ABS is moving its world headquarters to 132 West State Street in Trenton May 1! We will be located directly across the street from the State House and look forward to serving clients from our new home. Office warming reception coming this summer.
Apr 232012
Please Join
Parents Anonymous of New Jersey
For a Fundraiser and Board Recruitment Cocktail Reception
Click here for reception invitation
Wednesday, April 25
6:00 – 8:00 pm
Marsillio’s Restaurant
71 West Upper Ferry Road, West Trenton
With Special Guest NJ Senator Joe Vitale
Parents Anonymous of New Jersey is a Statewide, nonprofit organization and the State’s largest child abuse and neglect prevention organization.
A donation of $50 is suggested, but are not required and a contribution of any denomination is appreciated. Checks can be made payable to Parents Anonymous of New Jersey. All Donations are tax deductible.
Please RSVP your attendance plans to: panjstress@aol.com
Mar 302012
‘Ensuring member value is a huge concern that is keeping association executives up at night,’ according to one recent Association TRENDS report. So how do you know if you are delivering value and that your strategic plans are in line with what your members need and value most?
One effective way to do this is to ask your members. Often the most cost efficient way to communicate to your members is via an online survey. But before you decide to send out a routine online survey, it is wise to pause and ask yourself these seven questions:
- Is this approach the best for reaching all key constituents of our membership?
- What was the response rate the last time we did a similar exercise? Many online surveys typically achieve less than a 10% response, so by definition they struggle to achieve adequate representation.
- How can we achieve better representation of key constituents from our surveys?
- How do we ensure that what we survey is not driven by pet ‘loves ‘or ‘hates’ of the board, or employees, but is guided by what really matters to our members and customers?
- How do we truly ensure that the survey process is objective and unbiased, so that our members are comfortable enough to be open and honest without fear of being judged?
- How do we ensure the questions are designed and asked in an unbiased way?
- How will we as an organization achieve real value that will impact our bottom-line from this exercise?
Online surveys can be valuable when used appropriately. Other methods are often required, such as quota telephone interviews; facilitated group discussions and / or in-depth interviews to ensure all key constituents are reached.
At ABE Research, we typically walk our clients through these types of questions and more to ensure that any research that is undertaken, truly addresses the issues in hand, reaches the right audience and delivers tangible value. As a result, you not only get a measure on value and your ROI but the process itself is worth the investment.
Prudence Shapcott is the lead consultant at ABE Research.
www.aberesearch.com
prudence@aberesearch.com
SAVE THE DATE
The 200 Club of Mercer County
2012 Annual Luncheon
Wednesday, June 13, 2012
11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.
Stone Terrace by John Henry’s
2275 Kuser Road, Hamilton, NJ 08690
Guest Speaker:
Colonel of the State Police
Richard Fuentes
“State Police after 9/11″
Valor Awards TBA
http://www.mercer200club.org/events.htm
Friday, March 9, 2012
11:30 – Silent Auction & tee off
(2 indoor mini-golf courses at the Rescue Mission)
1:30 – Lunch
More details / photos: http://www.rescuemissionoftrenton.org/events.php
98 Carroll Street, Trenton (off Perry Street by Route 1 entrance)
Download Registration Flyer
This is a terrific event that provides a nice break from the winter doldrums. ABS has our foursome together and hope you can join us!
Reserve your spot today as spaces are limited. The event includes a fantastic silent auction (featuring golf at many of the area’s leading clubs and dinner at many of the area’s finest restaurants), a gift basket raffle, a wide assortment of trophies, a fantastic “summertime” barbecue, and of course, lots and lots of good-natured “golf kibitzing.” And there will be a new contest with lots of great give-a-ways!
Jan 062012
By Gudrun Frank
Weblink Studio
Often times, business owners do not know how important it is to know how and where their domain is registered until it is too late.
Every day businesses lose their domain name because they were not registered correctly in the first place. Every business owner has to understand the basic meaning of registration entries. Check how your domain name is registered here.
The most important entries are:
- The ”Registrar” = the company that registered the domain name. Check accredited registrars here
- The “Registrant” = the person or entity that legally owns the domain name
- The “Administrator” = usually the person or entity that receives notifications about renewal and also receives password recovery messages.
When you register a domain name, you also enter an e-mail address associated with that registration. It is important to keep that in mind because most likely, renewal notices are sent to that address.
