“Fort Greene Strategic Neighborhood Action Partnership (SNAP) helps community
residents of the Fort Greene, Clinton Hill and surrounding communities, understand and
learn the tools that can help them take control of their lives and make positive decisions
that lead to a fuller quality of life.”
If you’re interested in discovering how most wealthy people amassed their fortunes, this is the course for you. Contrary to popular opinion, most of us don’t achieve true wealth through luck or an accident of fate. Just about anybody can build wealth. All it takes is organization, discipline, and a firm knowledge of how to proceed. If you’re serious about accumulating a sizable nest egg and living the life of your dreams, this course will supply you with the knowledge and skills you’ll need to succeed.
In this course, a certified financial planner will walk you through the steps you need to take in order to achieve true financial success. You’ll become comfortable with the broad array of investment choices available to you right now, and you’ll discover the best ways to acquire and accumulate both cash and real property. We’ll also discuss the tax implications of your investment decisions, along with steps you can take to protect any wealth you acquire.
The class is $95 and will be held completely online. The class can be taken at home, or in SNAP’s open access computer lab.
Fort Greene SNAP, is one of sixteen collaborative teams selected by desigNYC for the 2012 “Recharging Communities “projects. The teams are composed of nonprofits serving the public good paired with civic minded design professionals who share their expertise on a pro bono basis. Fort Greene SNAP will work on a collaborative basis with New York City design firm Incorporated Architecture and Design for a resdesign of their Myrtle Avenue storefront.
Fort Greene SNAP offers community programs that teach civic organizing, financial literacy, technology, entrepreneurship and job skills. They are paired with the design firm Incorporated Architecture and Design(www.incorporatedny.com) to have their learning spaces, including the computer lab and multi-use classroom, redesigned to more efficiently accommodate a growing number of participants and staff.
Fort Greene SNAP (www.fortgreenesnap.org) is one of four Brooklyn organizations to be chosen. A total of sixteen nonprofits are being paired with sixteen pro bono design professionals to form collaborative teams and improve the lives of New Yorkers. The three other Brooklyn organizations are Compost for Brooklyn, Gowanus Canal Conservancy and FAB Alliance.
“We are a passionate, open source, multi-disciplinary, Architecture and Design studio dedicated to the integrated of the design disciplines,” says Adam Rolston, of Incorporated. ”As a member of the US Green Building Council and with a 10 year knowledge archive, we approach each project as an individual portrait with distinctive attributes to be filtered through our design lens bringing joy, utility, and craft to each”.
“This is all very exciting,” says Dr. Georgianna Glose, executive director of SNAP. “We’ve already started plans to get everyone involved, our participants, staff, volunteers, board, and neighbors. This will be a group effort to plan a beautiful working space for all our projects.
“Recharging Communities, our theme for 2012, supports projects, that improves communities and strengthen their social fabric,” says Laetitia Wolff, desigNYC executive director. “This year we have selected twice as many projects as last year and are proud to endorse projects working in areas as diverse and challenging as human trafficking,
public transportation, prisoner reentry, food justice, economic development and sustainable urban revitalization.”
For the third consecutive year, desigNYC held an open call to the nonprofit community for great projects ideas and the design community for offers of pro bono design services. A prestigious panel of 16 judges selected this year’s group of nonprofits and matched them with professionals from the architecture, landscape, interiors, communication, interactive and service design disciplines.
The results of the collaborations will be celebrated throughout the year at public programs, training workshops and an annual fall exhibition.
Fort Greene SNAP is pleased to announce the launch of a new online, instructor-led course named ”Protect Your Money, Credit, and Identity.” This class starts Wednesday, July 20th and Aug 20.
Participants in this course will learn to spot the scams and rip-offs that can cost them money or ruin their credit. They will explore threats including identity theft, Internet and credit card scams, and deceptive sales practices. In addition, they will learn how to slow down or stop a foreclosure, and how to end harassing phone calls from debt collectors.
The Holiday season is about to start, and it looks like consumers are still tapped. A recent Gallup poll suggests that while the economy seems to be getting better (wall street seeing gains) and people are feeling more optimistic about the future, they will be holding onto their money and spending less this year.
So, what do you think? What’s the money situation in Fort Greene? Take the poll below, then see the results, and what everyone else is thinking.
Kid’s don’t come with a manual (or else, I lost mycopy). In this workshop we’ll be getting together with parents of children at many different ages, and we’ll be talking about different stages of development every child goes through. Come compare notes and learn what to expect and what to look forward to. Terri Ball, our favorite Parenting Advocate, will be leading this discussion. Workshop will be held at SNAP in our classroom @ 1pm on Tuesday October 25th.
Join us for this hands-on class and leave with a mini business plan for your business, written under the experienced eye of your instructor.
Monday, October 18, 2010 6pm to 8pm
This happening to you? Aches and pains, palpitations and dizziness, digestive problems, grinding your teeth, insomnia, breathing difficulties, feeling tired, frequent infections.
These are some of the physical symptoms of stress. Come to our next workshops at 1pm on October 12th and 19th – our Parenting Advocate Terri L. Ball will be leading a discussion on Stress: Causes and Cures. We had a great discussion the last time we had this workshop, so we’re expanding it to two days so we can share as much info as we can. Come join a great group of parents as we learn about ways to reduce stress, and share your knowledge.
As a parent, what do you do to avoid stress?
Again, it’s Tuesday, October 12 at 1pm and Tuesday, October 19th at 1pm.
Do you have a novel, essay or legacy to share in writing? This class will ignite your creative energies in simple, fun and easy steps. In just six weeks, you’ll be a liberated, imaginative and versatile writer ready to tackle or finish that book that is inside you. If you’ve ever dreamed of hearing your writer’s voice and writing what’s in your heart and head, this class will make it happen.
Students will gain an understanding of:
the tools published writers utilize for novels, memoirs, short stories or articles
How to beat writer’s block
How to capture characters and plots to make them marketable
How to stay motivated to continue or start on your writing project
Are you pulling your hair out over your kids behavior? Or is your child the one all the other parents point to and say “Why can you be more like little Cathy”?
Positive Discipline and Your Kids is the topic we’ll be talking about on Tuesday, Sept 28 at the 1pm free parenting workshop. Come and share your methods for keeping them on the “straight and narrow” and learn from other parents what are good techniques for working with your kids so that everybody stays happy!
We’ll be continuing the discussion (yeah, you know we can’t fit that discussion into just one session) on October 5 with More Discipline that Works.
Come early to get your seat. And… welcome to the conversation!
Keys to Successful Money Management Class starts third Wednesday of this month.
