Great Model For Collaboration in Jersey City !

$1,600 to get us to the finish line.  And while we were going to end this campaign tonite at midnite, we're going to keep going until we hit our target !  Let's wrap this up Folks - partner with your business neighbors to bring more of these sleek bike racks into your neighborhood. Yesterday we had folks Sponsor ($150 each / serves 2 bikes) bike racks for community centers, parks and pools - THAT'S THE SPIRIT !!  We can do this Jersey City and remember the next initiative might be yours - get in the swing of community crowdsourcing the changes you want to see in JC ~

HOMESTRETCH FOLKS ! We raised $35,690 and we have $1,796 to go - campaign ends this Wed August 6th - we can do this JC !!

This campaign was extended an additional week so some promised checks can come in to get us to the finish line - it ends next Wed August 6th and we're almost there !  More community groups and individuals need to support this as is YOUR OPPORTUNITY TO VOTE on where you want to see bike racks in Jersey City.

This will put close to 300 of these cool bike racks on the streets of Jersey City - YES !!! Please consider donating what you can and encouraging others to do the same. EVERY DONOR GETS A VOTE to indicate their preferred location for a bike rack, SPONSORS can reserve locations, and then come September, the City will install these beauties ~

BTW . . . this is an unprecedented partnership with JC City Hall and COMMUNITY STAKEHOLDERS!   Has never been done before in the state of New Jersey and along with those green miles of new bike lanes being implemented all around the City, and the coming Bike-Share program with Hoboken & Weehauken (largest regional Bike-Share Program in the U.S.), this campaign helps to transform us FROM A CAR CITY TO A BIKE CITY !!

SUPPORT HERE ~

Rain Garden Installation at St. Paul's

GRACE Meets TRUTH ~

I've crowed about the GRACE Communications Foundation before as they are my all time FAVORITE resource to point at when I'm talking about the 'S' word.  These folks have the most accessible conversation out there on the interconnections between Food, Energy & Water and their Eco News and Ecocentric blogposts always shed light on new developments and create a deeper understanding for me around topics I'm already familiar with. Check out their latest Eco News issue and check out range of topics including coverage of the new Growing Cities documentary to Freshwater Shortage Projections (includes NJ) to fabulous Farmstr FARMERS DIRECT to update on BEES to Family Stuff - and oh yes, one of my favorite topics, Food Waste Recycling.

http://us1.campaign-archive2.com/?u=49e434a0e4c33f0720cb12be5&id=c0819e6227&e=96db62524c

JC Bike Tour Festival 2014

Community Crowd-Resourcing For Your Projects !!

The Citizenry of Jersey City generates the CHANGES THEY  WANT TO SEE for their neighborhoods !! SJC's partnership with ioby.org is a support system for making things happen.  This crowd-resourcing platform brings funding, volunteers, and all kinds of sponsorship to neighborhood projects and citywide initiatives.  Once you think about a project and get organized, SJC will help you to launch it.

Just remember though - this is YOUR PROJECT and there is a lot of work to get it ready to go onto our platform.  You need to have a team in place to make it happen and we suggest you take a reality check before, during and even after your project is launched for it to be sustainable.

Two projects launched this week - yeah !! Donations Needed !!

PS #5 Joined SJC's Rain Gardens +ART Campaign to reinvent their school with their Alleviating Stormwater Run-off Project (target $10,060)

SJC collaboration with Bike JC, JC Art School and the City of Jersey City for citywide JC Bike Rack Campaign (target $37,311)

Please support - your project might be next !  The vision we have is that SJC can help build momentum across neighborhoods and the City, for stakeholders to collaborate on making these initiatives successful - do what you can and BE THE CHANGE !!