NorthCamden.Org

Hello, it’s so great that this blog exists. My name is Erik and I am part of a team of ten Americorps NCCC members that will be spending about nine weeks living and working in North Camden starting Sept. 9th. We are partnering with Respond, Inc. while focusing mostly on beautification – clearing debris from vacant homes, [...]

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Jim Rohn once said that, “The business of business is people”. Literally in any industry everything involves people. Hope-works is thriving because they aren’t just trying to make money from business but they are producing people by way of character training to cause people to make money.

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As many of you are aware, the 2010 Camden Street Map is being produced.  Hopeworks does this each year.  I am proposing that the organizations in North Camden come together and support a map inset–this would be a large space on the back of the map in which we could “market” what our vision is [...]

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Look at these pictures—the prison is almost gone–just mounds of concrete–even some of the towers have been taken down. It is an amazing site!

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Save Our Waterfront (SOW), in partnership with the North Camden stakeholders including Hopeworks, Camden Lutheran Housing Inc., Respond Inc., Grace Lutheran Church, and other members of the North Camden Steering Committee, are seeking to utilize the services of a professional design team to host, oversee, and facilitate a collaborative design and planning workshop with the [...]

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Hopeworks debuted a new video titled “One Day” detailing the dreams and hopes of Hopeworks Youth for their lives and all of Camden! Take a look.

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I visited Northgate Park May 14th and wasn’t encouraged by what I saw.  FIrst, the gates were unlocked and children were playing in the park.  There were no workers present and the park is pretty torn up.  It seems to me that many of the promised improvements are pretty far off—check out the pictures.  Anyone [...]

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