Ok well maybe not Mardi Gras but fairly darn close.

Just picture this: A burgeoning innovative social enterprise partners with a nationally renowned environmental justice organization and one of the illest independent hip-hop artist and they all give you the dopest platform to celebrate your planet, yourself and your future. How does that sound?

Yep it sounds like the Dopest Earth Day Ever…

Join us first at Green Festival NYC at the Jacob Javits center then get a free ride on our VROOM Eco-Party Bus run on veggie oil and get ready for a multimedia extravaganza at the Brecht Forum. We will be throwing an awesome Post-Green Festival After Party, dropping The Green Room Mixtape – brought to you by Green For All and League of Young Voters and if that isn’t enough this will also serve as the album release party for DJ Cavem Moetavation. Come watch him perform tunes from The Produce Section, his fifth album.

• Live performances from DJ Cav
• Dope music
• Food
• Giveaways
• Media Room

For media inquiries please contact Coretta Ryan at Coretta Ryan Public Relations coretta(at)corettaryanpr(dot)com

We’re clever.

The BLK Projek is ecstatic to announce that we will have a small but growing market in February 2012. We are currently looking for vendors and site specific merchants to incubate to sell added-value and hot food.

It is also extremely important that we raise a wee bit more money to supplement the existing funding from Green for All and Jesse Noyes Foundation. Will you help us?

Please donate to create REAL ECONOMIC development opportunities in the Bronx for underserved women and youth. Let’s empower our hood!

Click image to apply to become a vendor

We are super psyched to be able to offer a paid internship to a bright and enthusiastic candidate for the summer and beginning of fall. We are currently looking for a Farmer’s Market Outreach Intern. The ideal candidate will:

• Support the Farmer’s Market & Micro-business Coordinator
• Engage larger community about the farmers market and the micro-business merchant fund
• Attend relevant community meetings with the purpose of outreach engagement
• Flyer, door-knock and canvass the Longwood, Hunts Point and Mott Haven Communities
• Create and maintain a blog and social media platforms in regards to the Farmer’s Market

Qualifications:

• Must be able to work 20 – 25 hours a week and commit to early/mid September
• Spanish is a plus!
• Be articulate, pleasant and possess a great sense of humor
• Comfortable working in a fast paced and slightly noisey environment.
• Have some time flexibility
• Love food, working in the community and thick skinned
• Comfortable blogging and using social media.
• Possess good writing skills
• Compensation includes a stipend and transportation

If you are interested please send your resume, summer availability and a brief paragraph on why you think this position is a good fit for you (this will be reviewed as a writing sample) to ed(at)theblkprojek.org

Please note that you DO NOT have to be a college student to apply, Bronx residents, women, people of color and LGTBQ folks are all strongly encouraged to apply however, we will interview ALL qualified applicants.

We are super excited to be working with The Osborne Association to bring you Flapjack For Family Day.

A fun filled morning of all you can eat wholesome pancakes and food. A celebration of families, communities and the future. Join the BLK Projek and The Osborne Association for great low cost, high quality pancakes, food, games, performances and music.

Help raise funds for a Community Led Farmer’s Market, learn how you can get involved get funds to incubate a farmer’s market business or help plan our first Block by Block Block Party!

Hosted by TastyKeish from WBAI’s Rise Up Radio

Music by DJ T_Elle

Food Prepared by The Osborne Association Students & Volunteers.

Games, Raffles, Prizes. Make sure to bring your whole family.

If you cannot make it please DISTRUBUTE WIDELY and Donate. Help us reach our $3,000 goal so that we may purchase equipment and signage for our Market.

Table Reservation for Large Groups available

A litte bit about Geo: a high school senior pursuing an Associates of the Arts in Liberal Arts while earning her high school degree. She describes herself as an unrelenting doodler, and an avid listener of spanish ballads, Big Band Jazz and A Tribe Called Quest . She loves thrift-ing, finding obscure bike routes in the Bronx, reading good novels and dragging my friends to museums.  She hopes to go on and study Urban Policy, Environmental Studies, and Ethnic Studies in college, hopefully in California.

When asked why she wanted to work with TBP she responded, “There’s so much work to be done in achieving food justice and amplifying the voices of underrepresented people in the Bronx; I hope to take part in the change and make someone’s voice a little louder by working with the BLk ProjeK.

Favorite fruit: Pomegranate

Favorite Vegetable: A tie between Zucchini &Mushroom

Her SheRo: I never known a woman who can find a way to be so resilient and strong and still have the best sense of humor like she does. She’s taught me so much and has given me the world, I hope I can live up to the model she’s built for me.

So if you have any questions or send Geo a warm welcome she can be reached at Geo(at)theblkprojek(dot)org

Big BLK Mama’s Curry in a Hurry!

Send us images of your Curry in a Hurry, we’ll post them on our site and send you a Libertad Urban Farm T-shirt!

We have recently been nominated for an Union Square award and Executive Director, Tanya Fields has attracted considerable local, national and international media attention for her work. We are looking for fun, energetic, passionate & COMMITTED interns to help us build capacity and stabilize programming. This is real WORK experience, no fetching coffee or merely pushing papers.

Programming Intern-
Primary responsibilities – coordinating logistics for existing TBP programs. Identifying needs for new programming. Coordinating outreach and materials. Identifying relevant program partners & alliances. Managing outreach volunteers and coordinating distribution of outreach materials. Strategizing, coordinating and implementing new programming based on community needs. Help coordinate upcoming programs such as Earth Day Block Party and Grub Dinners

Research Intern (2)
Primary responsibilities – work with executive director to identify research needs, most immediate needs: neighborhood needs assessment, information on local and international cooperatives. Collate, quantify & organize information. Work with development intern to research TBP’s cooperative food truck business

Development Intern
Primary responsibilities – creating donor database, identifying appropriate low cost donor management solution. Prioritizing funding opportunities and deadlines. Initial contact with potential funders, requesting informational meetings. Some opportunities to grant write and travel with executive director to possible funding meetings. Help to coordinate upcoming fundraising events such as The BLK Party and Funders Cocktail Party.

Digital & Social Media Intern (2)
Primary responsibilities – documenting community meetings, events and actions. Interviewing community residents, community leaders & elected officials and coordinating video short to increase organizational visibility as well as use as tool for funders. Help video go viral. Also oversee, manage and streamline existing social media presence (Facebook, Blogs, Twitter)

Qualifications-

Must in last year of undergraduate or in graduate program.
Must need college credit.
Must be able to work 15-20 hours weekly and be able to travel to the South Bronx once a week for team meetings (Metrocards and lunch will be provided). Most work can be done remotely.
Must be technologically savvy able to use webcam, email, google apps etc
Must have a great sense of humor and be passionate about social justice
Women, people of color, LGBTQ and students attending City Colleges encouraged to apply

How to apply
All interested parties please send resume along with a short blurb on why you are interested in this internship to ED(at)theblkprojek(dot)org put the internship you are applying for in the subject line. Only .pdf, .docx, .doc files will be accepted. You may also paste your information directly into email.

I have been working very dilligently with Hunts Point Alliance for Children to make this happen and it finally is. Who said Hunts Point/Longwood doesn’t want a CSA/Farm Share?

Find out how you can join.