Painting the City White - Over a Million Square Feet of White Roofs

October 13, 2010
With a soft, squishy thrust of a roller, the CoolRoofs program painted its millionth square foot of white roof on top of a housing project in the Bronx Wednesday. To celebrate the coverage, sporting an orange T-shirt just like the other volunteers, Mayor Michael Bloomberg helped roll that patch into place.
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TimeBanksNYC volunteers save the day for Great Kills women

September 30, 2010
TimeBanksNYC volunteers save the day for Great Kills women
Mary Barbieri barely survived the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, when she was running an errand at One World Trade Center. She still has trouble performing physical activities.
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Cool Roofs are a hot idea in Greenpoint

September 28, 2010
On Friday, volunteers from Mayor Bloomberg’s NYC Service office armed with paint rollers prepared to get their hands and feet dirty as they coated the roof of Brooklyn Studios at 211 Meserole Avenue with white pain.
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Brooklyn Volunteers Aid City's Roof-Painting Initiative

September 24, 2010
Volunteers in Brooklyn cooled off the city Friday by picking up a paint brush.It’s part of a city initiative to paint the roofs of buildings white to reflect sunlight, saving energy costs.
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Bloomberg Swears-in Civic Corps

September 15, 2010
Mayor Michael Bloomberg swore in the second class of the New York City corps on Tuesday, a specially trained group of AmeriCorps members who work at nonprofit and public organizations to increase the number of volunteers.
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Mets contribute to energy-saving initiative

June 23, 2010
After beating the Tigers on Tuesday night, a few members of the Mets spent Wednesday afternoon celebrating by painting the town white.
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Manuel, Dickey, Pagan help in Harlem

June 22, 2010
Mets spend day planting flowers, trees in garden with Mayor Bloomberg and Diahann Billings-Burford.
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Mets and Citi Launch "Teammates in the Community Week" to promote volunteerism and service

June 21, 2010
Mets Players and Executives to participate in Community Progamks in Manhattan, Queens and Brooklyn starting this Tuesday, June 22 “Teammates Week” joins with Mayor Bloomberg to highlight upcoming National Conference on Volunteering and Service.
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Shape Up NYC Kicks Off Across The City with Equinox

May 18, 2010
Shape Up NYC Kicks Off Across The City with Equinox
The NYC Department of Parks & Recreation, NYC Service and Equinox Fitness Clubs today launched the first week of its expanded Shape Up NYC, a free citywide fitness program that targets neighborhoods with high rates of obesity and obesity related disease.
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Keeping Things Cool with White Rooftops

May 11, 2010
Cool Roof Program, a project aimed at cooling down the city’s buildings by painting the roofs white, had volunteers dip their paint rollers into buckets of white paint on the rooftop of CUNY’s LaGuardia Community College in Long Island City on Tuesday.
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