About the Online Community

Welcome to the BEDC Online Community! This site is an interactive, user-generated database dedicated to promoting cooperation and knowledge-transfer among New York City nonprofits, with a focus on revitalizing commercial corridors—the diverse shopping strips throughout our City’s neighborhoods. 

This site is a place where organizations can come together to share information, exchange ideas, collaborate on projects and ask each other questions to learn from each other and promote the vitality of the retail sector in NYC. This website offers a variety of features, including:

  • Resource Guide – Learn from your peers! Members can browse topics to access a “how-to” guide on an array of issues that can be added, modified and updated by other users.
  • Vendor Listings – Get a great referral! Members share the vendors they use through a searchable, categorized database of vendors and contractors complete with comments and ratings.
  • Events Calendar – Know what’s going on around the community! Browse and add upcoming events by borough or the entire city taking place around NYC communities.
  • Community Development Blog – Get the latest community news! Members can share articles on commercial revitalization issues with each other and the general public.
  • Discussion Board – Say what’s on your mind! This provides a forum for members to communicate and ask questions on any number of topics.

Membership accounts are available to all New York City nonprofits involved in commercial revitalization at no cost. Only registered users can post content to the site and access all pages, but non-registered users are welcome to view our “In The News” Community Development Blog and our NYC Nonprofit Events Calendar.

If you would like to be a part of this exciting new online community, then sign up today! Registration is fast and easy!