nutrition Bill that cut $2.2 billion in funds from SNAP/Food Stamps. The House's refusal to pass the Bill was due in large part to what they heard from their constituents and the work of coalitions like the NYC Alliance for CNR. Instead, they passed a "continuing resolution" that extends the current child nutrition act until December 2010 to have time to find, at least, a replacement for the SNAP offset. The House continues to work with the White House and Senate to find a replacement to the SNAP offset. They will take the issue up again in the lame duck session after November elections.
If a new child nutrition bill is not passed, it's possible we will have a new Congressional majority that will be less supportive in ensuring that all children have good food through child nutrition programs. Moreover, come December 31st, both the Senate's Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act and the House's Improving Nutrition for America's Children Act will expire. If that happens, the authorizing committees, with their new members in the new Congress, will start over to draft new legislation. Although the current proposed bills are not perfect, either one would, if passed, solidify into law many of the improvements the NYC Alliance for CNR and other groups around the country have asked for in child nutrition programs. As attention is turned towards mid-term elections, it's important to keep communicating the value of this bill to your Representatives!
Help Improve School Food!
Are you concerned about what your kids are eating in schools? Do you want healthier school food to support your child's achievement? There is a growing movement to improve the quality of school food for student in New York City schools. But school food cannot keep improving without the help and involvement of parents and students. The NYC Food & Fitness Partnership has been working together with the NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, City Harvest, Brooklyn Food Coalition, Food Bank for NYC, and the NYC Strategic Alliance for Health to organize a series of parent trainings in late October/early November. The purpose of these trainings is to help parents articulate their desired changes within the school food environment and gain the knowledge and skills needed to navigate the system and advocate for change. There will be one session in each of the following communities: Bedford Stuyvesant, Bushwick, East New York, and Brownsville. If you would like to receive more information about the trainings, please email Christine Yu. New Report on School Food in New York City
In support of this on-going work to improve school food, the City University of New York School of Public Health at Hunter College and City Harvest recently released a new report - Recipes for Health: Improving School Food in New York City. The report offers a view of the vibrant and fast-growing school food movement in NYC, describing the various programs and activities transforming the food environment in our city's schools. The report also gives a detailed look at how the school food system works in New York City so that newcomers have the knowledge needed to fully participate in this powerful movement. Download the report here. In early November, City Harvest and CUNY School of Public Health at Hunter College will host an event called What's Next for School Food in New York City? to discuss next steps in school food advocacy and discuss how the new federal reauthorization of child nutrition programs will support opportunities for change. Email for more information about this event. |
| Real Life Farmville in Brooklyn! |
New York Healthy Food & Healthy Communities Fund Open for Applications
Save the Date for a HFHC Fund Information Session on October 21 in New York City. To ensure you receive more information about these events, contact nyhealthyfood@liifund.org
Green Cart Implementation - Year 1
In March 2009, the New York City Council passed, and Mayor Bloomberg signed into law, Green Cart legislation to bring 1,000 fruit and vegetable carts to targeted communities that were found to be lacking access to nutritious, affordable produce. Citizens Committee for Children (CCC) collected data during the first year of implementation to see if Green Carts had a positive impact on fruit and vegetable consumption in targeted communities and if they presented a viable, cost effective way to achieve the goal of bringing fresh produce to communities in need. Read CCC's full report here. The next round of Green Cart permitting is scheduled for October 2010 and presents the City with an opportunity to strengthen this initiative. Please contact Peggy Leggat or 212-676-2022 for more information on how to get started.
