The Blake Annex

📸 Strike a pose and join us for our Headshot Happy Hour with Emerging Leaders United! Elevate your profile pic while making a difference in the Capital Region. Say cheese for our friend, Best Frame Forward, and connect with likeminded individuals, whether you're a young professional, a nonprofit professional and/or just a person looking to cultivate a more just, more equitable, Capital Region community! 🌟

📅: Tuesday, August 6
⏲: 4pm-7pm
📍: The Blake Annex, 1 Steuben Place, Albany, NY 12207
🔗: https://www.unitedwaygcr.org/emerging-leaders

Limited space available so sign-up today! 💛💙

TONIGHT!

Our friends at Mission Accomplished Transition Services, Inc. are hosting an information session here at The Blake Annex tonight and July 27th. We are proud hosts and partners to the Teen Institute program and have seen firsthand how transformational it is!

Are you an adult support seeking paid internship opportunities for the teen in your life?

If you are a teen or know a teen interested in gaining valuable work experience in fashion, beauty, construction, interior design, or mural painting, join Mission Accomplished Transition Services at one of their information sessions to learn about two 8-month PAID internship programs for teens ages 16-18!

Don't miss out on this incredible opportunity to learn how to jumpstart your career beside industry pros!

You can register for any of these sessions here: https://mission-accomplished.ticketbud.com/!

🎶 Calling all music lovers! Here at The Blake, we vibe to ALL kinds of music. One day it's simply instrumental jazz and another day it could be ! Help us curate the ultimate productivity playlist at The Blake Annex! Comment below with your favorite focus tunes and let's build the most inspiring playlist to boost our work vibes together! 🎧💼

Today, The Blake Annex is closed, in observance of Juneteenth. We will use the day to rest, to celebrate how far we’ve come and to recognize how far we still have to go, because none of us can truly be free, until ALL of us are free. ❤️🖤💚

Yesterday we had the pleasure of hosting our friends from the Ellis Island Initiative again!

The Ellis Island Initiative is a statewide coalition of New York’s leading labor, business, faith, and advocacy organizations aiming to transform the state’s approach to integrating migrant families into our communities.

The Ellis Island Initiative is convening leading voices from across the ideological spectrum to highlight how communities all over New York can benefit from a thoughtful, non-political approach to integrating new immigrants.

The Blake Annex is proud to be the home to the convenings happening in our capital city. To get involved email [email protected].

Join us and our partners at for an in-depth discussion on these two efforts in social innovation promoting health equity.

It takes all of us to spread the word about 518 Day of Giving, so we hope you'll collaborate with us! 📣 When you 𝗜𝗡𝗩𝗜𝗧𝗘 𝗔 𝗖𝗢𝗟𝗟𝗔𝗕𝗢𝗥𝗔𝗧𝗢𝗥 on your social media posts, the post is featured on your feed and ours. That means 𝗗𝗢𝗨𝗕𝗟𝗘 the opportunity for a larger audience.

Collaborating is a quick, easy and effective way to let even more folks know about your organization's fundraiser. The more people we can reach before 518 Day, the more we'll all be able to raise. Please don't forget to collaborate with us next time you post!

𝗛𝗢𝗪 𝗧𝗢 𝗖𝗢𝗟𝗟𝗔𝗕𝗢𝗥𝗔𝗧𝗘 𝗢𝗡 𝗔 𝗣𝗢𝗦𝗧
1) Before posting, click "Tag People"
2) Click "Invite Collaborator"
3) Search for and select
4) Click "Share"

🎉 The Blake Annex is excited to participate in this year's 518 Day of Giving! 🎉 Join our nonprofit community from today until May 18 as we come together to create positive change. 💙💛 Learn about The Blake Annex's mission to break down silos, inspire creativity, build capacity, and discover how you can support our work and other vital causes in the Capital Region by visiting: https://www.518day.org/organizations/the-blake-annex. Let's harness our collective power for a more equitable and inclusive community! 🙌

Get ready to unleash the power of authenticity with Jeff Buell at next month's Blake EDU! 🎉 Join us at The Blake Annex for our professional development series tailor-made for nonprofits and mission-minded individuals. Jeff will be sharing his secrets on Marketing Through Authenticity. Don't miss out on this fun and insightful event! RSVP to get your spot today. There's Knowhere you'd rather be!💥✨

🌟 Save the date for our upcoming session in Blake EDU, our nonprofit professional development series! 📚🎉 Join us as Victoria Hostig, renowned expert and friend to many nonprofits in the Capital Region, unveils some of the secrets to making an impactful ask for corporate support. 💰🤝 Get ready to take your fundraising game to new heights and revolutionize your organization's success! ✨ Don't miss this incredible opportunity to elevate your skills and achieve remarkable results. See you there! 💼💪

