PowerCorps Camden is a youth employment program that combines the teaching of life skills with green infrastructure training that will help the city manage stormwater overflow.
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Younger generations are facing the unfathomable task of reversing global warming. So it’s fitting that five students were chosen as keynote speakers for this year’s conference of the Alliance of New Jersey Environmental Educators (ANJEE).
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What happens when you combine computer skills, entrepreneurship, social services, youth, and a team of dedicated mentors all in one room? In Camden, you have Hopeworks, a remarkable nonprofit that mixes computer coding classes with life training. CivicStory spoke with students and staff and got a tour.
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NJ’s allocation of school funds follows a complex formula that defies understanding. See attorney Peter Humphreys solve this puzzle in just eight minutes, at a CivicStory forum called “Funding Our Future”.
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