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Tuesday, December 1, 2015

Community Voice Meeting [] - Astoria Park Alliance


Community Voice Meeting
Bohemian Hall  
Tuesday, 7:00 PM in EDT in Astoria
tbd   2016

www.facebook.com / Astoriaparkalliance / events
www.cityparksfoundation.org/events/category/city-parks-foundation

To ensure the conservation and sustainability of  
Astoria Park for all New Yorkers    
by empowering public partnerships.




Community Voice Meeting
Tuesday 2016  – 7:00 pm

Bohemian Hall & Garden
www.facebook.com/events //



[To be updated]

Greeting and Welcome
# Volunteerism # Advocacy # Programming
Financial Report [increased account balance]
Shore Fest bookkeeping proposals
Report on DOT traffic safety meeting

Calendar 2016 planning

Old initiatives: Signage for park areas of maintenance
Doggy waste bag dispensers
Bilingual story telling
Campaign against garbage

New initiatives: Bocce ball refurbishment
Playground expansion
Shore line cleanup expansion

501c3
Board of Directors
Lawyers Alliance
Increasing capacity, sustaining Astoria Park and the Alliance
Communication
Delegation
Outreach

Open discussion

[Welcome Astoria Music & Arts, welcome Astoria Post]



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www.nycgovparks.org /highlights/festivals/ mulchfest
Saturday and Sunday, January 9 and 10, 2016 
10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m.


Astoriaparkalliance.blogspot.com /2015/11/ Leaf-fest-at-astoria-park-great-success



NYC Parks Commissioner; Past President, American Planning Association. 
Former Raleigh Chief Planner. City Innovator.



. Heard it went well. Thank you for caring for Astoria Park


Thank you volunteers! Amazing result in Saturday.


Thank You







Bohemian Hall


Butterfly garden changes



Advocacy Projects

www.dnainfo.com /new-york/20151009/ Astoria/ 
city-hold-workshop-on-ways-make-streets-near-astoria-park-safer
Park perimeter street changes and DOT meeting

Bathrooms near playground
Playground visioning next steps

Priority and goal setting

Shore Fest


www.streetsblog.org /2015/10/30/ 
Astoria-residents-tell-dot-their-ideas-for-safer-streets-by-astoria-park





GetInvolved @ AstoriaParkalliance.org

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www.Centralastoria.org/news
Astoria Park holiday tree
Save the date - Dec. 5th





Astoriaparkalliance.blogspot.com /2014/12/ Mulchfest-treecycle-nycparks


Advocacy

www.ny4p.org / advocacy


@NYCParks
Tell us what you think and help us make your parks more open, welcome, & beautiful:  


Thank You

Introduction to the 2016 Partnerships Academy Fellowship


















www.greenthumbnyc.org /PDF/ greenthumb-program-guide-2015-winter.PDF




Cheers to my raking partner for his commitment to Astoria Park.
















Driver sentenced in hit-and-run that killed woman near Astoria Park:



Lots of people out at #LeafFest in #AstoriaPark! The @nycparks Commissioner is here, as is Councilman Costa Constantinides. @astoriaparkalliance and @nycares volunteers abound! Thanks to all for beautifying the park.



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Happy to announce Astoria's first  
"Small Business Saturday Retail Crawl."
For All this Nov 28. 
Buy what you love from the businesses you love and support your community.





Reduce el correo basura en tu con esta herramienta :









"The entire world matters and peace IS possible." - @ JaredLeto





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Thank you partners. New York City Parks [#GivingTuesday]


What is 
#GivingTuesday?

What is #GivingTuesday?

Created by 92nd Street Y — a cultural center in New York City that, since 1874, has been bringing people together around the values of service and giving back — #GivingTuesday connects diverse groups of individuals, communities and organizations around the world for one common purpose: to celebrate and encourage giving. A team of influencers and founding partners joined forces — collaborating across sectors, offering expertise and working tirelessly — to launch #GivingTuesday and have continued to shape, grow and strengthen the movement.




The Big Ideas Behind #GivingTuesday

#GivingTuesday harnesses the potential of social media and the generosity of people around the world to bring about real change in their communities; it provides a platform for them to encourage the donation of time, resources and talents to address local challenges. It also brings together the collective power of a unique blend of partners — nonprofits, civic organizations, businesses and corporations, as well as families and individuals — to encourage and amplify small acts of kindness.







Provide a day of nature programs at the Park for a public school class
A gift of any amount will help the Park! 

Thank you for your contribution.




[No official endorsements. Learn more about giving at:]
Environment : Botanical Gardens, Parks, and Nature Centers

City Parks Foundation


www.charitynavigator.org /index
www.charitynavigator.org / support

Charity Navigator




Thank you partners. New York City’s Low-Profile Parks to Get Conservancies’ Help .




