Red Hook Initiative http://rhicenter.org Creating Change From Within Tue, 21 May 2013 16:07:57 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5 Building Digital Bridges http://rhicenter.org/2013/03/27/building-digital-bridges/ http://rhicenter.org/2013/03/27/building-digital-bridges/#comments Wed, 27 Mar 2013 19:44:29 +0000 sandy http://rhicenter.org/?p=1638 Last weekend young adults from Red Hook Initiative (RHI) were featured on NY1 for their efforts to create a community-wide wireless network. These 5 trailblazers are our Digital Stewards and are among 40 youth currently employed with RHI through the NYC Center for Economic Opportunity Work Progress Program.

CLICK HERE to watch our Digital Stewards on NY1!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Not only are homes and businesses being rebuilt in Red Hook after Sandy, so is the neighborhood’s wireless network. NY1′s Jeanine Ramirez filed the following report.

The Digital Stewards are part ...]]> http://rhicenter.org/2013/03/27/building-digital-bridges/feed/ 0 From The White House to Mount Kilimanjaro… all in one week! http://rhicenter.org/2013/02/13/from-the-white-house-to-mount-kilimanjaro-all-in-one-week/ http://rhicenter.org/2013/02/13/from-the-white-house-to-mount-kilimanjaro-all-in-one-week/#comments Wed, 13 Feb 2013 17:53:41 +0000 Tony http://rhicenter.org/?p=1592 The Red Hook Initiative has been all over the globe this week.

At the White House 

RHI’s Media Programs Coordinator, Tony Schloss, and OTI Fellow, Jonathan Baldwin, presented at an event at the White House yesterday which highlighted innovative disaster response solutions and featured the joint work of New America Foundation’s Open Technology Institute (OTI)and the Red Hook Initiative.

Last November, in the wake of the hurricane, RHI and OTI worked with FEMA, neighborhood volunteers, and local businesses to rapidly expand the community wireless network we had ...]]> http://rhicenter.org/2013/02/13/from-the-white-house-to-mount-kilimanjaro-all-in-one-week/feed/ 0 Red Hook Story: Rethinking Power http://rhicenter.org/2012/12/21/red-hook-story-rethinking-power/ http://rhicenter.org/2012/12/21/red-hook-story-rethinking-power/#comments Fri, 21 Dec 2012 18:04:31 +0000 rhicenter http://rhicenter.org/?p=1526 A photo essay documenting the hurricane relief efforts at RHI.

Open publication – Free publishing – More red hook

 

Produced by kamau studios

Photography by: Rachel Falcone Michael Harlan Turkell John Moore kamau ware

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]]> http://rhicenter.org/2012/12/17/remember-taste-of-red-hook/feed/ 0 New York Community Trust-New York Magazine Nonprofit Excellence Award http://rhicenter.org/2012/12/17/new-york-community-trust-new-york-magazine-nonprofit-excellence-award/ http://rhicenter.org/2012/12/17/new-york-community-trust-new-york-magazine-nonprofit-excellence-award/#comments Mon, 17 Dec 2012 18:15:04 +0000 rhicenter http://rhicenter.org/?p=1488 Nonprofit Excellence Awards honor outstanding management practices and encourage innovation and use of effective communications among New York’s diverse nonprofits.

Read more about the awards at this website: https://npexcellence.fcny.org

]]> http://rhicenter.org/2012/12/17/new-york-community-trust-new-york-magazine-nonprofit-excellence-award/feed/ 0 Because Red Hook Wouldn’t Let Red Hook Go Under http://rhicenter.org/2012/12/14/because-red-hook-wouldnt-let-red-hook-go-under/ http://rhicenter.org/2012/12/14/because-red-hook-wouldnt-let-red-hook-go-under/#comments Fri, 14 Dec 2012 21:08:07 +0000 rhicenter http://rhicenter.org/?p=1484 From New York Magazine

Featuring Operations staff member Sandy Serrano, NY Mag wrote a nice piece encapsulating how the Red Hook community, and the Red Hook Initiative, worked to save itself.

Sandy Serrano heard the power go. A sucking sound, then a high-pitched whine, then click—the entire apartment was thrown into darkness. She was in her home on the fifth floor of 22 Mill Street, a brick cube in the heart of the Red Hook Houses, the largest public-housing project in the borough of Brooklyn and the ...]]> http://rhicenter.org/2012/12/14/because-red-hook-wouldnt-let-red-hook-go-under/feed/ 0 Stories Of Sandy: Red Hook Initiative http://rhicenter.org/2012/12/08/stories-of-sandy-red-hook-initiative/ http://rhicenter.org/2012/12/08/stories-of-sandy-red-hook-initiative/#comments Sun, 09 Dec 2012 04:39:16 +0000 Tony http://rhicenter.org/?p=1475 Via brooklynspectator.com

From the moment it was safe to exit their homes, the staff of the Red Hook Initiative (RHI) were out in force, mobilizing at their offices inside 767 Hicks Street to set up a warming center, donation drive for food and clothing, a charging area for electronics, and an information and volunteer hub for hope-starved and hopeful residents alike.

Click here to read the rest of the article

Photo by Michael Harlan Turk www.harlanturk.com

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All of us at the Red Hook Initiative would like to pause for a moment to give thanks as we emerge from three intense, grueling, horrifying and beautiful weeks of relief work, and start to look ahead to the next stage of recovery.

 

We are grateful for our community, within Red Hook and beyond. We will never be able to fully express our thanks to the many individuals, groups, organizations, businesses, and others who joined with us to address the critical needs that the hurricane laid bare. We ...]]> http://rhicenter.org/2012/12/05/red-hook-initiative-gives-thanks/feed/ 0 RHI on NBC Nightly News http://rhicenter.org/2012/11/21/rhi-on-nbc-nightly-news/ http://rhicenter.org/2012/11/21/rhi-on-nbc-nightly-news/#comments Wed, 21 Nov 2012 19:42:30 +0000 Tony http://rhicenter.org/?p=1115 The Red Hook Initiative was featured on NBC Nightly News with Brian Williams yesterday.

 

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Click here to watch the clip at the NBC site.

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“I was approached by Carlos [Menchaca]” — a staffer for City Council Speaker Christine Quinn — “he heard that I had some medical training, and I said, ‘˜Listen, I’m just a medical student,’” Krausher, a 26-year-old MD and PhD candidate in the Robert Wood Johnson-Princeton-Rutgers Tri-Institutional Program in New Brunswick, N.J., told FoxNews.com.  ”He ...]]> http://rhicenter.org/2012/11/21/medical-matt-again/feed/ 0