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Welcome to the Greater Newark LISC website! LISC is dedicated to helping residents transform distressed neighborhoods into sustainable communities that are good places to work, do business, and raise children. We do this by leveraging resources, galvanizing partners and serving as a conduit for community change. Please click here to learn more about us and thank you for visiting our website. Please FOLLOW us on Twitter @LISC_Newark, and LIKE us on Facebook at Greater Newark LISC.
LISC/NFL-supported parks help to create safe havens, instill community pride
A beehive of sports activity, recreation, arts and activism
Before the Nat Turner Park became the green oasis that it is today, 18th Street in Newark’s Central Ward was a former industrial site -- vacant, barren and a trysting place for felons. Today, the park is where 2-year-old Nazir Tillery likes to stop and play with his mother before she proceeds to the bank or any of her errands. The Nat Turner Park is one of six playing fields that benefited from a $200,000 grant provided by Greater Newark LISC and the National Football League’s Community Football Fields Program. The amount of $200,000 was used to cover a portion of the construction and installation of a synthetic turf football field. Today, three schools – Central High School, Cleveland Avenue School and 18th Avenue School before it closed this year – have been using the park for soccer and football. The Pop Warner football league and other high schools around the city also use the field on a regular basis.
The 'greening' of Orange City
HANDS Inc. built a greenhouse in Orange more than two years ago. A second one located in the nearby Valley Arts District is in the works. A third greenhouse at the Orange High School is expected to be completed in November. What all this tells us is that the ‘greening’ of the city of Orange has begun. HANDS, a nonprofit involved with revitalizing distressed neighborhoods in Orange, partnered with Garden State Urban Farms (GSUF) to build the city’s first greenhouse. When it learned the summer farm was losing its location in Newark, HANDS founder and Executive Director Patrick Morrissy offered to build GSUF a 1,800 sq ft greenhouse in the Ironworks art studio. For two and a half years, GSUF has been growing micro green vegetables and selling to local restaurants to make into salads at farm markets across Orange. Learn more.
Photo: The GSUF built this hydroponic greenhouse with support from LISC community partner HANDS, Inc.
Greater Newark LISC Partners with Partnering Community Centers and McKinley on afterschool program
Greater Newark LISC has partnered with Partnering Community Centers (formerly Protestant Community Centers, Inc.) to provide afterschool homework assistance and tutoring to first graders at McKinley School, in Newark’s Lower Broadway neighborhood through its Suburban Cultural Educational Enrichment Program (SCEEP). Through LISC’s Building Sustainable Communities (BSC) program, this neighborhood, convened by La Casa de Don Pedro, produced a Quality of Life plan that identified access to quality education as one of four local priorities.. Click here for more.
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View the 2011 National Annual Report
Please take a look back with us as we celebrate 30 years of building sustainable communities. Our interactive 2011 Annual Report shares the results of our work in 30 cities and 469 rural counties across the country. Learn more.
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