Category Archives: Money and Finance

BSRC’s Financial Empowerment Center

Posted on June 29, 2009 by The Changeling

The Bedford-Stuyvesant Restoration Corporation offers free financial counseling. Details are below.

To view an enlarged version of this flyer, click here.

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Brooklyn Cooperative Celebrates One Year in Bed-Stuy

Posted on June 23, 2009 by The Changeling

[ June 24, 2009; 5:00 pm to 7:00 pm. ]

This Wednesday, June 24th, Brooklyn Cooperative invites you to celebrate the first year anniversary of its Bedford Stuyvesant branch office. The Bedford Stuyvesant Artists’ Association will be on hand to present paintings by their members, refreshments will be served and a slogan contest winner will be announced.

Please RSVP to Stephane at stephane@brooklyn.coop.

Brooklyn Cooperative Celebration
Wednesday, June [...]

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BSDC Safeguard Your Home Series

Posted on June 23, 2009 by The Changeling

[ June 24, 2009; 10:00 am to 12:00 pm. June 30, 2009; 6:30 pm to 8:30 pm. ]

The Bridge Street Development Corporation is presenting a Safeguard Your Home Series. Two workshops in this series are scheduled for this week and next week:

Learn How to Avoid Quick Cash Scams
Wednesday, June 24th 10:00 am—12:00 pm

Webinar Series Launch
Tuesday, June 30, 2009
6:30 pm—8:00 pm

These workshops will be [...]

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Recession Survival Fair

Posted on June 5, 2009 by Alexa11221

[ June 6, 2009; 11:00 am to 4:00 pm. ] Once you’ve met the candidates for Al Vann’s seat at Brownstone Books (see earlier post),  go around the corner to the Mt Lebanon Baptist Church for the Recession Survival Fair.

Here’s the information:

Dear Friends,
Recognizing that the coming year will likely be a difficult one for many of us here in Brooklyn, Brooklyn for Barack, hosted by [...]

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Help Out a Student in Need

Posted on May 31, 2009 by Alexa11221

From FRANK WHITE NYC:
Our favorite intern Kiara, 17 is graduating from William H. Maxwell High School next month and needs your help getting off to college. She also needs help going to the prom next week.
With no support at home, she turned to us for help and she wasn’t happy doing so. Like most teenagers [...]

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Brooklyn Business Summit

Posted on May 18, 2009 by The Changeling

[ May 27, 2009; ]
The Brooklyn Business Summit will be taking place on Wednesday, May 27th at Polytechnic Institute of NYU in Downtown Brooklyn.

It’s Brooklyn’s FREE business workshop for small businesses and entrepreneurs. This all day summit will focus on financial literacy, minority & women business enterprise, marketing, and sustainability. It will consist of an expo, a Triple Bottom [...]

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Subprime Lending Study of Madison Street and Putnam Avenue

Posted on April 15, 2009 by The Changeling

Hilary Botein, a professor at Baruch College, is doing research on the impact of subprime lending and mortgage foreclosures on 2 blocks in Bedford-Stuyvesant (Madison St. and Putnam Ave. between Lewis and Stuyvesant Avenues). She’s traced the real estate transaction histories of all of the non multi-family properties on those two blocks since the [...]

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The Question Everyone in Bed-Stuy is Asking

Posted on March 30, 2009 by The Changeling

Seen on Bedford and Myrtle

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H.O.M.E. Rescue Clinic This Thursday!

Posted on February 24, 2009 by The Changeling

[ February 26, 2009; 7:00 pm; ] [caption id="" align="alignnone" width="525" caption="Bedford-Stuyvesant Homes"][/caption]
This is a few blocks over in Bushwick, but it’s a very important event. Thanks to SP for sending it in!

The East Kings County Alumnae Chapter of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc. (DST) and Assemblyman Darryl are hosting an event, “A H.O.M.E. Rescue Clinic,” Thursday, February 26th at 7:00 [...]

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CIBS Symposium on Strategies for Dealing with the Economic Environment

Posted on February 19, 2009 by The Changeling

[ February 21, 2009; 10:00 am to 3:00 pm. ] The CIBS (Coalition for the Improvement of Bedford-Stuyvesant) Asset Building Network is having a press conference and symposium this Saturday, February 21st at the First AME Zion Church. The symposium is called “Strategies for Dealing with The Economic Environment.” Here’s the information that they’ve sent us about the program:

David Ushery, Anchor, WNBC [...]

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