Pitfalls
- You are registering a domain name with a company, assuming they are an accredited registrar with ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers). However, they are a reseller for a registrar. Resellers are often times not monitored, so if they disappear, so may your domain name. You may unknowingly register a domain name with a registrar that is located in another country making communications difficult or impossible. (See story 4 for a real life example.)
- A web design or hosting company is registering the domain name for you. Instead of registering the domain name in your name, they are registering the name in their name. So legally they own the domain name. Although you are paying for it, legally, you don’t own it. If you are lucky, they will release the domain name to you when you want to change services but many times this is done to keep you hostage and prevent you from changing services. Imagine the nightmare if that hosting company goes out of business and you have no way of accessing your domain name registration to change name servers. (See stories 1 and 2 for examples)
- You register a domain name with your @verizon.com, @comcast.com, @aol.com e-mail address but you forget to change the e-mail address associated with your domain name when you change service providers. Therefore, notifications of pending renewals go to obsolete e-mail addresses and finally expire. (See story 5)
What you Should Do
- Make sure you are registering your domain name with an accredited registar
- Discuss with anyone who is registering the domain for you how it will be registered and make sure that you have access to your domain name settings through a control panel. You need to be able to change name servers and make payments independently from whoever registered the domain name for you. Also keep in mind, that it is important to register a domain for a business not in a person’s name but in the businesses’ name. Remember, whoever is the “Registrant” is the legal owner of a domain name. If the registrant of your domain name is an employee, this employee is the legal owner. If the employee leaves your organization, so may your domain name. This is also very important for Non-Profit organizations. Many times they depend on a knowledgeable volunteer. If that volunteer disappears with all the registration information, the domain name can only be recovered if it was registered in the organization’s name.
- Make sure that you keep in mind any changes to your e-mail service providers that may be connected to your domain name. Simply log into your control panel for your domain name registration and change the associated e-mail address.
- Check how your domain name is registered here. All domain names can be looked up in a Registry that is called WHOIS. If you chose “Private Registration” the available information may be limited. “Private Registration” is meant to shield and hide the real owner of a domain name but also does not give you the ability to easily check that the domain is registered correctly in your name.
Real Life Examples or How to Lose a Domain Name:
Note: The following stories are real and should illustrate how important it is to understand domain name registration. Unfortunately, all these people, and many, many more learned this lesson the hard way. It is very common that people hire a web designer who then registers their domain name and sets up the hosting for the website. (Hosting is where the web site files are stored to be connected to the Internet).
Story # 1: Business Owner “A” did just that. He hired company “C” to create an extensive shopping cart website. Company “C” registered the domain name and hosted the site on company “C’s” own servers. Business Owner “A” never received username and password to the domain name registration because “C” registered all customers’ domain names under their name in one single account. Everything went great. “A” was very happy with the website. Soon he made $10,000+ dollars a month from that website.
Disaster struck when “C” went bankrupt and the owner disappeared overnight without warning. Since the website was hosted on “C’s” servers, the website went down with the lights in the building.
From one day to the next, “A” lost everything he built over the last several years. He did not have a backup of his files to move them to another hosting company. He did not have access to his domain name registration to change the name servers. (Name servers are a database that the Internet uses to look up were a website is hosted and to connect a domain name with the hosting company). That meant his well-branded domain name, that all his customers knew and which was well established in search engines, went dark. Overnight he lost his successful business because he did not take care of some very basic precautions.
Mistake # 1: He did not ask for username and password for the domain name registration. Had he done that, he could have at least created a new website and move on. He would have had the expenses of creating a new site and entering all his products again, but the part that takes months, if not years to accomplish - his search engine ranking, could have been recovered.
Mistake # 2: Since the domain name was registered in “C’s” name, he could not go to the domain name registration service (registrar), proof that it is his domain name, get access, create a new website and move on.
Mistake # 3: He did not have a backup of his website and database files. So even if he had had access to his domain name, he would have lost thousands of dollars to recreate his website. Lesson to be learned: Not only do you need access information and ownership of your domain name, you also need backup copies of your website and database.
Story #2: Business Owner “B” and his Partner “P” opened a business together. “P” knew more about the Internet so he took care of the domain name registration. He registered the name in his own name and registered his personal e-mail address as administrative contact.
Unfortunately, although “P” was only 42 years old, he had a heart attack and died completely unexpected. By the time the domain name renewal came up, all the notices that the domain name registrar sent to “P’s” e-mail address went into “Neverland” because his widow had canceled the account. By the time the business website went dark and “B” looked into the “whys” it was too late.
