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NON-MONETARY donate, sell, buy, rent or repair antiques, OTHER ALTERNATIVE vintage items, artifacts and other gently EXCHANGE IN NYC EXCHANGE used goods (including high-end and OPPORTUNITIES designer products). eMail: contact form NYC-BASED BARTER NETWORKS, TIMEBANKS & GROWNYC’s Stop and Swap NYC Waste Match LOCAL CURRENCIES Bring clean, reusable, portable items A free service, created and funded by such as clothing, house wares, games, the NYC Dep’t. of Sanitation, which

, & toys that you no longer need, facilitates the exchange of used and ArchCare TimeBank and take home something new-to-you, surplus goods and equipment from ArchCare, one of ’s largest free. organizations that no longer need them and most dynamic healthcare systems, is eMail: contact form to other entities that do. pleased to sponsor the ArchCare

TimeBank. Enrollment sessions for Materials for the Arts RecycleNet: Offers a variety of new members will begin in November Collects unneeded items from services related to secondary and former TBNYC members are businesses and individuals, and makes commodities and the recycling industry. invited to transfer their hours to the these donations available for free to its The focus is on operating 3 main ArchCare TimeBank. recipients: nonprofit organizations with programs: eMail: [email protected] arts programming, government . The Recycler's Exchange, a agencies, and public schools. Buy/Sell/Trade matching service Ourgoods Receive Application/Give Application for scrap, waste or by-products. A barter network for the creative . ScrapIndex.com, a scrap community, in which members trade Freecycle commodity price information skills, spaces and objects to get work An innovative project that harnesses the service. done without money. power of e-mail to connect people with . ROCs, an innovative program eMail: [email protected] things they want to throw away with designed to promote recycling with others who can use those things. Any Recycling Offset Credits. Women of Color Solidarity Economy member of the community can post an eMail: contact form and Barter Network item they'd like to give away, or an item For women who want to build an they are seeking. The one golden rule: interconnected socioeconomic Every item posted must be free. community for traditional sharing, Join: NYC (general), , Queens ADDITIONAL RESOURCES bartering, lending, trading, gifting, and County, Bronx, Staten Island. ON ALTERNATIVE swapping. EXCHANGE eMail: The Really, Really Free Market [email protected] Free clothing, books, household items, Arts and Labor: What do we do toys, workshops, music, food and fun! now? WomanShare Last Sunday of every month, 3-7pm. Alternative economic resource guide A time exchange network of and for Judson Memorial Church, 55 from the Arts and Labor working women which is mainly active in Washington Square South. group. . eMail: [email protected] More Info eMail: [email protected] FAB NYC Load Out Solidarity NYC EFLUX TimeBank Once a year event: Take home all the Connects, supports and promotes An international timebank with a donated costumes, props, and furniture NYC’s Solidarity Economy. branch in NYC run by arts organization you can carry - bring bags and carts to eMail: [email protected] EFLUX. transport your findings, if necessary. eMail: contact form The general public will be charged a $5 entrance fee to participate. Artists NATIONAL RESOURCES The Brooklyn Torch participate for FREE. ON TIMEBANKING A local currency project providing a eMail: [email protected] paper means of exchange in North HourWorld Brooklyn that circulates and supports NYC Stuff Exchange An open-source software for the resident community. This website offers a quick and simple timebanking and advice on starting our eMail: [email protected] way for NYC residents to search for own. places in their neighborhood and throughout the city where they can TimeBanks USA The Poetry Project A nationwide directory of timebanks, Promotes, fosters and inspires the ABCNoRio open-source software, & advice on reading and writing of contemporary Collectively-run center for arts and starting your own. poetry. See calendar for free workshops activism. Ongoing computer center. See and weekly readings. calendar for schedule information. Dane County Timebank eMail: [email protected] Advice and tools for starting and maintaining a timebank. EDUCATION, WORKSHOPS, BUSINESS & HOME & CLASSES OFFICE FREE, OR NEARLY Shape-up NYCOffers free fitness classes taught by expert fitness FREE, SERVICES IN NYS Small Business Development instructors every week at dozens of Center locations across the 5 boroughs. NYC Delivers free high quality business counseling and training to New Yorkers The Commons This list is a small sampling based who want to start a business or improve Hosts events curated by the progressive on popular categories of the former the performance of an existing business. community, from parties and benefits TimeBanksNYC marketplace. to forums, performances, films, OccuCopy lectures, classes, and workshops. See A worker's cooperative specializing in calendar for schedule of events. THE ARTS printing. We work for a wide variety of eMail: [email protected] activists, non-profits, artists, musicians, Dep’t. of Cultural Affairs (DCLA) small businesses, cooperatives, law Anhoek