Park Slope Civic Council

Park Slope Civic Council Monthly Trustees Meeting
2012-05-03 19:00 - 21:00 UTC | New York Methodist Hospital, 506 Sixth St, 11215
This meeting is open to the public — members and nonmembers are welcome to attend.
The agenda for this meeting will be posted a few days prior to the event.
Also, please be sure to review our rules for presentations at meetings.

How Crowd-Funding and Microlending Can Boost Your Business and Fund Your Dream Project
2012-05-02 19:30 - 21:30 | Two Moon Art House and Cafe, 315 Fourth Avenue, NY, 11215, United States
Learn more about this important topic for small businesses at this Park Slope Small Business Forum event.
Find out how you can:

Get your creative idea funded.
Get support from your local community for your business.
Get needed start-up funds to grow your business
Learn tips and tricks on tapping into the social lending world.

Speakers:
Jay Lee is one of the founders of Small Knot, a local, social lending platform. Through Small Knot, people can invest in their own communities by giving a social loan to a locally owned small business. Lee will give some background on Small Knot and explain how your local business can become a recipient of funds through Small Knot.
Tim Sutton is a filmmaker, educator, and founding director of Video Kid Brooklyn, a film school for New York City youth. He is also the recipient of more than $40,000 from Kickstarter, the world’s largest funding platform for creative projects. Sutton will talk about his experiences with the Kickstarter process and his formula for success.
Erica Dorn is the business development officer for Accion, a microlending organization that has provided financing to more than 20,000 small businesses. Dorn develops strategic partnerships that provide emerging small businesses with expert coaches and public-relations opportunities in addition to credit-building financing to grow healthy businesses.

RSVP required: weissj2003@yahoo.com.

About the Park Slope Small Business Forum
The Park Slope Small Business Forum is an avenue for entrepreneurs, people starting or running small businesses, and freelancers to share advice, network, and gain useful resources. Learn more at facebook.com/parkslopesmallbusinessforum.
Networking starts at 7.30 p.m., speakers start at 8 p.m. The meeting is free, but we ask you to buy a drink (delicious home cooked food is also available) to thank Two Moon Art House and Cafe for supporting our forum (twomoonbklyn.com).

Spring Civic Sweep 2012
2012-04-21 10:00 - 14:00 | Da Nonna Rosa; Upstairs Room; 140 7th Ave., Fifth Avenue between Third and Fourth Streets, Park Slope, Brooklyn, NY, United States
Make a clean sweep of your home and your neighborhood by joining the Park Slope Civic Council at its annual spring beautification and clean-up event: the Spring Civic Sweep.

The Civic Council is joining with MillionTreesNYC and GrowNYC at this year’s sweep to offer even more opportunities for a better community. Learn more about this event on our blog.

Park Slope Civic Council Monthly Trustees Meeting
2012-04-05 19:00 - 21:00 | New York Methodist Hospital, 506 Sixth St. (between Seventh and Eighth Avenues), Brooklyn, NY, United States

The BK Gateway Transportation Workshop
2012-03-31 10:00 - 13:00 | To Be Determined, Brooklyn, NY, United States
The neighborhoods of Park Slope, Prospect Heights, Crown Heights, Fort Greene, Clinton Hill, Downtown Brooklyn, Carroll Gardens, Red Hook, and Brooklyn Heights face significant transportation challenges. Existing traffic and parking congestion, demands on transit service, and dangerous roads for cyclists and pedestrians already pose hurdles for residents, businesses and the environment. The opening of the Barclays Center at Atlantic Yards will further compound these challenges.
Please join New York City Council Member Letitia James and the Prospect Heights Neighborhood Development Council for the BK Gateway Transportation Workshop, which will lay the groundwork for developing community driven solutions to the transportation issues facing the area.

Discuss transportation issues affecting our community
Planning workshops with transportation experts
Assist in developing a plan to help guide the New York City Department of Transportation
Help develop a plan for the future of transportation and transit in our community

R.S.V.P: Due to limited space, participants must register. If you would like to attend please e-mail bsherman@council.nyc.gov.
Co-sponsored by: Councilmember Stephen Levin | Councilmember Brad Lander | Tri-State Transportation Campaign | Park Slope Civic Council | Boerum Hill Association | Transportation Alternatives | Community Board 2
