Elton John has celebrated his 60th birthday with a star-studded party at the cathedral of St John The Divine in Harlem and a record-breaking 60th appearance at New York's Madison Square Gardens.

Team building is a major issue that confronts my coaching clients. They need help but they are afraid to ask for it.

Do you ever feel as if there is something that you should be doing but you're not?  What do you really want to create? Who needs to show up in your life to help you turn your vision into reality? Who's on your team? It's not about you. It's about your team! So, how do you get the help you need to build your dream business or non-profit?

The thing about writing is, nobody asked you to do it.

--James Baldwin

The Maat Workshop, a multiple genre writers workshop, resumes this spring for two consecutive sessions beginning Wednesday April 11 and ending June 30th.  For St. Louis participants, meetings are held each Wednesday during the 12-week period. 

Citizens Committee for New York City

Neighborhood Leadership Institute

Cash Back is a massive, citywide outreach campaign, led by Citizens Committee for New York City , in partnership with grassroots organizations. The campaign – part of Citizens Committee’s anti-poverty initiative – provides first-time filers and other eligible New Yorkers with information about tax credits, such as the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC), and links them to free tax preparation sites throughout the city. The community groups organize door-to-door campaigns, host workshops on tax credits, offer translation services to tax filers and distribute informational materials at public events.

NYOIL Hosts "World Have Your Say" on BBC World Service Radio at Silvia's ( http://www.myspace.com/nyoil )

NYOIL, the artist responsible for the controversial song and video "Y'all Should All Get Lynched" is co-hosting "World Have Your Say", BBC World Service radio’s global discussion program live in New York on Wednesday March 21st.

When completed later this year, the façade of the new Kalahari condominium development in Harlem — the largest of the area's bumper crop of such developments — will be painted with a bold, striped pattern inspired by designs from the Ndebele tribe of South Africa.

A small hat business in Harlem doubles sales by expanding marketing efforts online. A combination of Search Engine Optimization and Pay Per Click Marketing allows Harlem's Heaven to increase sales of their hat collections in under 6 months.