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Please use the link above to access the grant! The grant aims to improve health outcomes through affordable and quality housing. It also aims to increase health equity in low-income communities. The grant is...
This past Wednesday, January 30th, 2019; Rutgers - Camden officially opened their Kite + Key tech store. The Camden location was the last to open out of the three stores located on each Rutgers campus. Kite + Key is Rutgers owned and operated as well as Apple authorized. They sell eletronics and...
American Water HQ officially opened in Camden, NJ on December 4th 2018. Susan Story president and chief excutive officer modern, envirnoment friendly building now located on the waterfront. They were joined by students, residents, organizations and City government officials.
American Water has...
Camden Coalition of Healthcare providers partnered with Hopework's Healing 10 and the New Jersey Institute for Social Justice (NJISJ) to open a discussion around incarcerated youth and mental health in our community.
On November 7, 2018 they held an event which invited local organizations and...
On Friday November 3rd, 2018 Camden leaders, investors and city departments unvieled phase two for the Branches at Centerville.
Mayor Frank Moran, Congressman Donald Norcross and Deborah Pearson-Polk were just a few of the speakers at the reception located in the first Branch Village building....
On October 4th, 2018 Mayor Francisco "Frank" Moran of Camden City annouced a "War on Graffiti." The annoucement took place at the PATCO High Speedline overpass on Mt. Ephraim Avenue.
Mayor Moran was joined by City Council members, the Deparment of Public Works as well as other departments and...
The City of Camden celebrated the start of October by presenting Malcolm Jenkins of the Philadelphia Eagles with the Key to the City.
The ceremony kicked off by inviting Camden Creative Arts High school chior to the sing a song to mark the occassion. Their beautiful voices carried across the...
The BUILD Health Challenge - Learn more
An opportunity for a health grant supported by Campbell Soup Compaany titled Community Health Capacity Building Initiative is now available. The application closes on September 30th, 2018 and will help organizations who want to make sustainable improvements...
On Wednesday September 5th, 2018 Camden Leaders reopened and shared with residents particularly the kids the new and improved Alberta Woods Park.
Camden leaders like Mayor Frank Moran, Susan Bass Levin and Jeffrey Nash along with parents and students spoke about what this park meant to them and...
Camden's Housing Authority Receives $1.7 million Grant from HUD (U.S Department of Housing and Urban Development. At the grant announcement on September o4, 2018 in Alblett Village Comminuty Center, HUD annnounced Camden would be recieving a Job Plus grant to help public housing residents of the...
An old Camden Lab (Camden Labs) is set to be demolished due to the site becoming an illegal dumping ground. The project is spearheaded by Camden Collabative Innitative and has the backing of Mayor Francisco :Frank" Moran.
This abbdoned building will be turned into recreational space for the...
By George-Woolston/Tap-Into/July-13-2018
CAMDEN, NJ—Camden City School District’s Acting Superintendent Katrina McCombs began a 90-day “Listen and Learn” tour this week, stopping by Yorkship Family School on Friday afternoon to hear the questions and concerns of parents, teachers and community...
By Staff/ROI-NJ/July-13-2018
New Jersey American Water will formally announce a nearly $1 million grant to the Cramer Hill neighborhood in Camden on Monday.
A grant of $985,000 will be made in conjunction with the Neighborhood Revitalization Tax Credit program, which is designed to foster the...
By Staff/ROI-NJ/July-10-2018
Origin
Founded by former journalist Tim Whitaker in 2009 on the premise that teaching kids to write is the most direct way to confront the literacy crisis in the Philadelphia area — and, now, Camden as well.
Mission
The mission of Mighty Writers’ Camden location will...
By Nina-Contento/SNJ-Today/June-21-2018
CAMDEN, N.J. -
For many students, school isn’t just a place for learning, it’s also the place where they can get at least one meal for the day.
Once the final bell rings and school is out for the summer, many students are unsure of where their next meal is...
By George-Woolston/Tap-Into-Camden/June-26-2018
CAMDEN, NJ—A former landfill along the shores of the Cramer Hill neighborhood is now poised to be transformed into a 62-acre park offering access to the Cooper River, miles of trails and unprecedented views.
The New Jersey Department of Environmental...
By George-Woolston/Tap-Into-Camden/June-9-2018
Camden, NJ—Over $3 million in state funds will be used by Camden County for the conceptual development of eight road projects in Camden City.
The eight projects listed were part of Freeholder Jeffrey Nash’s address to the Southern New Jersey...
By Staff/Tap-into/June-7-2018
Camden, NJ—Plans to eliminate combined sewage flooding in the City of Camden along with the city’s commitment to provide high-quality parks within a 10-minute walk of every Camden resident were on the agenda at the 2018 Camden Environmental Summit.
The summit was...
By George-Woolston/Tap-Into/May-26-2018
Camden, NJ—Community members came out in droves to Cooper's Poynt Waterfront Park Friday night to celebrate the "unofficial" start of summer and kick off the Connect the Lots season.
Connect the Lots, a collaboration between Cooper's Ferry Partnership and the...
By Phaedra Trethan/Courier-Post/May-23-2018
CAMDEN — As Dana Redd spoke Wednesday, a construction worker standing four stories above the ground began pounding a steel beam with a sledgehammer, punctuating the former mayor's sentences, the sound echoing off nearby buildings.
Back on terra firma,...
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