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Winter is without doubt a homeowner’s worst nightmare. You not only have to contend with the cold but you also incur increased heating costs
Keeping Your Home Warm and Save Energy This Winter
Winter is without doubt a homeowner’s worst nightmare. You not only have to contend with the cold but you also incur increased heating costs
To raise awareness of the impact of transportation, poverty on education achievement also how carpooling can reduces each person`s travel co
Transportation
To raise awareness of the impact of transportation, poverty on education achievement also how carpooling can reduces each person`s travel co
With discounted rates, small start ups could spend more money on their product, service and employees helping the start up succeed.
Free/Discounted Utilities, Water, Garbage, Internet
With discounted rates, small start ups could spend more money on their product, service and employees helping the start up succeed.
miLES Storefront Transformer
On the back of their awesome first year, the Made in Lower Eastside (miLES) initiative – which grew from OpenIDEO's Vibrant Cities Challenge, continues to evolve its pursuit of opening underused New York storefronts to fresh possibilities.
Power to the Pop-up
Embracing the challenge of storefront vacancy in downtown NYC by unlocking vibrant opportunities.
Virtual Team Enhances Community Vibrancy
Made in Lower East Side (miLES) launches a storefront in New York to host classes, events, pop-up shops and co-working to revitalise their local neighbourhood.
Made in Lower East Side: Cultivating Ideas + Action
Made in Lower East Side (miLES) cultivates ideas and actions of individuals and small businesses in the neighborhood by connecting people to share underused spaces. Read an excerpt from the latest miLES Newsletter.
Lessons from miLES: Fail Early, Fail Often
Since our last update, we’ve been pretty busy. First, we applied to the City 2.0 grant, but didn’t win. After that we decided that this was a good opportunity to to get back on our feet and find new ways to make it work.
The Launch of Intermodal
Nicolas Mika is an example of a community member for whom the Vibrant Cities Challenge planted an inspiring and important seed – one that’s led him to a new initiative he and his group are championing in Grand Rapids, Michigan called Intermodal.
Made in Lower East Side: The Beginning
In OpenIDEO’s Vibrant Cities Challenge, our global community tackled the topic of urban revitalisation for struggling cities. Feeling inspired by our challenge efforts, community member Eric Ho wanted to bring some vibrancy to NYC.