2010 GRAD HOWARD THORNTON
As far back as he can remember, Howard Thornton has been surrounded by automobiles.
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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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The most important gift we can give our children is the gift of faith in God and faith in oneself. We give the gift of education, access, and opportunity in order to achieve this. Recently, I had the opportunity to speak with Chrystal Dunbar, who received her start in life at a New Community School. As a toddler in her stroller, Chrystal would always look up to the sky, point, and gleefully shout “airplane!” when she saw a plane. More than twenty years later, she is a First Officer with Continental Airlines and is living her dream. Read More...
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New Community Corporation sets the bar high for successful CDC and Non-Profit work
New Community Corporation’s (NCC) accomplishments over the last four decades are virtually unparalleled anywhere in urban America. Born out of the community’s response to the Newark riots in 1967, New Community grew to become the largest and most successful community development corporation in the United States. Lead by Monsignor William J. Linder, and powered by a dedicated group of community volunteers that were committed to rebuilding Newark at a time when many people had given up on the city, NCC worked tirelessly to bring back one of America’s toughest neighborhoods. The organization they built has long touched the lives of 50,000 people a day. It serves a wide range of residents and families from pre-schoolers to single moms and recent immigrants to senior adults. It provides an array of services in a range of areas such as housing, education/training, and health, employment and family resource services.
“The people of our community have overcome great challenges over these last 40 years to rebuild and to revitalize the Central Ward of Newark,” Msgr. Linder says. “Even in the hardest of times, we have all stayed committed to our mission and to our vision of improving life for everyone in our community. Listening to residents and being responsive to their needs has guided us from Day One. The deep rooted strength of our community has been the key to our success.”
NCC is the largest and most comprehensive community development corporation (CDC) in the US, employing more than 1300 people. NCC Logs over 400,000 hours of volunteer services annually. It has an operating budget of $120,000,000 and owns real estate with a replacement value of over $500,000,000. NCC’s success rests on its comprehensive approach to community development. It is active in housing, health care, education, training, childcare and economic development. It runs for-profit businesses, a community newspaper and arts program and a credit union. It has provided training to community development professionals from around the country and the world, having hosted representatives from more than 20 countries in recent years.
NCC fits into the bigger universe of 1.6 million American non-profits and 4,000 CDCs, which have a total annual revenue of $621.4 billion and employ 10.2 percent of the total labor force. The CDC movement, which like New Community, is about 40 year old, has been a major force in the redevelopment and rebuilding of inner city neighborhoods, responsible for more than 550,000 housing units, 247,000 jobs and the development of 71 million square feet of commercial space. The CDC movement has succeeded in developing low-income areas where government has failed.
“After 40 years this largest and most elaborate community development corporation in the US has been through it all,” says Cecilia Faulks, who became NCC’s first employee in 1973 and was one of the volunteers who helped organize NCC. Ms. Faulks work with Msgr. Linder at the Queen of Angels School in Msgr. Linder’s original Newark Parish, where NCC was born. As a school administrator, she willingly took on assignments to help the “fledgling” organization that was most responsive to the community immediately after the devastation of the 1967 Newark riots.
Ms. Faulks and thousands of others that have worked for NCC have done so to make a difference in the community. “NCC always addressed the needs of the community,” Ms. Faulks says. “Whether NCC created a new program, a new business or a new building, it was something that the community needed.”
The New Community Corporation 40 Years of Service Gala will take place on March, 1, 2008 from 7PM-Midnight at the Sheraton Meadowlands Hotel & Conference Center, East Rutherford, NJ.
For more information contact:
Kara Lane, Resource Development, 973-497-4410
kara.lane@newcommunity.org
New Community Corporation, 233 West Market Street, Newark, NJ 07103
New Community Mission
To help residents of inner cities improve the quality of their lives to reflect individual God-given dignity and personal achievement. Under One Roof