Here are the Work Areas and Tasks currently needed for BEFORE IT’S GONE // TAKE IT BACK: Documenting Brooklyn - Fighting Gentrification (B4G).
We have Volunteers and Collaborators who currently live in Brooklyn and across New York City, as well as in Connecticut, North Carolina and Toronto,CA.
Please feel free to think of New and Creative Ideas to support these Work Areas! Please let us know what area(s) of work most appeal to you and what dates and times you are available in the next week or so to talk via phone, SKYPE or in-person.
Also please estimate how many hours a week or month you would like to give.
If you want to be part of the growing grassroots movement to respond to the crisis of gentrification in Brooklyn then please contact us at flatbushequality@gmail.com (646) 820-6039
Looking forward to working with you
Imani Keith Henry for B4G
Funds are Urgently Needed - So Please Donate Today http://www.gofundme.com/Before-Its-Gone
Work Areas & Tasks of BEFORE IT’S GONE // TAKE IT BACK:
Administrative & Office Team
Are you good at creating organizational infrastructure for virtual offices?
Can you help make or coordinate phone calls to volunteers or community groups?
Are you able to write thank you letters and maintain correspondence with project donors?
Are you a whiz with Mailchimp, Powerpoint, or Excel?
Can you proofread and/or edit documents, grant proposals, press releases, etc?
Do you have access to a car? Can you coordinate pick ups or drop offs of our supplies and deliveries ?
Can you help us find a central convenient location to work or meet from?
Anti-gentrification Research and Resource Team
Can you help coordinate and compile housing, legal and community organizing resources for a specific Brooklyn neighborhood or population to go up on the B4G website hub?
Are you excited about compiling research, data, case law, etc that would helpful to a community group fighting displacement?
Would you love to research and solicit info about other anti-gentrification projects in NYC, nationally and internationally that would be included in the resource sections of the B4G website?
Anti-oppressive Best Practice Tips and Resource Team
“I want to be part of the solution: How to live in a consciously anti-oppressive way in rapidly gentrifying neighborhoods” is a section of the website that will offer tips, political writings, and resources for strengthening the cultural awareness of both new and long-time residents
Would you like to help research writings and/or write for this section of the website?
Documentary Archival Team
Can you help with outreach to existing Brooklyn community groups, block associations, historians, archives to solicit footage, pictures, artwork to be included in the project?
Are you a current or former Brooklyn resident, that can organize photo, video and artwork submissions from your family, neighbors, and friends?
Can you be a documentarian for your neighborhood and conduct interviews with tenants and homeowners about their experiences with gentrification?
- Can you help document anti-gentrification community events and/or track the luxury housing being built in your neighborhood and submit photos to the website?
Are you a long-time resident of Brooklyn who could help document the stories of elders in your neighborhood?
Fundraising, Grants & Donors Team
Do you like to do Grant Research and know people in the Grant Funding world who you can pitch our project to?
Can you write Grants or Fundraising Promotional Materials?
Would like to help plan a large scale Fundraiser, Host a House Party or Club Night for B4G ?
Could you Promote our GoFundMe Campaign widely to your social media networks?
Do you know people who you could recruit to be Major Donors? Could you ask them to give a $200 , $500, $2000 donation or more to the project?
Would you love to work on our committee for the B4G Launch Party Fundraiser tentatively scheduled for February 7, 2015?
In-kind Donations/ Perks Team
Are you interested in soliciting “perks” - free t-shirts, mugs, art-work, services, etc - from local businesses and artists that we can offer as rewards to donors on the GoFundMe page?
Can you find businesses and professionals who could donate their administrative, legal, artistic, etc services to the project?
Would you like to coordinate the ordering of perks from our vendors and make sure they arrive to our donors each month?
International Anti-Gentrification Selfie Campaign & Celebrity Outreach Team
Do you know Spike Lee, other celebrities, or artists who could support our project by doing a selfie, give us a shout-out in the press, on stage or over social media, perform at a fundraiser, write a song about us, make a video for us etc?
