Community Events & Updates:
PAST EVENTS:
WHEDCo Sponsors Community Health Event
On Thursday, February 25, 25 participants of WHEDCo’s women’s support group and residents of Urban Horizons braved the inclement weather to hear a wonderful presentation about diabetes awareness and prevention, delivered by healthcare providers from EmblemHealth and Montefiore Medical Center.
WHEDCo social worker Teresa Cano translates a statement by Dr. T.S. Dharmarajan, Montefiore Medical Center.
WHEDCo Hosts Get Fit & Stay Healthy Launch Party
On Thursday October 15th, despite inclement weather, over a dozen community residents met at Intervale Green for WHEDCo’s Get Fit & Stay Healthy Launch Party, held from 4 to 6 pm.
Residents were fitted for bicycle helmets, courtesy of the NYC Department of Transportation, received discounts for farmers’ markets in the area, as well as learned about healthy after-school snacks and easy ways to stay fit!
Check out our flyer for more information!
Community Clean Up in Crotona Park East!
WHEDCo partnered with SoBRO, Partnership For Parks/BuildOn, and Metropolitan High School to organize the first Clean Up & Green Up Crotona Park East this Saturday, October 10, with tools loaned from the NYC Department of Sanitation. Participants, mostly youth, removed trash from a 16 block target area of the Southern Boulevard corridor, learned how to care for street trees, cleaned out Crotona Park, and conducted an infrastructure needs survey. Over 80 people participated and over 30 bags of garbage were collected!
Check out our pictures from the event!
Check out our press coverage - Daily News and East Tremont Blog
Community Planning Meeting, Southern Boulevard
Wednesday, September 30 from 6 to 7:30 pm at 1330 Intervale Avenue NYPD officers, officials from the Bronx DOT, Community Board 3 and the NYC Department of Sanitation, WHEDCo's President Nancy Biberman, and community residents had a fruitful discussion about transportation issues in the Southern Boulevard neighborhood and planned for the Community Clean Up on October 10.
For more information on future community planning meetings please email econdev@whedco.org
Bronx Summer Walks
WHEDCo coordinated with lead agencies the West Bronx LDC, the NYC Department of Transportation, Morrisania D&TC, 167th St. merchants, and others to launch the city's FIRST Temporary Pedestrian Street in The Bronx, right here in our neighborhood, on three (3) Saturdays this June and July!
We closed E. 167th Street between Gerard and Cromwell Avenues to provide a safe, car-pollution-free area for kids and adults to shop from local merchants, eat, socialize, enjoy music, dance, play and even learn. Each day had a theme, all of which reflected WHEDCo's and other partners' interests: music (the Arts); going "green"; and getting fit and healthy.
Donations from the Bronx Zoo (6 family packs worth $100+ each), Fine Fare (3 $50 shopping sprees), MetroPlus (a brand new bike), Morrisania D&TC (giveaways for kids), WHEDCo (support to offset music costs) and others helped make this pilot event a GREAT beginning.
Click HERE for a presentation of photos from the events!
Also, check out our "going green" flyers from the event!
Financial Education Training
Thanks to WHEDCo program directors, community members, The Office
of Congressman Jose E. Serrano, the Federal Trade Commission, Credit Where Credit Is Due,
Legal Aid Society Community Development Project and UNHP for making the Financial Education Training event such a success! Over 40 people attended and heard financial experts from
Credit Where Credit Is Due, Legal Aid Society Community Development Project and University Neighborhood Housing Program (UNHP) offer practical advice on common money questions including how to repair credit histories and how to set up a bank account if you are a recent immigrant to the United States. Simultaneous Spanish translation was provided.
The event empowered community members with the tools and resources to take charge of their financial goals; local financial experts offered practical advice to common money questions ranging from how to repair your credit history to the facts about Immigrant’s Banking Rights.
Efihenia Muñoz, a member of WHEDCo's Home-based Childcare Microenterprise Network, who attended the training found it extremely valuable for herself as a nascent business-owner. "I learned a great deal about opening and running a business, particularly about budgeting and filing your taxes" she said. "I will definitely share this information with my friends and would attend a follow-up session in the future."
Check out speaker information and pictures from the event right here!
