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Volunteer to Help NYC Count Our Homeless
Every year, the Department of Homeless Services conducts the Homeless Population Outreach Estimate – or HOPE. Over the course of just one night, HOPE marshalls 3,000 volunteers to gather critical...
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A Look Inside the Church Ave BID’s Soup Kitchen Event
Last Saturday, the Church Avenue BID hosted its second (and reportedly final) neighborhood cooking class/soup kitchen event at the Flatbush Reformed Church. Marshaling some local restaurant — and...
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Brooklyn Bike Patrol Expands to Ditmas Park
If you’d like a safe escort on your way home at night, the Brooklyn Bike Patrol has just expanded to cover parts of our area. BBP came together after a string of sexual assaults hit Brooklyn from Bay...
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Donate to Help Family Whose Young Son Died in a Fire This Weekend
The death of 8-year-old Aschton Charles during a fire in his family’s home on Bedford Avenue early Saturday morning that was reportedly started by a space heater has left his family reeling. Not only...
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Apply to Win a $25,000 Grant for a Community Cause
Know of a Ditmas Park cause that could use $25,000? State Farm Neighborhood Assist is a crowd-sourced philanthropic initiative that invites communities to determine where grant funding is awarded,...
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Know How to Find & Write Grants? Volunteer at SCAR
Sean Casey Animal Rescue is currently looking for volunteers with experience in finding and applying for grants that can help increase the shelter’s funds: The nature of SCAR has always been to work...
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Learn How to Care for Young Street Trees on Monday
After several new trees were planted along Coney Island Avenue last summer, many started to suffer and didn’t look too healthy. To help care for some of the trees in the area by PS 217, neighbor Maria...
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Prospect Park Volunteer Auxiliary Police Officers Wanted
Following reports of an increase in crime in Prospect Park last year — 40 crimes, compared to 27 in 2011 — the NYPD is recruiting new Auxiliary Police to volunteer to help patrol the park: Auxiliary...
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Help Work on the Newkirk Plaza Mosaic
Artist and neighbor Carlos Pinto and the Brooklyn Recycle Project will be working on the mosaic mural at the Newkirk Plaza passageway on Saturday, March 9 from about 10am to 1pm, and he’s inviting...
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Best Cursed Pothole
This pothole on Argyle just north of Cortelyou may be the best cursed one in the neighborhood yet — it seems to provoke someone’s strong feelings about every 30 seconds or so, and has been for over...
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Volunteer at Sean Casey’s Off-Site Events
If you can walk a big dog and you like talking to people, Sean Casey Animal Rescue (153 E 3rd St) could use you as a volunteer. They’re currently looking for help with their off-site events on...
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Fund Your Non-Profit Project With Up to $1,000 From WAAB
Does your non-profit organization provide employment resources for low-income youth? Local organization We Are All Brooklyn (WAAB) is offering up to $1,000 for Brooklyn-based individuals and groups...
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Sean Casey Animal Rescue in Need of Cat & Kitten Food
Sean Casey Animal Rescue posted on Facebook last night about running very low on canned cat and kitten food. If you’d like to make a donation, you can do so by ordering food off their Amazon wishlist,...
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Get Your Hands Dirty at a Compost for Brooklyn Workday on Saturday
Join Compost for Brooklyn at the garden on Newkirk and E 8th St this Saturday, March 30 from 11-2pm to help finish up renovations in preparation for their new compost system: Mainly we will be sifting...
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Donate to CAMBA’s Spring Food Drive
CAMBA’s Spring Food Drive is on now through April. This will help restock their food pantry, which serves 5,000 Brooklynites each month. Canned items that are most needed include dried milk, beans,...
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Volunteer & Get Dirty At The Sustainable Flatbush Garden
Sustainable Flatbush recently sent an update on how their Healing Herb Garden at the Flatbush Reformed Church is coming along. So far, it looks like a lot of plant-housing structures have been...
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Free Health Fair At Our Lady Of Refuge May 5
Our Lady of Refuge Church (2020 Foster Ave. on the corner of Ocean Ave.) will be holding a free health fair on Sunday, May 5 from 9am-5pm. Services offered include blood pressure and diabetes...
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Ditmas Parkers Are Still Helping Sandy Survivors, And You Can Too
It’s been nearly half a year since Hurricane Sandy, which affected our community and surrounding ones in ways from the massive destruction of trees, to the loss of two beloved young people, to the...
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Volunteer At Great GoogaMooga & See The Show For Free
Want to move beyond the lines, and get an inside look at the Great GoogaMooga? The festival is looking for volunteers to help with everything from “site build, vendor coordination, park information,...
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Apply For The 2013-2014 WAAB Fellowship Before June 28
We Are All Brooklyn (WAAB), a local organization dedicated to by uniting diverse communities in and out of our borough and mentoring residents interested in making a change, is currently seeking...
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