We have selected 5 non-profits that we really want to bring to the fair. With a spot financially secured, our 5 sponsored vendors can participate in the block party and educate people about what they are all about! 

Sustainable Flatbush brings neighbors together to mobilize, educate, and advocate for sustainable living in our Brooklyn neighborhood and beyond. Their vision of a sustainable neighborhood includes equal access to healthy food and open spaces; preserving affordable housing (and the diverse population it enables) through innovative energy practices; and streets that prioritize people over cars.

The Center for Health, Environment & Justice (CHEJ) mentors a movement that empowers people to build healthy communities and prevents harm to human health caused by exposure to environmental threats. Through training, coalition-building and one-on-one technical and organizing assistance, CHEJ works to level the playing field so that people can have a say in the environmental policies and decisions that affect their health and well being. By organizing one school, one neighborhood, one community at a time, CHEJ is making the world cleaner and healthier for all of us.

Adopt-a-Farmbox initiative is a program that builds and installs farmboxes made from 100 % recycled materials for local schools and community organizations for the purpose of growing fruits. Farmboxes are fertile ground not only for food, but also as a tool for education, personal growth, and community engagement. This is a call to reconnect with food; to create, to prosper, and to flourish through growing fruits and vegetables.

Bio Bus is a vehicle for bringing hands-on science education to communities that rarely have such opportunities.The BioBus reaches over 10,000 students a year, visiting public  schools across New York City and the country. The BioBus focuses its efforts on schools that are lacking resources for hands-on science education. The BioBus is committed to a program of radical sustainable. The BioBus is carbon neutral; its daily energy needs are provided by solar panels, a wind turbine, and an engine that runs on waste vegetable oil. In addition, we use low-environmental impact and salvaged materials in our projects whenever feasible in an effort to reduce waste.

Borough Bees provides  accessible and enjoyable posts covering all aspects of beekeeping.They also give classroom talks and beekeeping lectures, as well as teaching Beekeeping 101 course at Brooklyn Brainery in Carroll Gardens. Starting in Spring 2011, Bourough Bees will be doing public hive inspections and seminars.

The Poop Project : Shawn “the Puru” Shafner is an artist, theatre-maker and educator who started The POOP Project in April 2010 to generate public conversations about our often private business, and encourage people to re-examine their relationship to the bodily function that dare not speak its name.  Shawn and The POOP Project team aim to break through the thick walls of euphemism, utilizing public performances and art exhibitions, educational workshops, advocacy and community projects to create “poop positive” space where it never was before. We believe that a positive re-evaluation of this most basic act can have major ramifications on the way we think about and treat our bodies, our environment, and our global communities.