The well established business presence was gone and he had to start from scratch. Luckily, in this case, the website was hosted with a different company so the website files were not lost. After registering a new domain name, he started over publishing his new identity. (Domain names are usually not available for new registration for a period of time after the registration lapses).
Mistake # 1: ”P” did not educate “B” about the ins and outs of domain name registration. He did not create a folder with all pertinent information that all business owners could access.
Mistake # 2: ”P” registered the name only in his name and did not put the business name down as owner. Had he registered the domain name in the business name, “B” could have proven to the registrar that the business is the legal owner (with tax records or other official documents) and the registrar would have given him access information.
Mistake # 3: He used his personal e-mail address as administrative contact. So when the notices for renewal were sent, “B” never received them. Had “P” used an e-mail address that all business owners monitored, “B” could have filled out a password recovery form (usually available on the registrar’s website) and received username and password within minutes.
Story # 3: A non-profit, “NP”, organization relied on a volunteer to register the domain name. The volunteer became disengaged and did not renew the name when it was up for renewal. The domain name was bought up by a domain name broker who offered the name back for purchase to ”NP” for $400. Grudgingly “NP” paid the fee. But instead of changing all the ownership information over properly, they just got their website up and running again without making sure the organization was the legal owner, the “registrant”. They didn’t even make sure they had username and password. Lo and behold, a year later they found themselves in the same spot. The domain name expired because the volunteer did not react and they did not have access information. To add insult to injury, they still were not the legal the owner of the name.
Mistake # 1: The domain name was not registered properly in the organizations’ name. Had they done that, the domain name could have been recovered.
Mistake # 2: They did not make sure that more than one person had all the pertinent information. Especially with non-profit organizations that rely on volunteers, it is extremely important to spread the information to 2-3 people. If one volunteer disappears, at least 1 or 2 others will be able to pick up the pieces. Having a policy in place is so important before things go wrong. You don’t want to appear distrustful but yet, it is normal that volunteers sometimes become disengaged without notice.
To make a long story short, they did not want to buy the domain name back a second time for $400 or more. They registered a new domain name, properly this time. As of this writing, the domain name broker still waits for a buyer of this domain name. But since it costs him probably only $6-8 a year, it is worth waiting. He got already $400 out of it once….
Story # 4: Another Non-Profit “NP2″ registered the domain name, unknowingly, with a registrar in China. “How could that happen”, you ask? Registrars often times subcontract with resellers. The reseller was located in the US but reselling for a registrar in China. ”NP2″ lost their domain name when the reseller lost his interest in the business and did not maintain his control panel. “NP2″ had no way of renewing the domain name although it was properly registered in their name, and they did properly attach an e-mail address that they monitored.
Mistake # 1: “NP2″ failed to check where the registrar was accredited. NP2 had no idea that they actually registered with a reseller for a Chinese company. Although they researched who the actual registrar was when all e-mails and phone calls to the reseller went unanswered, the registrar had no interest in helping NT2 gain access to their domain name. Cultural differences may have been part of the problem.
The end of the story? When the domain name expired, it went to a company that specialized in auctioning off domain names to the highest bidder. Because NP2 had been #1 on organic searches in Google for all their relevant keywords with that domain name, they bought their own domain name back for $270. You bet they now know what to do so that will not happen again.
Now, you may think that if you are not making $10,000plus dollars/month with your name, you are not #1 on Google and your domain name could be changed if needed. Imagine the uproar of constituents in our fifth story:
Story # 5: A small town established a community website for their residents. Again, not following the rules outlined above, the domain name was not renewed in a timely manner. A Russian porn site bought up the domain name and when residents wanted to check out about township meetings, they were served hard core porn instead. That went really well with the residents….or not….
My sincere hope is that everyone who reads this post, will know how to register a domain name so that he or she really owns it.
Newark to benefit from organization’s focus on neighborhood revitalization
NEWARK, NJ, Dec. 1, 2011 – Mayor Cory A. Booker, Members of the Newark Municipal Council, Deputy Mayor for Economic Development Adam Zipkin, Director of Housing and Real Estate Michael Meyer, Chase Community Relations Manager in New Jersey Elliott Lee, New Jersey Community Capital President Wayne Meyer, U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development Newark Office Director Annemarie Uebbing, and other dignitaries announced today that Chase has awarded a $4 million grant to New Jersey Community Capital (NJCC) to help preserve affordable housing and expand the organization’s work in revitalizing New Jersey’s most distressed neighborhoods, with a major focus on Newark. The announcement was made at a property in the City’s West Ward Fairmount Heights neighborhood, which has benefitted from the partnership between Chase and NJCC. Also in attendance were Council Members-at-Large Mildred C. Crump and Carlos M. Gonzalez.
