Ralph Trionfo

Boys & Girls Clubs of Puerto Rico | Wake Up! Breakfast 2017
2017-12-07 07:30 - 09:00 (America/New_York)
We invite you to learn more about the success stories of our participants in the Wake up! Breakfast this December 7th at 7:30am.
Some demographics of BGCPR impact:
89% of the 15,000 youth served are under the poverty level13 Centers across the island serving youth 6-18 years of age, 6 are within public community housing developments working with the most at-risk youth on the island

Key results
99% of participants graduate from high school 86% will continue to college

On Wednesday, September 20th, hurricane MarÃa hit Puerto Rico, destroying properties and leaving our communities severely damaged, without water, electricity or communication, as well as thousands of people searching for places to find food, water and shelter.
Boys & Girls Clubs of Puerto Rico runs 13 Club Houses across the island, which are the second home for 15,000 children and youth and 4,000 families per year. Our Club Houses are located in economically challenged communities and 89% of the children and youth we serve live on households with income under the federal poverty level. In 2017, that means $12,060 for an individual or $24,600 for a family of four. Many of our 13 Club Houses suffered substantial damage during the storm. With schools damaged or being used as shelters, children in these communities are left without a safe place to receive much needed educational and support services, adding stress to an already stressful young life.
We need your help to restore hope and return to delivering much needed support services to our youth and families. Join us by partnering in the Boys & Girls Clubs of Puerto Rico IMPACT FUND, through which we commit to re-open one by one each of our Centers to service communities. We will be prepared, when called upon, to expand our hours as it is not known when Public Schools will re-open. We have identified Las Margaritas Club in Metro San Juan as our first Club to bring to full operations and have secured funds to buy a power generator to be able to run this club as a community service center. As funds are secured for repairs, expanded programmatic and community support, our Clubs will be hubs for the community.
For more information you can call BGCPR 787-216-8406 or 787-728-4040x.1251. You can also email us: Fundraising@bgcpr.org

visit their facebook page for news and updates https://www.facebook.com/bgcpr/?ref=page_intern

DANCE FOR PUERTO RICO @ OUTPUT
2017-10-10 18:00 UTC | Output, 74 Wythe Avenue, Brooklyn, NY, 11240, United States
Tuesday October 10th, eight of the world’s most celebrated house music DJs will perform at Output Club for the Helping Hands to raise funds for Puerto Rico. This event is curated by Grammy award-winning DJ and producer Louie Vega. Louie is one of a select group of talented artists of Puerto Rican heritage who have made vital contributions to New York City’s nightlife, music and culture. He felt it was crucial that he do something to help his friends and family in Puerto Rico in the wake of the tragedy following Hurricane Maria.

Each DJ will play for an hour in this 8-hour show with a vocal performance by Josh Milan. The lineup consists of artists who are either of Puerto Rican heritage themselves, or who also share a deep appreciation of the contributions that the Puerto Rican community with its deep ties to New York City have made over the years as producers, dancers and clubgoers.

Little Louie Vega
Joe Claussell
Timmy Regisford
Tony Humphries
TODD TERRY
Danny Krivit
David Depino
JOEY LLANOS
Vocal Performance by Josh Milan.

This event is being hosted at Output Club in Brooklyn. Output was recently voted Club of the Year at the Electronic Music Awards, and was named Best Club in Northeast America by DJ Mag. Nightlife veterans Benny Soto (also of Puerto Rican descent) and Mike Weiss (founder of Nervous Records) will be overseeing promotion.

There is a $20 minimum contribution. 100% of door proceeds will go to The Empire State Relief and Recovery Effort for Puerto Rico.

21+
Doors at 6PM
Enter at Wythe Avenue

MIXMAG LINK ABOUT THE EVENT

New York Stands With Puerto Rico The Empire State Relief and Recovery Effort for Puerto Rico

LIGHT THE NIGHT | FOR LEUKIMIA
2017-10-05 17:00 - 20:00 UTC
When you or someone you love hears the words “you have cancer”…
It’s one of the darkest moments in your life.
At Light The Night, it is our aim to bring light to the darkness of cancer through research and cures. Light The Night is a series of fundraising campaigns benefiting The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society’s (LLS) funding of research to find blood cancer cures. We bring hope instead of despair by working to ensure access to treatments for all blood cancer patients. We bring communities together to celebrate those who are fighting the disease and to honor those we have lost.
We are taking steps to end cancer. WE LIGHT THE NIGHT.