Sign-up at theblakeannex.org/blakeedu or use the Linktree in our bio💙💛

🎉 We’ve been busy bees at The Blake Annex! 🐝✨ We've been buzzing with exciting activities and collaborations lately! 🌟 We joined forces with the Ellis Island Initiative, holding a thought-provoking discussion about creating warm and welcoming communities for immigrants. 🌍 Next up, we welcomed an amazing undergraduate Philanthropy class from SUNY Albany, showing them our fantastic coworking space for nonprofit organizations while teaching them all about ALICE. 📚🤝 We also had the pleasure of giving Community Bank a grand tour, showcasing our vibrant environment. 💼 Lastly, a special shoutout to Mission Accomplished Transition Services, Inc. for teaming up with us on an incredible mural project! 🎨✨ Together, we are bringing new life to our space and providing valuable workforce development opportunities to these talented young muralists. 🙌 Stay tuned for more exciting ventures! 🌟🤩

Who's ready for our next Blake EDU course?! 📣 This month we welcome fabulous entrepreneur, Gina Torres, of ! Gina will lead us through a couple of sessions, guiding participants through the process of creating a unique and cohesive brand identity using Canva and we're getting interactive with this one! Make sure to bring your laptop so you can participate in some hands-on learning! 💻

Sign-up at theblakeannex.org/blakeedu or use the Linktree in our bio💙💛

Celebrate International Women's Day with United Way of the Greater Capital Region. Join us at 11:00 AM on Friday, March 8 for a virtual panel discussion on Radically Reimagining Women's Health.

In this thought-provoking conversation, our panelists will discuss how philanthropy may best contribute to advancing women's health equity, in particular for women most excluded from current systems.

PANELISTS
Tatiana Fraser, Co-Founder, System Sanctuary
Gina Jackson, CEO and Co-Founder, Return to the Heart Foundation
Susan Mende, Senior Program Officer, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
Myeta Moon, Director of Health, United Way Worldwide

Please register at the link below. We look forward to enjoying this important discussion with you!

🔗 https://ignite.stratuslive.com/uwgcr/get-involved/event/IWD2024

There's so much to be gained by becoming a member of The Blake Annex and this is just the beginning!

Click the linktree in the bio and find out how you can get access to all of this and MORE 💛💙

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Love reading? Love thought provoking dialogue? Love engaging in varying perspectives? Shelf Care was made for you!

Join , President & CEO, for an interest meeting for a community led book club. Email Peter to sign-up! 💛💙

Before we party, we cowork. Coworking or shared office space, is incredibly beneficial to a company’s or an organization’s bottom line and that cost savings can allow for more staff, more programming and certainly, more impact.

On top of that, coworking allows for more organizations to come together and foster a sense of kinship, a community. We care about each other’s success and we mourn each other’s losses. Thank you to the organizations who made us a community. We can’t wait to celebrate with those of you who have called The Blake home, those of you who always come to support our events and those of you who just really love coworking, want to celebrate and who we consider future friends. Happy International Coworking Day from your Blake Annex family! 💛💙



P.S. We can only tag 20 of you but PLEASE, tag yourself in the comments if you’re not! 💛

What a joy it's been hosting new members, , and their summer youth employment program! It's been so inspiring seeing our coworking spaces and conference rooms filled with entrepreneurial youth channeling their passion into future career opportunities.

To learn more, go give a follow! ✨

National Coworking Day is coming up and we want to celebrate with YOU! 💙💛

Come hang at The Blake Annex from 430p-730p, catch a vibe curated by new member, and get to know someone new!

Open to the public, sign-up in the linktree in our bio 🔗

🚨Open Office Alert ‼️

Get it while it’s hot! DM or hit the link in the bio!

Find out which organizations are represented at The Blake Annex and so much more by signing up for our group tour on June 29th! We can't wait to show you around! To sign up, hit the linktree in the bio. 💙💛

We’re passing the mic to some of our members to talk all things, mission, passion and community at lightning speed ⚡️

Feel free to join us at 1pm tomorrow:

https://admissions.albany.edu/register/blaketalk2

Did you know that as a part of this year’s celebration, The Blake Annex is a Stuff the Bus location? You can find our amazing partners from in our alleyway where we’ll be accepting donations!

Swipe ➡️ to see what and are looking for and don’t forget to join us with the entire team for the End of Day Celebration at Mohawk Harbor from 12pm-3pm.

Our favorite week of the year has finally arrived! Presented by United Way of the Greater Capital Region, MVP Health Care, and more than a dozen additional partners, 518 Day returns this Thursday, May 18.

There's still plenty of time to join more than 1,000 volunteers at one of 50 community service projects and take part in the Capital Region's Largest Single Day of Community Impact.

🔗 Visit unitedtovolunteer.org to sign up for your volunteer project today.

What better way to begin the largest day of community impact than on the roof of The Blake Annex taking care of self first? We’re joined again my yoga activist, , for a gentle morning practice before spreading out across the Capital Region to make a difference in our community! Don’t miss this one or you’ll be sure to regret it! Limited spots available. Lite Breakfast provided by and brought to you by !

⏰6 am
🗓️May 18
📍The Blake Annex, 1 Steuben Place
💲$25 donation to

We had a fun morning having coffee with Judge Nardacci and the membership! We're so lucky to have diverse social impact organizations in the space connecting us with different leaders in our community 💛💙

We had a blast hosting our friends from the !

Did you know that our space is a community space? DM us or hit that link in the bio to find out how you can host your next meeting, gathering, mixer or strategic planning session with The Blake Annex!