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Yolanda Garcia Community Planner Award Nominations Open

May 9, 2008 in Community Organizing | Tags: , , | by LT | No comments

The Municipal Art Society is now accepting nominations for the 2008 Yolanda Garcia Community Planner (YGCP) Award. This $2,500 award was created to commemorate the work of Ms. Yolanda Garcia, a community activist in the South Bronx. Each year the MAS presents the YGCP award to a community planner who has demonstrated his or her ability to overcome the many obstacles to grassroots, community-based planning and has succeeded in bringing neighborhood need and vision into New York City’s planning process. For more information please click here.

Last year’s winner was Elizabeth Yeampierre, Executive Director of UPROSE, the United Puerto Rican Organization of Sunset Park.

Image of Yolanda Garcia via her NY Times obituary, Feb 19, 2005.

 

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Upcoming Meetings and Events

July 23: City Planning Commission public hearing on rezonings of St. George, Staten Island, and Waldheim, Laurelton and Dutch Kills, Queens - 10am, 22 Reade St.

July 23: UPROSE Community Education Forum - 6pm, UPROSE, 166A 22nd Street b/t 3rd & 4th Avenues

July 24: Spotlight on Design: Building in the City's Parks - 6:30pm, Museum of the City of New York, 1220 Fifth Avenue, $9 General admission, $5 Museum members, Seniors, and Students. For more info, call 212.534.1672, ext. 3395.

July 26: Manhattan Community Board 11 Housing Workshop - 11am-2pm, Draper Hall at Metropolitan Hospital, 1918 First Avenue @ 99th Street, 2nd Floor Auditorium. For more information call (212) 831-8929.

July 30: Accountable Development Working Group meeting - 6pm, Fifth Avenue Committee, 621 DeGraw Street (near 4th Ave.)

August 13: City Planning Commission Public Hearings on East Village/Lower East Side rezoning, Hunter's Point South project, and Willets Point redevelopment - doors open at 8:30am, hearing begins at 9am, Tishman Auditorium of Vanderbilt Hall, New York University School of Law, 40 Washington Square South.

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