Living Concrete/Carrot City
On display until December 15, 2010 Galleries located at 66 Fifth Avenue at 13th Street, New York, NY Open daily 12-6pm; until 8pm on Thursdays. Free admission. Living Concrete/Carrot City is a collaboration of Ryerson University and the New School. It explores the intersections of design, food systems and communities and features creative research projects and design interventions from New School faculty and students examining the connections between people and food production that affect neighborhoods, health and the environment. Click here for information on upcoming public programs. Food Consultant Forms Bond With Local Farmers MarketThe food business is about growing food, processing food and packing food and distributing food, but it's also about the relationships between the people that are on all the links of the chain. Building those links helps the farmers markets thrive. To read the entire article, click here. |
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Playstreets! | | To further promote street closures as a way to create more opportunities for physical activity, Transportation Alternatives (TA) worked with the NYC Strategic Alliance for Health (SAfH) to host playstreets in East Harlem and the South Bronx in July and August in conjunction with Harvest Home Farmers Market. Each playstreet attracted over 700 local kids and introduced them (many for the first time!) to hula hooping, running relays, zumba classes, and rugby lessons that all promoted physical activity. TA and SAfH are working with the New York Academy of Medicine to measure the physical and community impacts of the events and will be writing a best practices report, two case studies, and policy recommendations for the City to develop an accessible able playstreet program and permitting process. In Central Brooklyn, the Brooklyn District Public Health Office worked with the Hattie Carthan Community Market to pilot a playstreet in Bed Stuy in conjunction with its farmers market. Read more here.
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| City's Efforts Fail to Dent Child Obesity | A recent report found that forty percent of the nearly 637,000 children in kindergarten through the eighth grade were found to be overweight or obese in the 2008-9 school year. Read more here.
Phys Ed: Can Exercise Make Kids Smarter?
Well (New York Times blog), Gretchen Reynolds, 09/15/2010
[Researchers] showed that the key part of the brain that aids in maintaining attention and "executive control" or the ability to coordinate actions and thoughts crisply are significantly larger in fit children. Since both groups of children had similar socioeconomic backgrounds, body mass index and other variables, the researchers concluded that being fit had enlarged that portion of their brains. Read more here.
CDC Report: Physical Activity and Academic Performance
Student physical activity may help improve academic performance. This report is a literature review that examines the existing research on the relationship between school-based physical activity, including physical education, and academic performance. It spans 23 years of research and includes 50 studies. The majority of the studies in this review report that physical activity was positively related to academic performance. Most importantly, adding time during the school day for physical activity does not appear to take away from academic performance. Schools should continue to offer and/or increase opportunities for student physical activity. To read the report, click here. |
GRANTS AND FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES | |
| Echoing Green Seeks World's Leading Social Entrepreneu |
Since 1987, Echoing Green has provided seed funding and support to nearly 500 social entrepreneurs including the founders of Teach For America, City Year, College Summit, and Genocide Intervention Network. In Spring 2011, Echoing Green will award between 12 and 20 fellowships to early-stage social entrepreneurs. Fellows receive up to $90,000 in seed funding over two years, technical support, and access to a powerful global community of fellows and alumni. Online application opens in October 2010. Complete details are available here. Lowe's Toolbox for Education, K-12 Public School Projects
Deadline: October 15, 2010. If 1,500 applications are received before the deadline, the application process will be closed. Applications are being accepted for the Fall 2010 cycle of the Lowe's Charitable and Educational Foundation Toolbox for Education grant program. For the 2010-11 program, the Foundation will focus on basic, one-time project needs. The program prioritizes funding requests that have a permanent impact such as facility enhancement (both indoor and outdoor) as well as landscaping/cleanup-type projects. Projects that encourage parent involvement and build stronger community spirit will be favored. Grants may be requested for amounts between $2,000 and $5,000.