Would you love to get selfies from community leaders, tenant rights groups, student activists, trade unionists, health professionals, etc ?
Are you interested in soliciting selfies from other cities/states/ or countries?
Can you help get selfies from people and groups whose signs are written in different languages such as Spanish, Korean, Greek, etc?
Media & Spokespeople Team
Are you already well-connected within the press and media world? Would you like to be ?
Can assist with creating a media strategy and help pitch stories to the press ?
Do you like writing press releases?
Have you been displaced or have a compelling anti-gentrification story that would be important to get out in the press?
Would you like to go through training on our project’s talking points and become be Spokesperson for B4G?
Can you use your podcast, web series, or online show to promote our work ?
Promotional and Literature Materials Team
Are you a graphic designer or artist who can help design flyers posters, t-shirts, etc for the project?
Can you create and design promotional materials to would help us better reach different demographics and communities?
Do have creative concepts that you think could help boost the signal of our campaign?
Social Media & Online Outreach Team
Can you promote the work of B4G on a daily or weekly basis through your social media or online networks?
Can you use your podcast or online media show to promote B4G ?
Do you experience developing social media strategies and campaigns?
Street & Community Outreach Team
Would you like to help organize a B4G meeting in your neighborhood?
Can you help get out flyers and posters up in your neighborhood, shopping center, school, or in your building ?
Could you organize or be a part of a rush hour flyering team at train stations, bus terminals, or shopping centers
Could you allow your home, office, community center to become a neighborhood drop off/pick up site for the campaign?
Can you take B4G flyers to and announce our events at your PTA, tenant rights, block association, art collective, union, etc meetings?
Are there stores, cafes, barber shops, places of worship that you could do regular drops or outreach to?
Translation/Language Accessibility Team
Of the 800 languages spoken in New York City, which language(s) can you make sure Before Its Gone // Take It Back (B4G) project’s literature is written in? Can you translate English documents into that language(s)?
Can you orally translate or interpret using American Sign Language (ASL) at B4G events or meetings?
Can you help to develop literature, graphic design or linguistic creative concepts that would be most effective to a specific community?
Video Public Service Announcement Production Team
Would you love to create a video Public Service Announcements about B4G’s work and campaigns?
Do you ideas about creative ways to use video to boost the reach of the project?
Wall of Shame Website Team
The website will also include a weekly feature entitled the “Wall of Shame” to expose greedy corporations, real estate developers and landlords whose lust for profit, for example orchestrates the tearing down of low-income or senior housing to build luxury apartments. We will also use this section to highlight current lawsuits brought against landlords by tenants.
Can you help coordinate and compile articles and photos from the “Wall of Shame” section?
Website Maintenance & Submissions Content Team
Do you have frontend and backend web developer experience that you can lend to the project?
Are you proficient in WordPress and could create new pages or help with updates of information to the website?
Can you help correspond with Brooklyn residents who submit artwork, videos, photos for the website?
Can you support the B4G Content Manager and view submissions to ensure they meet the project’s guidelines?
Can you help to make the sure that submissions are of a high digital quality?
Again, EVERYONE is welcomed and needed to get involved BEFORE IT’S GONE // TAKE IT BACK: Documenting Brooklyn - Fighting Gentrification (B4G).
We have Volunteers and Collaborators in who currently live in Brooklyn and across New York City, as well as in Connecticut, North Carolina and Toronto,CA. If you want to be part of the growing grassroots movement to respond to the crisis of gentrification in Brooklyn then please contact us at flatbushequality@gmail.com (646) 820-6039
Funds are Urgently Needed - So Please Donate Today http://www.gofundme.com/Before-Its-Gone
BEFORE IT’S GONE // TAKE IT BACK is a Brooklyn-wide project of Equality for Flatbush (E4F) a new people of color-led grassroots organization which does anti-police repression, affordable housing and anti-gentrification organizing in the Flatbush and East Flatbush sections of Brooklyn, NY
