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The Urban League of Essex County is an organization committed to urban revitalization and lasting social change within cities. Its headquarters is located at 508 Central Avenue in Fairmount neighborhood, a 40-50 block area of houses, businesses, places of worship and schools within the West Ward of Newark, New Jersey, USA. Fairmount is bounded by South Orange Avenue on the south, Central Avenue on the north and Bergen Street on the east (at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey campus). The historic Fairmount Cemetery stands as the largest landmark near its western border.

In 2009, the Urban League of Essex County obtained grants from the Wachovia Foundation and the State of New Jersey to help produce a revitalization plan for the Fairmount neighborhood. The Communication for Social Change Consortium is working with the Urban League in strategic communication planning as well as conducting and coordinating communication activities. for instance, community dialogues.

We hope you will join your neighbors, local business owners, churches, schools, mosques and friends as we try to engage every person who lives and works in Fairmount in helping create a new neighborhood plan for our community. Our potential is great and our future even greater.

Fairmount Neighborhood Strategic Plan

Visit this page to read and comment on the draft plan that residents and businesses in Newark’s Fairmount Neighborhood helped put together, with the support of the Urban League of Essex County. We need you to review this plan and give your input and ideas - - no later than 10 March 2011. Please post your comments about this plan by emailing info@communicationforsocialchange.org.

Announcements

Click here to answer the West Side High School Survey.

Click here to download the flyer to WIN A FREE GIFT CERTIFICATE.

Click here to see more photos of Fairmount Initiative activities from Shutterfly.

Click here to see the photos from the Fairmount Neighborhood Friends Festival from our Facebook page. (Note: You must have a Facebook account to access this page.)

Planning Committee

ULEC - Vivian Fraser, President and CEO, Cheryl Howard and Darrin Sharif
LISC - Robin J. Brown, Program Officer
Provision of Promise - Velisa Leonard, Principal & Esney M. Sharpe, Assistant Pastor
Welcome Baptist Church - Rev. Elijah Williams
Page Academy - Rhonda Page & Dr. William T. Iverson
West Side High School - Dr. Kevin West, Principal, Nadia Camacho (alumni), Arthur Morton (alumni)
Churchman Funeral Home - Dr. Edith Churchman
VIP Barbershop - Derrick Taylor
Facilities Planning, Management, and Construction, University of Medicine & Dentistry of New Jersey - David C. Schulz, AIA, Executive Director
Division of Planning and Community Development, Department of Economic & Housing Development, City Of Newark - Perris Straughter, Senior Planner
13th Avenue School - Khadija Abdul-Kareem (parent)
New Community Corporation, Newark, NJ - Richard Cammarieri
Newark Public Schools - Dr. Ronald Taylor, Regional Superintendent & Michael Carrigan, Ed.D (west region)
Newark Police Department - Captain Gregory Meehan
Georgia King Village - Jacquelyn Thomas, Resident Services/Community Programs Coordinator, and Pamela Mohammad
The Center for Law and Justice - Marcia Wilson Brow, Associate Provost/Student Affairs
Rutgers - Diane Hill
Masjid Imam Muslim - Imam Abdul Muhammad
Residents - Pastor Paul Balerius, Kenneth Jones, Joe Bethune, Kakeisha Smith, Bryan West, Cheryl Swan, Roni Bryant , Sebrania Alford, Doug Durr, Carol Lomax, Ruth Phillips, Khalil Sharif.