School Dedicated to supporting and firms, political campaigns. An radical/alternative Brooklyn school strengthening NYC’s vibrant cultural that offers classes based on horizontal life. US Postal Service methods of pedagogy, for barter. Schedule a free package pickup at your eMail: [email protected] home or office. See calendar for ongoing free arts and Brooklyn Skillshare crafts classes and programming. UPS Community-based and community-led eMail: Ask A Librarian Schedule a free package pickup at your community-building learning events home or office. organized and taught by Brooklyn residents. FREE to the public. See calendar to find ongoing free arts FedEx eMail: [email protected] and crafts classes and programming. Schedule a free package pickup at your eMail: Ask A Librarian home or office. Platform for Pedagogy Group that publicizes and promotes COMPUTER & INTERNET public lectures, symposia and related Ongoing free arts and crafts and TECHNOLOGY cultural events in and around NYC, computer classes. aiming to cultivate cross-disciplinary eMail: Ask A Librarian lecture attendance and open institutions NYC Dep’t. for the Aging Information on free computer classes, to larger and more diverse publics. Free Arts NYC eMail: [email protected] and free computer access in NYC. Provides underserved children and families with a unique combination of The Public School New York Public Library educational arts and mentoring Ongoing computer classes, or reserve a An open-source educational program. programs that help them to foster the Classes are free and organized by computer. self-confidence and resiliency needed to participants, mostly held in Greenpoint. eMail: Ask A Librarian realize their fullest potential. eMail: [email protected] eMail: [email protected] Brooklyn Public Library Trade School Ongoing computer classes. Cool Culture A self-organized learning space that eMail: Ask A Librarian Cool Culture helps over 50,000 income- runs on barter. Rather than paying for eligible families access and enjoy 90 of Queens Public Library classes with money, sign up for classes NYC's world-class cultural institutions by meeting your teacher's barter Ongoing classes for various levels of for free, providing children with requests. computer literacy, or reserve a experiences that improve literacy and eMail: join computer. learning. eMail: Ask A Librarian eMail: [email protected] Interference Archive Exploring the relationship between cultural production and social movements; this work manifests in 2 public exhibitions, a study and social Green roofs provide cleaner water, NYC Food Bank center, talks, screenings, publications, cleaner air, and more insulation while Organizes food, information and and workshops. also being relatively inexpensive and fun support for community survival and eMail: [email protected] to install. Individuals can join the dignity. Programs Include: Seeding the City network by installing . Food Program Locator: Find a Meetup.com green roof modules on their buildings. soup kitchen, food pantry, senior Helps groups of people with shared eMail: [email protected] center, afterschool and summer interests plan meetings and form offline programs, low-income daycare centers, Open Market BackPack clubs in local communities around the HEALTH & WELLNESS programs for children, shelters, world. SERVICES rehabilitation centers and youth programs citywide. GARDENING Artist Access at Woodhull Medical . Summer Meals: The Food Bank Center works with the NYC Dep’t. of GreenThumb NYC Allows artists and performers to trade Education to make sure children A division of the NYC Dep’t. of Parks their creative services for medical care. have access to the Summer Food and Recreation dedicated to supporting After completing the application Service Program (SFSP) to replace community gardens & school gardens, process, Artist's Access gives artists the the free and reduced-price school assisting over 600 gardens and nearly equivalent of $40 in health care services meals received during the school 20,000 garden members throughout for each hour of creative work they year. NYC. In addition to helping groups perform at the hospital. . Food Stamps: The federal Food purchase plants, the program also eMail: Stamp Program is a simple, provides materials such as tools and [email protected] dependable way to buy food. mulch, and technical assistance like hc.org . Free Income Tax Services: Last educational workshops. It is also year, the Food Bank For NYC working with gardens on environmental NYC Free Clinic helped get New Yorkers more than initiatives such as capturing rainwater. Provides no-cost healthcare services, $60 million they were owed in tax eMail: [email protected] including primary care, specialty refunds and credits. referrals, counseling, and patient . Other Resources: Browse our NYC Community Gardens Coalition education; prescription drugs at a collected links to access other Promotes the preservation, creation, significantly reduced cost; and free resources available to New Yorkers and empowerment of community crucial social services, such as screening in need from job training and legal gardens through education, advocacy, and registration for government health assistance to meal delivery, utility and grassroots organizing. General insurance and entrance into job assistance and more. meetings are open to