“In neighborhoods across this great City, the partnerships between the City, civic-minded lenders, such as Chase and NJCC, and nonprofit and small, local developers, are creating hope and opportunity where before there was foreclosure and abandonment. As I speak, over 250 homes in Newark’s neighborhoods are being renovated or newly constructed, with an investment of over $14 million of public funds, leveraging a total of over $41 million of neighborhood reinvestment, creating not just new affordable housing, but employment opportunities for Newark residents and business opportunities for local developers. In Fairmount Heights alone, a dozen small developers and contractors will repair over 50 homes, with a total development cost of $5.5 million. This grant from Chase will allow NJCC, the City and our development partners to continue with this important work,” said Mayor Booker.
“Funds such as these, along with the critical resources provided by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), allow local community developers to make a real difference in distressed neighborhoods. We are working hard to keep our neighborhoods strong for the residents who have invested and care for their homes, their blocks and their neighborhoods,” said Mike Meyer, Director of Housing and Real Estate for the City.
In addition to the $4 million grant, Chase has invested more than $3.1 million in NJCC during the last seven years to enhance the organization’s continued leadership in the revitalization of New Jersey’s distressed neighborhoods.
“Access to credit is critical for nonprofit organizations that are working to restore and preserve affordable housing options,” said Mr. Lee. “Chase is proud to continue to support NJCC’s lending efforts aimed at addressing affordable housing preservation to sustain homeownership.”
Newark was selected as the site of the announcement due to the innovative and holistic approach the City and its community partners have taken since the onset of the mortgage and foreclosure crisis. The site of the announcement is a home that was one of 47 vacant properties in Essex County – including 21 in Newark – which NJCC purchased at a discount from Chase in 2009. Newark resident Walter Jones was originally renting a unit on the top floor of the house with his family when Chase conveyed the property to NJCC. NJCC worked with the Jones family and HANDS, Inc., a local nonprofit community builder, to keep the family in the home while it renovated the property floor by floor. The City of Newark provided financial support to NJCC and HANDS to complete repairs to the building. By the time the renovation was complete, the Joneses were able to purchase the home, preserving two units of affordable housing.
“Moving from renters to owners is something we didn’t expect,” said Mr. Jones. “We have lived here for years, so we’re very happy that we were able to stay in place. All thanks to NJCC, HANDS and Newark.”
The $4 million investment will allow NJCC to continue to support a number of similar programs and initiatives aimed at stabilizing New Jersey’s most at-risk communities, including:
• Establishing the Neighborhood Prosperity Fund, a permanent revolving loan fund that will provide accessible and flexible capital to support efficient revitalization of foreclosed properties.
• Establishing a joint venture with Enterprise Community Partners, Mercy Housing, Inc., Housing Partnership Network and the National Community Stabilization Trust, in order to purchase pools of delinquent mortgages in high-impact areas and create an individualized action plan for each homeowner so they can stay in their home.
• Investing in local-level collaborations with community development organizations across the state, including Newark’s Strong Healthy Communities Initiative, the Essex County Community Land Trust, the New Jersey Community Progress Institute and the Ralph W. Voorhees Center for Civic Engagement.
“The development of much needed quality affordable housing is critically important to the well-being and health of individuals, families and communities,” said NJCC President Meyer. “The opportunity to build a better life is a powerful economic lever that makes our communities diverse and vibrant places to live, work, and prosper. That is why we are so grateful to Chase for this generous $4 million grant investment. With these funds we will be able to greatly leverage additional resources and enhance our ability to advance affordable housing solutions of the magnitude and scale necessary to assist in the transformation of neighborhoods and communities.”
“Project Rebuild, which is part of the President’s American Jobs Act, will put Americans back to work immediately by creating 200,000 jobs and continuing to successfully change neighborhoods one block at a time by revitalizing properties that were once abandoned,” commented HUD Regional Administrator Adolfo Carrión, in a statement. “Neighborhood Stabilization efforts in other parts of the country have succeeded in increasing property values. We thank NJCC and JPMorgan Chase for their commitment to help revitalize our communities.”
For more information about any City of Newark program or policy, contact the Non-Emergency Call Center at (973) 733-4311.
