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Camden Community GreenUp 

11/28/09

  With generous support from the Jon Bon Jovi Soul Foundation and the Annie E. Casey Foundation, and in response to community goals set forth in the Cooper Lanning Human Capital Plan, the Greater Camden Partnership began the Camden Community GreenUp, a pilot “clean and green” vacant lot stabilization program in Camden, NJ.  In just 11 weeks, GreenUp will have managed to:
  -  remediate more than 141,000 square feet of vacant space;
  -  mobilize more than 200 volunteers; and
  -  translate a $60,000 funding commitment into a $150,000 project with the help of many, many community partners,. 
  To highlight this success, GreenUp hosted its final event across four city blocks in the Lanning Square neighborhood on Monday, October 19, 2009.  For the event, more than 100 volunteers gathered on Benson St. (between 3rd and 4th Sts.) before planting shrubs and more than 50 trees.  With music, food and more, the event celebrated the efforts of GreenUp partners and volunteers over the course of the program to date. 
  The Greater Camden Partnership began the Camden Community GreenUp to remediate the publicly-owned vacant lots and abandoned properties that hold back the progress that can already seen in the Camden’s Cooper Plaza and Lanning Square neighborhoods.  To achieve this goal, GreenUp is dependent on community volunteers, all of whom are recruited through the White House’s United We Serve platform for volunteerism as a response to President Obama's call to "participate in the nation's recovery and renewal by serving in our communities.  
  The Greater Camden Partnership is an economic development organization that brings together the leading public, private and non-profit organizations in the region to create and implement innovative and sustainable redevelopment efforts in the city of Camden, NJ.
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Pictured: Jon Bon Jovi with John Sheridan, CEO of Cooper Hospital

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