401(k) Retirement Saving Plan

If you've been with us for 12 months of consecutive service and have logged over 1,000 hours on our team, you're currently eligible to enroll in the UncommonGoods 401(k) Retirement Savings Plan! Our 401(k) plan allows you, as a team member, to set aside a percentage of your pre-tax earnings each payroll to save for retirement, thus reducing your current income tax liability while both your contributions and earnings grow tax-free until distribution. You are eligible to contribute up to 90% of your salary, to an annual maximum of $18,000 (rate set by the IRS).

UncommonGoods 401(k) Plan Contribution Matching Structure:

• 100% match for the first 3% of a team member’s pre-tax contribution
• 50% match for the succeeding 2% of a team member’s pre-tax contribution

To enroll in the 401(k) plan, click here 

1. Select the ‘Register Now’ button
2. Select the ‘Continue’ button
3. Follow the step-by-step enrollment guide 

Additional Information:

A Glossary of Investment Terms can be viewed on the ADP 401(k) plan web portal once you register, under ‘Investments’à’Investment Performance and Information’

A Participant Fee Disclosure Statement is attached, which provides information regarding:

General Plan Information

Plan Administration Expenses

Individual Expenses

A 401(k) Summary Plan Description is attached, which provides details regarding the UncommonGoods 401(k) retirement plan

*If you have questions, please contact the ADP Retirement Service Participant Support Service Representatives (855-237-4671).

April Anniversaries

Happy work anniversary to our April starts:

Heather Thompson, 72 snacks (6 years)

David Anderson, 60 snacks (5 years)

Paul Kvamme,  60 snacks (5 years)

Kat Guerrero, 12 (1 year)

Rebekah Krikke, 12 snacks (1 year)

The Good Stuff, 12 snacks (1 year)

Uncommon fact: this month also marks the 60^th anniversary of the maiden voyage of the first commercially successful container ship. The SS Ideal X carried 58 containers from Port Newark, New Jersey, to Port of Houston, Texas. 

April Birthdays

Happy birthday to our team members celebrating their birthday this month.  These team members share a birth month with not one, but both Lopez Twins. Brook and Robin Lopez are the only set of twins who currently play in the NBA that have the same birthday as Bryan and Moises.

Bryan Reese: 4/1

Moises Rios: 4/1

Paul Kvamme: 4/6

Latasha White: 4/13

Shana King: 4/13

Tia James: 4/13

Kevin Davis: 4/14

Morgan Tanner: 4/18

James Morrison: 4/19

Daniella Lee: 4/24

B with Us: Preserve

Preserve is a B Corp that makes stylish, eco-friendly products for the home including personal care, kitchen, tableware, and food storage products using 100% recycled plastic that's BPA free and Made in the USA.

As a member of a fellow B Corp, Preserve offers 15% off its entire online store using the promo code BCorp15 at checkout.

Fashion Meets Code: CODED_COUTURE

Ying Gao, (No) Where (Now) Here, 2013, 2 interactive dresses, super organza, 
photo luminescent thread, PVDF, electronic devices. Photo by Dominique Lafond.

Where: Pratt Manhattan Gallery

When: Now–April 30, 2016
Curated by Ginger Gregg Duggan and
Judith Hoos Fox

At UncommonGoods, we show how coding (through our website) and fashion (through our collection) can come together to offer customers around the world unique products with a positive structure. CODED_COUTURE is an exhibition that links coding to fashion more literally.

The exhibition proposes a new interpretation of couture where coding is the ultimate design tool for creating customized garments and accessories. The works displayed range from forward-looking garments and accessories to video projections, objects, drawings, photographs, and interactive applications that provide the public with greater insights into what the future of fashion may hold.

This exhibition is sponsored in part by the Elizabeth Firestone Graham Foundation and more information can be found here.

Looking for a Doctor? Use DocFind!

Are you looking for a doctor? Through the Aetna Signature Network, you can easily locate a doctor using their DocFind feature available here.  You can search for the type of doctor and where they are located by Zip Code or by city. You can also use the “Search by Name” tab to assist you in determining if a medical professional is within network.

Note: Provider information contained in this directory is updated 6 days per week, excluding holidays, Sundays, or interruptions due to system maintenance, upgrades or unplanned outages. This information is subject to change at any time. Please check with the provider before scheduling your appointment or receiving services to confirm he or she is participating in Aetna's network.

Within Five: Owl’s Head Park

Owl’s Head Park is conveniently located just a half mile from the Brooklyn Army Terminal and is the only City Park in Brooklyn to have a Skate Park. Owl’s Head super-fans have remarked that its large hill the most blissful place in the neighborhood to take in a sunset over the water. A sentiment that seems to fit nicely, as the plot of land was donated to the City by Eliphalet W. Bliss:

E. W. Bliss Esate, circa 1915Photo Courtesy of ephemeralnewyork.files.wordpress.com/

The Canarsie Indians and early Dutch settlers once fished along the shore and farmed the fertile soil that is now Owl’s Head Park. Henry C. Murphy, an Irish–American who held many political positions, including Mayor of Brooklyn and United States Congressman, built a mansion on the glacial ridge overlooking the harbor. In 1866 Eliphalet W. Bliss, a wealthy manufacturer, bought the estate and renovated the mansion, adding a horse stable and observatory tower known as “the castle.” In his will, Bliss, who died in 1903, offered his property to New York City for less than its true value stipulating that it only be used for parkland, and in 1928 the Bliss estate was officially designated a public park. Though impressive at the time the City acquired it, the land and structures fell into neglect with the onset of the

The gate from the original Bliss Estate remains 

Depression. Between 1934 and 1937, Federal funding helped convert the estate into a scenic park, incorporating the extensive collection of established trees and adding paths, playgrounds and play fields, park houses, and a seating plaza that took advantage of the magnificent vista from its southwesterly perimeter. A 2002 renovation of the park restored the historic Bliss gate that had been salvaged decades before.

For more information on park history please visit NYC Parks.

April Events

April 7^th

Company Lunch: Pizza!

 

This lunch will feature pizza from L&B Spumoni Gardens and Pete’s Brooklyn Eats.

Time: 1:00PM- 2:00PM

Place: B-Side Break Room

April 21^st

Company Snack: What is the snack you ask? Anita filled us in with this riddle, “This snack will be fruity, creamy, and healthy… as healthy as the pumpkin candy bowl on my desk.” We at The Good Stuff have a feeling a little lad would approve.

Time: 4:00PM- 4:30PM

Place: B-Side Break Room