We started this group for adoptive families to be a source of support, for parents to share experiences, hear each others' kids stories and get together at play groups and other fun social activites. The families can also swap resources and other educational tidbits

This is a newly formed support group for women of color who wish to or have already chosen to become foster and or adoptive parents to a child or children in their own community. It  is our purpose to support the lifestyle goals made by our members and the agency they are affiliated with. We will never pass judgment on birth mothers. Our mission is to develop an environment where we can share concerns, challenges and ideas of raising children in "care" while maintaining one's own family, and a c …

Every rescued dog is a success story, and this group can be a place to share your dog's own story while meeting other people who have made the same commitment to saving an animal from a shelter, the streets, or any other bad situation. Join us for a casual leashed walk around Prospect Park in Brooklyn. Since many people are kind enough to adopt dogs with behavioral issues, this isn't a playgroup, but rather a low-key pack walk. Our walks generally last 1.5 hours, and may involve some hills and/o …

… Access and print out an "Adoption Contract" which enables you to re-home a pit bull safely. Join the group to post the homeless pit bull on our site, and send an urgent plea for help to members. Also under the "Pages" tab - Find Spay/Neuter information including FREE clinics in your area, and the clinic schedules.  We promote responsible pit bull ownership in 4 Steps -  Spay/Neuter, Socialization, Training, Exercise More reasons to Join: - Message Board for discussion - NYC dog events - …

We are a group of individuals promoting adoption & rescue and working to increase awareness of puppy mills and the cruelty behind the puppies sold in NYC pet stores. This is a quiet/peaceful protest! Please join us even if you can come for just an hour or so! We have extra signs too so let us know if you need one and we can bring it for you...

We want the community to get involved with this issue. Purpose is to join together to fight for changes to help foster youths and foster parents. Anyone can join; foster parents and adoptive parents, social workers, youths in foster care, community organizers, advocates, nonprofits professionals, grassroot organizations. We welcome anyone who wants to get involved to make changes. Advocacy requires both the will to confront injustice and the commitment to transform it. We fight for social justi …

Meet others in your local area interested in Animal Rescue of any kind. We will post our adoption and fundraiser events and volunteer opportunities and special animals looking for home.

ANIMALS NEED YOU P.O. BOX 332, Hawthorne, NJ 07507 973-420-2981 Website: http://www.animalsneedyou.rescuegroups.org   ANIMALS NEED YOU is a non-profit humane organization, dedicated to alleviating the plight of homeless and abandoned animals.   ANIMALS NEED YOU, which is staffed entirely by volunteers, rescues animals in need of assistance from a variety of sources.  They are provided with food, shelter and medical treatment as they prepare for adoption into suitable homes.  All animal …

We've started this group for local dogs of all breeds to get out and enjoy a walk in the park. Pit bulls and bully breeds are welcome! Don't have a dog? Adoptable dogs and fosters are welcome, as well! ***Please note that if you would like to bring an adoptable dog from the Liberty Humane Society you must first be a registered volunteer who has completed the volunteer orientation and dog handling seminar.  More information is available at: http://www.libertyhumane.org/volunteer.php.  You will al …

If you are an experienced gardener/farmer or just have been dreaming about it, let's meet and plan a NEW community garden in Jersey City. We also gladly welcome people already taking part in one of the city's existing gardens. We'll take advantage of the city's Adopt-A-Lot program: "Jersey City is looking for community minded individuals who dig the idea of Urban Gardening to adopt an unused City lot or plot of under-used park land. The group leases it for a dollar for two years and, alon …

We are a fun, classy, inclusive group of working women, welcoming all lesbian moms, expectant moms, and those considering motherhood. Join us to make new friends both with and without our children. We will commiserate about life, fertility, adoption, how we love our children, yet sometimes want to pull our hair out-  basically motherhood in general! Most activities will be in (or near) Manhattan and will include exploring new restaurants, wine tastings, theatre, day trips out of the city, pla …

Eclectic Nights held in downtown Rutherford on select Friday Nights.   Hang-out in an informal setting within an establishment which focuses on serving coffee, like an American coffeehouse. A small informal public gathering. These are usually LIVE events, and often centered around an open mic night of poetry or comedy or a foreign language conversational hour!  Join us at GainVille Cafe for …

Have you asked yourself, "Where are the individuals rocking vegetarianism, veganism and very cool ideas in the Mile Square City and the JC?"   If you have, welcome to V Rock! The Hoboken + Jersey City Vegetarian + Vegan Meetup where men and women rock connection over conscious, delicious cuisine to create positive change for ourselves, our cities, animals and Earth.   We're a tribe from all walks of life - V-Rockers - vegetarians, vegans and the very cool - who strive to be conscious and compass …

Cairn Terrier Lovers unite! I see you on the streets but never in the dog park. I was inspired to start this group when I noticed that my Cairn Terrier, Frankie, seemed to love playing with other Cairns more than non-cairns. Don't get me wrong, he loves playing with them too, but his ferocious play growl is often misunderstood by less ferocious players. If you are a Cairn person, or just love them, please join and play like you mean it!

OpenStack is a collection of open source technology products delivering a scalable, secure, standards-based cloud computing software solution.  It is used by corporations, service providers, VARS, SMBs, researchers, and global data centers looking to deploy large-scale cloud deployments for private or public clouds leveraging the support and resulting technology of a global open source community. Join us in discussions from users perspectives on OpenStack and cloud computing in general.  Once a …

The LispNYC community is devoted to the advocacy and advancement of professional software developers in their adoption of Lisp-based and functional programming technologies such as Common Lisp, Scheme and Clojure. We accomplish this through targeted programs of education, outreach, monthly meetings, mailing lists, development projects and spirited conversation with NY metro area software develpment professionals. Our monthly meetings are held every second Tuesday, are free and open to al …