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Monsignor William J. Linder
New Community founder Monsignor William J. Linder is one of the leading American urban visionaries of his generation and a founding member of the American Community Development movement. He has made an incredibly positive mark on Newark, the city that has been his home for over 45 years.
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Office: 973-497-4413
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New Community is recognized as;
•The largest and most comprehensive community development organization in the United States
•A large-scale deliverer of comprehensive programs and services
•A leader in affordable housing and economic development
•A model, nationally and internationally, among non-profit, social entrepreneurship, and CDC communities
•Having beneficial partnerships on the local, national, and global level
New Community History
New Community Corporation in Newark, New Jersey is the largest and most comprehensive community development agency in the country. Founded in 1968 by Msgr. William Linder, then a young parish priest, it was born out of the civil unrest that spread through inner cities like Newark during the late 1960s. The goal of New Community is to help community residents improve the quality of their lives to reflect individual God-given dignity and personal achievement.
New Community’s programs include a one-stop Family Resource Center that serves thousands of clients annually with everything from emergency food assistance to help paying utility bills and a 102-family transitional housing facility for the homeless, called Harmony House, that serves hundreds of family every year, most of them single mothers and children. The corporation also owns and manages more than 1, 700 units of housing for seniors and families, ranging from high-rises for the elderly to family townhouses. Ground was broken on the latest housing development, Roseville Commons, on September 3, 2009. It is a 50-unit residential/commercial complex on Orange Street targeted at low and very low income residents, including special populations like homeless veterans and the visually impaired.
Also included as part of the New Community network is a shopping center, anchored by a major supermarket, a testament to New Community’s goal of building a local economic base and keeping jobs and profits in the community.
Through its Gateway to Work program, New Community has been able to lift individuals from public assistance to self-sufficiency by providing them with job readiness training and marketable skills. The Supportive Assistance to Individuals and Families program provides intensive case management to individuals who have reached their maximum allowable time on public assistance, moving many into the workforce.
The Gateway to Work program has also graduated more than 800 students from a program that trains them to be cashiers and customer service representatives for ShopRite/Wakefern Corp. supermarkets in New Jersey.
In response to the severe nursing shortage, New Community has also developed a highly-regarded School of Practical Nursing that achieves nearly 100 percent job placement success. Also included in the New Community network is a 180-bed Extended Care Facility and Adult Medical Day Care Program. Through its Essex Valley Visiting Nurse Association, New Community has also been able to meet the health care needs of residents of Newark and the surrounding area with home health services.
Other programs run by New Community Corp. include a collaboration with Ford Motor Co. that has ensured the success of New Community’s Youth & Adult Automotive Training Center, which offers a year-long program in a fully-equipped facility that provides technical training in auto repair with job placement upon graduation.
Meanwhile, The School of Culinary Arts, through a collaboration with local restaurants, hotels and country clubs, has seen its students immediately step into jobs as chefs upon graduation from the nine-month program.
New Community Mission
To help residents of inner cities improve the quality of their lives to reflect individual God-given dignity and personal achievement.