State Farm Good Neighbor Service Learning GrantDeadline: October 15, 2010 State Farm is teaming up with Youth Service America to offer grants of up to $1,000 for youth-led service-learning initiatives. Eligible programs will engage youth in service-learning, an effective teaching and learning strategy that promotes student learning, academic achievement, workplace readiness, and healthy communities. Click here for more information. Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Community Health Leaders Program Deadline: October 22, 2010 (Brief Nominations) The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Community Health Leaders program each year honors outstanding and otherwise unrecognized individuals who overcome daunting odds to improve health and healthcare, especially to underserved populations in communities across the United States. The program aims to elevate the work of these unsung heroes through enhanced recognition, technical assistance, and new leadership opportunities. The program will make up to ten awards in the amount of $125,000 each for the 2011 cycle. Visit the program website for the complete Call for Proposals. Service-Learning Grants to Fight Childhood Obesity Deadline: October 22, 2010 Youth Service America and UnitedHealth Group are encouraging youth to create and implement local hands-on programs that address childhood obesity in their local communities through the Heroes Program, a service-learning, health literacy initiative. Educators, nonprofit leaders, and students are encouraged to apply for grants of up to $1,000 each to engage youth in all fifty states and the District of Columbia. Play with Your Produce ChallengeDeadline: October 30, 2010 The Play With Your Produce Challenge challenges families and classrooms to be creative and teach kids the benefits of healthy eating with more fruits and vegetables. For schools, it is open to grades K-6 and challenges them to create a classroom activity focused on healthy eating. For families, it challenges them to "produce" a new game or activity idea using fresh fruit and vegetables that encourages healthy eating and exercise. For more information, click here.
Applications Available for Youth Garden Grant Program
Deadline: November 1, 2010 The National Gardening Association awards Youth Garden Grants to schools and community organizations across the United States with child-centered garden programs. Schools, youth groups, community centers, camps, clubs, treatment facilities, and intergenerational groups in the United States are eligible to apply. Applicants must plan to garden with at least fifteen children between the ages of 3 and 18. Previous Youth Garden Grant winners who wish to reapply may do so but must wait one year and have significantly expanded their garden programs. This year a hundred recipients will receive a $500 gift card from program sponsor the Home Depot and educational materials from the National Gardening Association.
Grants for Salad Bars
Deadline: November 1, 2010 Whole Foods Market is partnering with Chef Ann Cooper to provide healthy salad bars to schools across the country by raising money for a salad bar in at least one school in the communities surrounding each Whole Foods store in the U.S. You can help us reach this goal by donating to your local store (online or through shopper donations) and also by helping a school of your choice to apply for a grant. For more information, visit their website.
The Lunch Box Project's nonprofit foundation, F3 Foundation, will serve as a granting institution whereby any public school may apply online to be chosen for a salad bar, utensils and training tools beginning September 1, 2010. A school representative must apply and secure the signature of their district's superintendent, school principal and school nutrition director. Grant awards will be based on need, potential for impact, commitment to the program and potential for future viability when the grant period has ended.
USDA People's Garden School Pilot Program Deadline: November 8, 2010 The Food and Nutrition Service (FNS) of the USDA is announcing the opportunity for public and not-for-profit organizations to submit applications for a Peoples Garden School Pilot Program grant competition. FNS has set aside $1 million for this pilot program. One grantee will be selected to enter into a cooperative agreement for the purposes of developing and running community gardens at eligible high-poverty schools; teaching students involved in the gardens about agriculture production practices, diet, and nutrition; contributing produce to supplement food provided at eligible schools, student households, local food banks, or senior center nutrition programs; and conducting an evaluation of funded projects to learn more about the impacts of school gardens. For more information, click here.