all and held on the placement and training programs. third Thursday of every month. City Harvest eMail: contact form Brooklyn Free Clinic Exists to end hunger in communities A student-run organization that throughout NYC through food rescue Oasis NYC provides free healthcare to the and distribution, education, and other Provides free community maps for uninsured in Brooklyn. Under the practical, innovative solutions. NYC, helping users develop a better guidance of volunteer physicians and understanding of their environment faculty advisors, students help provide Just Food with interactive maps of open spaces, care and health maintenance screening Empowers and supports community- property information, transportation to patients and make referral to a led efforts to increase access to locally networks, and more. Search for network of specialists who have grown food by providing training and community gardens near you. volunteered to treat patients for free. education to community members, Appointments are Wednesdays from 5- helping them launch projects like 596 Acres 7pm. Walk-ins must arrive by 5pm. farmers' markets and CSAs and Online tools neighbors can use to clear Request an appointment providing education in basic culinary hurdles to community land access, and urban agriculture skills, especially in turning city data into information about under-served neighborhoods. particular pieces of land and connecting HEALTHY FOOD SUPPORT eMail: [email protected] people to one another through simple & NUTRITION social networking functions. Rockaway Rescue Alliance – Shore eMail: contact form Soup Project NYC Food A grassroots community group Bushwick Eco Action Network Information on NYC food assistance increasing healthy food access for the An umbrella organization that seeks to programs for children, seniors and Rockaways. network and connect individuals and adults. groups to the environmental advocacy Food Not Bombs efforts in Northeast Brooklyn. Free, vegan (non-meat & non-dairy) hot Seeding the City meals served weekly. Locations: 3 . Manhattan: Lower East Side and organizations and corporations to help Harlem all New Yorkers to volunteer. TRANSPORTATION . Brooklyn: Bedford-Stuyvesant eMail: contact form.

The Kitchen Table Access-A-Ride (AAR) Paratransit Materials for the Arts A Community Supported Kitchen and a Services Collects unneeded items from Community Supported Agriculture Shared-ride, door-to-door, and feeder businesses and individuals, and make project. Visit their website for more para-transit service in NYC, and within these donations available for free to its information on CSKs and CSAs, and a three-quarter-of-a mile corridor recipients: nonprofit organizations with how to start your own. beyond fixed-route service across the arts programming, government eMail: NYC borderline to nearby areas of agencies, and public schools. [email protected] Nassau and Westchester counties. Download PDF Application. Visions/Services for the Blind & Our Zoko eMail: contact form Visually Impaired Online tool for organizing food-sharing Develops and implements programs to groups. assist all that are blind or visually 511NY Rideshare impaired and to educate the public to NY State DoT: regular commuting, understand their capabilities and needs. REPAIRS local + regional trips. NYC Rescue Mission Fixer’s Collective RightRides Provides help and hope for hungry, To increase material literacy in the A non-profit organization that offers homeless, hurting men and women of community by fostering an ethic of free late-night rides home to women NYC. creative caring toward the objects in our and LGBTQ individuals on Friday and lives. Every third Thursday of the Saturday nights. Brooklyn Community Services month, and rotating events. Building a Better Brooklyn, by eMail: [email protected] Rideshare boards for local strengthening families, helping children commuting, regional, and long-distance and youth reach their full potential, and Pop-Up Repair trips: Craigslist, Carpool World, supporting adults in leading productive, Theater artists challenge the cycle of use RideJoy, eRideShare. fulfilling lives. and discard. Bring in your broken items and fix or repurpose them together! Time’s Up! Bike Co-op Theater for the New City Free repair classes, drop-in hours, & Develops theater audiences and inspires free “recycled” bicycles, free youth future theater artists from the often- SENIOR PROGRAMS & programs. overlooked low-income minority SERVICES eMail: contact form communities of NYC by producing minority writers from around the world Recycle-A-Bicycle and by bringing the community into NYC Dep’t. For The Aging Youth programs: earn-a-bike, summer theater and theater into the community Works for the empowerment, jobs, free bike building & repair through many free festivals. independence, dignity and quality of life workshops, and adult education: free of NYC's diverse older adults and for bike building & repair workshops. Million Trees NYC the support of their families through eMail: contact form Citywide, public-private program with advocacy, education and the an ambitious goal: to plant and care for coordination and delivery of services. one million new trees across the City's