FLASH COLLECTION FOR PUERTO RICO
2017-09-28 09:00 - 20:00 UTC | Keller Williams Landmark Realty, 75-25 31st Ave, East Elmhurst, NY, 11370, United States
FLASH COLLECTION FOR PR

Many of you know that I have deep roots in the Caribbean with many friends and family dealing with extreme challenges in Puerto Rico right now. The relief is coming but who knows how long it will take, some people have lost everything. Here’s what we’re doing to help and make an impact right now.

American Airlines has a wonderful program called OPERATION PUERTO RICO STRONG which allows employees to ship 2 boxes up to 150lbs each FREE to San Juan. Between now and Friday 9/29/17 at 3pm (must have the boxes at JFK AA cargo by 6PM Friday). We are collecting items to ship and hand deliver it. Our friend Luis Daniel Lugardo is close to the Airport in San Juan and has committed to receiving and overseeing the distribution of the boxes to either pre-determined people, families or organizations. He has gathered others who will assist in the distribution as well. We are prioritizing these efforts to those in remote areas, children’s hospitals, churches and nursing homes. You will see where your donations are going, we will film the recipients and share it.
We setup a very convenient drop-off point in a shopping center in Queens, NY close to highways with easy parking. The Keller Williams Real Estate office in Jackson Heights will receive any donations you can drop off. There’s a Rite Aid and Supermarket right there next door. I will oversee packing and getting the boxes to JFK Friday. If you drop off a full box sealed and designated for recipient, you must itemize the contents and provide complete delivery contact details.
There are many wonderful online websites to send money and help, however the local people in PR cant get anywhere, there’s no gas and and the stores are empty. So this will get directly into their hands.
If you cant get to us in time and want to help. Contact me and we will find a way! I can collect any money donations and go to Costco to purchase items in bulk on your behalf.
WHAT TO DROP OFF:
batteries | wipes | female sanitary items | power bars | dried fruits | soap | shampoo | deodorant | canned food | rice | baby food | diapers | flashlights | gently used clothes | sneakers

big shopping of items at Costco

Friends helping friends
CAT5 Hurricane Maria goes right over PR

OPEN HOUSE EXHIBIT
2017-06-18 11:00 - 17:00 (America/New_York) | OPEN HOUSE STUDIOS, 32-02 Skillman Ave, Long Island City, NY, 11101, United States
This event will be amazing – we are expecting a full house.
They also both have heavyweight collaborators for their Collins Avenue projects. Schrager’s The Residences at the Miami Beach Edition (2901 Collins Ave., Miami Beach, 305-571-3101) comprises 26 condos designed by John Pawson located atop the hotel brand that Schrager has created with Marriott—a resort that will feature a Jean-Georges Vongerichten restaurant. A stone’s throw away sits Faena House (3201 Collins Ave., Miami Beach, 305-534-8800) 47 residences designed by Foster + Partners that are part of the three-block-by-two-block Faena District. The developer’s eponymous district includes a hotel, marina, and three Rem Koolhaas-designed spaces: an arts center, shopping area, and hightech parking garage. Both men are armed with their respective Douglas Elliman sales teams of high-profile brokers who know New York as well as Miami.
As the neighborhood’s reputation changes from a modest condominium stretch to high-end luxury living, Schrager and Faena are shattering the ceiling for condo prices in town. Both properties have been selling preconstruction units for more than $3,000 per square foot since hitting the market earlier this year. The $34 million sale of two penthouses to one buyer at Edition clocked in at a record $3,800 per square foot.
“I wasn’t surprised,” Schrager says. “There were a number of shifts that Miami was undergoing. A lot of sophisticated people were here, caused in part by Art Basel. When you get a sophisticated international buyer, they’re used to spending that money to live in a sophisticated place. And Miami has become that.”
And Schrager, who’s opened everything from New York’s Studio 54 to Miami Beach’s Delano, points out that the residential feel of the surrounding blocks protects buyers from the tourist throngs they would find in South Beach’s hotel district, practically forming a barrier.

LIC ARTS OPEN MAY 17-21
2017-05-17 10:00 - 2017-05-21 20:00 (America/New_York) | VARIOUS LOCATIONS, Long Island City, NY, 11101, United States
Check out the open studios next week in LIC Queens.
This link licartsopen.org takes you the website with all the details. It’s a celebration of artistic diversity within the Long Island City community. This annual art festival is comprised of over fifty venues and almost two hundred artists. To further their commitment to the arts, the LIC Arts Open is expanding to offer more opportunities year round to bring art to the community. Now, art patrons don’t have to wait a year for the festival in May to see local Queens artists and the art they produce.
