Good Works Work grows into The Good Roundup

See our new blog on Tumblr - The Good Roundup and watch us grow further!

Rebuilding our Main Street Economy

After 8 months of consulting services ARM Consulting and Good Works Work is helping to put Greenpoint Brooklyn on the map as a destination - see www.greenpointbiz.com for details.  What we have accomplished:

• Assessing the interest of the business community through a formal survey
• Presenting results of the business survey to business leaders
• Organizing meetings and outreach – development of steering committees
• Presenting information to local elected officials
• Developing a district plan in accordance with the local businesses desired needs
• Budget development and ongoing evaluation to achieve the district goals
• Develop Greenpoint Business Association web presence, i.e. blog, facebook and public relations
• Brand assessment through a published RFP on the Greenpoint Business Association website
• Paid membership to a developing organization – 75 members secured within a 4 month period of time 
• Grant applications and securing funding for organizational growth through New York City Department of Small Business Services
• National brand solicitation for support of the growing association / alliance as sponsoring members
•  Manage and development of on going marketing campaigns

Goodzuma and WeCanEndThis challenge

Go to the Goodzuma WeCanEndThis challenge and view the Family-to-Family presentation on a partnership to end hunger. Comments and feedback draw attention to a great program that humanizes solutions to end hunger in America!

Update as of June 2010...And the winners are in! See http://wecanendthis.com/page/2/ for details.  Good Works Work, after attending the SXSW Cause Lab helps Family-to-Family get noticed by We Can End This with Goodzuma honorable mention.

Honorable Mention: Family-to-Family by Pam Koner
The CauseLab was also an opportunity to highlight ideas that are already being implemented in the real world. For the past eight years, Family-to-Family has operated on the simple premise of connecting families with more to those with less.  Pam Koner and her all-volunteer team have launched a number of successful online family-to-family programs that have built greater empathy and understanding.  Here are but just a few of their programs:

Family Sponsorships – The program that started it all, families make a yearlong commitment of $31.21 per month to provide 7 dinner-type meals (including fruits & vegetables).

Birthdays in a Box – Families can help provide a mother with the supplies to throw her child a birthday party – something that isn’t always possible when times are tough.

Victory Garden Project – For those seeking to help in a more sustaining way, this program outfits a family in need with the tools and supplies to plant a garden of their own (including chickens) with the help of a local master gardener.

Building on their success, the Family-to-Family website is undergoing a major update that will be completed by the fall and will make it possible to scale their programs significantly.  Keep on the lookout for them — you might see their work in helping families in the Gulf Coast affected by the oil spill.

Stumbling on Good Works!

So here is how it happens....I go to The Webby Awards to vote for a great local company's web project - Blenderbox nominated for Downtown Brooklyn: It's The Moment - click the image to Vote!

And then I found myself surfing and stumble on to the Starbucks Love Project by BBDO (click to Vote)

And then I found myself face to face with the inspiration for the Love project....a group of music loving documentary film producers who have created "Playing for Change" as seen here at the Starbucks Leadership Conference.

and then I stumble on to more Change and more GOOD WORKS and...

...the reminder that Leadership and Change is inspired from within!

Help Connect the World Through Music from Doug Kenney on Vimeo.

Create a Good Works that goes on for generations - try it!

Tasting Good Works!

Food is everywhere...in our grocery stores, the media and most importantly our communities.

Taste Williamsburg Greenpoint is the latest "Taste" initiative to combine great foods, drink and a cause.

With our support last year - the Northside Town Hall developed a fundraising concept that could "bring community to the table" in the trendy neighborhood of Williamsburg Brooklyn.  We supported their desire to have a capital campaign initiative that could be an annual event beyond the usual "dinner".  We focused on how to bring as many varied partners to the table and tap into the ever growing food movement in their community. Our services were the building blocks - from the ideation to an event business "plan", which began the implementation of the crucial pieces to pull the project off.  With the leadership of a volunteer team of dedicated organizers, and community businesses, they have come up with an event that should deliver great success!

Successful fundraising whether a community project or a national non-profit campaign have key items in common - regardless of the size and stage of the event.  FUN and imaginative events require collaboration - what is now referred to as "crowd sourcing" but what many have always known to be community organizing 101.  Allow your initiative to take on a life of its own while maintaining the objective - this way the creativity flows, and finally as soon as it is over pull up your sleeves and get ready for the next one - it will be here sooner than you think.

So save the date May 16th 12 - 4 PM Rain or Shine and come out....and Taste Williamsburg Greenpoint while supporting the collaboration of community, business and the cause!

A Good Work that will keep on Work'in!

Vote everyday for the Family-to-Family Pepsi Refresh Grant!

Vote everyday for Family-to-Family's Pepsi Refresh grant through May 1st, and change the way we give from anonymous to a joint venture between those who have and those who do not! (this program is over and the link is no longer active)

Good Works Work!

Jen

Barefoot in Brooklyn for Toms Shoes!

Good Works Work was out in full force getting folks to take off their shoes for Toms! We joined a quarter of a million people who took off their shoes for a day to draw attention to what it was like for a child to live without shoes and the One for One campaign.  Check out our pixs we uploaded to the Toms wall throughout the day and a little video from Jen...Thank you all for participating and supporting this great cause and company!

So when we are not writing your grant application, overseeing program development or looking for great causes for brands to partner with - we are promoting the Good Works that Work!

Here is to kids getting shoes!

Jen