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Flexible Schedule
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Brooklyn, NY 11201
Seeds in the Middle began in 2009 at a school in a low-income neighborhood in Brooklyn to empower students, schools and their communities to create healthier places to live and learn. We have 18 schools in NYC who would like our student-run farm stands, Hip2B Healthy Cafes and other programs that help communities themselves fight and overcome food insecurity and health and educational disparities. We need to raise funds for them. We know we need to show our impact. So, we need folks who can interview people impacted by our programs, collect data about the communities, and graphics and help us create a wonderful impact report. We welcome all talents in this - this is about empowering people to change their food and environmental landscape in our poorest neighborhoods. All of our schools are in food-insecure areas, predominantly neighborhoods of color. Please help us collect data or even come up with fundraising ideas. Feel free to email us at info@seedsinthemiddle.org
Date Posted: Oct 11, 2022
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Flexible Schedule
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Brooklyn, NY 11233
Seeds in the Middle is dedicated to erasing a food desert in central Brooklyn and it all comes back to empowering the local community to create the change they want to see - with support from us! We have a series of community and school-run farm markets and edible gardens and we are opening more. We now want to begin Hip2B Healthy Cafes run by locals - youth to seniors- in neighborhoods lacking nutritious ,delicious options for eating out... or catering in. Are you a healthy chef? Do you spend time crafting recipes using fresh ingredients to empower lucky eaters to build their immune systems and enjoy a healthy life? Would you like to work with community members to create menus and craft cafes tied to local schools, businesses and other possibiilities. If so, please reach out. Times are flexible. However, biggest days are Wednesday afternoons at PS-IS 178, Ocean Hill Brownsville Fridays, Brownsville Saturdays, Wyckoff-Boerum Hill- Gowanus Coming soon - other weekend markets in Flatbush, Kensington, Brownsville Please go to the web link: bit.ly/seedsvolunteer2021 Learn more about our locations by going to linktr.ee/seedsinthemiddle Questions: email info@seedsinthemiddle.org Please send any responses to that email address and tell us about you, what you can cook, when you can cook and anything you would like us to know.
Date Posted: Oct 25, 2022
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Flexible Schedule
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Brooklyn, NY 11233
Help us a community-run farm and flea markets and help us sustainably challenge food insecurity. Yes, we give community service credits! Did you know Black and Latino residents of NYC are dying at 2 or 3x the rate of more affluent communities from COVID-19 or that they have the highest rates of diabetes, obesity, heart disease - all underlying conditions that make COVID_19 all that more dangerous? Fight for equal access to fresh food for all, with us. Help us challenge these terrible statistics by helping all fight COVID-19 with nutrients: fresh fruits and vegetables Help us at our farm stands in central Brooklyn. This can be virtual or on-site We need volunteer help a few days a week in central Brooklyn - Flatbush, Brownsville, Crown Heights. Please let us know if you can help out and just give us your hours. We also have virtual work. Hours can be anywhere from 10 am - 7 pm Want to help deliver for us with as new Direct Fresh plan for Brownsville, Flatbush, Wyckoff - Boerum Hill - Gowanus and more of central Brooklyn? Where are our summer markets? FRIDAYS, Crown Heights outside Screamers Pizzeria, 685 Franklin Ave at Prospect Place, 12-7p (market 1-6p, with set up and breakdown needed) SATURDAYS, 12-5p, starting July 16, Weeksville Heritage Center, 158 Buffalo Ave. Coming soon - PS 41, Brownsville; East Flatbush, Crown Heights 2 (corner Albany/Lefferts DELIVERY - CAN HAVE CAR OR BIKE, OR JUST LIVE NEARBY AND WALK! When? Shifts vary but mostly like this: WE ALSO WILL weekend pop-ups 10-12 - set up (good if you can lift) 12-5:30 - any two hours to help deliver, give out, put up or give out posters and flyers nearby 4-7 pm: Help us break down (good if you can lift tables. Delivery help needed, too. We need other help at our other farm stands... We really need people on bicycles or cars to deliver to those in need. Email us what you can do at info@seedsinthemiddle.org Fill out the volunteer form here at bit.ly/seedsvolunteersignup Help us build more farm stands in food deserts. Tell us what you can do. Help us at our GARDENS also. VIRTUAL and KEEPING DISTANCE: Can you help us also with getting flyers out, or publicizing the markets? Calling locals to come and remind them to come? Please let us know - this can be virtual. And we need help fundraising for these initiatives. You can help us with Tastes of Brooklyn or our current online fundraisers. Tell us about you and your background. Write us an email and tell us about you. Only write if you are committed to giving at least 3 hours.