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Contacts:
Press Information Office – (973) 733-8004
E-mail: Pressoffice@ci.newark.nj.us
Chase: Mike Fusco – (212) 270-5089
E-mail: Michael.f.fusco@chase.com
New Jersey Community Capital: Peter Grof – (609) 989-7766, ext. 406
E-mail: pgrof@njclf.com
About Chase
Chase is the U.S. consumer and commercial banking business of JPMorgan Chase & Co. (NYSE: JPM), a leading global financial services firm with assets of $2.3 trillion and operations in more than 60 countries. In New Jersey, Chase serves consumers and small businesses through 226 bank branches and more than 400 ATMs. The firm has more than 6,000 employees working across the state.
About New Jersey Community Capital
NJCC is a 501(c) (3) mission-driven lender based in Trenton that transforms at-risk communities through strategic investments of capital and knowledge. NJCC invests in affordable housing, community facilities, and economic development ventures that strengthen neighborhoods, improve education, and increase jobs, ultimately providing greater opportunities for the low-income residents in these communities. For more information on NJCC, visit www.newjerseycommunitycapital.org
About the City of Newark, New Jersey
Newark, commonly referred to as Brick City, is the third oldest city in the United States and the largest in New Jersey, with a population of more than 280,000 people. Newark sits on one of the nation’s largest transportation super-structures including an international airport, major commuter and freight rail lines, major highway intersections and the busiest seaport on the east coast.
With a new Administration as of July 2006, Newark continues to see signs of a strong revival. Its population showed growth in the most recent census. Its six major colleges and universities are further expanding their presence. The rate of production of affordable housing has doubled, and new businesses are moving in. There is still much work to be done but Newark is on its way to achieving its mission: to set a national standard for urban transformation.
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For more information on the City of Newark, please visit our website at www.ci.newark.nj.us
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Dec 052011
How do new businesses get ahead in the ‘Money Game’? Kauffman Foundation’s latest animated sketchbook video features Paul Kedrosky illustrating the give and take of new business financing.
There’s no question that startups need money to grow. But although there is not more capital available to new companies, the sources of capital–from personal savings to loan programs to crowdfunding platforms–abound despite the economic downturn.
View the Money Game Sketchbook
For Immediate Release: November 29, 2011 (pdf version of news release)
Contact: Melissa Kostinas 609-434-1110
Pequannock Wins $1,000 Wellness Grant
4-Time Olympian Joetta Clark Diggs Honored
4-Time Olympian Joetta Clark Diggs Honored
West Trenton, New Jersey – Melissa Kostinas, Director of the Mayors Wellness Campaign (MWC), announced today that Pequannock has won a $1,000 wellness grant from the MWC.
Each November, during the annual New Jersey State League of Municipalities Conference in Atlantic City, the Mayors Wellness Campaign (MWC) enters all participating towns into a drawing for a $1,000 Wellness Grant to help with their Mayors Wellness Campaign activities.
“We are thrilled to receive the $1,000 wellness grant from the Mayors Wellness Campaign,” said Pequannock Mayor Richard Phelan. “We will use the grant to jump-start a wellness program in our town that will benefit all our citizens.”
“We are delighted to award Pequannock and Mayor Phelan our annual $1,000 Wellness Grant,” said Kostinas. “We couldn’t be happier with the efforts of mayors to promote active living and healthy lifestyles through the Mayors Wellness Campaign and are hopeful this grant will help Pequannock on the road towards healthy living.”
Twenty additional towns joined the statewide Mayors Wellness Campaign during the recent League conference, bringing the total of participating municipalities to 326. Each town designs their own local campaign around their individual needs.
The MWC panel session during the League conference featured Bay Head Mayor Bill Curtis, Parsippany-Troy Hills Mayor James Barberio, Belmar Mayor Matt Doherty, Chatham Borough Councilwoman Victoria Fife, and MWC Spokesperson former Governor Jim Florio.
In addition, the newest Spokesperson for the Mayors Wellness Campaign, 4-time New Jersey Olympian Joetta Clark Diggs, was honored at a reception.
Joetta was on the U.S. Olympic teams in 1988, 1992, 1996 and 2000 and was America’s premier middle distance runner for over three decades. She is considered by track enthusiasts as the most prolific 800-meter runner of all time and ranked among the top 10 in America for over 20 years. Additionally, she ranked top 10 in the world nine times. While the 2000 season was her last running track, Joetta has continued to make a difference in the world of track and field.
