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Apr 10, 2013 | Courier Post
Camden Mayor Dana Redd joined with AmeriCorp VISTA members as they read to pre-schoolers at the CFS Head Start in Camden as part of a large scale initiative called Born to Read which promotes grade level reading for children in Camden.
View the pictures here
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Mar 04, 2013
Center For Family Services Head Start is now accpeting bids for the following services:
Bus Transportation - click here to download Request for Bid
Mail proposals to:
Center for Family Services Head Start
ATTN: Beverly Ramos
500 Pine Street
Camden, New Jersey 08103
Questions can be...
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Feb 25, 2013 | CFS Youth Participate in EverFi Training
Fairfield, NJ - Earlier this year Kearny Federal Savings Bank presented an opportunity for the NJ Department of Children and Families to pilot a new computerized financial literacy program through EverFi, the leading technology platform to teach, assess, and certify in Financial Literacy,...
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Feb 12, 2013 | CFS Board Member Recognized as Leader In Camden
Tara Nurin of Flykite
"Where others see disrepair, some see vision."
If it weren't for this spirit of optimism -- articulated here by Camden, New Jersey activist Andrew Adams -- Philadelphia's neighbor to the east might have been abandoned by leadership not long...
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Feb 11, 2013
By Claudia Vargas, Inquirer Staff Writer
The view outside the Woodland Avenue Presbyterian Church is much nicer than when the Rev. Floyd White arrived in Camden 25 years ago. A new school has replaced the parking lot across the street, and a quaint housing project was built a few blocks down,...
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Dec 25, 2012 | by Phil Dunn, Courier Post
CAMDEN - A $500,000 federal grant has been awarded to the Center For Family Services to help combat poverty in two city neighborhoods.
The Promise Neighborhood Planning Grant is expected to help promote career services, education improvements, and healthy development for children in the Cooper...
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Dec 25, 2012 | by Claudia Vargas, philly.com
Two Camden neighborhoods that surround Cooper University Hospital and the Cooper Medical School of Rowan University could see significant transformation in the next decade.
After two years spent learning how the Harlem Children's Zone was able to improve dozens of impoverished blocks,...
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Dec 14, 2012 | South Jersey Times
As part of the Christie administration’s Season of Service initiative, New Jersey Commissioner of Education Chris Cerf visited the administrative headquarters of the Center for Family Services, a nonprofit organization serving the southern region of New Jersey, to announce a $117,000 grant...
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Oct 17, 2012 | by John Ostapkovich/CBS Philly
CAMDEN, N.J. - Some of the top brass at the Campbell Soup Company took a break from the office today for a little show-and-tell in their neighborhood.
About a dozen Head Start children at the Center For Family Services in Camden got a special treat today, and probably didn't realize how...
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Oct 03, 2012 | By Carly Romalino/South Jersey Times
Michael Petsch is changing lives 17 years after his own was cut short in a Franklin Township car accident. But his parents $50,000 donation to the Center For Family Services Youth Empowerment System didn't merely serve to honor Michael's short life.
The funds will be used in "helping...
