Webinar to assess the impact of disasters in Puerto Rico and stateside Puerto Rican communities three years after Hurricanes Irma and Maria devastated the island. The forthcoming publication "Enduring Disasters: Puerto Rico, Three Years After Hurricane María" will be discussed.

Presenters

Carlos Vargas Ramos, Ph.D. Click here for bio
Director of Public Policy, Centro

Presenting: Anticipated Vulnerabilities: Displacement and Migration in the Age of Climate Change
In 2017, the Massachusetts Executive Office of Energy and Environmental Affairs unveiled the Municipal Vulnerability Preparedness (MVP) program, in an effort to move forward the Commonwealth’s initiative to assist its municipalities

Jennifer Hinojosa Click here for bio
Research Associate, Centro

Presenting: Enduring Disasters: Puerto Rico, Three Years After Hurricane María
The post Hurricane Maria exodus represents one of the most significant movements of Puerto Ricans to the U.S. mainland in the island’s history in terms of both volume and duration. This policy brief examines recent from the 2019 American Community Survey (1-year estimates) that indicates that migration last year was lower than prior to Hurricane Maria levels.

Commentators

Sandra D. Rodríguez Cotto Click here for bio
Journalist, Radio Show Host,
Puerto Rico Information Network
Analyst, WPAB Ponce

Fernando I. Rivera, Ph.D. Click here for bio
Founding Director of the Puerto Rico Research Hub
University of Central Florida

Moderator

Dr. Edwin Melendez Click here for bio
Director of the Center for Puerto Rican Studies

Enduring Disasters: Puerto Rico, Three Years After Hurricane María

The post Hurricane Maria exodus represents one of the most significant movements of Puerto Ricans to the U.S. mainland in the island’s history in terms of both volume and duration. This policy brief examines recent from the 2019 American Community Survey (1-year estimates) that indicates that migration last year was lower than prior to Hurricane Maria levels.

Anticipated Vulnerabilities: Displacement and Migration in the Age of Climate Change

In 2017, the Massachusetts Executive Office of Energy and Environmental Affairs unveiled the Municipal Vulnerability Preparedness (MVP) program, in an effort to move forward the Commonwealth’s initiative to assist its municipalities...

Thursday September 24, 2020 Time: 3 PM

Please click the link below to join the webinar:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84183735283?pwd=b2tqdmhabjFibHE0ZEt3eTNKVWh0dz09

El webinar " Fondos CARES Act para iniciativas en respuesta a COVID-19: CDBG-CV y USDA " presentará las pautas de flexibilización para el uso de los fondos de subvención en bloque de desarrollo comunitario (CDBG) de la Ley CARES utilizados para respaldar la respuesta al coronavirus. Además se discutirán los fondos de respuesta al coronavirus asignados al USDA-Rural Development ante la crisis de salubridad y económica causada por la pandemia. La agencia de servicios de alimentación y nutrición (FNS) ha emitido una serie de exenciones para permitirle a los gobiernos estatal y locales incentivar las cadenas locales de suministros para continuar el abastecimiento de alimentos.

Lic. Luis Carlos Fernández Trinchet, Secretario Departamento de la Vivienda de Puerto Rico
Bio

Josué E. Rivera, State Director of Rural Development (RD) in Puerto Rico United States Department of Agriculture (USDA)
Bio

Caja de herramientas (documentos):

Información ofrecida por el Departamento de Agricultura de los Estados Unidos (en inglés, United States Department of Agriculture, USDA)

Nosotros en Desarrollo rural (RD) somos el componente de financiamiento comercial, vivienda asequible, e infraestructura para potenciar el desarrollo económico en las comunidades rurales, como usted conoce. La agencia recientemente abrió una ventana para nuestro programas de subvenciones de telemedicina y educación a distancia, programas vitales en momentos como este.

La agencia de servicios de alimentación y nutrición (FNS) ha emitido una serie de exenciones para permitirle al gobierno estatal y local continuar proveyendo alimentos.