Today, she is the author of “Joetta’s “P” Principles for Success: “Life Lessons Learned from Track & Field” (www.youtube.com/watch?v=gYDs_fH3xEA); President of Joetta Sports & Beyond (www.joettasportsandbeyond.com); and Executive Director of the Joetta Clark Diggs Sports Foundation (www.joettasportsandbeyond.com/foundation).
Joetta spends her time delivering high-energy motivational seminars to athletic programs, businesses, and other organizations across the country. She also works diligently raising funds to provide free fitness, track and field camps and life skills programs for children throughout the country. She is the daughter of Jetta Clark and noted educator, Dr. Joe Clark, the subject of the movie “Lean on Me.”
A graduate of the University of Tennessee, Joetta was inducted into the University of Tennessee’s Hall of Fame in 2001 and more recently, the USA Track and Field Hall of Fame in 2009. To view the video about her amazing athletic career, go to www.philippaluso.com/HOF09/ and click on “Clark Diggs.”
About the Mayors Wellness Campaign
The Mayors Wellness Campaign (www.mayorswellnesscampaign.org) is an initiative of the New Jersey Health Care Quality Institute (www.njhcqi.org) in partnership with the New Jersey State League of Municipalities (www.njslom.org). The mission of the Mayors Wellness Campaign is to equip mayors and other key leaders with the tools to develop and implement active-living initiatives in their communities with the ultimate goal of improving health and reducing the skyrocketing health care costs that come with the obesity problem in New Jersey. Currently, more than half of the New Jersey’s 566 municipalities are participating in the campaign and are working aggressively to decrease obesity rates and increase the overall health of their communities. Major funding for the Mayors Wellness Campaign is provided by The Walmart Foundation. Additional funding for the conference was provided by Partners in Care and Aetna.
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MAYOR BOOKER TO JOIN CHASE TO ANNOUNCE FIRM’S $4 MILLION INVESTMENT IN NEW JERSEY COMMUNITY CAPITAL, ON THURSDAY, DECEMBER 1, AT 10 A.M., AT 284 SOUTH 11TH STREET, NEWARK
Investment will help preserve affordable housing in New Jersey;
Newark to benefit from organization’s focus on neighborhood revitalization
Newark, NJ – November 30, 2011 – Mayor Cory A. Booker, Members of the Newark Municipal Council, Deputy Mayor of Economic and Housing Development Adam Zipkin, Director of Housing and Real Estate Michael Meyer, Chase New Jersey Community Relations Manager Elliott Lee, New Jersey Community Capital President Wayne Meyer, The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development Community Planning and Development Director, Newark Office Annemarie Uebbing will announce a $4 million grant from Chase to New Jersey Community Capital (NJCC) to help preserve affordable housing and expand the organization’s work in revitalizing New Jersey’s most distressed neighborhoods, with a major focus on Newark. The announcement will take place on Thursday, December 1, at 10 a.m., at 284 South 11th Street, in Newark.
Newark was selected as the site of the announcement due to the innovative and holistic approach the City and its community partners have taken since the onset of the mortgage and foreclosure crisis. The site of the announcement is a home in Newark’s West Ward that is one of 47 vacant properties in Essex County – including 21 in Newark – which NJCC purchased at a discount from Chase in 2009 to rehabilitate and find permanent tenants. In addition to the grant, Chase has invested more than $3.1 million in NJCC during the last seven years to enhance the organization’s continued leadership in the revitalization of New Jersey’s distressed neighborhoods.
WHO: Mayor Cory A. Booker, Members of the Newark Municipal Council, Deputy Mayor of Economic and Housing Development Adam Zipkin, Director of Housing and Real Estate Michael Meyer, Chase New Jersey Community Relations Manager Elliott Lee, New Jersey Community Capital President Wayne Meyer, and The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development Community Planning and Development Director, Newark Office Annemarie Uebbing.
WHAT: Will announce Chase’s $4 million investment in New Jersey Community Capital, to help preserve affordable housing and expand NJCC.
WHEN: Thursday, December 1; 10 a.m.
WHERE: 284 South 11th Street (Between 12th Avenue and 13th Avenue) Newark
Contacts: Press Information Office – (973) 733-8004.
E-mail: Pressoffice@ci.newark.nj.us
JP Morgan Chase: Mike Fusco – (212) 270-5089
E-mail: Michael.f.fusco@chase.com
New Jersey Community Capital: Peter Grof – (609) 989-7766, ext. 406
E-mail: pgrof@njclf.com
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For more information on the City of Newark, please visit our website at www.ci.newark.nj.us
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