five boroughs over the next decade. Retired and Senior Volunteer eMail: [email protected] Program COMMUNITY Recruits, trains, and places volunteers SERVICES & Pajama Program over 55 at community-based Provides new pajamas and new books organizations throughout the NYC. VOLUNTEER to children in need. eMail: [email protected] eMail: [email protected] OPPORTUNITIES IN DOROT Metropolitan Hospital Center Alleviating social isolation among the NYC Community hospital that provides state- elderly and providing services to help of-the-art care and leading edge them live independently as valued technology in a modern environment. NYC Service members of the community. Serves the NYC Service is the area’s designated Jewish and wider community, bringing Lotus Music & Dance Regional Volunteer Center focusings on the generations together in a mutually Multicultural dance association in New 12 strategic programs and 20 volunteer beneficial partnership of elders, York, offering lessons, workshops and volunteers and professionals. impact initiatives that will expand outreach to individuals, government, 4 performances of traditional ethnic New York African Chorus Ensemble GO Project forms of dance and music. Inc. Provides year-round educational and eMail: [email protected] An organization which, among other family support services to children who things, employs the arts as a tool to are performing below grade level and Sustainable Flatbush combat the issues of racial, ethnic, and equips them with the confidence and Brings neighbors together to discuss, religious violence in our community. skills needed to succeed at school, at educate, and advocate for sustainable Host parent company of NYC's home and in life. living in our Brooklyn neighborhood Multicultural Festival. eMail: [email protected] and beyond. eMail: [email protected] eMail: contact form Hour Children Hudson Guild Hour Children's mission is to reunite Creates and sustains a strong, effective incarcerated and formerly incarcerated community that acknowledges and women with their children, to help Green Earth Urban Gardens Inc. responds to the potential, achievements empower them to successfully rejoin Promotes social and environmental and interdependence of its diverse the community and build healthy, solutions through urban agriculture and members. Rooted in and primarily independent, and secure lives. To therapeutic gardening benefiting the focused on the Chelsea neighborhood, accomplish this, Hour Children diverse community including access to it seeks to empower all individuals and provides compassionate and healthy local food to soup kitchens, and families to achieve their highest comprehensive services and encourages food pantries. Also Advocates for potential, while maintaining a priority all to live and interact with dignity and outdoor/indoor gardening access to focus on those in economic need. respect. seniors and special needs youth and eMail: [email protected] Provides employment and community Bronx Volunteer Coalition Service hub for high school students. Project Find – Hamilton House Service-minded organizations that seek Volunteer center for local beautification Senior Center to increase volunteerism in the Bronx. projects. Provides older New Yorkers with the Through information sharing and eMail: contact form services and supports necessary to live collaboration, the Coalition acts as a enriched independent lives in the hub for Bronx residents who want to New York Public Library community. Hamilton House is a give back to their community. Citywide locations. permanent resource for affordable eMail: Individuals and Groups housing designated for adults who are Application, Agency Application. Korean American Family Service 62 years of age and older who earn less Center than 80% of Area Median Income. Tropicalfete, Inc. Working to stop domestic violence and Developing the community in the area sexual assault, empower and support Millennium Development – of arts and social services with the focus the Asian and Korean American Midwood Senior Center on educating the global community on community. Enhances the community by cultivating Caribbean culture throughout the and challenging the minds of today’s World. Compost for Brooklyn youth, empowering families, Empowers city residents to sustainably encouraging and supporting the reduce waste and cultivate healthy wellbeing of active adults and advancing urban ecosystems by offering free their participation in all aspects of community composting, planting urban community life. gardens, and teaching workshops. eMail: Stanley Isaacs Neighborhood Center [email protected] A major multi-service social service agency founded in 1964 in the El Museo del Barrio settlement house tradition working with NYC's only Latino museum dedicated the poor, the isolated and disconnected to Puerto Rican, Caribbean, and Latin of all ages, genders, backgrounds and American art. abilities. Promotes social and physical eMail: [email protected] well-being and encourage growth, self- reliance and dignity throughout every Minus the Box stage of life. Creates a safe and inclusive space where people of diverse backgrounds can Jacob A. Riis Neighborhood come together to respectfully share Settlement House ideas, inspire, and learn from each Building and strengthening underserved other. communities in Western Queens, and eMail: [email protected] acting as a catalyst for change. eMail: [email protected]

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