En Rural hemos provisto una serie de medidas para ayudar a los prestatarios, flexibilizando las reglas, estableciendo moratorias, y extendiendo fechas de las subvenciones. Puedes leer las medidas aquí: https://rd.usda.gov/coronavirus

•  RURAL DEVELOPMENT COVID-19 Measures for Rural Communities PPP.pdf
  
  
• Guía de programas federales: https://www.rd.usda.gov/sites/default/files/USDA_COVID-19_Fed_Rural_Resource_Guide.pdf
  
  
• “Farmers’ Legal Action Group, Inc” guía enfocada en las ayudas para agricultores ante el COVID-19 (Abril 2020): http://www.flaginc.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/Updated-Farmers-Guide-to-COVID-19-Relief-April-27-2020.pdf
  
  
• Programas del Departamento en la cadenas locales de suministros: https://www.ams.usda.gov/sites/default/files/media/FoodSupplyChainFactSheet.pdf ‘
  
  
• AMS: https://www.ams.usda.gov/content/usda-purchase-3-billion-agricultural-commodities-issue-solicitations-interested-participants
• AMS- Farmers Food Box: https://www.ams.usda.gov/selling-food-to-usda/farmers-to-families-food-box

Acompáñenos a un webinar que aborda las oportunidades de apoyo disponibles actualmente para organizaciones sin fines de lucro, derivadas tanto de la Pandemia del COVID (PPP) como de los fondos de recuperación del Huracán María (CDBG-DR).  

Contaremos con el Subsecretario de Vivienda de Puerto Rico a cargo de los fondos de CDBG-DR y con la Directora Ejecutiva de COFECC, una eminente corporación comunitaria de desarrollo y financiamiento (CDFI) certificada por el SBA y otras agencias federales.

Ing. Dennis González, Subsecretario de Vivienda de Puerto Rico a cargo del Programa CDBG-DR (Community Development Block Grant-Disaster Recovery) de HUD

Oportunidades de financiamiento disponibles con fondos CDBG-DR para organizaciones sin fines de lucro (OSFLs) para iniciativas de incubadoras/aceleradoras (SBIA), capacitación laboral (WT) y financiamiento de pequeñas empresas y OSFLs (SBF).  Además, un anticipo de la convocatoria futura para vivienda de interés social para poblaciones vulnerables.

Lcda. Giovanna Piovanetti, Presidenta Ejecutiva de la Corporación para el Financiamiento Empresarial del Comercio y de las Comunidades (COFECC)

Nuevas oportunidades de apoyo para organizaciones sin fines de lucro y pequeñas empresas bajo el programa Payment Protection Program (PPP) del Small Business Administration (SBA) y otros nuevos programas del CARES Act

Moderadores: Dr. Rafael A. Torrech San Inocencio y Dr. Carlos Vargas-Ramos

Caja de herramientas (documentos):

• CDBG-DR Advancing the recovery Opportunities for ngos/OSFLs / Eng. Dennis G. González PPP
• Programas de Apoyo y Financiamiento a las Entidades sin Fines de Lucro como resultado del COVID-19 / Lcda. Giovanna Piovanetti PPP
• PPP_Borrower_Information_Fact_Sheet
• SBA_PPP_and other_Resources_small-business-owner-s-guide-to-the-cares-act-final
• SBIA_NOFA_Addendum_2_EN_Signed_MMM_4-23-2020

If looking for accommodations, we recommend that you visit www.booking.com or www.hotels.com (and similar websites like Expedia or Kayak) to get the best rate. If you are not familiar with NYC, try to get a hotel in the East Side near Lexington Avenue or Grand Central area, where you can take the Lexington Line Subway #6 to 116th Street (walk up three blocks to 119th and turn right to 3rd Avenue).  Please note that the United Nations General Assembly is meeting at that time, so hotel rooms are at a premium, so please make your arrangements as soon as possible.

Courtyard New York Manhattan/Upper East Side

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• Courtyard New York Manhattan/Upper East Side  for 288 USD   per night

Start date: 9/19/2019

End date: 9/21/2019

Last day to book: 9/04/2019

Rooms are limited!

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