School Breakfast Grant ProgramDeadline: November 15, 2010 The got breakfast? Foundation has announced its third round of Silent Hero Grants. The program will award up to $5,000 each ($50,000 in total grants) to public schools, nonprofit private schools, and nonprofit 501(c)(3) organizations participating in the National School Breakfast Program. Priority selection will be given to programs creating a breakfast program where one did not exist before. Grant funds can be used for such needs as serving equipment, program staffing, and nutrition education materials. Click here for full RFP. Love your block? Show it! Deadline: November 15, 2010 Citizens Committee for New York City and the Office of the Mayor invite your volunteer-led neighborhood group to apply for a Love Your Block Grant Award. Grants of $500 to $1,000 are awarded for block improvements that can be used toward various neighborhood renovations, such as cleaning vacant lots, planting trees in empty tree beds, and removing graffiti. In addition your group will have the opportunity to access specific city support that will help revitalize your block, including services from the Department of Transportation, Sanitation and Parks & Recreation. Plus, Citizens Committee for New York City will assist your group with local media coverage of your event! Download the application here. USDA Community Food Project RFPDeadline: November 17, 2010 The purpose of the Community Food Projects (CFPs) is to support the development of projects with a one-time infusion of federal dollars to make such projects self-sustaining. CFPs are designed to bring together stakeholders from distinct parts of the food system to promote comprehensive responses to local food and agricultural needs. Funding is available for community food projects (maximum $125,000 over 1 year or $300,000 over 3 years) and planning projects (maximum $25,000). For more information, click here. The Community Food Security Coalition provides assistance with CFP grant applications and examples of successful applications. Recipes for Healthy Kids Challenge Deadline: December 30, 2010 As part of the Let's Move! campaign, the USDA is offering cash prizes for winning student teams who submit original recipes that meet the whole grain foods, dark green and/or orange vegetables, and dry beans and peas (legumes) nutrition requirements for school meals. Go to the Recipes for Health Kids website for more information about how to enter and win. Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Peaceful Pathways Deadline: January 15, 2011 The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Local Funding Partnerships program is a matching grants program ($50,000 - $200,000) that connects the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation with local grantmakers to fund new, community-based projects to improve health and health care for vulnerable populations. The Peaceful Pathways: Reducing Exposure to Violence grant seeks to fund projects aimed at reducing violence in traditionally underserved communities that are defined by race, ethnicity, tribe, gender, sexual identity or rural/frontier location. For more information and to apply for this funding, click here. Excellence in Diabetes Care Grant ProgramDeadline: Rolling The New York State Health Foundation has announced a new Request for Proposals, Meeting the Mark: Achieving Excellence in Diabetes Care. The RFP invites organizations across New York state to apply for funds to improve the quality of care for people with diabetes and to support healthcare providers in achieving recognition by the National Committee for Quality Assurance's Diabetes Recognition Program or the Bridges to Excellence's Diabetes Care Recognition Program. For more information, click here. |
| New York City Community Garden Coalition Town Hall Meeting |
Date and Time: October 2, 12-4pm
Location: The New School - Wollman Hall, 66 W. 12th St, 5th Floor
The New York City Community Garden Coalition (NYCCGC) will convene a Town Hall Meeting to discuss the recently published " new rules" for community gardens on City land set to go into effect on October 13, 2010. Norman Seigel and Ankur Parekh, NYCCGC's pro bono lawyers, as well as Edie Stone, Director of Green Thumb will be there to answer the question "What's in the new Rules for Community Gardeners?" There will also be a discussion of alternative legal strategies for long-term preservation. Register now!
Improving Pedestrian & Bicyclist Access to Harlem River Park
Date and Time: October 5, 6:30pm
Location: Community Board 11 Meeting at LaGuardia House, 307 East 116th St.
The NYC Department of Transportation will present pedestrian and traffic calming improvements for the three intersections leading to Harlem River Park. Their recommendations are in direct response to Harlem River Park Task Force design recommendations made in 2009. The improvements will: 1) Shorten crossing distances for pedestrians and increase the time they have to cross, 2) Rationalize traffic entering and exiting nearby highway and bridges, 3) Make the entrances to the park more visible and safer, and 4) Reduce speeding vehicles and the risk for conflict between pedestrians and motorists
Let's Work Together To Create a Greener, Greater Brooklyn!
Dates and Times: October 7, 6-8pm
Location: Billie Holiday Theater at Restoration Plaza, 1368 Fulton St, Brooklyn Join the Brooklyn Community Conversation on PlaNYC: The Mayor's Sustainability Agenda. Since 2007, the City of New York has taken action to make a Greener, Greater New York with PlaNYC. The Mayor's Office is currently updating PlaNYC so that it continues to make NYC a better place to live and responds to the priorities of New Yorkers. To do so, they need your help! Come to learn more about PlaNYC, understand how PlaNYC has already affected your life, and help define you and your community's role in making the City more sustainable. This discussion is co-sponsored by the Campaign for New York's Future and the Coalition for the Improvement of Bedford-Stuyvesant (CIBS). Please RSVP: Call 212-788-9770 or email CountMeIn@cityhall.nyc.gov
Harlem Harvest Festival Date: October 9 Location: St. Nicholas between 116th and 117th Streets, including A. Philip Randolph Park.