Commissioner Mitchell J. Silver, FAICP, said, “We value the City's long-standing partnership with our conservancy partners and look forward to working together to not only promote the long-term vitality of our flagship parks but to develop new ways of bringing their expertise, resources, and passion to community parks where there is great need.”
The partnership between the City and these park non-profit organizations has been vital to ensuring that many of New York City’s most utilized parks are more vibrant today than ever. Their work over the years has supported enhanced maintenance, thousands of volunteers, dynamic programming and critical capital improvements in these parks through millions of dollars in private funding. Now these organizations will expand on their record of assisting community parks by dedicating resources and expertise to reviving park sites for New Yorkers who need them the most through the Community Parks Initiative.
Conservancy contributions to CPI are: 
  • Bryant Park Corporation (BPC)
  • Central Park Conservancy (CPC)
  • Friends of the High Line (FHL)
  • Madison Square Park Conservancy (MSPC)
  • New York Restoration Project (NYRP)
  • Prospect Park Alliance (PPA)
  • Randall’s Island Park Alliance (RIPA)
  • The Battery Conservancy (TBC)


NYRP has reclaimed, restored and revitalized more than 400 acres of the city’s most-needed public green spaces and their adjacent communities. - See more at: www.nyrp.org





Please consider making a tax-deductible donation today to
City Parks Foundation for the APA.
Donations by check should be made out to:

Please put ASTORIA PARK ALLIANCE  in the
memo note of your check. Mail to:


Astoria Park Alliance


3811 Ditmars Blvd #849
Astoria, NY 11105





qgazette.com/news/ 2014-11-12 /PDF
Thank You 2014

Astoria Park Wine & Spirits

28-07 24th Ave, Astoria, NY 11105
(718) 606-1142
Warm, tin-ceilinged shop offering 300+ labels of wine, small batch spirits & tastings.
Astoriapark wineandspirits.com /about-us


“The fact that they’re stepping up voluntarily is great news.”
http://thevillager.com /2015/11/26/ Conservancies-will-pitch-in-to-help-smaller-parks

Conservancies will pitch in to help smaller parks



Small Business Saturday Retail Crawl! 
Favorite local stores will be participating on SBS, 11/28




Inside Astoria

28-07 Ditmars Blvd., (718) 956-4000
The Astoria Bookshop

The Little Soap Shop


Lockwood & Lockwood Style


Bowery Bay












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Thursday, November 26, 2015

Giving Thanks - Proof That Saying "Thank You" Matters [NewYorkCares]





Proof That Saying "Thank You" Matters
Nov 20, 2013

www.newyorkcares.org / blogs / proof-saying-thank-you-matters




I owe 600 people an apology for not saying thank you.
It’s the holidays – the time of giving back – and as often happens for me, my mind turns to gratitude. But this season I feel a little guilty about 600 volunteers whom New York Cares never thanked. These dedicated New Yorkers helped underserved kids learn to read; gave warm meals to people living on the streets; visited lonely residents of nursing homes, and more. And we never said thank you.
A while back, we received a grant from Points of Light to test strategies to increase volunteer engagement. We had a theory that if we thanked volunteers and let them know we appreciated them, they’d feel even better about their experience and be more likely to do it again. We wanted proof that saying thank you really matters. And we wanted to measure it.
So we did.
We tracked 4,600 volunteers who hit a range of service milestones over the course of a year. We systematically thanked them after their 5th project, after 50 projects, on anniversaries of their years of service, and more. We thanked 4,000 people individually one or more times and let them know we not only noticed, but appreciated, their efforts.
At the same time, we randomly selected a control group of 600 volunteers from the same pool – 13 percent of the total. We didn’t thank these generous New Yorkers at all. We communicated via standard newsletters and other mass correspondence. But not one received an individual, personalized token of thanks.
What happened?
We proved that when we said thank you, people volunteered more. Thanked volunteers completed four more projects during the year, on average, than people we left alone. Volunteers in the recognition group volunteered 15 times during the year; unrecognized individuals just 11 times. Sixteen percent of our total 97,000 volunteer opportunities filled just because we said thanks.
The recognized group also became volunteer leaders at a faster rate: 8 percent versus 6 percent for the non-recognized group. This generated 50 additional Team Leaders ready to start new projects and expand to meet the needs of our Community Partners.
We also measured the impact on our bottom line. Previous cost-analysis work, undertaken with the help of Morgan Stanley, allowed us to calculate the cost of recruiting and training new volunteers. We determined that we saved $40,000 in incremental staff time by filling projects with people who were already volunteers. In a year when funding was tight, 80 percent of our growth came from saying thank you.
To be sure, there are additional factors at play – such as the quality of a volunteer’s experience, personal passion for a cause, whether someone is employed, and more. And saying thank you is not exactly revolutionary. But what is new is being able to prove conclusively that recognition has a tangible impact on volunteer engagement.
So as volunteer ranks swell with people eager to give back in the midst of Thanksgiving celebrations and holiday gift giving, I’m grateful we’ve been able to use studies like this to help New York Cares expand its programs by 20 percent to better serve New Yorkers during a difficult economic time.
And if you’re one of the hard working volunteers we ignored, I hope you can accept this as my public apology. Your time matters.
Thank you!
By Gary Bagley
get to know new york cares


APA Thanks New York Cares and the entire community of volunteers.

@newyorkcares  @NewYorkCaresED


Someone drew a smiley face on the back of this NYC Parks truck. (at Astoria Park)
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www.nycservice.org




www.nycservice.org

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