Announcements

--Trees New York  

--The Metropolitan Waterfront Alliance
--New York Industrial Retention Network, Food From New York
--Mercy Corps
--Anna Lappe
--The New York Botanical Garden
--Montefiore School Health
--Children's Aid Society
--East New York Farms!
--Food Bank for NYC (2)
--World Hunger Year
--New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (4)
--New York City Food and Fitness Partnership (2)

Please see attached listings.

The United Food and Commercial Workers Union Local 1500 Chapter invites you to review their proposal: "Building Blocks Project Statement of Food Policy Principles Seeking Greater Access to Quality, Affordable Food" and sign on.

*The attached letter is provided as an educational service only. FSNYC is unable to endorse any public policy positions.

On behalf of the Healthy Corner Stores Network, the Community Food Security
Coalition requests proposals for grants to increase access to healthy foods
through small-scale stores in areas of high poverty and/or food insecurity.

* Grant Amount: three grants up to $20,000 will be awarded, plus additional
technical assistance (up to $5,000 per grantee). Applicants must provide a
one-to-one match (cash and/or in-kind).
* Grant Period: 12 to 16 months, with the start date between July 1 and
November 30, 2008, and the end date by November 30, 2009 (applicant may choose
within this range).
* Grant Deadline: May 14, 2008 by 6:00 Pacific time (emailed).
* Grant Eligibility: U.S.-based nonprofit organizations with 501(c)(3)
tax-exempt status.

The New York City Department of Environmental Protection is proud to
announce the 22nd annual Water Conservation Art & Poetry Contest.
This year, for the first time, we are inviting fourth grade students to
join fifth and sixth graders to creatively express their understanding
of our City's valuable water resources through art and poetry.

All winners will be honored at a special Award
Ceremony at The Cooper Union, located in Greenwich Village, on
Thursday, May 8th from 1:30 p.m. to 3:30 p.m.

Greenmarket is publishing an e-newsletter, Greenmarket Dirt. Subscribe today!

The Center for Ecoliteracy and Teachers College Columbia University present their joint program: Rethinking Food, Health, and the Environment. Find out more.

Encourage the food manufacturers in your community to fill out this
brief survey created by FFNY to assess the demand for locally and/or regionally grown
ingredients and materials in NYC.

A NYC urban permaculture design certificate (PDC) course offered by
Local Energy Solutions (a project of The Five Borough Institute, a Not
For Profit Organizaton) began March 1st.

Open to the public are:

1)individual classroom sessions,

2) an open film series at Blue Stockings
such issues as: Media Literacy, Economic Origins, and many others AND

3)hands-on workdays in local gardens and outskirts.
For dates and locations and registration, go to
www.localenergysolutions.org or contact us at
info@localenergysolutions.org or 718.441.0246.