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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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From owner-hangout-outgoing-at-mrbrklyn.com Thu Mar 5 16:39:58 2015 Return-Path: X-Original-To: archive-at-mrbrklyn.com Delivered-To: archive-at-mrbrklyn.com Received: by mrbrklyn.com (Postfix) id E74D7161191; Thu, 5 Mar 2015 16:39:57 -0500 (EST) Delivered-To: hangout-outgoing-at-mrbrklyn.com Received: by mrbrklyn.com (Postfix, from userid 28) id D51411612E6; Thu, 5 Mar 2015 16:39:57 -0500 (EST) Delivered-To: hangout-at-nylxs.com Received: from mailbackend.panix.com (mailbackend.panix.com [166.84.1.89]) by mrbrklyn.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 311DE161191 for ; Thu, 5 Mar 2015 16:39:33 -0500 (EST) Received: from panix2.panix.com (panix2.panix.com [166.84.1.2]) by mailbackend.panix.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8A99910198; Thu, 5 Mar 2015 16:39:32 -0500 (EST) Received: by panix2.panix.com (Postfix, from userid 20529) id 7A10833C81; Thu, 5 Mar 2015 16:39:32 -0500 (EST) Date: Thu, 5 Mar 2015 16:39:32 -0500 From: Ruben Safir To: hangout-at-nylxs.com, megazell-at-gmail.com Subject: Re: [NYLXS - HANGOUT] Community Funding Message-ID: <20150305213932.GA12230-at-panix.com> References: <20150304134010.GA12863-at-panix.com> <1425491094.79395.YahooMailBasic-at-web121204.mail.ne1.yahoo.com> <20150305203417.GA19943-at-panix.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20150305203417.GA19943-at-panix.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.23 (2014-03-12) Sender: owner-hangout-at-mrbrklyn.com Precedence: bulk Reply-To: hangout-at-nylxs.com [NYLXS: HANGOUT] X-BeenThere: hangout-at-nylxs.com X-Mailing-list: hangout-at-nylxs.com Precedence: list List-Id: NYLXS General Discussion Forum List-Unsubscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe:
My understanding is that this funding is administered through the Boro Presidents Offices in NYC
http://www2.ed.gov/policy/elsec/leg/esea02/pg1.html
http://www.brighthubeducation.com/teaching-methods-tips/11105-basics-of-title-1-funds/
another program http://manhattanbp.nyc.gov/html/budget/community-grants.shtml
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: > > >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: > > 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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