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Thu, 2013-02-14 15:26 — mdmcdonald
The Business Continuity & Resilience - NY working group is focused on efforts to create resilient sustainable businesses in NY.

The mission of the Business Continuity & Resilience - NY working group is create resilient sustainable businesses in NY.

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Assessing Resilience Planning: Is the City Preparing Smartly for the Rising Risks of Climate Change?

Tue, 2015-04-21 23:33 — Kathy Gilbeaux

      

Rooftop greenery is part of the plan (photo: PlaNYC via flickr)

gothamgazette.com - by Sarah Crean - April 16, 2015

. . . Problems like localized flooding will become all the more urgent as climate change progresses. But the threat to each neighborhood is different, depending on where it is located relative to the city's 500-plus miles of coastline, and factors like socio-economic conditions, building stock, and critical infrastructure.

City officials are far from indifferent. Its strategy, in a nutshell, is to gradually strengthen the coastline, upgrade building stock, and protect critical infrastructure. Next week on Earth Day, April 22, the city plans to release a major progress report, the first in four years, on its multi-pronged sustainability framework, known as PlaNYC. As in the past, the report is expected to include discussion of climate resiliency, that is, the city's ongoing and developing preparations to manage for the effects of climate change.

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With Little Warning, Agency Aiding New York’s Most Vulnerable Crumbles

Sun, 2015-02-15 14:33 — Maeryn Obley

Faced with a budget shortfall of $19.4 million, FEGS Health and Human Services recently announced it would be closing its programs. Credit Bryan R. Smith for The New York Times

Image:  Faced with a budget shortfall of $19.4 million, FEGS Health and Human Services recently announced it would be closing its programs. Credit Bryan R. Smith for The New York Times

nytimes.com - February 8 2015 - Rachel L. Swarns

The bombshell dropped on a quiet Friday evening. Steven Banks, the commissioner of the city’s Human Resources Administration, was in his office when he got the call.

On the line was Kristin M. Woodlock, the new chief executive of FEGS Health and Human Services, one of New York City’s largest social service agencies, a venerable institution often praised by corporate titans and community leaders alike.

But this was no social call: FEGS, the Human Resources Administration’s biggest provider of job placement services to the impoverished and disabled, had discovered a gaping hole in its budget and was suddenly struggling to stay afloat.

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HUD Releases Progress Report on Sandy Rebuilding Strategy

Tue, 2014-07-15 22:55 — Kathy Gilbeaux

                                                      portal.hud.gov

HUD No. 14-076
Patrick Rodenbush
(202) 708-0685
http://www.hud.gov/news/index.cfm		 FOR RELEASE
Wednesday
June 18, 2014

HUD RELEASES PROGRESS REPORT ON SANDY REBUILDING STRATEGY
Report Tracks Progress On Recommendations of Sandy Task Force

WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development’s (HUD) Sandy Program Management Office (PMO) today issued its first report tracking progress on the Sandy Rebuilding Strategy. The report is now available online.

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Attention: Business Owners, Home Owners and Renters! Extended SBA Disaster Loan Deadline - WORKSHOPS

Mon, 2013-02-18 20:30 — Kathy Gilbeaux

submitted by Peter B Gudaitis - February 14, 2013

The SBA has extended application deadlines for SBA Sandy Disaster Loans to February 27, 2013 (Physical Damage) and July 31, 2013 (Economic Injury Loans).

These loans apply to physical damage to small businesses and homeowners (as well as to renters’ possessions), and even includes damage or loss of your vehicles. And for small businesses, economic injury loss due to lost business is also applicable. [Note: landlords of 2-4 units who lost rents due to Sandy may qualify for Loss of Income Loans]

You have three opportunities to come and learn from the experts in Brooklyn, Manhattan and Staten Island:

Thursday, Feb. 21, 2013 from 10:00 am - 12:00 pm: Brooklyn @ Brooklyn Public Library, Cadman Plaza West - RSVP to ***@***.*** or 212-264-1473
Thursday, Feb. 21, 2013 from 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm: Manhattan @ Baruch College @ 24th Street, Ste. 2-140 - RSVP to ***@***.*** or 212-264-2734
Monday, Feb. 25, 2013 from 6:00 pm - 7:45 pm: Station Island @ St. George Library Center - RSVP to ***@***.*** or 212-264-1473

RSVP's are required. 

IRS Announces Saturday Open House to Aid Super Storm Sandy Victims in NY and NJ on February 23rd

Thu, 2013-02-14 18:44 — Amanda Cole
Submitted by Peter Gudaitis, M. Div:
February 13, 2013
NY-2013-06
 

New York ­­­- Internal Revenue Service Taxpayer Assistance Centers in some New York and New Jerseylocations will be open Saturday, February 23rd from 9:00 a.m. until 2:00 p.m. to provide help to taxpayers impacted by Super Storm Sandy.

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