Date Posted: Oct 25, 2022
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Flexible Schedule
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Brooklyn, NY 11211
Join our delicious Tastes of Brooklyn events. We are working on events for this coming year and spring and a series of Chef Nights throughout Brooklyn in local schools. Help us promote Brooklyn eateries and bars and food businesses and do good at the same time. This is a great opportunity for anyone wanting to get experience planning and building events, especially around food, public relations, marketing and more. Or just join us for the day to help out! We need help getting sponsors and marketing and planning our events for the coming year Here's some of what we need help on: Before events: - Reach out to food establishments to ask them to join Tastes of Brooklyn events - Posting on social media about food and helping promote our struggling eateries via social media, etc. Can you go to places and take photos of food and give us a fun, descriptive post we can put on our Facebook and IG pages? Want to create a Tik-Tok for Tastes of Brooklyn? If you do, please just email us at tastesofbk@seedinthemiddle.org with a sample photo and post, highlighting the restaurant, bar of food business in Brooklyn. Tell us what neighborhood and what's special about it. Read about our Tastes of Brooklyn. events at tastesofbrooklyn.com Tastes of Brooklyn both helps us bring back our restaurants and bars and eateries back - but also funds good by supporting Seeds in the Middle's efforts to expand farm stands in low-income neighborhoods. No one can deny that the world has changed in the last year. Seeds in the Middle has been working with Brooklyn communities for more than a decade to provide farm fresh food and influence healthier eating habits for kids, We know the terrible toll the virus has taken on our borough’s most vulnerable plus we know how much the businesses have suffered through loss of business. Help us promote. Follow us on IG and Facebook @tastesofbrooklyn. Want to help create a Tastes of Brooklyn food and drink crawl in a neighborhood? Tell us. Here's what we would have to do. Go to the volunteer form at bit.ly/tastesvolunteerform Here's how to help for Tastes of Brooklyn: -- Call restaurants and bars to see if they want to do it. - Create content and posting on social media to advertise the places - Create a list of media outlets and calling them to tell them about the event - Find event calendars we can post on and post! - Call friends and telling them to come! - Sell tickets! On day of event (tbd) - Help at ticket table - Assist restaurants - Help with set up and breakdown - Work at farmstand/flea - Help at Hip2B Healthy Market with kids - Help with advocacy for fresh food -get petitions signed Along with general volunteering, we are offering a few special options. 1. Walk around, take great photos for IG, hand out free masks and provide sanitizers... and gently tell people if they are gathering unsafely. 2. Delivery - If you have a bike or on foot, we will have designated places where people can meet you. You go around and pick up 4 - pre-ordered tastes, and then meet the customer at specified places. See below for all options. DETAILS: WHAT IS TASTES OF BROOKLYN? THE EVENT; WHAT: A neighborhood food and drink crawl in a designated neighborhood. A chance for people to try small dishes and drinks that the local bars and restaurants are super proud of. Ticket prices are set at 4 tastes for $40, 12 for $110 - Buy at tastesofbrooklyn.com - Venmo Cashapp @seedsinthemiddle, Paypal at seedsinthemiddle@gmail.com HOW: You buy tickets. We provide a map and menu and ticket-holders walk to each establishment for some great takeaway food & drink! WHERE HAVE WE HAD THEM? BED-STUY, COBBLE HILL, CARROLL GARDENS, GOWANUS, RED HOOK, FLATBUSH, CROWN HEIGHTS, PARK SLOPE PROSPECT HEIGHTS, PLG, FLATBUSH... LOVE TO EXPAND TO SUNSET PARK, FT. GREENE. WHY WE do it: Support small businesses and promote fresh food for all. Proceeds go to Seeds in the Middle, a 501c3 charity creating sustainable farm stands, school-run healthy programs and projects to raise achievement and the quality of health in Brooklyn’s food deserts. Build farm stands with us, and businesses get proceeds, too. Questions? Email tastesofbk@seedsinthemiddle.org
Date Posted: Oct 10, 2022
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Nov 29
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09:00 AM
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11:00 PM
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Brooklyn, NY 11238
Help us get folks out for our first-ever fundraising Giving Tuesday Bar Crawl. Here's the event. Can you do social media posts or help us get people to buy tickets or just come? TUESDAY, NOV. 29, 5-10 PM - WE NEED all the promotion we can get before.. and also just folks who will donate to our Giving Tuesday fundraiser. Drink. Do Good. Join us for Giving Tuesday along trendy, diverse Franklin Avenue and support small business and fight food insecurity at the same time! GIVING TUESDAY is a global day of giving - the Tuesday after Thanksgiving - and what better way to be generous than to support local small businesses and ensure that Seeds in the Middle can continue sustaining and building more school-run farm stands and Hip2B Healthy Cafes in food-insecure, low-income Brooklyn neighborhoods. Six to 8 bars will be offering seasonal cocktails and you can vote on best cocktail. Thank you, Centanni, Crown Inn, Drink, Franklin 820, Franklin Park, Island Seas, Mayfield... and we may have a few more! Can't come? Just give to our Giving Tuesday campaign for Seeds in the Middle here. More info? Email us at tastesofbrooklyn@gmail.com Let's help bring businesses back from Covid and also help our most vulnerable neighbors in food deserts get fresh food so they can be healthy, too.
Date Posted: Nov 24, 2022
