Wednesday Links
On Putnam, a Trip Across Africa [NY Times] Finding a Way to Pay for Green Makeovers [NY Times] $2.4 Million Clean Up for Floyd Bennett Field [NY Post] New Movie ‘Apostles of Park Slope’ [NY Daily News] Head of New York City Rent Board Resigns [NY Daily News] Artists Tackle Gentrification at Upcoming MOCADA Show…

On Putnam, a Trip Across Africa [NY Times]
Finding a Way to Pay for Green Makeovers [NY Times]
$2.4 Million Clean Up for Floyd Bennett Field [NY Post]
New Movie ‘Apostles of Park Slope’ [NY Daily News]
Head of New York City Rent Board Resigns [NY Daily News]
Artists Tackle Gentrification at Upcoming MOCADA Show [NY Daily News]
Brooklyn Bus Routes May Be Spared MTA Cuts [NBC]
B & Q Subway Stops Set to Reopen [Brooklyn Eagle]
Shipping Container Building Takes Shape in W’burg [Curbed]
Photo by bageltam.
Thank you BX. I just wanted to drop off a lil voodoo. He’ll feel it soon.
jack- I posted the salvation army link above earlier. but you should be able to google the Wyclef Jean link. Hope all of your family and friends are ok. (Not to worry- he got slapped down big time by MM and others on the OT)
Hold it down Haitian massive!
Haitians are in Brownstone Brooklyn we are even on Brownstoner. Sak pase? No coverage:( Can we get link for donations at least? PLEASE!
Rob that voodoo comment was dumb and uncalled for. What the fuck is up with that? It’s too foul to ignore. But hey you know what’s really real? Karma.
True, ditmas. And then it pills.
> gotta agree with you on that, benson.
I’ll agree with him too. Better get a nice big patch to repair that hole on the fabric of the Universe. BTW, it’s a cotton/poly blend. How disappointing.
sorry- not quite accurate. They do have employees. What i was trying to say in my mangled post is that their disaster relief program is folded into the entire organization and this help them mitigate costs in terms of staffing and running it.
tinarina- they did a study of the Salvation Army and how it spends disaster relief money. That said, they are a religious organization and as such not a traditional non-profit which has to have offices and staff and etc. The people who run their programs are “in the life” so to speak, not employees and the disaster relief efforts are part of the whole so in some ways they can afford to put that much into programs, rather than management.
Thanks for all the Haiti info. As a nonprofit veteran, though, I have to dispute the 15% admin fee–this is crazy low. 19-20% is more like it.
Some orgs can hit 15% because they’re semireligious and have lower costs. But it’s very hard to have low overhead and still maintain decent program staffing and salaries.
Think about it. 15% overhead is ridiculously low in the for-profit sector, even factoring in the payment of taxes. Why should the nonprofit sector be held to a draconian standard?
believe it or not, artists do not cause gentrification. low self-esteem does.
*rob*
Posted by: Butterfly at January 13, 2010 9:16 AM
Rob – But isn’t low self-esteem what causes art? so it all comes full circle…