Forest Hills Chamber of Commerce of Queens, Inc.
The Forest Hills Chamber of Commerce promotes the community with the special events they sponsor. The chamber’s mission of commerce, culture, and community is to bring people together, and create revenue for the businesses and provide exposure for all the great things they have to o ff er.
They held 3 free concerts to benefit the Queens community audience, which was composed of diverse ethnicities and ages ranging from kids to seniors. They brought the community together during a pandemic to still be able to enjoy free jazz with friends and family that they have been attending and looking forward to year after year. The outdoorJazz Concert was held in conjunction with the Shop Forest Hills Fall Festival, which was one block long. The jazz ensemble performing was The Rakiem Walker Project, consisting of 7 band members. The chamber of commerce promotes the Forest Hills community to encourage visitors to come and "Eat, Shop, Love Forest Hills".
Fort Greene SNAP During the worst pandemic in 100 years, with its severe economic and health consequences, a lack of legal resources stood to make everything just that much worse for low-income working people and those too
elderly or disabled to work. The Coalition of Concerned Legal Professionals (CCLP) is completely volunteer run, including the lawyers who participate in our legal advice and legal educational sessions. With the support of the Ponce De Leon Foundation, their free-of-charge Legal Advice Sessions and Know Your Law Sessions made a real di ff erence in the lives of those facing unlawful evictions, wage theft, and credit and debt issues. They conducted 25–30 legal advice sessions: at the beginning of the year, in person, providing advice to 5-8 people at each session, with volunteers performing hours of follow-up advocacy. From April through June, they conducted these sessions entirely by phone, Zoom, and email. Since then, they have utilized a hybrid model, with some lawyers, advocates, and legal advice recipients receiving advice by phone or zoom, and others from within their o ffi ce. In addition, they provided advice and follow- up to individuals by phone, as situations arose, involving lawyers with experience in housing, elder law, wills and estates, employment, bankruptcy, immigration, and more.
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