Come to the Harlem Harvest Festival and celebrate the harvest season. Featuring a Farmers Market in partnership with Grow NYC; 'Taste of Harlem' culturally rich flavors from Harlem's (approximately 25) most celebrated restaurants and chefs; the "Agri-Culture" performance stage with performances and cooking demonstrations; a Children's Pavilion; and a Fresh Food Summit that brings food leaders and Harlem residents together to discuss the food condition in Harlem and link arms in a commitment to make things better. Register for the Fresh Food Summit now! Lecture and Discussion on Food Justice - A New Book by Robert Gottlieb and Anupama Joshi
Date and Time: October 13, 5:30 pm Location: City University of New York Graduate Center, 365 Fifth Avenue at 34th Street, Room C198, one level down Robert Gottlieb is the Henry R. Luce Professor of Urban Environmental Studies and Director of the Urban and Environmental Policy Institute at Occidental College. With Anupama Joshi, he is co-author of Food Justice, a new book by MIT Press. Come here Gottlieb speak about his new book and the emerging movement for food justice. Moderated by Nicholas Freudenberg, Distinguished Professor of Public Health, Hunter College and Graduate Center, CUNY. Register early as seating is limited. Good Health Brooklyn Walk and Bike Ride
Date and Time: October 16, 9am-3pm (8am registration and check-in)
Location: 15th St. & Prospect Park West (Bartel Pritchard Lot), Brooklyn, NY
Bring your bike (or borrow one of ours) and spread the word! The NYC Food & Fitness Partnership, the North and Central Brooklyn Bicycle Advisory Team and the Brooklyn District Public Health Office are organizing a series of bike activities at Good Health Brooklyn including: 1) Adult Learn to Ride Class with Bike New York at 9:30am, 12pm, and 2:30pm. More information about the class here. 2) DOT Helmet Giveaway from 10am-2pm, and 3) Bike rides! The 1st one departs 15th Street at 10am. *The Faith Walk organized by Borough of Brooklyn Ecumenical Advisory Groups departs 15th Street at 9:30 am. For registration information contact: Office of Minority Health at 646-253-5800 48th International Making Cities Livable Conference: True Urbanism - Planning Healthy and Child-Friendly Communities Dates: October 17-21, 2010 Location: Charleston, SC The conference will focus on how to create healthy communities, and how to improve children's health and development by improving the built environment and creating walkable and bikable neighborhoods and cities. This meeting will be jointly organized by the City of Charleston and the International Making Cities Livable Council. Obesity: The Community Fights BackDate and Time: October 20, 8:30am-3:30pm Location: SUNY Downstate Medical Center, 450 Clarkson Avenue, Brooklyn, NY - Alumni Auditorium Obesity conference organized by SUNY Downstate Medical Center will look at the challenges and opportunities in addressing the obesity epidemic, the role of culture and the environment, who's making a difference in the community and what can we do. For more information, please contact the Office of Continuing Medical Education at 718-270-2422
Project for Public Spaces Training - How to Turn a Place AroundDates: October 21-22
A two-day PPS training course, How to Turn a Place Around introduces new ways of thinking about public spaces and how Placemaking can be used to bring communities together and revitalize underperforming spaces. Please direct questions about training courses to Dana Kitzes or 212-620-5660 ext 315.
