October 2008
| October 6 Time: 6:30-8:00pm |
Perserving Small Scale Retail |
October 16
SBNYC Event |
Being Your Own Pied Piper: How the Song of Local Business Will Save the Economy Calling all local business owners! Gather around the CUE table as your Brooklyn peers and allies share tested tools for weathering national financial storms. Hear how one Kings County business battled foreclosure by mobilizing customers and neighbors. Discover the ways an advocacy agency galvanized local business owners and restored a commercial district. Learn how companies are increasing their market value by implementing environmental performance standards. And, after highlights from the Brooklyn Chamber of Commerce’s recent economic report, celebrate Brooklyn’s resilient and diverse local economy. Panelists include: Catherine Bohne, Park Slope Community Bookstore; Carl Hum, Brooklyn Chamber of Commerce President; Michael Muyot, President of CRD Analytics and Jennifer Stokes, Bussiness Assistance Manager at Myrtle Avenue Brooklyn Partnership |
November 2008
| November 5 6:30-8:00pm |
Jane Jacobs Forum: Housing New Yorkers in the 21st Century |
| November 6 8:30-10:30am |
Keys to the Community:Unlocking the Commercial Vitality of Brooklyn's Neighborhoods |
| November 10 6pm-8pm |
How Will New York's Neighborhoods Recover? |
| November 12 10am-12pm |
"Green-Collar" Jobs: A Solution to NYC's Environmental and Workforce Ills? |
| November 13 8:30am-10:30am |
Breaking the Green Ceiling: Affordable Housing Meets Environmentalism |
| November 14 7pm-8pm |
Film Screening and Panel Discussion: Paperback Dreams |
| November 17 3pm-7pm |
Brownfields Forum: Building the Smart Growth Link Between Redevelopment and Sustainable Communities |
| November 18 8:30am-2:00pm |
A WORLD OF OPPORTUNITY:
Should New York and Other Cities Look to Immigrant Entrepreneurs as a New Engine for Economic Growth? |
| November 18 9am-11am |
New York City's Energy Future
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November 19 SBNYC Event |
“How I Got Off Bleach”: A Sustainable Operations 1-2-3 for Restaurant Owners Restaurant owners, chefs and line cooks gather ‘round as David Selig, owner of RICE restaurants, details the why, how and how much of transitioning his restaurants off industrial chemical cleaners while still meeting NYC inspection criteria and improving the experience of his customers and employees. You’ll return to your kitchens with a guide to purchasing organic kitchen cleaning products from NYC-vendors and opportunities to sign-up for free, city-wide compost hauling and cooking-oil recycling services (they both come to you). And all this in time for you to make the dinner rush back at your place. RICE snacks and sips will be available during this industry-only program. |
| November 21 & 22 Weekend Conference |
Philadelphia Social Venture Institute |
December 2008
| December 2 6-8:00pm |
Business Legal Clinic by WIBO (Workshop in Business Opportunity) |
| December 4 7-10:00pm |
Young Women Social Entrepreneurs (New York Chapter): Networking Event - Mentoring 2.0 |
| December 9 7-8:30pm |
Venture Capital: Getting Ready for Equity |
| December 10 9-11:00am |
What's Next? Maintaining and Increasing Organizational Capacity in Times of Change |
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December 10 SBNYC Event |
“The First Cut: Energy Costs”: A Sustainable Operations Clinic No matter what type of business you own, reassessing your facility’s energy use is a basic component of being a practical and responsible business owner. Come to this SBNYC Business Clinic to learn more about the process from NYC engineering firm EME Group – see first-hand what an energy audit meant for SBNYC member Green Spaces NY, go on a tour of their facility to view improvement recommendations, and learn why SBNYC believes this is something that you want to do and something you can afford to do! Sign up for an audit at the event, walk away with tips for simple changes you can make and view recommended products. |
| December 11 10-11:30am |
Weathering For The Winter—Insulation and Your Business’s Energy Conservation |
| December 14 12-3:00pm |
CarrotMob comes to Tarzian Hardware in Park Slope! Each purchase will help Tarzian make energy improvements to their store! |
| December 20 8pm-10pm |
GreenEdge NYC's Second Anniversary Solstice Soiree |
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December 10 2008
7pm - 8:30pm:
The First Cut: Energy Costs
A Sustainable Operations Clinic
Come to the SBNYC clinic to learn more about the audit process, get tips for quick and easy energy savings, discover products that will help you reduce your energy use and sign up for an audit.
@ GreenSpaces NY on Flatbush Avenue
Please see our Events section for details.
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