Vote for $5,000 for Community Development in Crown Heights!

One of your favorite neighborhood blogs and development organizations (Nostrand Park, ahem) has the opportunity to win $5,000 towards community development initiatives for Crown Heights!!

OUR IMPACT

In the past 2 years, Nostrand Park has been at the forefront of placemaking initiatives in Crown Heights:

• - we have launched over 800 posts about neighborhood entrepreneurs, mom and pops, events, artists and community organizations

• - we rallied 12 local teens to volunteer to plant flowers, pick up trash, and clean Franklin Avenue in CHCA's clean up day

• - we coordinated a day of service in the neighborhood, including a community gardening day

• - and of course now, the big project that we are working on is Destination Nostrand, which entails merchant organizing, retail attraction, and clean-up and planting of Nostrand Avenue.

We did all that with an unpaid, volunteer staff. Imagine what can be accomplished in Crown Heights for $5,000!

TO VOTE

All you have to do is navigate to this webpage and click the button to the right. You may have to create an account or just sign in with Facebook. You can vote up to 5 times per day (and there are some other Crown Heights folks that you may want to share your votes with) every day until October 15th.


CORNY SLOGAN

5 votes a day = $5,000 for our communi-tay.

You should re-submit this on Monday. Their site is down until then.

Thanks, rosweed. The voting appears to be back up and running!

Nostrand Park is one of the only organizations specifically dedicated to community economic development and commercial revitalization in Crown Heights - projects like district marketing, retail attraction, commercial corridor clean-up, and job creation. If you are interested in supporting these types of initiatives in the neighborhood, do vote!

Your votes are working. Crown Heights is trailing in the community development category by only 111 votes! We are so close - keep voting! Only 4 days of voting left. You can vote 5 times in a row each day.

Crown Heights has moved up to 5th place out of 53! We need to be in 4th to be a finalist. 140 votes away from taking 4th ... Keep voting, your votes are working! Vote 5 TIMES in a row ... http://dogoodrighthere.org/campaigns/3

c'mon people, it is easy......

you can do it!

in the spirit of board and neighborhood unity, i suggest spending some of those votes on lauchpad: http://www.brooklynian.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=59594

they're doing great work.

thought this was really cool. i voted for her. LOL @ communi-tay

sweet tea wrote: in the spirit of board and neighborhood unity, i suggest...

Good Point! You should also put on the launchpad thread about Nostrand Park in the spirit of neighborhood unity!

^sure, and so could you just copy and paste.

i did it this way because this thread is getting a lot more attention.