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Name of Your Organization:

[Books Education Learning & Life INC]

Overview of the Project - Please provide a brief description of the project.

[Our goal is to work with youth from underrepresented communities to help them learn the importance about recycling and climate change in their community.

Which of the following issues does your project address?

1. Issue 1 - Addressing Mental Health
2. Issue 2 - Preparation for College and/or Career
3. Issue 3 - Youth Advocacy Promotion

Youth Advocacy Promotion

Youth Engagement - Please explain how you will engage youth in the planning and implementation of the project.

[Children are our future, especially when it comes to our planet. It’s no secret that we all need to dig deep and do our part to combat climate change. With foresight and understanding that through our youth we can help save our planet. At the BELL Organization we are proposing a Recycle & Climate Change Project where we would work with youth from low income communities in the northern part of the Bronx to help them obtain a better understanding on how recycling can have a positive impact on our climate. The program will run on Saturdays where we will clean up surrounding parks/playgrounds and work with a neighboring gardening community to teach them how to plant and will run until the end of the academic school year. Participating youths will be accompanied by a parent or guardian to each event we hold on that day. In order to promote youth participation we will give each student a $100 gift card to a store of their choice at the end of the program. We are hoping that the incentive will help motivate their interest in learning about climate change and help families who are financially burdened due to the ongoing pandemic. We are hoping to accomplish the following raising awareness and values by making recycling a practice from a young age among black and brown youths from low income communities, ensuring that they will take a sense of pride in themselves by wanting to take care of the planet and communities and allowing them to learn more about climate change. Instilling these values in our children at an early age will help them understand the importance of recycling, and continue to fight for change as they grow up and have children of their own. ]

Budget - Your total project budget must equal $20,000 to be placed on the ballot for a youth vote. Please provide a brief description of what the funds would be used for to successfully implement your project. You will also need to download, fill in, and attach a full budget using this template (External link).

[ Program Director - responsible for researching, planning, developing and implementing the organization's program.  1  $               3,000.00  $                          3,000.00 Outreach Team - enusre the program runs efficently, maintain open dialogue with student parent and be the go between with the program director. 5  $               7,500.00  $                          7,500.00 Data Acquisition team - ensuring that the data collected will be properly presented in our report. 2  $               2,000.00  $                          2,000.00      $                         -    $                                    -   Materials, Equipment and Supplies Microsoft Surface Pro 7 (2) 2  $                  599.00  $                          1,198.00 13-inch MacBook Air (1) 1  $                  999.00  $                             999.00 Ipad mini (1) 64GB 1  $                  399.00  $                             399.00 Licenses, Promotion & marketing, Storage     $               2,900.00  $                          2,900.00 Youth Stipends and Incentives        Gift Cards    $               2,004.00  $                          2,004.00      $                         -    $                                    -        $                         -    $                                    -          $                        20,000.00

Funds will be used to pay staff, purchase equipment and gift cards for youth who participate]

Timeline- Please describe the timeline for the implementation and completion of the project. All work for this project must be completed by June 30, 2021, which is the end of the city’s fiscal year and the deadline for the funds to be spent.

[Our program will start on February 20 2021 and ends on June 12 2021]

Project Activity Alignment - How does your project align with at least one of the following topics:

1. Leadership skills development: organizing & advocacy trainings
2. Stewardship of public spaces: public parks, transportation, etc.
3. Youth and student engagement
4. Civic education and advocacy
5. Community outreach involving residents that have been historically underrepresented in or underserved by city government and its processes

[Stewardship of public spaces: public parks]

What is your organization's area of focus?

1. Children and youth related
2. Advocacy and organizing
3. Arts and culture
4. Civic engagement
5. Education and literacy
6. Emergency management and disaster response
7. Employment and workforce development
8. Environment and sustainability
9. Faith-based
10. Food access
11. Health and medicine
12. Homelessness and/or affordable housing
13. Human rights
14. Human services
15. Immigrants and/or refugees
16. Justice related
17. Legal services
18. People with disabilities
19. Senior services
20. Women's issues

Children and youth related

Affirmations - Type "YES" below each statement to affirm that you are eligible to appear on the ballot for this process.

I confirm that my organization will be registered in the NYC Payee Information Portal and in PassPort, NYC’s online procurement system, in order to receive funding from the City of New York.

[Yes]

I confirm that my organization is able to front the costs of implementing this project. Organizations will be paid based on deliverables. 

[Yes]

Completion of Deliverables: I understand all deliverables must be completed by June 30th, 2021.

[Yes]

I understand a condition of funding includes submission of a final report upon project completion, and participating in a debrief session with the CEC.

[Yes]