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| DATE | 2015-03-05 |
| FROM | Ruben Safir
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| SUBJECT | Re: [NYLXS - HANGOUT] Community Funding
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one more to look at
http://www.nyc.gov/html/ohcd/html/workforce/workforce_investment_board.shtml
On 03/05/2015 04:39 PM, Ruben Safir wrote:
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> My understanding is that this funding is administered through the Boro
> Presidents Offices in NYC
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> http://www2.ed.gov/policy/elsec/leg/esea02/pg1.html
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> http://www.brighthubeducation.com/teaching-methods-tips/11105-basics-of-title-1-funds/
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> another program
> http://manhattanbp.nyc.gov/html/budget/community-grants.shtml
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> On Thu, Mar 05, 2015 at 03:34:17PM -0500, Ruben Safir wrote:
>> On Wed, Mar 04, 2015 at 09:44:54AM -0800, Elfen Magix wrote:
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>>> Parent education can mean a lot of things. And a major problem is
>>> actually getting the parents involved in the first place.
>> THIS is a hustle, and Rafi at megazell-at-gmail.com KNOWS this huslte
>> very well and we, and specifically YOU, can best learn to put all this
>> experience together to work this hustle. This is not like the lottery.
>> This has to be worked. He has a system that he goes to various PTA
>> meetings and pitches Linux educaiton straight to the parents and they
>> can use their distcrissionary spending to set up programs for GNU/Linux
>> education.
>>
>> That is why I am wsay that we need to step out of the box, and learn a
>> technique to aquring the available hunding, or a share of it. But it is
>> 100% a hustle. You have to hustle parents, teachers, principles... and
>> you have to remain on it through failures, through the next failure,
>> until you develope a string of successes.
>>
>> Rafi is gregarious, intelligent and willing to help up learn this
>> hustle, which is far more than learning regulations and law, all of
>> which we have studied until being sick.
>>
>>
>>
>>> Getting anyone over the age of 21 is problematic. Many assume that they as
>>> a parent will do best on their own and believe their actions with
>>> the family is what they require to do and nothing more. So this
>>> falls into several categories which I only mention a couple:
>>> Computer Literacy as a parent - do they know what they children
>>> are doing online? do they know that they are responsible for their
>>> child's actions? Do thy know, in short, if their child cyberbullies
>>> another, that they can go to jail for their child's actions? Can
>>> they be sure that content their child is access is appropriate for
>>> them? Many do not, just as much do not care. The problem comes up
>>> with this fact - a mother would spend 10 minutes a day with their
>>> child, a father would spend 15 minutes a day. Is that time enough
>>> for their child's needs? No it is not. But the TV gets 6 to 8 hours
>>> of "parenting" the child. Today, the TV has been replaced with the
>>> computer and the Internet. 10 - 15 minutes a day as a parent does
>>> not undo 6 - 8 hours with the computer and internet does.
>>
>> the programs from the School, as far as i can understnad, teach PARENT
>> themselves directly. Our job is to sell a program acceptable to us to
>> which they want toparticipate and then have thempresure the school to
>> make the program available.
>>
>>
>>> Parenting itself - Is what your learned from your parents in the
>>> 70s-2000's good enough for you to do to you child? What are the
>>> legalities of your child's actions affect you? What are your rights
>>> as a parent? and so on.
>>> Like I said, getting the parents involved is a problem. Most work
>>> and are too tired do anything after work. Sometimes a weekend
>>> program can get a few more parents involved but it wont all of
>>> them. At best, maybe 10% of all the children's parents would come
>>> to an event.
>>
>>
>> I am not going to accept this negativism. rafi gets parents to the
>> programs, and even without that, we will get parents to the programs.
>>
>> If we got 10% that would be HUGE!!!
>>
>> We must, without question, get together and learn this hustle and
>> network our resources.
>>
>> Schedule a meet up right away.
>>
>>> The only time I had a flood of parents is when I and
>>> a friend did a CPR & HIV/AIDS Course, where the children over 10
>>> were certified for free, but parents paid $30, we gave a poster
>>> letter about this course stating, "When you have heart attack,
>>> you cant give CPR to yourself!" Out of a possible 120 parents, 40
>>> showed up with their older kids and teens. By the end of the day,
>>> they were all CPR certified, and we generated about $1200 or the
>>> program that day.
>>> Parent Education has to be defined by the program as what? That
>>> depends on the program. For us, that means what?
>> ~Fernando
>>
>> -------------------------------------------- On Wed, 3/4/15, Ruben
>> Safir wrote:
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>> Subject: [NYLXS - HANGOUT] Community Funding To: hangout-at-nylxs.com
>> Date: Wednesday, March 4, 2015, 8:40 AM
>>
>>
>> Fernando
>>
>> Are you familiar with title 1 funding for community and parent
>> education?
>>
>> I had a bit of a conversation with Megaz last night and I really
>> need to confir with you about funding ideas and such.? This guy
>> has the whole hustle worked out.? Not just details of programs,
>> but also proven methods to hustle funding.
>>
>> BTW - it seems we need a social worker.
>>
>> Ruben
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