MAS Summit for New York City
Dates: October 21-22 Registration has begun for the inaugural MAS Summit for New York City . The Summit will examine the challenges the city faces in its seemingly contradictory roles as a growing capital and as a city of unique neighborhoods. Click here for program information and to register. School Food Rocks - Promoting Healthy, Nutritious, Sustainable Food in our Public SchoolsDate and Time: October 23, 10am-2pm Location: William Alexander Middle School (MS 51), 350 5th Ave, Brooklyn, NY Please join the Offices of Councilmembers Brad Lander and Sara Gonzalez, the Brooklyn Food Coalition, GrowNYC, the American Heart Association, Meatless Mondays and Chef Ann Cooper for School Food Rocks! Schools in Brooklyn's School District 15 and across Brooklyn are hard at work improving the health, quality and reach of school food. School Food Rocks will bring together parents, educators, students, SchoolFood staff, and food activists to learn about ways to achieve healthier and more sustainable school food throughout School District 15 (Red Hook, Sunset Park, Cobble Hill, Carroll Gardens, Park Slope, Kensington, Windsor Terrace). Whether your school already has an active sustainable food program, or is just getting started, this conference will be a chance for you to share best practices and collect new information. Register here. Six Weeks to Fitness ChallengeRegister now to take the Six Weeks to Fitness Challenge hosted by Body Sculpt of New York, Inc. From November 2-December 14, 2010, participants will challenge themselves to get fit! The top 3 participants who show the most improvement in their weight and percentage of body fat win! Register from October 29-November 1, 2010. Visit the website for more information. Project for Public Spaces Training: Streets as Places Dates: November 4-5, 2010 Streets as Places is a two-day training seminar about how to redefine transportation and streets to build communities, not simply move cars. Issues that will be addressed include: how street design can promote community health and economic vitality; how communities are using Action Planning and street improvement experiments to transform their streets into quality public spaces; how to incorporate bicycle lanes and multi-modal infrastructure in urban and rural areas where street space is limited; how to develop more walkable neighborhoods around transit stations; and how citizens can use Placemaking to build great streets and great communities and how to engage transportation agencies to achieve the above outcomes. Please direct questions about training courses to Dana Kitzes or 212-620-5660 ext 315.
American Public Health Association Annual Meeting and ExpositionDates: November 6-10, 2010 Location: Denver, CO The APHA Annual Meeting & Exposition is the premier Public Health Educational Forum! Learn from the experts in the field, hear about cutting edge research and exceptional best practices, discover the latest public health products and services, and share your public health experience with your peers. The theme of this year's meeting is Social Justice - a Public Health Imperative. It Takes a Region - 2010: A Working Conference to Build Our Northeast Food SystemDates: November 12-13, 2010 (Pre-conference training - November 11) Location: Desmond Hotel and Conference Center, Albany, NY For conference information and agenda, visit the website. Early bird registration deadline is October 22. Conference hosted by the Northeast Sustainable Agriculture Working Group. Stop Speeding SummitDate: November 19 Transportation Alternatives will host a "Stop Speeding Summit" that will bring together elected officials and leaders in the fields of transportation policy, public health, medicine, traffic safety and enforcement. Reckless speeding drivers cause New Yorkers to fear the very spaces they must utilize in order to improve their health. It is time we discuss how to work together to prevent hundreds of deaths and thousands of injuries due to the unsafe speed of motor vehicles on our streets. Among other lifesaving topics, the day will explore how other cities have reduced the severity of injuries in traffic through strategic enforcement and the use of automated enforcement technologies. Please email Lindsey Ganson or call (646) 873-6028 for more details or to RSVP. Come out on November 19 and support safer and healthier streets in NYC! Black Farmers & Urban Gardeners Conference: Growing Wealth, Health and Justice in Our CommunitiesDates: November 19 - 21 Location: Brooklyn College, Brooklyn, NY This November, hundreds will gather to answer one question of increasing importance in the black community: What's for dinner in your neighborhood and who's behind it? Join your neighbors from across the nation and honorable keynote speaker Will Allen, founder and CEO of Growing Power, Inc., for the first annual Black Farmers and Urban Gardeners Conference. The conference will convene concerned citizens from variety of backgrounds - educators, food activists, gardeners, chefs, community leaders, health professionals and more. For more information on volunteering, sponsoring or facilitating workshops, visit the website. |
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